WEBVTT - Joe Biden is Out of Step 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.400 How would you like to be able to remember names 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.040 after you hear them once, or focus on a task 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.200 without looking up until it's done. Whenever you want support 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.239 from memory and mental sharpness, Alpha Brain can help. With 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.160 more than one million bottles sold date on its newtrophic 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.440 supplement is the leader in its category. Alpha Brain's blend 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:21.720 of amino acids and plant compounds promotes cognitive functions including memory, 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.520 mental speed, and focus, and supports flow state that feeling 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:41.440 of being in the zone. By yours at Walmart today, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.640 Good morning, peepson, and welcome to wikay f Daily with 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.800 me your girl Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker. By 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:55.600 now you have no doubt heard the horrendous story of 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:00.280 the ten year old girl, Ohio girl who was raped 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.560 and was found to be six weeks and three days 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:10.039 pregnant and had to travel to Indiana in order to 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.520 receive an abortion. The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.280 other Republicans had the audacity to say that her story 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.080 her trauma was quote unquote too good to be true. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.720 The President of the United States used her story while 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:34.440 enacting an executive order that just frankly and I take 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.680 my queue from abortion Rights activists on the ground just 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:46.200 doesn't go far enough. They can go further. And I 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:51.120 sit here as we are heading into the first full 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:56.640 month of people with uterus is not having bodily autonomy 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.640 in this country, and we are hearing horrendous story after 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:05.560 horrendous story, and you have the Texas Attorney General suing 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.800 the Biden administration to ensure that Texas has the right 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:14.320 to kill people right. HHS has released guidelines that say 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.120 that when the life of the pregnant person is at risk, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.080 that an abortion can in fact be used as a 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:27.880 life saving procedure. Texas says, nah let him die. Indiana, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:33.840 which has abortion, their attorney general, who is a Republican, 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:38.520 has decided to go after the doctor who gave life 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.560 saving medical treatment to this ten year old so that 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.240 she wouldn't have to be a mother at ten to 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:55.240 her fucking rapist. This country is so fucking sick and distorted, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:03:01.160 and by the day I become increasingly disgusted. Today I'm 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:06.079 once again joined on wogay f by the founder and 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:13.520 CEO of We Testify, Renee Bracy Sherman, who you know. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.200 I will tell you, folks that there are times when 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:23.079 doing interviews for me, really hit me in the moment 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.359 right where, you know, I become overwhelmed with the despair, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.560 with the anguish, with the pain that people are so 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.240 willing to share, that are on the ground doing the 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.400 necessary work to help people, particularly in this case, help 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.920 people get the treatment that they need, the healthcare that 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.800 they need in order to have a say over their 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:49.520 own goddamn lives. And Renee started off the conversation, you know, emotional, 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:54.200 and how could she not be She is still going 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.280 to airports and picking people up and taking them on 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.280 long journeys to go and receive the care that they 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.920 should be able to get in their own fucking communities, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.400 right that they shouldn't need to reach out to an 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.080 abortion fund to be able to get the funding that 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.520 they need in order to fly, drive, go to different 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.640 states to get their care. One of the things that 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.120 Renee brings up in our interview is that, you know, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:24.240 nothing was mentioned in the executive order that would allow 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.200 funds to be given to people that need to travel 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.320 in order to get an abortion. And I say something 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:33.719 that I'm going to say at the beginning of the 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.840 show that you will hear me say later on, which 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.520 is that I don't believe that Joe Biden actually is 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.320 pro choice. I believe that abortion runs in complete and 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.320 total conflict with his religion, and it is why he 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:51.560 has been pulled, kicking and screaming to do the least 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.600 with regard to protecting the right to bodily autonomy. It 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.640 took him weeks to even come out and say anything 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.880 for full He still doesn't utter the word abortion, and 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.000 he still is not using the full force of the 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.599 federal government in order to protect women and people with 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.520 uterus is. And the question that I keep asking is why. