Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: All about it my guy tonight. She's an advocate for
Speaker 2: girls access to education worldwide. Is the youngest person ever
Speaker 2: to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Her new
Speaker 2: book is called I Am Malala, The Girl who stood
Speaker 2: up for Education and was shot by the Taliban. Please,
Speaker 2: welcome to the program, Malalai.
Speaker 1: Nice to see you.
Speaker 2: Thank you for being here.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. It's an honor for me.
Speaker 2: It is an honor for us. I know me. This
Speaker 2: is by the way, we talked a little bit before
Speaker 2: the show. Nothing feels better than making you laugh that.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed that very much. I am a Malala. It's
Speaker 2: honestly humbling to meet you. You are sixteen. Where did
Speaker 2: your love for education come from?
Speaker 1: We are human beings and this is the part of
Speaker 1: our human nature that we don't learn the importance of.
Speaker 3: Anything until it snatched from our hands. And when in Pakistan.
Speaker 1: When we were stopped from going to school at that time,
Speaker 1: I realized that education is very important and education is
Speaker 1: the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are
Speaker 1: afraid of education. They do not want women to get
Speaker 1: education because then women would become more powerful.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly right. When did the when did the Taliban
Speaker 2: come to Swat Valley, because before then you describe it
Speaker 2: as a paradise of sorts.
Speaker 1: Taliban came in two thousand and four, but at that
Speaker 1: time they were quite good. They did not show the
Speaker 1: terrorism and they did not blast any school at that time.
Speaker 1: But they started the real terrorism in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: They have blasted more than four hundred schools in Swath.
Speaker 1: They have slaughtered people, and in the month of January
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine they used to slaughter even two
Speaker 1: three people every night, and they have flogged women. We
Speaker 1: have seen the barbaric situation of the twenty first century,
Speaker 1: and we have seen the cruelty, and we have seen
Speaker 1: harsh days in our life, and those we regard it
Speaker 1: as the darkest days of our life.
Speaker 3: So it was really hard for us at that.
Speaker 2: Time you describe in the book. Still, no matter what,
Speaker 2: they took the signs off of schools, they went underground,
Speaker 2: but they continued in the face of You spoke out
Speaker 2: publicly against the Taliban. What gave you the courage to
Speaker 2: continue this?
Speaker 1: You know, my father was a great encouragement for me
Speaker 1: because he spoke out for women's rights.
Speaker 3: He spoke out for girls'.
Speaker 1: Education, and at that time, I said that why shall
Speaker 1: I wait for someone else, Why shall I be looking
Speaker 1: to the government, to the army that they would help us.
Speaker 1: Why don't I raise my voice? Why don't we speak
Speaker 1: for our rights? The girls of Swath they spoke of
Speaker 1: for their rights. I started writing diary. I spoke on
Speaker 1: every media channel that I could, and I raised my
Speaker 1: voice on every platform that I could, and I said,
Speaker 1: I need to tell the world what is happening in Swad,
Speaker 1: and I need to tell the world that Swath is
Speaker 1: suffering from terrorism and we need to fight against terrorism.
Speaker 2: When did you realize the Taliban had made you a target?
Speaker 1: When in twenty twelve we were I was with my
Speaker 1: father and someone came and she told us that have
Speaker 1: you seen on Google that if you search your name
Speaker 1: and the Taliban have threatened you? And I just could
Speaker 1: not believe it. I said, no, it's not true. And
Speaker 1: even after the thread when we saw it, I was
Speaker 1: not worried about myself that much. I was worried about
Speaker 1: my father because we thought that the Taliban are not
Speaker 1: that much cruel that they would kill a child. Because
Speaker 1: I was fourteen at that time. But then later on
Speaker 1: I used to like started, I started thinking about that,
Speaker 1: and I used to think, I think that the Talib
Speaker 1: would come and.
Speaker 3: He would just kill me.
Speaker 1: But then I said, if he comes, what would you do, Malala?
Speaker 1: Then I would reply myself that Malala just take a
Speaker 1: shoe and hit him. But then I said, but then
Speaker 1: I said, if you hit a Talib with your shoe,
Speaker 1: then there would be no difference between you.
