Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. But the past fifty years,
Speaker 1: ever since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, women
Speaker 1: in America have had the right to choose whether or
Speaker 1: not to have an abortion, And now it looks like
Speaker 1: that rights is going away. Bombshell, the Supreme Court poised
Speaker 1: to strike down Roe versus Wade that, according to an
Speaker 1: unprecedented leak of the Justice's draft opinion overnight, a decision
Speaker 1: would alter the nationwide battle over abortion. The blockbuster story
Speaker 1: broke overnight on the Political website, reporting that a draft
Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court's opinion shows the Court overturning Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade in a blistering ruling. Tensions flared outside the nation's
Speaker 1: highest court after an unprecedented leaking. But the bombshell report
Speaker 1: comes as five states have enacted strict abortion restrictions and
Speaker 1: sweeping bands, many of them ready to immediately cut off
Speaker 1: access to care if the High Court does overturn ro
Speaker 1: versus Wade. Over twenty states are poised to immediately ban abortion.
Speaker 1: That's right, people. If the Court's decision is released officially,
Speaker 1: abortion will be illegal in about half the states in America. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that means all across the country. Women in places like
Speaker 1: South Dakota or Missouri or even Texas will have the
Speaker 1: exact same abortion rights as women in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just think about that. We just evacuated people out
Speaker 1: of Afghanistan and now we're gonna have to evacuate them
Speaker 1: out of Tennessee. And it's an amazing After all these
Speaker 1: years of the right screaming about the threats of sharia law,
Speaker 1: it turns out they were just jealous. Now, to be clear,
Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade hasn't yet been overturned. Right, this is
Speaker 1: a laked draft from February. It's not official. Like, for
Speaker 1: all we know, the opinion could change by the time
Speaker 1: it's released, or the justices who signed onto it in
Speaker 1: February could change their minds. It is not likely, but
Speaker 1: it's technically possible. I mean, like, who knows. Maybe justice
Speaker 1: a little will try ayahuasca and come back with a
Speaker 1: totally new perspective on the universe and how we're all connected. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe between then and now, one of these justices will
Speaker 1: have a daughter and then they'll understand Wait, hold on, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm being told four of them do have daughters. Oh okay, Well,
Speaker 1: that's up. But it's important to remember how we got
Speaker 1: here because keep in mind that pole off the pole
Speaker 1: shows that a majority of Americans don't want Row v.
Speaker 1: Way to be overturned. But the GOP didn't care about that. No,
Speaker 1: then care about winning over the people. They just cared
Speaker 1: about getting enough justices onto the court to get what
Speaker 1: they want. Basically, they use the same tactic that that
Speaker 1: asshole friend of yours uses when they're ordering pizza. Hey,
Speaker 1: what topics does everyone want? What do you want on
Speaker 1: the pizza? Extra cheese and pepperoni? What I'm ordering? So
Speaker 1: it's Antovi's and pineapples, Dick. And that's basically how you
Speaker 1: end up with a Supreme Court decision that amounts to
Speaker 1: a hostile takeover of America's reproductive rights. The draft of
Speaker 1: beIN In is apparently written by Justice Samuel Alito. The
Speaker 1: language of this draft is blunt, at times scornful, Justice
Speaker 1: Aldo apparently writing that Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.
Speaker 1: He calls it an abuse of judicial authority and adds
Speaker 1: it is time to heed the Constitution and return the
Speaker 1: issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives. Justice Samuel
Speaker 1: Aldo says, quote the inescapable conclusion is that the right
Speaker 1: to abortion is not deeply rooted in the nation's history
Speaker 1: and traditions. Believe it or not. According to this argument,
Speaker 1: they actually is no fundamental rights for women to control
Speaker 1: their own bodies. Lawmakers could pass laws giving them that,
Speaker 1: but that right is not part of this nation's history
Speaker 1: and traditions, which is kind of true. I mean, the
Speaker 1: history of this nation is that men can control what
Speaker 1: women do, and that's what we want to go back to.
Speaker 1: Right progress. Yes, yes, am I getting it rights, I mean,
Speaker 1: but then again, the right to an abortion has also
Speaker 1: been around for fifty years. Now, think about it you
Speaker 1: want about history and tradition. I think it's safe to
Speaker 1: say that that's a tradition at this point. Like if
Speaker 1: you go without electricity for a weekend, you're camping. If
Speaker 1: you go without it for fifty years, you're Amish mother.
Speaker 1: That's just who you are, that's just where you are.
Speaker 1: And most people, most people thought the freedom to choose
Speaker 1: what's just how America was. No one ever thought the
Speaker 1: GOP could just roll it back by playing a reverse
Speaker 1: Juno card. They didn't know it's a thing. I mean, Okay,
Speaker 1: full perspective for perspective considered this, It wasn't until the
Speaker 1: year after Roe v. Wade that women in America got
Speaker 1: the legal rights to have a credit card without a man.