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.000 And the only thing that keeps floating up to my 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:18.360 mind is because he's a Catholic right and he's only 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.000 going to do but so much and he believes oh well, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.280 and I said, you know the reason why, I don't 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.720 believe that this is a political move, because his poll 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.240 numbers are in the fucking trash and the poll numbers 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.840 for abortion are still in the seventy and probably now 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:37.560 high seventy, low eighty percentile now that the right is gone, 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:42.920 And so what is stopping Joe Biden and this administration 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.360 from taking the urgent action that is necessary. And frankly, 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:52.440 you know what you will hear from Renee is her 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.440 feeling about the decisions that are being made and the 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.840 executive orders that are being pushed out as like milktoast. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.120 All it is is asking for more research and reports 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:07.120 and she goes. Movement leaders put together those reports before 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.680 Biden even put his hand on the fucking Bible, Right, 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.560 So you don't need an EO to say that we 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.919 need more research. You know, we've had fifty fucking years 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:23.000 of research that's been done. Also, you've had a considerable 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.720 amount of fucking lead time given the fact that we 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:30.520 had saw that leaked draft weeks prior to the decision 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.080 being final, and there was no action that was taken. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.720 If anything, there should have been action that had been 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.440 taken once Biden was sworn in, and we saw that 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.720 Amy Coney Barrett was yet the second seat that was 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:49.400 stolen from Democrats, they should have come in solidifying, right. So, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.920 you know, people ask why do you go so hard 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.000 against Democrats? Because Democrats are the one out here promising 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.640 people shit and not delivering. And frankly, for many people 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.279 who have dedicated their lives to the advancement of equity, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.960 bodily autonomy, and justice for all people in this country. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.960 Their fucking slow walking is getting a little tired. Coming 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:19.560 up next, my full conversation with our friend, Renee Bracy Sherman, Folks, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.600 I am happy to welcome back to Woke f Daily, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.520 Renee Bracy Sherman, who is the founder and an executive 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.760 director of We Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.200 and representation of people who have abortions, focusing on the 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.280 intersection of race, class, and gender identity, and centering those 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:46.440 who've experienced financial and logistical barriers to abortion. Renee, it's 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:51.080 been a hell of a last three weeks. When we 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.360 had you on last it was the conversation around the 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.600 leak draft, what if, what if? What if? Well, the 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.800 what if is here? All of the things that we 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.760 thought that we feared that you have spent your life 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:16.120 working to ensure the protection thereof is now gone. And 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:21.000 so before we dive into any specifics on what your 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.280 organization and you as an advocate and leader, have been 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:29.880 experiencing and how quickly things have devolved, how are you doing. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.040 I'm a little more emotional today than I am most days. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:47.640 I'm tired. I'm really tired, and I'm not even as 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.480 tired as the folks who are in the clinics on 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.480 the ground, the abortion funds, As the clinics are closing 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:02.640 abortion funds, they have to stop operations. We're just all 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:10.600 really tired, and it's really exhausting, not only because of 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.960 everything that's going on that you know, we've warned about 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:19.120 it for ten years and no one listened to us. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.320 And even now it's still with the ideas where we're like, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.240 here's what we need to be able to move forward. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.960 The response is, well, we can't do that, and here's why. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.600 Even though we know that you can, we're just choosing 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.120 not to. And so I think that's adding to the 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:46.000 disappointment and the frustration. Like many activists across the country, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:51.200 I still do what's called practical support, so I picked 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.360 people up from the airport and drive them to their 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.880 hotel or to their abortion appointment. And so I'm still 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.720 very much seeing the impact of what's happening on the 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.600 ground with people who are traveling from states where abortion 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:11.640 is now a crime, and they're feeling really defeated and 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:17.440 frustrated and upset because they were so close and yet 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.199 you know, just missed it. Though, everyone is just really 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.480 really tired, and I don't I don't know how we 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:31.839 keep this up. I really don't, you know, no, dope, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:39.800 please do not apologize. Emotions are extraordinarily raw and for 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.560 you and the people like you who are in this 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:50.120 work every single day have been on my mind since 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:56.160 the leak draft and the stories that are floating up 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.920 that we are seeing in the headlines are so disturbing, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:07.480 are so heartbreaking, are so alarming as of you know, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.000 just a few days ago, Texas Attorney General, who by 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.120 the way, is under his own