63: A Systems Failure
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🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Lisa Senecal and Maya May, the Co-Hosts of Lincoln Project Television’s “We’re Speaking” to discuss the absolute insanity of what’s happening in the Lone Star State. They break down the brand new Texas abortion ban law that recently went into effect on September 1st and what it means for the integrity of democracy in both Texas and our nation as a whole.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelyn. Today I'm joined by Lisa |
| 0:13.5 | Senna-Kell and Maya May. The hosts of We're Speaking, which will be returning to LPTV very |
| 0:19.4 | soon. Lisa and Maya, welcome to the show. Hey Reed, thanks for having us. Great to be |
| 0:25.0 | here. So today on the show guys, I want to talk about for lack of a better way to put |
| 0:28.7 | it, the absolute insanity that we're seeing going on in Texas right now. So let's get into |
| 0:33.8 | it. Senate Bill 8. So guys, on September 1st, SBA went into effect in Texas and the law |
| 0:41.6 | bans abortions after only six weeks of pregnancy. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the law earlier |
| 0:47.6 | this year back in May. Furthermore, the law deputizes private citizens by allowing them to |
| 0:53.3 | sue abortion providers and anyone else who helps a woman get an abortion, ranging from |
| 0:58.7 | those who may provide financial assistance to those who may give a woman a ride to a clinic, |
| 1:03.9 | even if that rides in an Uber. Anyone who successfully sue an abortion provider could |
| 1:08.2 | be awarded at least $10,000. The law makes no exemptions for cases involving rape and |
| 1:13.7 | incest, and also just before midnight on September 1st, the United States Supreme Court in an |
| 1:18.3 | unprecedented fashion refused to block the Texas law in a 5-4 decision with Chief Justice |
| 1:23.0 | John Roberts joining the dissent. So guys, short of blowing out my own speakers and microphone |
| 1:29.8 | on this topic because I understand that it is very, very near and dear to so many hearts, |
| 1:35.1 | you know, what I see is there are things. There's obviously the abortion piece which we'll |
| 1:39.5 | discuss. To me too, though, it's a further erosion of Republicans' small-de-democratic |
| 1:47.3 | nature and their perfect willingness to turn citizens against one another and they have |
| 1:53.6 | now enshrined in state law for lack of a better way to put it, vigilanteism. So Lisa, what |
| 1:59.5 | the hell is going on here? We really have to zoom back and look at this broadly because |
| 2:06.7 | it isn't just about abortion in Texas. It's not about just abortion across the country. |
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