Speaker 1: Think about that, Yeah, and I think we would all
Speaker 1: agree it would be a little weird if the Court
Speaker 1: was suddenly like, Look, if the founders wanted women to
Speaker 1: have credit cards, they would have said so, they would
Speaker 1: have And look, this ruling is bad enough on its own,
Speaker 1: but it also sets a new precedent that could make
Speaker 1: things even worse because if the rights to privac that
Speaker 1: role is based on doesn't actually exist, then all sorts
Speaker 1: of things could become illegal. Contraception, gay marriage, sex before marriage, adultery, masturbation.
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone assumed that these things were here to stay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but give this court some time and you just wake
Speaker 1: up and find yourself back in the nineteen sixties, except
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have hitchhiking, which is the best part of
Speaker 1: the nineties. Yeah, back then everyone was an uber driver.
Speaker 1: And now, despite how it may sometimes feel, the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court is not the only branch of government alright. There's
Speaker 1: still also the President and Congress and the Illuminati. Wait, sorry, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't say that last part. Sorry, just the presidents
Speaker 1: and Congress, and so because of that, elected officials from
Speaker 1: both parties immediately weighed in on the stunning news. If
Speaker 1: we had to pick a word that our caucus feels,
Speaker 1: it's infuriated in sweet because we're finally vindicating the constitution.
Speaker 1: A great deal that we're gonna as besides of what
Speaker 1: were the not too. This is a great victory. It's
Speaker 1: a great victory for God. I have seen the world prayer,
Speaker 1: abortions is ills as if we are not going Republican sentator.
Speaker 1: Is Susan Collins calling this decision quote inconsistent with what
Speaker 1: Justices Neil Gorcig and Reet Kavanaugh said in their confirmation
Speaker 1: hearings and in her private meetings with them before she
Speaker 1: agreed to vote for them. Rarely, Susan Collins, you're really
Speaker 1: gonna tell us that you didn't think the conservative justices
Speaker 1: were gonna overturn Roe V. Wait, you didn't think that?
Speaker 1: That's the whole thing. It's like letting pac Man borrow
Speaker 1: your dots and then being shocked that he ate them all.
Speaker 1: That's what pac Man does. How are you the only
Speaker 1: person who doesn't know pac Man? I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: will say in Senator Collins defense. It is insane. It
Speaker 1: really is insane that Supreme Court justices can just lie
Speaker 1: in their job interview without any repercussions. Right, you couldn't
Speaker 1: even do that. Ship a King quotes if you claimed
Speaker 1: that you're an expert at clearing paper jams, and then
Speaker 1: when you get there, all you know how to do
Speaker 1: is make copies of your butt kinkles is gonna fire you.
Speaker 1: So obviously Republicans are like static and Democrats are furious.
Speaker 1: And technically Democrats could legalize abortion through Congress if they
Speaker 1: get rid of the filibuster. The only problem is they
Speaker 1: don't have the votes to do that. Although who knows,
Speaker 1: Susan Collins is so gullible, you know, Chuck Schuman can
Speaker 1: probably get it to sign onto the filibuster reform just
Speaker 1: hiding it in the birthday card. Yeah, that's right. Just
Speaker 1: sign here. It's a group thing for the whole group,
Speaker 1: and everyone's gonna like it's a janitor's birthday. We're all signing.
Speaker 1: Just signed here. Yeah, his name is Phil Buster. Signed here. Now.
Speaker 1: What's really interesting about this story is that while many
Speaker 1: people are upset about the decision itself, some people are
Speaker 1: only upset that we're hearing about the decision. I have never,
Speaker 1: as you said, seen a leak like this at the
Speaker 1: core in the years that I've covered it. It is
Speaker 1: astonishing that somebody would release a draft opinion outside of
Speaker 1: the court. This is as corrosive as destructive to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court as we've ever seen. This is an insurrection
Speaker 1: against the Supreme Court. These justices must be able to
Speaker 1: discuss and deliberate inner an environment of total trust and privacy.
Speaker 1: It is not up to a law clerk to decide
Speaker 1: when the decision of the court will be announced. They
Speaker 1: should have never happened. They should aible to make decisions
Speaker 1: and private and secret, and then once they're ready to
Speaker 1: decide and let the country know how that they have ruled,
Speaker 1: let it out. Yeah, yeah, I like that in lots.
Speaker 1: I understand why these people upset. You heard what they said.
Speaker 1: The conservative majority on this Court has a fundamental rights
Speaker 1: to choose when they want to release a decision into
Speaker 1: the world. Imagine having some random person violate your privacy
Speaker 1: and make that choice for you. Who would do such
Speaker 1: a thing. It's crazy. It's crazy how conservatives always managed
Speaker 1: to make themselves the victim in any situation. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have just accomplished this thing that they've been working
Speaker 1: towards for fifty years, and their first reaction is it's
Speaker 1: so unfair. What's happening to us? Well, well, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: what you wanted your ruling to be a big surprise,
Speaker 1: and now someone ruined it. I'm really sorry that this
Speaker 1: decision to colonize every vagina in America wasn't given the
Speaker 1: respect or dignity that it deserves. Right now, you'll sound
Speaker 1: like a serial killer who's upset that your potential victim
Speaker 1: busted you in the back seat. You weren't supposed to
Speaker 1: look here. You were just supposed to sit in the
Speaker 1: front and then I was gonna put a bag on
Speaker 1: your head, and now it's ruined. If you have a
Speaker 1: happy life, send the clover Shaw. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for fining us on the show. Thanks Trevor. Let's jump
Speaker 1: straight into it. Everyone was shocked, uphold, just really, you know,
Speaker 1: blown away by the possibility that this could actually be
Speaker 1: a decision, especially because for fifty years people have thought
Speaker 1: that this was settled law. Where do you stand up?