indictment charges, has decided 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:22.400 to file suit against the Biden administration stopping HHS from 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:29.200 enforcing guidelines that say that in the matter of a 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:36.680 pregnancy affecting the life of said pregnant person, that abortion 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.160 can and should be used as a procedure in order 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:48.200 to save their lives Texas, says Jenna. And so when 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:54.200 we recognize that there is no common ground with these people, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.960 there is no exception, right, there is no carve out 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.000 it is. I don't care if you're ten years old 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.559 and you have been traumatized multiple times, We're going to 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.040 traumatize you again and again and again. And now we're 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:13.160 gonna disrupt and maybe put the doctor who lawfully treated 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.760 you out of business right for saving essentially saving the 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.480 life of a ten year old, because that's what that 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:27.520 doctor did. Um, I just I guess I will. I 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:36.719 will ask you this. Biden has been underwhelming in this area. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.520 He has been underwhelming, and I am and I am 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:47.200 being nice response. I'm being very nice. I'm choosing my words, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:52.319 and I want to get your reaction to uh the 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:58.640 executive order UH that was put into effect, and what 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:03.160 you felt about the content of that executive order and 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.160 what should if you think it was not enough, which 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.440 I'm assuming you do not, what should have been in there, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:17.320 and what still can be done. Well, First, I want 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.000 to go back to the original point you were saying 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.560 about the little girl. Yes, all of the folks in 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:30.600 Texas and we have always known that our lives did 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.840 not matter to them. That is why they could not 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:39.600 just say black lives matter. They have actually never cared 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:44.520 about our lives, our health, our safety. It's always been 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.240 about control. But I do think it's really scary for 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:55.199 people to see that in real life. And they have 0:13:55.320 --> 0:14:01.720 been hearings all week this week on Capitol Hill where 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.400 now the anti abortion movement knows that they're so out 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.480 of step, and it looks really bad that you are 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.120 denying this this young girl her autonomy and with her parents' 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:19.600 support that they're they're now changing it and saying, well, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.760 that's not an abortion. If it's happening on a ten 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.640 year old survivor, it's quote not an abortion. It's what 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.200 the head of AUELL said yesterday. What is it now? 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:34.120 It was changing. They're changing the definition of an abortion. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.920 And also when you terminate a pregnancy that's an ectopic pregnancy, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.960 they're now saying that's also not an abortion. So again, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:45.880 what they're doing is they're changing the definition of what 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.120 an abortion is. But actually, to me, it's always been 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:54.320 the same thing because what to them, abortion is not 0:14:55.120 --> 0:15:00.760 a medical procedure. It is about controlling people, both freedom 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.280 and atom. And so to them, they're making the definition 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:09.040 of an abortion anything that someone freely chooses to terminate 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:13.280 a pregnancy that they that they did not want, and 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:17.840 that is actually about the control. And I think people 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.360 really really need to see that. That's why they can't 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.680 say abortionist healthcare because then they'd have to say, yes, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.320 we believe in healthcare, right, but it is the what 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:33.800 abortion symbolizes is our freedom and our own decisions to 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:40.160 make our own futures in our own lives. To get 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:48.080 to the Biden EO. I am so tired of fighting 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:53.920 pro choice politician. I'm so tired of it. And people 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.280 keep asking me, why don't you yell at the Republicans, 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.800 Because you know what, the Republicans never promised freedom and 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:06.040 autonomy and access to abortion. They never promised us that. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.800 They have not gone back on any of their promises. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.240 They told us exactly what they were going to do. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.680 They never said they were going to save us. They 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:22.360 said they were going to save the babies. Yep, that 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:28.400 is it. Democrats are the ones who said that they 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.720 would save us, that they would be there for us, 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.520 that they would make sure Row didn't fall. They are 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:44.160 the ones that are are really being frustrating. I was 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.560 in a meeting where someone described I think a Republican 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:53.280 who's quite ultra right as as as a moderate and 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.480 who's really trying to bring the party back, and I 0:16:55.520 --> 0:17:02.680 think they're so out of touchage with what is actually happening. 