GIVE BIRTH OR DIE?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Abortion could become a death penalty offense if the GOP gets their way. 21 South Carolina lawmakers are proposing a bill that would make abortion a death penalty offense in their state. Thom speaks with Shaunna Thomas, Co-founder and Executive Director of UltraViolet. Plus, is it time for transgender people to organize? Lawyer and radio host Ellie Krug, a transgender woman, joins Thom to emphasize the need for trans organizations to fight back against far right attacks on their community. Also, is the end of the war near? On the front line in Ukraine, a report from journalist Phil Ittner.
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| 0:47.2 | Well, over in Poland, a Polish activist with justina wydrunskia was just found guilty today |
| 0:55.4 | of supplying a pregnant woman with abortion pills. |
| 0:58.4 | This is, Poland is a very Catholic country and they have very Catholic laws. |
| 1:02.7 | Actually, Poland has got Europe's most restrictive anti-abortion law. |
| 1:07.6 | Abortion is banned in all cases except for rape and incest or whether the mother's life or |
| 1:12.0 | health is considered at risk. And those kinds of things can be very, very difficult to prove as |
| 1:17.3 | we're discovering here in the United States. |
| 1:20.7 | Interesting story about it over at raw story if you want to follow up on that, but |
| 1:24.4 | that ain't nothing compared to what the Republicans in South Carolina want to do. |
| 1:28.9 | 21 Republicans in South Carolina are putting forward the South Carolina prenatal |
| 1:35.6 | Equal Protection Act of 2023, which would give a fertilized egg from the moment of fertilization. |
| 1:45.0 | Would give that fertilized egg full rights of human personhood, |
| 1:49.5 | which means that a person who aborts that fertilized egg would then be guilty of capital murder. |
| 1:56.7 | This bill was authored by a Republican representative, Rob Harris. It has 21 co-sponsors, |
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