Speaker 1: Where does America go from here? As a sitting senator, Well, first,
Speaker 1: as a sitting senator. Let me say, I am mad,
Speaker 1: I am piste off these justices, these nominees came before us.
Speaker 1: Of course I voted against him, but they said, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the law of the land. Oh, this is
Speaker 1: a case that has been affirmed over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. And then what do they do when they
Speaker 1: get a chance, Uh, they're going to overturn it. And
Speaker 1: we predicted this was going to happen. But what this
Speaker 1: means right now, if this happens over twenty states, many
Speaker 1: of them have laws already in place, will ban abortion,
Speaker 1: will have a patchwork of laws across the country. So
Speaker 1: the answer is not that. The answer is that a
Speaker 1: federal law is passed to codify Roe v. Wade into law.
Speaker 1: So it is the law of the land. So with
Speaker 1: that being said, how do you how do you begin
Speaker 1: to do that? Because I'm sure many Republicans out there
Speaker 1: right now going, well, that's why we voted, that's why
Speaker 1: we voted for Trump. That's why we're happy that McConnell
Speaker 1: is in power. Because however they did it, they managed
Speaker 1: to get it done. And then I see a lot
Speaker 1: of Democrats where people voted for the Democrats saying, well,
Speaker 1: are we going to get what we voted for? All
Speaker 1: the women who voted for this party going to see
Speaker 1: actions being taken away. It's going to be a case
Speaker 1: of we don't have the votes and we can't figure
Speaker 1: out how to make it happen. Well, two people have
Speaker 1: to show where they stand, and we have to have
Speaker 1: this vote. It's critical. And as you know, the vast
Speaker 1: majority of Democrats in Congress, it's has already passed the
Speaker 1: House support this bell. So that is going to happen
Speaker 1: very quickly. I agree with you, we should get rid
Speaker 1: of the filibuster. I don't know if you know there
Speaker 1: are over a hundred exceptions to that filibuster. Where like
Speaker 1: everyone else, like the House of Representatives, like democracies across
Speaker 1: the world, we have majority votes. They have majority of
Speaker 1: votes on things like the Trump Ax cut, they have
Speaker 1: majority votes on space accidents, they have majority votes on
Speaker 1: things like arms sales. And so you're gonna tell me
Speaker 1: that we have to get sixty votes to change something
Speaker 1: that this right wing Supreme Court has put in place,
Speaker 1: where in fact they are against the wishes of nearly
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the American people. So if something's worth
Speaker 1: getting rid of, the filibuster for making an acception to
Speaker 1: the filibuster. This is a and by the way, if
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, you know that old line, don't get mad, vote,
Speaker 1: I say, get mad and vote. We have to do both.
Speaker 1: It will choke for a little bit about strategy. Then
Speaker 1: there are two Republican sentences who have been on record
Speaker 1: as saying that they are pro choice Senensor Collins and
Speaker 1: sentence of Mikowski. And they said, hey, we're pro choice
Speaker 1: even though we voted for these conservative justices. Would this
Speaker 1: be a moment where you basically asked them to put
Speaker 1: their money where their mouth is and say, well, if
Speaker 1: you said you are pro choice and now you see
Speaker 1: that these justices have gone against what they said, do
Speaker 1: you think you could get them to vote with the Democrats.
Speaker 1: I can't predict what they're going to do, but I
Speaker 1: can tell you yes, this is a moment where people
Speaker 1: have to make a decision when you look at the
Speaker 1: history all kinds of exception to that filibuster, and this
Speaker 1: is a moment where one we have to codify Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade into law, especially if they have been betrayed by
Speaker 1: these justices who they claim made one claim to them.
Speaker 1: And then voted another way. And then secondly, Uh, they've
Speaker 1: got to make their own decision. They're both independent thinkers,
Speaker 1: and so I don't rule that out. But I also
Speaker 1: looked to the fall Um as part of this strategy.
Speaker 1: You can't just look at both things separately, as well
Speaker 1: as the fights that are gonna happen in every single
Speaker 1: state legislature in the country, because this is going to
Speaker 1: be battled out state by state by state. Because I
Speaker 1: think when these judges said, and we always thought they
Speaker 1: wanted to go back to the nineteen fifties, I think
Speaker 1: what we didn't realize when they said the fifties, it
Speaker 1: was the eighteen fifties. And when on branches screwing up
Speaker 1: so bad that they're taking positions that reverse fifty years
Speaker 1: of precedent and against eight percent of the American people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the other branch is supposed to of government is supposed
Speaker 1: to step in. That's what our system of government was
Speaker 1: set to do and not make women get back alley
Speaker 1: abortions and travel across state lines just to exercise their
Speaker 1: constitutional and I believe it's constitutional right to make decisions
Speaker 1: about their own healthcare. You do you worry at all?