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New episodes every Tuesday, 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.919 and yet they tell you right there was It was 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.040 just the other day with the outgoing White House communications 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.719 director who said that you'll are the ones that are 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.520 out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.960 that it's the activists, right, those that are on the 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.000 fucking ground doing the work shuttling the people, trying to 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.879 keep these funds going, trying to protect people's autonomy. But 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.240 you're the ones that are the problem for identifying the 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.720 fact that they sold us a bag of bullshit that 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:41.199 they had no intention of backing up, right right, And 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:46.560 I'll I'll say to her on that, Kate, your president, 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:52.080 your boss's approval ratings are in the thirties. Abortion has 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.359 been seventy and higher, come on since nineteen seventy three. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.880 So you can say whatever you want to, excuse your 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:09.240 milk toast response, but the facts are the facts. Just 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.960 because we're being sold, as you rightfully put it, a 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.360 bag of bullshit, doesn't mean we have to accept it. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:22.840 And we are not out of step for telling you 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:28.680 what is the solution and you batting it away as 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.640 if we don't know what we're talking about, and then 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:40.080 giving us this executive order that does very little. Most 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:44.360 of the executive order is ordering more reporters from HS 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:48.280 that'll be due in thirty days. It's a delayed response. 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:50.720 You know what they have, the reports you and I 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.240 know why because our movement has put them together for 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.000 the last eighteen months. We have reports put together way 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:04.120 before Biden even was inaugurated. So spare me that you're 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:08.000 doing something. We've asked for a public health emergency? Where 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:12.320 is it? We have asked for protections for providers so 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:16.120 they don't become criminalized. Exactly what has happened as what's 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:21.480 happening with the doctor with doctor Bernard in Indiana. I 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:26.720 will also say what has been really painful and on 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:33.920 my heart when President Biden announced that executive order, which 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:38.680 I want to be clear, the timing of it was 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.680 announced that it was going to happen overnight. The other 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.639 thing was that they had been notified that Bloomberg News 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.600 was doing an article. They had a scoop that the 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:54.000 White House, they had talked to White House sources and 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:59.760 sources at HHS that the President had considered a public 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:06.000 health emergency and said yep. So the timing of that 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:10.240 executive order seems like it is to cover up the 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.480 fact that they had are not doing what we had 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:17.280 specific pacifying, So I want to I want to be 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:22.520 clear about what that was. And then the Saturday after 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:26.399 when we did not accept their executive order and we 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:28.720 said this is not what we asked for and sent 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.639 it back. That's when we got called out of steps. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.040 So I want to be clear, you don't seem to 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.639 have the time to go after Joe Mansion and Kurson Cinema, 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.400 who were holding up the racist philibuster, but you got 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.000 time for me who. I want to be clear. When 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.720 I heard about that out of step comment, I was 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.399 in the middle of helping someone get an abortion, so 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:51.200 excuse me that I don't time for them. But with 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:57.240 this speech, Biden spoke about that ten year old who 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:01.760 needed an She's been on my mind and my heart 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.359 for so long, right since the story came out, because 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.280 I don't know if she is going on the internet 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:13.040 or parents are going on the internet trying to use 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:16.280 the Internet and seeing their daughter's story being debated, where 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:21.679 she has almost been dehumanized by all sides because she's 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.840 she's a talking point, or she's a fake story or 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:29.320 whatever it is. She's a human being. And as someone 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.200 who has shared my abortion story, I know what that's 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.719 like to see people talk about you like that, and 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:38.080 it's extremely dehumanizing, and I don't know what it's going 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.880 to be like for her as she continues to grow 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.760 up and then looks at the history books of that 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:48.720 time and sees herself talked about in this way. I 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:52.760 hope she is being surrounded by love and support, and 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:57.080 I hope that she has they. But also, as Biden 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:01.280 was using that story to just by his executive order, 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:05.560 he talked about the freedom to travel, and yet he 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:11.240 did not announce any financial support for someone like her 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.679 or anyone who has to travel for an abortion. He 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:18.280 could do that with a stroke of his pen. That's 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:22.360 not covered by the High Amendment, and yet he's choosing 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:25.160 not to. So how is it that you're willing to 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:28.880 use this little girl's experience, her trauma, or her story, 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.000 but not do anything to help her and her family 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:37.240 get from Ohio to Indiana for that abortion. I will 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.280 also say that those of us who had abortions have 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:43.320 been asking for months to meet with the president so 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:49.119 he could hear our stories, and he has refused. His 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:53.840 staff continues to not respond to us. And this is 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.160 not unheard of Clinton met with people who had abortions 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:03.600 ahead of vetoing a later abortion. And so my question is, 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:09.240 is President Biden, at what point will you actually meet 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:13.200 with us and listen to our stories. Our stories are 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:18.640 not props for you to justify your milk toast response. 