Horror Stories of State Enforced Pregnancy Continue
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Attorney General of Texas, disgraced and impeached Ken Paxton has threatened to prosecute any doctors who perform an abortion on a woman after a state judge ruled her life is in danger. Also Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer repeals the only immunity law that shielded drug makers from liability.
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| 0:47.4 | Well, nobody's really sure what the fate is of Kate Cox, the Texas woman who desperately needs |
| 0:52.5 | an abortion both to save her own life and to be hopefully capable of having children in the |
| 0:58.7 | future. She's got a fetus that has trisomy 18 and it has an extra eight chromosome 18, |
| 1:05.9 | which means it will die shortly before birth or shortly or immediately after birth. |
| 1:10.8 | And the Attorney General for Texas, Ken Paxton, a guy who himself is arguably one of the more |
| 1:19.6 | corrupt Republican politicians in America. I realize, you know, uncorrupt Republicans is an |
| 1:25.5 | oxymoron, but well, he's under, he's been under a diamond. He survived an impeachment attempt that |
| 1:30.8 | was, you know, he only survived it by pure partisanship. You know, I think they fairly accurately |
| 1:36.0 | proved the malfeasance that he was guilty of. But anyhow, Kate Cox went to this judge and said, |
| 1:42.8 | you know, I have this fetus that is going to die and the process of giving birth to it |
| 1:47.3 | is going to rip me up in a way that will prevent me from having future children and might kill me, |
| 1:51.5 | will you please let me have an abortion? And the judge said, yes, you can go have an abortion. |
| 1:55.2 | The Attorney General for Texas, all of the senior officials in that state are men and Republicans. |
| 2:02.0 | He came immediately out. He tracked down the hospital that she had been getting care from |
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