Speaker 3: And the Talib.
Speaker 1: You must not treat others that much with cruelty and
Speaker 1: that much harshly. You must fight others but through peace
Speaker 1: and through dialogue and through education. Then I said, I'll
Speaker 1: tell him how important education is and that I even't
Speaker 1: want education for your children as well.
Speaker 3: And I will tell him that's what I want to
Speaker 3: tell you. Now, do what you want.
Speaker 4: I ask you.
Speaker 2: You know, I know your father is backstage and he's
Speaker 2: very proud of you. But would he be mad if
Speaker 2: I adopted you? Because you sure are Swell.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 2: We're talking to Malala. The book I Am Malala is
Speaker 2: on shelves right now. Your love of school reminds me
Speaker 2: so much of my children. Okay, maybe not the people
Speaker 2: of Swat valley. When the talib first came, they thought
Speaker 2: they're bringing order, they're bringing services. They established a court
Speaker 2: that was faster than Pakistani courts, and the people responded,
Speaker 2: when did that begin to turn?
Speaker 1: When the Taliban came, they were trying to convince people
Speaker 1: and they were just misusing the name of Islam, and
Speaker 1: they were telling people that we would just set up
Speaker 1: another court for you and we would provide you justice
Speaker 1: on time. Because usually in courts in Pakistan, people dies
Speaker 1: and their case is not yet resolved in.
Speaker 3: The courts. So there's what is happening in the courts
Speaker 3: of Pakistan.
Speaker 1: So people just said, like, if the Taliban are doing it,
Speaker 1: why don't we support them.
Speaker 3: But then they were that much cruel.
Speaker 1: That they started slaughtering people, and they even blasted a
Speaker 1: generator of electricity. And it was the month of Ramadan,
Speaker 1: in which we keep fast, in which we don't eat
Speaker 1: on the day, in which we don't drink for the
Speaker 1: whole day. They blasted the electricity generators which was providing
Speaker 1: electricity to the whole city of Mingora, and we could
Speaker 1: not have water because it is electricity is related to
Speaker 1: water supply as well. And people were sitting in the dark.
Speaker 1: People could not buy electricity generators. People were just sitting
Speaker 1: in the in the light of candles, and people were
Speaker 1: just dying of thirst at that time.
Speaker 3: But my father is a great father because he.
Speaker 1: Bought a generator for the school to to create electricity
Speaker 1: and to provide water to the to the street and
Speaker 1: to that community. But still many people were suffering from
Speaker 1: that heart situation. And other than that, our freedom was
Speaker 1: taken from us, yes, the women's freedom. We could not
Speaker 1: go to market, we were not allowed to go to school.
Speaker 1: We were just kept imprisoned. We were just limited to
Speaker 1: the four walls of our house. Women's rights were denied
Speaker 1: at that time. And that's why I spoke because I
Speaker 1: believe in equality, and I believe that there is no
Speaker 1: difference between a man and a woman. I even believe
Speaker 1: that a woman is more powerful than men.
Speaker 2: Wait. Whoa wait, wait, you know this was going so well,
Speaker 2: you were doing so beautifully, and then suddenly it's this
Speaker 2: is the part that they began to say. You cannot dance,
Speaker 2: You cannot the women cannot do these things. You say
Speaker 2: that many people believe this is a wrong interpretation of Islam,
Speaker 2: of the Quran.
Speaker 4: Do you.
Speaker 2: Why have the Taliban and these more extreme groups been
Speaker 2: able to be successful. Is it the fear that they
Speaker 2: bring to these towns? Is that why the people have
Speaker 2: had a hard time throwing it off.
Speaker 3: The first thing is that they were really cruel.
Speaker 1: They had clash and gufs, They had guns in their hand,
Speaker 1: and if I have a gun in my hand and
Speaker 1: I tell you something, do this, you have to do
Speaker 1: that because it's for your life. So there was fear
Speaker 1: all around. That's why people could not say anything.