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:26.080 We are real people. Several week testify storytellers have been 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:33.959 testifying before Congress, including one who testified just earlier this 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:41.000 weekend on Wednesday. Right, they put themselves up, share their stories, 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:44.360 make their voices heard. They get called murderers, they get 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:47.879 harassed by Fox News and all the conservative outlets for 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:52.320 weeks on end. And yet our pro choice president can't 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:57.000 be bothered to meet with us and to thank us 0:24:57.680 --> 0:24:59.880 for what we are doing in service of our nation. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:05.080 He meets with every other impacted group when they're being harmed. 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:08.720 He meets with all the union organizers as they're trying 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:13.399 to get workplace rights right. You know who else is 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:16.080 doing that? People have abortion because part of those union 0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:19.760 contracts are access to abortion care. So it's so frustrating 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:24.199 that he will meet with everyone else but us. And 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:27.920 my question is, what are you afraid of? Because I'm 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:31.480 pretty sure, I'm just I'm gonna say it. I'm pretty 0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:34.760 sure that this president is actually not pro choice. I'm 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:41.480 pretty sure that his religious beliefs absolutely supersed where he 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:44.120 is willing to go. I do not think that this 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:48.560 is a political maneuver. I don't and I never have because, 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:53.280 to your point, the poles are on our side. The 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:56.119 poles are on the side of people who believe that 0:25:56.240 --> 0:26:00.640 bodily autonomy should be a part of our constitutional rights. Right. 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:04.720 So this isn't about oh, well, how will Republicans use it? 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:08.040 It's that he doesn't believe in it, so he will 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:11.080 do the bare minimum. What can I What can I 0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:15.320 do that will allow me to seem as if I'm 0:26:15.359 --> 0:26:21.360 making moves towards protection without actually doing the heavy lifting. 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:24.360 That's where that's that's where this administration is. And so 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:28.600 you know when when we when we listen to or 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:32.760 read the quote from the outgoing White House Communications director 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.400 and saying that we're out of step, it's like, this 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:39.960 is what this is My problem with Democrats, the democratic 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:43.640 establishment and leadership altogether, is that you all are out 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:47.480 of step. Right, that this is why nine of the 0:26:47.520 --> 0:26:50.160 people who are thirty and below don't want to fuck 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:52.800 with you. This is why they are not engaged with 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:55.600 wanting to vote for you, because they see the bare 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:58.679 minimum that you're doing. Right. They are tokens and they 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:02.680 are stories, but they are not right. Policy measures that 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:05.440 need to actually be put in place to protect those 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:07.840 very people that you say that you're a courting into 0:27:07.880 --> 0:27:13.080 your party. Renee tell us a few minutes. Oh yeah, 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:18.320 please have been real quick there, because what is so 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:22.399 frustrating is that for them to call us out of step. 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:26.720 I didn't have to be dragged kicking and screaming into 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:31.160 the twenty twenty primary campaign to support the High Amendment. 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:39.280 He did. The Democratic Party removed supporting the High Amendment 0:27:40.680 --> 0:27:47.880 from the platform the party platform in twenty sixteen. It 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:52.000 wasn't until activists pushed and pushed and pushed that Biden 0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:58.920 finally reversed his stance. He was out of step with 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:05.400 his own party for four years, and it basically wasn't 0:28:05.520 --> 0:28:08.440 until he was already going to be the nominee that 0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:11.600 he changed his position to be in line with the 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:15.080 party and in line with everyone else. With the exceptional 0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:19.440 Telsea Gabert, who was on that stage, who is out 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:24.439 of step, It is not. I am ahead of step. 0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:29.120 My colleagues and I we saw what was happening. So 0:28:29.240 --> 0:28:31.480 you want to call us out of step, we're out 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:33.480 of step because we're ahead of you and we're come on, 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.080 we are not out of step as in we're being 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:47.040 dragged kicking and strength, screaming behind, asking to being left behind. Yes, 0:28:47.120 --> 0:28:52.680 our ideas are new, but Paul, so that they support them. 0:28:52.760 --> 0:28:55.239 We're not behind the times. And if that's what you 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:58.440 mean by out of step, being ahead, yes, yes we are. 0:28:58.760 --> 0:29:01.160 But actually no, you're out of step. And that is 0:29:01.200 --> 0:29:05.960 exactly why we now have senators and we had a 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:10.560 whole letter from black representatives congresswoman calling on him to 0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:13.960