1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: American women are full and equal citizens in this Republic, 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: regardless of what the Arizona Supreme Court says. It is not, 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: in fact eighteen sixty four in America. It is twenty 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 1: twenty four, and it is well past time to bring 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: the hammer down and end this belief. It is Wednesday, 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: April tenth. There are two hundred and eight days remaining 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: until the American people will decide who to put into 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: the Oval office and make president of the United States, 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: Donald Trump or Joe Biden. This is the morning. How 10 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: is it that the Arizona Supreme Court just ruled that 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: Arizona is now governed by a law from eighteen sixty 12 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: four when it comes to women's healthcare? How did that happen? 13 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: Who is responsible for that? Is it like a thunderstorm, 14 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: a rainstorm, a hurricane, a volcano erupting? Is it providential? 15 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: Or was their cause and effect? Did something happen to 16 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: change the law? Something happened. Donald Trump appointed a handful 17 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: of radicals to the Supreme Court, and they overturned Roe v. 18 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: Wade cause and effect. He narrowly won the presidential election, 19 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: and presidential elections have consequences, and so now women in 20 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: Arizona when it comes to their reproductive rights, to their healthcare, 21 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,839 Speaker 1: to their ability to take care of their own bodies 22 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: they live in eighteen sixty four. To put it into perspective, 23 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty four was a big year in American history. 24 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: It was the year that Abraham Lincoln was re elected. 25 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: It was the year that Sherman marched from Atlanta to 26 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: the sea. It was a year after the Emancipation Proclamation 27 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: and a year before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. In 28 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty four, Arizona wasn't a thing. It was part 29 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:15,839 Speaker 1: of the New Mexico Territory until eighteen sixty three, when 30 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln and the Congress recognized it as a territory apart, 31 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: which had a lot to do with the Confederate States 32 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: of America and Jefferson Davis recognizing Arizona as its own 33 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: entity in eighteen sixty two. What does that have to 34 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: do with anything today, you might ask, Well, really nothing, 35 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: And that's the point. Arizona's abortion laws shouldn't come from 36 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: the days when the laws were written by a single man, 37 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: before the state was a territory. By the way, most 38 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: people don't know this but Arizona was the last of 39 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: the forty eight Continental states to become a state, and 40 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: a debate over whether to make it a state lasted 41 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: for thirteen years, the longest by far. Arizona has always 42 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: been a hotbed of radicalism and extremism in American politics 43 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: in life, and it has gone off the rails in 44 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,839 Speaker 1: the twenty first century. Even Carrie Lake, who a few 45 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: short years ago thought this law would be great the 46 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: restriction of any abortion access to every woman in Arizona, 47 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: is against it today because all the bs, all the promises, 48 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: all the cowtowing to religious extremists, religious fanatics and fundamentalists, 49 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: religious nationalists, well, it all came to pass. They didn't 50 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: know it was all winking and nod in a joke 51 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: in a game. They took it seriously and they've achieved 52 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: their political result, putting American women back literally into the 53 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: middle of the nineteenth century. There is something unique between 54 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: the sexes in this democratic nation of ours, and it's this. 55 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: Men simply would not tolerate a legislature full of women 56 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: making decrees and laws about our bodies. The political question 57 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: at hand is will America's women tolerated, Because when Arizona 58 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: passed or imposed this first law on American women in 59 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty four, long before it was a state. No 60 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: women in America could vote, But they can now, and 61 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: they've been able to in presidential elections since nineteen twenty 62 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: and they will be again in twenty twenty four. Will 63 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: America's women say we are not second class citizens? Will 64 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: American women demand equality? Will they say no, stop enough? 65 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: Will they repudiate this madness? Send a message loud enough 66 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: to be heard for the next one hundred and fifty 67 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: years to America's male politicians who want control over their bodies. 68 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: The Republican Party that I was a part of for 69 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: a long time in my career was the limited government party. 70 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: There's no such thing as a limited government party. That 71 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: demands a peak through your bedroom window, that demands a 72 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: seat in the confessional with your priest, that demands a 73 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: spot in the delivery room for all of life's sentimate moments. 74 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: This is government overreach in the most extreme form, and 75 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 1: it can be corrected by the vote of the people, 76 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 1: who should come down on this insanity like a ton 77 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: of bricks. If you live in Arizona and you don't 78 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: want to live in the nineteenth century, but want your 79 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: daughter's growing up in the twenty first century, where they 80 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: are free, where they are equal, and they are treated 81 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: with dignity and respect. And there is only one choice 82 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: in Novemer. You must vote for Democratic candidates, because though 83 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: they are imperfect, they believe in liberty, they believe in freedom, 84 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: they believe in equality the US Constitution, and they do 85 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: not believe American women should live like the women of 86 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia do. American women are full and equal citizens 87 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 1: in this republic, regardless of what the Arizona Supreme Court says. 88 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: It is not, in fact eighteen sixty four in America. 89 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: It is twenty twenty four, and it is well past 90 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: time to bring the hammer down and end this bull 91 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: And let's be clear about something else. This regime, this 92 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: legal regime that is restricting the right of abortion for women, 93 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: denying them reproductive healthcare choice, is not just being applied 94 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: in Arizona. The federal court ruling that said that abortion 95 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: pills that are sent safely through the mail can't be 96 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: used is also being disqualified on the basis of nineteenth 97 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: century law. There is no place where the extremists will 98 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: not look to impose their religious authority and beliefs on 99 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,119 Speaker 1: America's women, and what it means is all the rest 100 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: of us, everyone in the country, who loves liberty, who 101 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: loves freedom, We must say no, We may say stop, 102 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: We must say enough, we must say back off to 103 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: these people in a loud enough and decisive enough manner 104 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: that they simply stop, because they will know that attempting 105 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: to restrict freedoms like this is political death. That the 106 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: American people, regardless of party, regardless of state, regardless of race, creed, 107 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: or ethnicity, will not tolerate government encroachment into the personal 108 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: space of their bedrooms, their doctor's offices, and their confessional boots. 109 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: If you enjoy this commentary on the Warning did not 110 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: invite you to join and subscribe to our YouTube channel 111 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: and to spread the message, to share the message, and 112 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: to get into the fight. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is 113 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: the Warning. 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