Speaker 3: Then the second thing was that they were misusing the
Speaker 3: name of Islam.
Speaker 1: They were telling people that we are doing this for Islam,
Speaker 1: you're doing this for a love, We're doing this for profit,
Speaker 1: please be upon him, so as well as they were
Speaker 1: using religion for their own personal benefits.
Speaker 3: So that's also the reason.
Speaker 1: But then later on people try to realize this and
Speaker 1: the girls are very brave and girls in our school
Speaker 1: like we were at that time, we were just eleven
Speaker 1: or twelve years old. But we spoke of for our
Speaker 1: rights to every media channel, to every newspaper that we could,
Speaker 1: and we did not know at the time that our
Speaker 1: small interview would have an impact or not, but it
Speaker 1: had because we were raising up our voice and we
Speaker 1: were speaking of for our rights and we were speaking
Speaker 1: for peace in Swat. We wanted to live a normal
Speaker 1: life because Swath is like a paradise on Earth. I
Speaker 1: believe in two paradises, one one I'll get after death,
Speaker 1: but the other one that is on earth for me,
Speaker 1: that is Swath, because Swath is really beautiful and you
Speaker 1: would be you would be astonished when you see the
Speaker 1: lush green hills and when you see the tall mountains
Speaker 1: and the rivers that we have, the crystal clear water
Speaker 1: and you can.
Speaker 3: Find trout, so it's really beautiful. Your love Swat.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm from New Jersey, so I know a little
Speaker 2: something about paradise, the beaches.
Speaker 5: It does.
Speaker 2: It sounds magnificent and it's it is heartbreaking because you
Speaker 2: see what these children want, and what these people want
Speaker 2: is to just live in peace without having this imposed
Speaker 2: on them. And I think we don't know what to
Speaker 2: do to help. You know, there are passages in the
Speaker 2: book about the United States, UH and we come out great,
Speaker 2: but there there is you know, there are attacks in
Speaker 2: Swat and in those areas with drones, and they talk
Speaker 2: about a man, a CIA agent, who shot two men
Speaker 2: in Lahore Raymond, David Davis. And this is is I
Speaker 2: think we have a common want and desire, but perhaps
Speaker 2: are not accomplishing it in the manner that shows the
Speaker 2: people how we how we feel. But in some ways
Speaker 2: we don't know what else to do. What is what
Speaker 2: is your thought on that.
Speaker 1: I think that the people of America, the United States,
Speaker 1: they truly support peace and they say that we must.
Speaker 3: Not fight against war through war.
Speaker 1: They believe that dialogue is the best way and we
Speaker 1: must try to find a solution for it.
Speaker 3: And in my opinion, the solution that.
Speaker 1: Would work to fight all these wars and all these
Speaker 1: problems that people are facing is only education, because you
Speaker 1: can you can stop war for a second, but you
Speaker 1: don't know it would start again or not. We have
Speaker 1: seen First World War, we have seen Second World War,
Speaker 1: and I think Third World War is coming. But I
Speaker 1: believe that we must stop it now. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see a third World war in this world again.
Speaker 1: And the best way to fight against this war is education.
Speaker 1: Because as we can see that children are suffering from terrorism,
Speaker 1: they are suffering from child labor and child trafficking. They're
Speaker 1: also suffering from the culture norms and tradition. These are
Speaker 1: There is not only one issue that we are facing through.
Speaker 3: There are many others as well.
Speaker 1: So I think education is the best way people would
Speaker 1: be thinking just going to school learning about chemistry and
Speaker 1: physics and maths. And that said, going to school is
Speaker 1: not only learning about different subjects. It teaches you communication,
Speaker 1: It teaches you how to live a life. It teaches
Speaker 1: you about history, it teaches you about how science is working.
Speaker 1: And other than that, you learn about equality. Because students
Speaker 1: are provided the same bench, is they sit equally.
Speaker 3: It shows us equality.
Speaker 1: It teaches students how to live with others together, how
Speaker 1: to accept each other's language, how to accept each other's
Speaker 1: traditions and each other's religion. It also teaches us justice.