Speaker 1: Do you worry at all that the Supreme Court has
Speaker 1: lost its neutrality as an institution in America. There was
Speaker 1: a time when people said the Supreme Court rules on
Speaker 1: the laws that have been passed and the interpretation of
Speaker 1: those laws. And yet now it feels very much like
Speaker 1: a seasil. Is there a way you can see America
Speaker 1: fixing this or is this just how it's going to
Speaker 1: be from now on. First of all, I'll note I
Speaker 1: take this personally because the justice who was a Republican
Speaker 1: pres an appointed justice, that would be Justice Blackman Um
Speaker 1: was from Minnesota, and he is the one that may
Speaker 1: be surprised those that had asked for him to be
Speaker 1: appointed by writing Roe v. Way. So that kind of
Speaker 1: independence is not what you're seeing with these conservative justices. Now.
Speaker 1: You have seen it um from time to time with
Speaker 1: Justice Roberts, who voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act,
Speaker 1: who has taken a number of votes and as if
Speaker 1: he's some radical liberal. Not really, but it has gone
Speaker 1: so extreme that he has been siding with some of
Speaker 1: the liberal justices. Sadly, if this leaked opinion and what
Speaker 1: we're hearing is true, that won't even matter if he
Speaker 1: did that, because it was five four. So as I
Speaker 1: look to the future, what do we need to do well,
Speaker 1: I think the first thing we need to do is
Speaker 1: to um make sure that we're putting judges in place.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you with the wonderful new appointment
Speaker 1: of Justice Jackson to that Supreme Court, she will be
Speaker 1: starting soon. That is a good beginning. And what a
Speaker 1: moment that was when she got out of the dark
Speaker 1: and musky Senate Judiciary cave that it was, and got
Speaker 1: out in that beautiful sunshine on the White House lawn.
Speaker 1: There was no Ted Cruise on that lawn, and that
Speaker 1: was her moment. But now, sadly, the Supreme Court has
Speaker 1: told us we will no longer allow women to make
Speaker 1: their decisions with their doctors, Trevor. It will be Ted
Speaker 1: Cruise that can make those decisions. But the bottom line
Speaker 1: right now is we are not going to be able
Speaker 1: to fix that court before the fall, and I think
Speaker 1: your audience knows that. Right now, what we have to
Speaker 1: do is push these votes, show people where they are,
Speaker 1: show people where Democrats are and where Republicans are. And
Speaker 1: if we can't get this done because we have a
Speaker 1: tied Senate at fifty fifty, then we go straight to
Speaker 1: the ballot box. We march that box. People turn out
Speaker 1: in record numbers. That is how we beat this, Trevor.
Speaker 1: That will be the last dance with the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: now seemingly on the brink of striking down Roe v. Wade.
Speaker 1: Many people are horrified, not that women in half the
Speaker 1: country would lose their rights over their own body, but
Speaker 1: rather that this information got leaked, which is weird. It's
Speaker 1: like running around the deck of the Titanic trying to
Speaker 1: find out who yelled we're sinking, instead of focusing on
Speaker 1: the iceberg. Now, Chief Justice John Roberts has announced an
Speaker 1: immediate investigation to identify the leaka. The cable news doesn't
Speaker 1: have time to wait around, so everyone knows who really
Speaker 1: did it? Who did it? That's the question everyone is
Speaker 1: asking today. Who's behind the league? Was it a clerk?
Speaker 1: Was it that somebody at the copy machine who done it?
Speaker 1: Some left wing law clerk angry at the direction the
Speaker 1: court is going. I think this was leaked by a
Speaker 1: liberal law clerk who is trying to change the outcome
Speaker 1: of the case. A lot of people are saying, this
Speaker 1: may have leaked from justice out of my clerk. If
Speaker 1: it was a conservative. It might be someone who wants
Speaker 1: to keep all the five judges that are on the
Speaker 1: side of Aldo's opinion in their box. There. Yes, it
Speaker 1: was a left wing ANTIFA law clerk trying to sabotage
Speaker 1: the court. Or it was a right wing maga hare
Speaker 1: trying to lock the decision in place. Oh, maybe it
Speaker 1: was the butler. It's always the butler. But while everyone
Speaker 1: on regular cable channels was playing the least horny version
Speaker 1: of Knives Out, News Max had already cracked the case.
Speaker 1: It was the black woman. I found it suspect that
Speaker 1: the first leak coming out of the Supreme Court in
Speaker 1: history comes shortly after Judge Jackson is confirmed. She would
Speaker 1: be my first suspect when it comes to the league.
Speaker 1: And my first suspect for asshole is you? Is you
Speaker 1: look at you excusing the tried and true investigative technique
Speaker 1: of the black person did it? And you know, everyone
Speaker 1: has theories, and everyone has theories. For all we know,
Speaker 1: it could have been an accident, all right. There are
Speaker 1: many times that I've gotten drunk and sent something that
Speaker 1: it should have stayed in drafts. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess that doesn't make sense for the Supreme Court, because
Speaker 1: I could have gotten drunk at the Supreme Court. You know,
Speaker 1: it's uh still like beer, my man. Look, whoever did it? Though?
