Mon Oct 2, 2023 – 12:57 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Twenty-one-year-old Brett Cooper is The Daily Wire’s rising star. A former child actor who came on as a conservative commentator last year, her audience has rapidly outpaced many of the network’s other key figures, racking up an astonishing 3.5 million subscribers on her show’s YouTube channel (for comparison Candace Owens, who has been with The Daily Wire longer, has 2 million). Unlike most conservative commentators, Cooper’s audience is primarily young people – and that makes her pro-life backstory particularly powerful.
A few months back, Cooper did a long-form interview with Graham Stephan and Jack Selby on their podcast The Iced Coffee Hour. Inevitably in a discussion about politics, abortion came up. Cooper noted that most Americans want some form of restrictions and noted that this was pushing some people into the explicitly pro-abortion camp where they are “pro-killing” as opposed to simply pro-autonomy.
Cooper also observed that abortion, for some young women, has become a form of birth control. Some of her sorority sisters, she said, were on “abortion number two.” But the thing that has impacted her perspective the most, Cooper said, is the
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