Speaker 1: It also teaches us respect. It teaches us how to
Speaker 1: live together. So that's why I support they. I support
Speaker 1: the idea of sending children to school because it is
Speaker 1: the best way to fight terrorism. And I want people
Speaker 1: to support us in this cause. And through Malala Foundation,
Speaker 1: we want to work for education of girls in the
Speaker 1: developing countries, especially in Syria. Now they are suffering, they're homeless. Now,
Speaker 1: we want to help children in Afghanistan because they have
Speaker 1: been suffering from terrorism for decades. We want to help
Speaker 1: the children of India as well because they are victims
Speaker 1: of child labor. So I think issues.
Speaker 3: And problems are enormous. But solution is one and that
Speaker 3: is simple. That is education.
Speaker 2: I I I am humbled, humbled to speak with you.
Speaker 3: I will say this.
Speaker 2: I don't know where you come from, but I am
Speaker 2: very glad you're here. Thank you for being bad to
Speaker 2: do wonderful. Please get the book. Donate to the Malala
Speaker 2: Fund by visiting www dot malalapun dot org. Malala use say.
Speaker 5: My dad tonight.
Speaker 2: She is the First Lady of the United States. She
Speaker 2: has written a book called American Grown Story the White House, Kitchen,
Speaker 2: Garden and gardens across America. Please welcome back to the program,
Speaker 2: First Lady Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3: I want it. Nice to see her.
Speaker 6: Good to be here, good to be back.
Speaker 2: It's nice to see again. The book it's called American Grown.
Speaker 2: Look at this you as first Lady. Everybody has an
Speaker 2: issue and you decided I'm going to take on this
Speaker 2: idea of getting children to eat well. Wouldn't you have
Speaker 2: been more successful with let's say, colonization of Mars, Because
Speaker 2: as a parent, of two children, unless this garden sprouts cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2: Knew what gave you the idea to do this?
Speaker 4: You know, it was really my experiences as a mother
Speaker 4: trying to get my kids to eat well. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know what most people don't know. We're seeing an
Speaker 4: epidemic of childhood obesity. One in three of our kids
Speaker 4: will be overweight or obese, and we are spending billions
Speaker 4: of dollars in healthcare costs for preventable illnesses. And in
Speaker 4: my life I saw how that was happening. You know,
Speaker 4: two busy parents don't have time to cook, eating out
Speaker 4: two much. You know, activity is being eliminated from our schools,
Speaker 4: and in many ways, the average kid is spending seven
Speaker 4: point five hours a day in front of a screen.
Speaker 4: The average kid. That's that's on average.
Speaker 2: And can I just very quickly, kids, if you're at
Speaker 2: home right now, Daddy says you can beat that. Daddy
Speaker 2: knows you're not average kids. I want to see ten
Speaker 2: hours from you today. My kids can be making making
Speaker 2: no making Oh did I get that wrong?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, all right, yeah, well we used it.
Speaker 2: You know in the old days, they opened the back door,
Speaker 2: you went out and you ran but it is a
Speaker 2: different world. It's harder to get kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, uh, and with modern life things
Speaker 4: are changing. Many kids are living in communities where their
Speaker 4: parents don't feel safe having them run outside, right, you know,
Speaker 4: fast food is uh the exception or the rule rather
Speaker 4: than the exception, I mean just cultural.
Speaker 2: A lot of times it's cheaper though, you know it is.
Speaker 2: You know, you're trying to feed for people. You got
Speaker 2: a dollarman, it's got a lot of good food on.
Speaker 2: You know, it's very difficult. Is this for you more
Speaker 2: of a symbolic idea that they start to understand?
Speaker 4: Well, the garden is a way to begin the conversation,
Speaker 4: because what I also learned in changing my kids' habits
Speaker 4: is that if kids are involved in the growth process
Speaker 4: of food and they get a better understanding of where
Speaker 4: their food comes from, and they're engaged there, tend they
Speaker 4: tend to be more likely to be excited about it.
