{"id":999515,"date":"2021-11-11T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T20:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=999515"},"modified":"2021-11-11T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T20:58:31","slug":"lucifer-actress-lesley-ann-brandt-boasts-that-abortion-helped-her-career-killed-baby-while-filming-killing-women-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lucifer-actress-lesley-ann-brandt-boasts-that-abortion-helped-her-career-killed-baby-while-filming-killing-women-series\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Lucifer&#039; Actress Lesley-Ann Brandt Boasts that Abortion Helped Her Career \u2014 Killed Baby While Filming &#039;Killing Women&#039; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flucifer-actress-lesley-ann-brandt-boasts-that-abortion-helped-her-career-killed-baby-while-filming-killing-women-series%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=999515&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1332051902-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In a new essay, actress and star of TV\u2019s <i>Lucifer<\/i>, Lesley-Ann Brandt, blasted the recently passed Texas Heartbeat Act saying laws that put limits on abortion are \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d against the disadvantaged.<\/p>\n<p>In her Nov. 8 essay for <i>Self<\/i> magazine, Brandt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.self.com\/story\/lesley-ann-brandt-abortion\">divulged<\/a> the details of her own abortion in 2014 when she aborted a baby because she \u201cwasn\u2019t ready\u201d to have a child.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brandt said that during the filming of her guest part in the TV series <i>Killing Women<\/i>, she began feeling odd and thought to take a pregnancy test. When it came out positive, she said she immediately made an appointment with a private abortion clinic to terminate the baby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took a breath and called Chris [her now-husband, Chris Payne Gilbert]. I could hear the panic in his voice, but I quickly allayed his fears. I had already called a private abortion clinic and booked my appointment. I knew we weren\u2019t ready, and I knew I wasn\u2019t ready,\u201d the <i>Spartacus<\/i> cast member said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt age 32, my abortion gave me choice, autonomy over my own body and opportunities in my career,\u201d Brandt wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Demon 101 With Lesley-Ann Brandt | Lucifer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Q9mlqai0o8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Today, Brandt is the mother of a four-year-old boy, one she says she was finally ready to raise.<\/p>\n<p>But Brandt went on with harsh words for laws like Texas\u2019s recent law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, claiming that they are aimed at hurting poorer and more disadvantaged women.<\/p>\n<p>Laws like the Texas Heartbeat Act won\u2019t stop abortion but instead only force women into unsafe abortions, Brandt insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt stops safe abortion because, rest assured, wealthy people will still have access to abortion services. It is the poor who suffer. It is those people already struggling who will bear the brunt of archaic legislation and fake cries of \u2018pro-life,\u2019\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt went on to falsely claim that in the same legislative session Texas made it harder to vote. \u201cAt the very same time that the Texas anti-abortion bill was passed, legislators in that state made it easier to buy a gun and harder to vote,\u201d she alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt ended her essay by reciting a list of left-wing shibboleths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a country like the United States, with poor health care, no federally mandated maternity leave, and women still fighting for equal pay and adequate childcare support, how dare anyone question a woman\u2019s right to choose what\u2019s best for her and her life?\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new essay, actress and star of TV\u2019s Lucifer, Lesley-Ann Brandt, blasted the recently passed Texas Heartbeat Act saying laws that put limits on abortion are \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d against the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}