Speaker 1: Whoever did it? Though, I'm not surprised it happened. In fact,
Speaker 1: I can't believe that this didn't happen earlier. I mean,
Speaker 1: have you seen the security they have in the Supreme Court?
Speaker 1: It sucks. The guard outside is literally wearing a blindfold.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna help anybody. And so I do get
Speaker 1: why they're trying to find the leaker. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't want this to turn into a trend, all right.
Speaker 1: They leak now, They're gonna leak in the future. It's
Speaker 1: leaks all the way going forward. I mean, look look
Speaker 1: at what happened in the world of comedy. One stand
Speaker 1: up gets slapped. Now Dave Chappelle is getting tackled on stage. Ship.
Speaker 1: I had to get a pair of nunchucks just in case.
Speaker 1: Try that ship with me. That's right, pop up? How
Speaker 1: about now? How about now? I'm gonna show you what
Speaker 1: what knocked myself out before you get to me. Now,
Speaker 1: while the Supreme Court is trying to figure out who
Speaker 1: the snitches, the rest of the country is trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what women will be allowed to do with
Speaker 1: their own bodies. And while everyone knew that women in
Speaker 1: red states were in trouble, it turns out, thanks to
Speaker 1: some lazy lawmaking, there are also two Blue states where
Speaker 1: women might lose the rights to choose. If the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court does strike down Roe v. Wade later the Spring,
Speaker 1: all lives in Wisconsin would then turn to a one
Speaker 1: seventy year old law that's still on the books. Wisconsin
Speaker 1: still has a ban on abortion in place from eighteen
Speaker 1: forty nine. It outlaws all abortions except for cases where
Speaker 1: a mother's life is at risk. In Michigan, the law
Speaker 1: is passed in one and the band's abortion a loss
Speaker 1: done to save the life of the person who is
Speaker 1: pregnant and contains no exception for rape or incest. The
Speaker 1: band never had to be repealed because Roe had made
Speaker 1: it obsolete, but it is still state laws still on
Speaker 1: the books. This is so ridiculous. If Roe v. Wade
Speaker 1: goes away Michigan and Wisconsin, we're going to start using
Speaker 1: laws from nineteen thirty one and eighteen forty nine. Do
Speaker 1: you understand how crazy think about how many laws like
Speaker 1: from back then, How many laws are we using from
Speaker 1: back then? Think about the laws that were even around
Speaker 1: half of them are about how much corn you can
Speaker 1: legally hide in your top hats. Those are the abortion
Speaker 1: laws that are about to come back into effects. Guys.
Speaker 1: Unused laws shouldn't be a thing that come back. It
Speaker 1: should be they should have like an expiration date, or
Speaker 1: at the very least, states should smell them every now
Speaker 1: and again to make sure that they haven't gone bad.
Speaker 1: Now you might be thinking, you might be thinking, well,
Speaker 1: aren't Michigan and Wisconsin pro choice? Yeah, they are big time.
Speaker 1: More than sixty of Wisconsin voters and at least seventy
Speaker 1: in Michigan support legal abortion. But their state legislatures are
Speaker 1: controlled by Republicans. Yeah, so you best believe you're more
Speaker 1: likely to see Chanova at the met Gala. Then these
Speaker 1: Republicans repeal those laws, and so once again the job
Speaker 1: of protecting Americans false to the only people who actually
Speaker 1: care about them. Corporations as women fight for abortion rights,
Speaker 1: Amazon says they'll help their employees access the health care
Speaker 1: they want. The company announced on Monday that it will
Speaker 1: pay for abortions for employees who need them. They'll give
Speaker 1: up to four thousand dollars a year two workers who
Speaker 1: need to travel to other states to seek medical care.
Speaker 1: Other companies like Apple, City Group, Levis, and Yelp have
Speaker 1: made similar promises to employees. Wow, that's a big deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: companies like Apple, Citsey Group, and even Amazon are promising
Speaker 1: to help their employees travel to other states if they
Speaker 1: need to get abortions. Which is amazing. That's really amazing.
Speaker 1: Usually you only see that kind of offer when a
Speaker 1: member of Congress gets his mistress pregnant. Really powerful, and
Speaker 1: considering the political climate right now, any company waiting into
Speaker 1: controversial cultural issues like they could face serious backlash. I mean,
Speaker 1: pro lifers could start a boycott against Amazon that could
Speaker 1: last minutes before they get tempted by a deal on
Speaker 1: a knockoff room BA. And you know, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm actually surprised that Amazon is doing this. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it's wild. They'll let employees go to a blue state
Speaker 1: before they'll let them use the bathroom. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: pretty wild. But but they deserve the praise. In fact,
Speaker 1: I propose a toast. Let's all raise a Gatorade bottle
Speaker 1: of p in Amazon's honor. Yeah. Yeah, ah, I thought
Speaker 1: it was pissed as gatorade that mixed it the wrong way.