Speaker 4: And the garden has been a really important catalyst for
Speaker 4: that discussion. I mean, we've had hundreds of kids working
Speaker 4: with us in the garden to help plant and harvest,
Speaker 4: and usually with the harvest, we end with a vegetable
Speaker 4: feast and we've got kids who I'm very quickly vegetable feet.
Speaker 2: The phrase vegetable feast.
Speaker 3: It's a feast.
Speaker 4: And there's the.
Speaker 2: Cheese faucet for this vegetable feast.
Speaker 4: We've we've served everything from flat bread veggie pizza that
Speaker 4: many kids have said is better than take out, you know,
Speaker 4: because the truth is is that vegetables that are grown
Speaker 4: fresh taste much better. I mean, I know when I
Speaker 4: was grown up, you got those store bought tomatoes in
Speaker 4: that plastic tin and they taste it like water.
Speaker 2: Or the ones in the bag getting boiled, but they
Speaker 2: were filling that crazy yellow sauce that they said is
Speaker 2: like a butterish substance, you know.
Speaker 4: Or what we grew up, you cook broccoli until you
Speaker 4: could cut it with a fork. You know, it's not
Speaker 4: supposed to be that way. But when you get kids
Speaker 4: to engage and pulling a tomato off the vine, it's
Speaker 4: really good.
Speaker 3: So we start with that.
Speaker 2: Engage your children.
Speaker 4: Gauge your children and the process.
Speaker 2: Talk to them, do not leave them outside you as
Speaker 2: first lady, you have an approval rating of like eighty
Speaker 2: five ninety's. It's a whirl the roof your your vendor.
Speaker 2: But it is you your your approval rating is like
Speaker 2: your ice cream. Your husband's approval rating, it's like astronaut
Speaker 2: ice cream. It's it's vegetables, vegetable. My point is, forget
Speaker 2: about politics, forget about any of that in just marital
Speaker 2: relationship and just arguing how do.
Speaker 3: You not use that.
Speaker 2: And and wielded it. If I had an eighty percent
Speaker 2: approval rating and my wife was a fifty percent, I'd
Speaker 2: be like, really, your restaurant because the people say.
Speaker 4: No, no, I don't wield it over him because the
Speaker 4: truth is is that one of the things that I've
Speaker 4: seen over the last three and a half years, I've
Speaker 4: seen what it takes to be president. I kind of
Speaker 4: watched this thing pretty closely, and you know, the president
Speaker 4: is getting all the hard decisions where there's no easy answer.
Speaker 4: That's the kind of stuff that comes across his desk.
Speaker 4: And really, when it comes down to it, when you're
Speaker 4: making those judgment calls, all you have is your character,
Speaker 4: your value, your vision for this country. And I see
Speaker 4: him being so consistent in you know, disregarding the chatter
Speaker 4: and the north and really moving forward towards a country
Speaker 4: where there's more equity, more fairness, where our kids will
Speaker 4: grow up in schools that educate them, whether they'll have opportunities.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you see have you seen him change
Speaker 2: in his decision making as it goes on, as it's gotten,
Speaker 2: you know, as the gravity of it has just did
Speaker 2: it start out more dart boordish and then move you
Speaker 2: know what's right?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 4: Never?
Speaker 3: Never?
Speaker 4: I mean, in fact, you know the harder decisions, you know.
Speaker 4: I think he's been so consistent. I mean, he's come in,
Speaker 4: he told America what he was going to do past
Speaker 4: health care, make sure that more people have access to healthcare,
Speaker 4: and that our kids can start their lives with insurance
Speaker 4: as opposed to graduating from college like so many without insurance.
Speaker 4: He's ended the war and brought our troops home, making
Speaker 4: or they get the benefits and the respect that they've earned.
Speaker 2: Are you because what I didn't know that I was
Speaker 2: not I have not been following this. Let me ask
Speaker 2: you this. Are there people in the White House that
Speaker 2: you go like I could do that guy's job though.
Speaker 4: No one Everybody's like glad, I don't have to do
Speaker 4: his job? And I'm right there?
Speaker 2: What about like a I'm just gonna throw to Biden
Speaker 2: Joe everything, Like, Okay, I loved Joe. I loved Joe too.
