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The Good Fight

David French on Abortion

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

David French is a columnist for The Atlantic and senior editor at The Dispatch. His books include Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation and The Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore. French received a Bronze Star for service during Operation Iraqi Freedom and, as an attorney, litigated cases surrounding issues of religious and personal liberties. He is a member of Persuasion's board of advisors. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and David French discuss whether Donald Trump should be prosecuted for his actions on and before January 6th, 2021; the moral status of abortion; and why French, despite being a longstanding member of the pro-life movement, is not celebrating the demise of Roe v. Wade. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.4

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0:40.0

When we know why people get abortions and one of the principal reasons why they get abortions

0:47.9

is because of financial insecurity, that's something that public policy can do something about along with for example private

0:54.0

philanthropy. So a holistic pro-life movement knows that it cannot rest its argument solely by talking about the baby because of the powerful interests

1:08.4

of the mother and legitimate interests of the mother.

1:12.1

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

1:20.0

Thank you so much for bearing with me as I was giving you summaries from my new book for the last 10 weeks.

1:32.0

When I look at the political sphere at the moment, it's very easy to be pessimistic.

1:40.0

In the United States, there is a very real chance that Donald Trump or one of his

1:47.4

accolades or imitators may get back into power in 2024 and we have seen in the last weeks and months once again just how

1:57.8

serious a threat to democracy that would represent. More broadly we see around the democratic world. Extramists on the

2:08.2

left but perhaps especially on the right continuing to have very significant popular appeal.

2:16.8

And so it is far too early to stop ringing the alarm bell

2:22.0

about the state of our democratic systems.

2:27.0

But to make our democracies work and to be able to sustain the great experiment of the early 21st century.

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