Speaker 1: So those are the latest updates on the fallout of
Speaker 1: the row Wade leak from the Supreme Court, And while
Speaker 1: we don't know where this will end, we do know
Speaker 1: it's definitely reignited a conversation about how society treats women's
Speaker 1: reproductive rights. Because you know what if I interesting is
Speaker 1: if you go online or if you watch conservatives, conservative news, right,
Speaker 1: you buy your bound to find like tons of people
Speaker 1: saying that the reason they're against abortion, the reason is
Speaker 1: because they don't want to interfere with what God has decided.
Speaker 1: If you got pregnant, it's because God wanted you to
Speaker 1: be pregnant, and if you can't have kids, that's God's plan,
Speaker 1: to which I understand as an argument, I really do. However,
Speaker 1: I find it interesting that these same people never use
Speaker 1: that argument when it comes to men. Yeah, because if
Speaker 1: you watch if you watch Fox News or any of
Speaker 1: these channels, they've got ads for erectile dysfunction pills. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how come they never say, oh, you can't get it up, Well,
Speaker 1: that's God's will. I'm sorry your penis doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1: That's what the Lord wanted. They never say that. They
Speaker 1: never said medicine is always encouraged to do whatever it
Speaker 1: can to augment men's sexual health. However it can, and
Speaker 1: if you will, if you want to see, if you
Speaker 1: want to see just how far medicine is willing to
Speaker 1: go four men, look no further than the story from
Speaker 1: the UK where doctors helped a man grow a penis
Speaker 1: on his arm. A British man who lost his penis
Speaker 1: to an infection has finally had a new one surgically
Speaker 1: attached after six years of growing it on his arm.
Speaker 1: Doctors even designed a hand pump that can inflate the
Speaker 1: penis and produce an erection. Forty seven year old Malcolm
Speaker 1: McDonald is the subject of a new documentary called The
Speaker 1: Man with a Penis on his Arm. According to The
Speaker 1: Daily Mail, viewers were stunned watching the program last night,
Speaker 1: in which Malcolm described the penis falling out of his
Speaker 1: sleeve while shopping and even hitting his loved ones in
Speaker 1: the face while he helped out. Yeah, this man lost
Speaker 1: his penis and instead of accepting it, doctors figured out
Speaker 1: a way to grow him a new one on his
Speaker 1: arm and as hard as it was for him to
Speaker 1: live like this. I'm glad that medicine has come so
Speaker 1: far that we're basically doing something that's from the future. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: we want women to live back in And by the way,
Speaker 1: can I also just say how much I appreciate the
Speaker 1: title of that documentary the man with a penis on
Speaker 1: his arm. No, it's simple, it's clear, it's direct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I see that scrolling on Netflix, I know exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm getting. I'm exactly what it is. Unlike Tiger King.
Speaker 1: I thought it was the sequel to Lion King starting
Speaker 1: Tigers It turns out the real Star Wars mess. But
Speaker 1: you see, there's a reason I'm bringing up the story today, right,
Speaker 1: And it's not just for the incredible dick jokes I
Speaker 1: could make. No Like, obviously, getting an abortion and getting
Speaker 1: an arm penis on't the same thing. But I do
Speaker 1: find it emblematic of how differently men and women's reproductive
Speaker 1: health is treated. Women across America will soon lose autonomy
Speaker 1: over their own bodies, and many people are fine with it.
Speaker 1: You even see people on TV downplaying the situation. So
Speaker 1: you'll have to carry a baby for nine months against
Speaker 1: your will and then let it destroy your body, and
Speaker 1: maybe you're not ready for this in life, and maybe
Speaker 1: you can't afford It's fine, you can just give it
Speaker 1: up for adoption. After it's fine. Meanwhile, a guy loses
Speaker 1: his dick and it's like Liam Neeson is on the case.
Speaker 1: I don't care how long it takes, I don't care
Speaker 1: what medical innovations we have to come up with. We
Speaker 1: will get your penis back. What a time to have
Speaker 1: you on um. Everybody in the country has been shell
Speaker 1: shocked by what is not an official decision but unfortunately
Speaker 1: looks like a looming one. Nonetheless, as the President of
Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood, I know many people are turning to you
Speaker 1: to say, what does this mean? What does it actually
Speaker 1: mean on the ground. So right now it is still
Speaker 1: a draft opinion. On the ground, abortion is still legal,
Speaker 1: and I think that's really important because there are people
Speaker 1: waking up every day who are going to help interests
Speaker 1: to get access to care, and there are already enough
Speaker 1: restrictions out there. So we have to remember that this
Speaker 1: is a moment where the final decision isn't in. What
Speaker 1: we saw on the ground as well, yesterday was an
Speaker 1: intense set of demonstrations of the rage that people have
Speaker 1: been experiencing over and over again, and the frustration with
Speaker 1: seeing their rights being chipped away. When you when you
Speaker 1: look at that and you look at that fight, do
Speaker 1: you do you ever think that we could do a
Speaker 1: better job of maintaining a consistency in these fights for
Speaker 1: people's liberties as opposed to having it be an on
Speaker 1: off switch, Because you know, I know people have made
Speaker 1: record donations, I know there are people are protesting, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But if you look at conservatives on their side, it
Speaker 1: seems like they've been slowly chipping away. They slowly chip away.