Speaker 2: Is it a hard though to raise a kid around Biden?
Speaker 2: Because I would assume that there's a lot of like
Speaker 2: Joe language, or like he's like the uncle that comes
Speaker 2: over and like, oh you brought them guns, like you
Speaker 2: know that kind of thing, Like is he is that? To? No?
Speaker 4: All right, No, he's a great vice president, a great friend.
Speaker 4: My kids hang around him and good with this.
Speaker 2: Has he always been saying? You know, we're reading all
Speaker 2: these stories now about your husband as in high school
Speaker 2: and in college, and you know when you met him,
Speaker 2: was he doing what was he because you're little, like,
Speaker 2: what is that descript of a Cheech and Chong movie?
Speaker 4: What the hell's what?
Speaker 2: But then when you met him, did you put the kaibosh?
Speaker 2: Or had he already liked sown those and was done.
Speaker 4: Yeah. By the time he was in college, you know,
Speaker 4: like so many young people, he you know, realized that
Speaker 4: you know, he he could do more with his life.
Speaker 4: You know, you know, he had a mother that was
Speaker 4: always saying, you're so gifted, you're so talented. Slap in
Speaker 4: the back of the head, get yourself together. And I
Speaker 4: think when he lost his father. That was one of
Speaker 4: those click in moments and he really bubbled down. I
Speaker 4: think he transferred schools, went to Columbia, and then that's
Speaker 4: when he got really serious about really thinking about how
Speaker 4: would he use his life to the fullest.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting that was before me other president, you know,
Speaker 2: this President George W. Bush sort of went through his
Speaker 2: times where he was a little bit out there. I
Speaker 2: really related to that. It's the turnaround. That's the part
Speaker 2: where I was like.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to I'm not taking any baits.
Speaker 5: Don't worry.
Speaker 2: It's organic.
Speaker 3: We did very well. He did very well.
Speaker 2: I see what this man sees in you.
Speaker 3: You're very good.
Speaker 2: American grown is on the bookshelves. Now you're just saying
Speaker 2: eat a little healthier, get out there. It's not a
Speaker 2: dictator and plant garden.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a good way to start.
Speaker 2: That would be very nice. First, Lady wh Show Obama,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for talking about She is the
Speaker 2: president of Planned Parented and president of Planned Parented Action Fund.
Speaker 2: Please welcome in the programs to.
Speaker 5: See a Richards. How are you fantast You know I've been.
Speaker 2: Watching the news recently. Yeah, there is a tremendous discussion
Speaker 2: going on in this country right now on women's health issues, contraception,
Speaker 2: mainly amongst I guess you'd call them penist Americans. So
Speaker 2: we thought, why not bring in someone without a penis
Speaker 2: to discuss the how it affects the people that it
Speaker 2: actually are being talked about.
Speaker 6: That's big of you, and it's great.
Speaker 2: Let me say this. Well, you're welcome.
Speaker 3: Now has that been odd to watch?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 6: That is incredible? It's absolutely incredible to see. Now. Well,
Speaker 6: first that birth control itself is a topic of political
Speaker 6: debate in this presidential election religious liberty, Well, I mean,
Speaker 6: actually it's just yeah, I mean for women. Obviously, birth
Speaker 6: control is not a it's not a religious topic. It's
Speaker 6: a health topic. And ninety nine women in America use
Speaker 6: it and at Planned Parented we provide birth control to
Speaker 6: millions of women every single year. So yeah, I think
Speaker 6: they're kind of mystified by what the controversy is all about.
Speaker 2: Are you does this put you know?
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 2: Are do you fear that you are going back into
Speaker 2: a place where we have to have the contraception conversation
Speaker 2: all over again, that that was a battle that was fought.
