Friday, May 20th, 2022

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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*UPDATE: Today's episode begins with breaking news about a new abortion ban in Oklahoma. Then we hear about the House committee requesting information from Barry Loudermilk on capitol tours he gave the day before the January 6th insurrection. Then, President Biden is invoking the Defense Production Act to aid the baby formula shortage and 192 republicans in the House are voting against an emergency measure. Finally, Facebook has been secretly funding groups to create the appearance of opposition in Washington, while the World Meteorological Organization has found that climate change benchmarks all set records in 2021. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: Oklahoma Legislature Passes Bill Banning Almost All Abortions CNN: January 6 committee investigating Capitol tour given by GOP lawmaker on the eve of the insurrection ABC: Biden invokes Defense Production Act to address national shortage of baby formula Washington Post: Nearly 200 Republicans vote against bill to ease baby formula shortage Washington Post: Facebook quietly bankrolled small, grass-roots groups to fight its battles in Washington Axios: Climate change benchmarks all set records last year, report finds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, May 20th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by
0:06.6	Batch's media.
0:07.6	I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is sponsored by Credit Karma.
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0:21.8	As I'm sure you've heard by now, late last night, Oklahoma passed a near-total abortion
0:26.4	ban.
0:27.4	The legislation prohibits abortion from the moment of fertilization, which I don't
0:31.2	really know how they're going to measure it like are they bringing a microscope in here.
0:34.6	Either way, this makes it the country's strictest abortion ban to date and relies on private
0:39.0	citizens to bring lawsuits against anyone who aids or abets in an abortion procedure.
0:44.2	This is especially terrible given the existing abortion ban in Texas.
0:48.0	I'm appending legislation in Louisiana that would make it a felony for women to get an
0:52.2	abortion, basically starving the region of abortion clinics.
0:56.2	Upon passing the measure, Oklahoma State Representative Jim Olson said, quote,
1:00.2	"'There can be nothing higher or more critical than the defense of innocent, unborn life.'"
1:06.1	What about the defense of innocent, born life?
1:11.4	The House Committee formally requested information from Representative Barry Lautermilk of Georgia
1:16.8	about a tour of the Capitol that he gave to visitors on January 5th.
1:20.9	The committee said that they were looking for more information about the purpose of the
1:24.0	tour and its participants.
1:26.0	Ironically, Lautermilk actually filed an ethics complaint last May against the Democrats,
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