Speaker 1: They plan wagh in advance, they think of which judges
Speaker 1: to get into which positions, and now it looks like
Speaker 1: they're going to reap the foods of their you know,
Speaker 1: you know, of their labor. I'd love to know what
Speaker 1: you think, like people who believe that women should have
Speaker 1: the right to choose what they do with their own bodies,
Speaker 1: what they should be doing constantly, as opposed to into
Speaker 1: a well, I think you're absolutely right to locate it,
Speaker 1: like in in what the long Game? Is right that
Speaker 1: the the opposition has spent um fifty years fighting this,
Speaker 1: but the last twelve years in particular weaponizing jerrymandering UM
Speaker 1: in states, UH, focusing on on justices all the way
Speaker 1: up to the Supreme Court, and at every turn they
Speaker 1: have tried to essentially take more power in order to
Speaker 1: take more rights away. And it is not just access
Speaker 1: to abortion that they're coming for, right, We've heard them
Speaker 1: openly talk about access to contraception, marriage, equality, interracial marriage,
Speaker 1: all the things of how we identify ourselves and our bodies.
Speaker 1: UM is exactly what the long game and the strategy is.
Speaker 1: So our long game has to be just as relentless, right,
Speaker 1: it has to be just as strategic. It is not
Speaker 1: just about being in the streets. It is about capturing
Speaker 1: that rage and turning it into UH into the Midtermso
Speaker 1: we've got to make sure that we're turning people out.
Speaker 1: And we also have to think about even the fact
Speaker 1: that they've kicked us out of the constitution. Right, If
Speaker 1: if row we wade is overturned, they are essentially saying
Speaker 1: you are not equal, you cannot control your body. And
Speaker 1: so if anybody kicks you out of the constitution, you
Speaker 1: got to think about how you're gonna get yourself back
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, when you UM and when you think
Speaker 1: about this fight. I think a lot of the time
Speaker 1: people think about what they can do to stop the
Speaker 1: other side, or what they can do to fight back
Speaker 1: at what's happening. I think there's one thing that I
Speaker 1: found really interesting in particular between how many conservatives or
Speaker 1: Republicans think and then how many Democrats or liberals think,
Speaker 1: and that is Republicans hold their own accountable in an
Speaker 1: interesting way. You know, so they go, either you're doing
Speaker 1: this or you out of the party. And we've seen
Speaker 1: Trump do that, you know, without fail. Is this something
Speaker 1: that people could be doing to put pressure on the
Speaker 1: Democrats to say, hey, when we have voted you in,
Speaker 1: we need you to solidify what we voted you in
Speaker 1: to do. Yes. Absolutely, Look, there is a bill right
Speaker 1: now called the Women's Health Protection Act. UH Leader Schumer
Speaker 1: has will take it up next week again with the
Speaker 1: Senate to vote on. And what the Women's Health Protection
Speaker 1: Act does is it codifies row It's the federal legislation
Speaker 1: that protects this right UH in into law, and you know,
Speaker 1: getting people on record right we don't have. Unfortunately, we
Speaker 1: need to perform the filibuster in order to get it past.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, we are going to be
Speaker 1: able to get people on record, hold them to account
Speaker 1: to your point. And that's our message, right The reason
Speaker 1: you can't have what you want, even though we have
Speaker 1: of people believe that rose should be the law of
Speaker 1: the land, the reason you can't have the things that
Speaker 1: you want is because you know, essentially these states have
Speaker 1: um you know, you have got a vocal minority of
Speaker 1: people who control the levers of power. And the only
Speaker 1: way to change that is through direct democracy. So we
Speaker 1: got to fight to get ourselves back into democracy, and
Speaker 1: we also have to fight to get ourselves back in
Speaker 1: the constitution, and this legislation can help us do. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about this legislation for a moment. You don't I
Speaker 1: always get frustrated and confused by why legislation in America
Speaker 1: has so many things added in. It's like a bundle,
Speaker 1: you know, because even this Women's Health Protection Act, you know,
Speaker 1: I love the idea of codifying Roe v. Wade, You go, like,
Speaker 1: let's get women their rights, but then it adds in
Speaker 1: a few other things that people can use as an
Speaker 1: excuse to fight against, you know, like it affects like
Speaker 1: waiting rooms and correct me anywhere I'm wrong. It's like
Speaker 1: it affects doctors in this way, and affects a little
Speaker 1: thing on this side and a little thing on that side.