Speaker 6: Well, you would think so again, since everyone uses it now,
Speaker 6: And actually the exciting thing is, for the first time,
Speaker 6: we think women actually will get finally get birth control
Speaker 6: covered by their insurance plans, which is a great health
Speaker 6: it's great advance for women's health. It's a great economic
Speaker 6: issue for women. But again, I think we're seeing in
Speaker 6: this presidential primary this sort of like race to the bottom,
Speaker 6: where every presidential candidate on the Republican side is trying
Speaker 6: to say I would be absolutely the worst for women,
Speaker 6: including being opposed to birth control coverage. I think the
Speaker 6: last time we actually that birth control is probably a
Speaker 6: controversial topic was during Prohibition.
Speaker 2: So the sixties and seventies it was an issue. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's when when when Griswold was decided. Isn't that the
Speaker 2: whole that.
Speaker 6: Was actually when yes, actually for the first time, married
Speaker 6: couples could use birth control legally.
Speaker 2: And now I guess what they're saying is The interesting
Speaker 2: thing to me is how it's been changed to be
Speaker 2: an issue about women wanting someone to pay for them
Speaker 2: to have sex, or money coming out of other people's
Speaker 2: pockets so that women can have sex. It strikes me
Speaker 2: as a very interesting direction to take the conversation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's actually really hard to I don't even know
Speaker 6: if I can respond to that. Yes, yeah I can.
Speaker 6: I did, no, And thanks for covering this issue. This
Speaker 6: issue no for women. Look at planned parented. We see
Speaker 6: one in five women in America at some point in
Speaker 6: their lifetime, and this last year, I think I've heard
Speaker 6: from every single one of them because they are absolutely
Speaker 6: astounded that we are now redbate issues that I think
Speaker 6: have been settled for a long.
Speaker 2: The caricature of planned parenthood, and the one that I
Speaker 2: think criticis is this idea of an abortion factory, where
Speaker 2: it's the ideas that's how you make your money, and
Speaker 2: you're going to set up a drive through, and there's
Speaker 2: no there's no thoughtfulness, there's no morality to it. It
Speaker 2: is you know, that is the type of evil place
Speaker 2: that it is. What's what's the reality of the place,
Speaker 2: what's the mandate?
Speaker 6: The reality is we're the largest family planning provider in
Speaker 6: America and we do more to prevent unintended pregnancy and
Speaker 6: the need for abortion than any organization in this country.
Speaker 4: What would what.
Speaker 3: Will be something?
Speaker 2: What would be something that you think maybe your critics
Speaker 2: would be very surprised to know about that.
Speaker 6: More than ninety percent of our services are preventive care.
Speaker 6: We provide not only more than two million folks with
Speaker 6: birth control each year, but we do more than seven
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty thousand PAP smears every year. Breast exams
Speaker 6: for women on different people.
Speaker 2: I mean that, I mean that wouldn't be right to
Speaker 2: do to one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: No, Actually, I mean the great thing about Planned parented.
Speaker 6: We're all across the country, and what's for many women
Speaker 6: we are their only medical provider. We are their doctor,
Speaker 6: the one doctor visit they get a year. Is it
Speaker 6: planned parented? And that's why I get I think there's
Speaker 6: just been this sort of groundswell of concern when politicians
Speaker 6: are saying we're going to end not only planned parenthood
Speaker 6: but all family planning in America.
Speaker 2: What do you think if plan here was one of
Speaker 2: those things that was put to a vote in America?
Speaker 2: I get the sense that it would be maybe we'd
Speaker 2: win a pretty popular place in local communities. It seems
Speaker 2: like people understand it better than they do on the
Speaker 2: national state.
Speaker 6: Absolutely right, John. In fact, as I said, you know,
Speaker 6: one of five women have been to Planned parentis so
Speaker 6: they actually know what we do. And I just not
Speaker 6: that I'm competitive, but I did just see some national
Speaker 6: polling of sixty nine percent of the American people not
Speaker 6: only support Plan Parented, but believe that we should get
Speaker 6: public funding to provide the services that we do. Congress
Speaker 6: is congress approval rating hovering around ten percent. I think so.
Speaker 6: I think if it really came down to who do
Speaker 6: you think is on your side as a woman, as
Speaker 6: a family, I think folks would vote for Planned Parented.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who who would you be running against?
Speaker 6: A guest.
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