ABORTION ACCESS THREATENED AS TEXAS TALIBAN TARGETS THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 March 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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The GOP is bringing back medieval gender politics in the latest attack on women's rights. Their target, the supreme court!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:18.0 | Well greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in |
| 0:22.9 | peace, freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:27.0 | Okay remember when Mike Pence was governor of Indiana and his goal was to ban abortion |
| 0:34.4 | altogether and to make it completely illegal and he was championing a law in Indiana and |
| 0:42.2 | frankly I don't recall if it got made into law and got put on hold by a court action |
| 0:46.3 | or if it was only on the edge of being made into law but in any case he was championing |
| 0:51.1 | this law that he wanted to put into effect that essentially said that a miscarriage might |
| 0:57.6 | be an abortion. |
| 1:01.0 | There's all these stories of women who try to do self abortions or they fall down a |
| 1:05.2 | flight of stairs intentionally in order to cause an abortion and so because of miscarriage |
| 1:10.1 | even might be an abortion, anytime a woman is more than a week late on her menstrual |
| 1:15.3 | period she has to notify the local police department so they can keep an eye on her. |
| 1:21.2 | You know if you're a young and you may not remember this this was maybe 15 years ago but |
| 1:25.3 | there was this phenomena when Mike Pence was governor of Indiana called periods for |
| 1:29.0 | Pence where women all over Indiana were tweeting or emailing Mike Pence telling him when |
| 1:35.8 | their periods began and oh my period just came back so I'm not pregnant not to worry I'm |
| 1:40.5 | good for another month. |
| 1:43.2 | Well it's getting real in Texas, Brian Slayton is a Texas state representative and Lieutenant |
| 1:51.7 | Governor Dan Patrick has said he wants at least two anti-abortion bills before the Texas |
| 1:56.9 | legislature this year. |
| 1:59.2 | One of them just got dropped this legislation by Brian Slayton and state representative |
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