Speaker 1: Do you sometimes not worry that when you create, you know,
Speaker 1: a law, when you when you help lawmakers to try
Speaker 1: and think of these things. It gives people an out
Speaker 1: where they can say, oh, I didn't vote for that
Speaker 1: because of this, not because I want women to have
Speaker 1: a choice, but I didn't like what it did to
Speaker 1: doctors or their waiting rooms or all these other ancillary
Speaker 1: issues that are going to affect people. Okay, So here
Speaker 1: here's the state of play right now. Right, we have
Speaker 1: ROW is the law of the land technically until the
Speaker 1: full decision comes down. And even with ROW being the
Speaker 1: law land, even with it being enshrined in the constitution,
Speaker 1: states have put restrictions in over and over again. Right
Speaker 1: We've got a six week ban in Texas that comes
Speaker 1: to the bounty hunt of provision. We've got a fifteen
Speaker 1: week ban in Florida and Arizona. We've had laws about,
Speaker 1: you know, whether or not someone will need to see
Speaker 1: the same doctor within a seven need to our period.
Speaker 1: The laws are all about shaming people. They're about shaming providers,
Speaker 1: about shaming the patients about the decisions that they want
Speaker 1: to make about their own bodies. What the Women's Health
Speaker 1: Protection Act does is actually says all of these laws
Speaker 1: that are getting in the way of people being able
Speaker 1: to access the right, their federal right is um. Those
Speaker 1: are laws that are that would be banned. And that's
Speaker 1: what's important, right, the fact that that even though we
Speaker 1: have the right right now, access itself is so limited. Um.
Speaker 1: And so that's why we're seeing the outrage right now
Speaker 1: because it has been not only this chipping away of rights,
Speaker 1: but also chipping away of access rose just you know,
Speaker 1: the floor right, As my reproductive justice colleagues would say,
Speaker 1: You know, when when you look at branding, you know,
Speaker 1: there's no denying that any political messaging, any any messaging
Speaker 1: that's trying to mobilize society has to think about how
Speaker 1: it's branded. When you look at how people approve of
Speaker 1: or what you know, the polling suggests about people's supports
Speaker 1: of abortion throughout the United States, I have not just
Speaker 1: an interesting trend that is dramatically changes depending on how
Speaker 1: the question is asked, and it changes depending on where
Speaker 1: you say the abortion happens or how so I think
Speaker 1: you know, the overwhelming majority of people will say they
Speaker 1: are pro a woman having the right to choose, but
Speaker 1: in the first trimester, and then second trimester almost becomes
Speaker 1: even maybe flips the other way, and then you know,
Speaker 1: third trimesterate completely flips. Do you do you ever worry
Speaker 1: that maybe planned parenthood and and organizations like yours that
Speaker 1: are fighting for women's rights to choose. Do you do
Speaker 1: you ever worry that you may be losing the entire
Speaker 1: war because you're not willing to concede on some of
Speaker 1: the battles or do you feel like you have to
Speaker 1: go for all of them at once, even if you're
Speaker 1: risk losing everything. You know, Look, Trevor, no pregnancy, No
Speaker 1: two pregnancies end in the same way, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is the reality that people will make decisions about
Speaker 1: their their pregnancies, whether or not to continue them or
Speaker 1: determinate them, based on the circumstances in their own lives.
Speaker 1: And that is the thing that that we really need
Speaker 1: to understand here, you know, getting person out weeks in gestation,
Speaker 1: that is what the opposition has done. They try to
Speaker 1: to create these wedges around under ending what most people
Speaker 1: want is to not have a politician in their in
Speaker 1: their decision right as a you know right, you don't
Speaker 1: want them. You don't want them in your exam room,
Speaker 1: you don't want them in the conversation with you and
Speaker 1: your doctor, you don't want in the conversation with you
Speaker 1: and your partner, with your pastor. And at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, like that to me is the most important,
Speaker 1: you know message that we need to be sending to people.
Speaker 1: The reason why it also needs to be a private
Speaker 1: decision is because it's only your business. And so right
Speaker 1: where who from here? So again we are we'll be
Speaker 1: standing with the Senate next week when they take up
Speaker 1: this vote to support all of those folks who who
Speaker 1: support access to abortion codifying ROW. We will be channeling
Speaker 1: all of the rage through two and then, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a long game that we need
Speaker 1: to play around what it really means to uh to
Speaker 1: have you know, this federal protect action um enshrined in
Speaker 1: the Constitution. And I think that's really important because I
Speaker 1: think a lot about the fact that you know, what
Speaker 1: it means to be a leader at the time, you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of ROW, as a leader of a
Speaker 1: reproductive rights organization, And I think the question we have
Speaker 1: to ask ourselves now, is who are we going to
Speaker 1: be when we are no longer defending row. How are
Speaker 1: we going to reimagine and create an affirmative vision right
Speaker 1: without stigma, the kind of provision that everyone should be
Speaker 1: able to have the kind of health care they need
Speaker 1: to have in their own state, not getting in a
Speaker 1: car driving a thousand miles, putting your kids in the car,
Speaker 1: and just to get you know, access to basic health care.
Speaker 1: You deserve it in the state that you live, regardless
Speaker 1: of your race, class, your ability to pay. All of
Speaker 1: those things are really important. And that's what clin parents
Speaker 1: had stands for. That's what all the leaders in the
Speaker 1: movement stand for, and we'll be offering that affirmat a
Speaker 1: vision as well. I just want us to join us
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