Another Day, Another Bat-guano Crazy Abortion Law
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Will some Republicans succeed in using the Supreme Court to ban birth control as well as abortion?
Also- Thom's thoughts on learning how to handle criticism and self doubt...And, a reading from "Trump You!- My Battle with Trump University" by Art Cohen.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, Jessica Valenti has done it again. |
| 0:19.0 | She's got this marvelous newsletter over at |
| 0:22.0 | Jessica. |
| 0:22.8 | Substack.com titled abortion every day. |
| 0:27.0 | She writes another day, another bat guano crazy abortion ban, I'm cleaning up her language. |
| 0:33.3 | Florida Republican Representative David Borero |
| 0:36.8 | has proposed a bill that would ban abortion |
| 0:39.1 | from the moment of fertilization. |
| 0:41.7 | A distinction crafted to ban birth control. |
| 0:47.3 | Yes, a Republican state legislator in Florida |
| 0:50.4 | has introduced legislation to ban birth control. |
| 0:55.4 | The legislation also defines an abortion provider as anyone who mails or prescribes abortion |
| 1:01.6 | medication even if they don't live in Florida. |
| 1:06.0 | So Florida law can reach out and prosecute people in other states. |
| 1:11.0 | Now Jessica notes, it doesn't matter if the bill doesn't go anywhere the point is to |
| 1:14.6 | slowly normalize extremist legislation. These are Republicans dream laws |
| 1:20.6 | writes Jessica Valenti. |
| 1:22.8 | She says the bill states that, quote, a person exists from the moment of fertilization. |
| 1:29.4 | The legislation, she writes, would only allow a minor to have an abortion in order to save her life in a medical |
| 1:34.7 | emergency. |
| 1:36.6 | That means, I'm quoting Jessica Valenti here, that means a 10-year-old whose life is endangered |
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