HOW THE RADICAL RIGHT HIJACKED RELIGION AND BECAME THE BIGGEST THREAT TO INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 14 May 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former fundamentalist Frank Schaeffer explains how the radical right hijacked religion and become the biggest threat to individual rights & democracy. Senior Fellow at FairVote, David Daley writing for the Boston Globe writes the thought provoking article "Your Vote Won't Help restore abortion rights" WHAT!? How Republican led efforts to disenfranchise voters, gerrymander voting districts and more all make it so that your vote, can hardly stop the overturning of Roe v Wade, abortion rights.
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| 0:47.1 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice, |
| 0:51.6 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:55.3 | Tom Hartman here with you, David Daly is with us. |
| 0:59.0 | Your vote won't help restore abortion rights. |
| 1:02.0 | He's going to tell us about how Republicans are rigging elections right now as we speak. |
| 1:06.8 | And also, will the abortion battle seal the deal on America becoming a mutually hostile |
| 1:11.4 | legal territory, different states? |
| 1:13.7 | Is this the beginning of the breakup of America? |
| 1:16.0 | We'll get into that. |
| 1:17.0 | Also, a British scientist says that American anti-abortion lawyers have badly misused his work, |
| 1:24.2 | including in the Alito decision to attack Roe v Wade. |
| 1:28.6 | And this all has to do with fetal pain. |
| 1:30.7 | Turns out the part of the brain that processes fetal pain doesn't even develop until around 24 weeks. |
| 1:36.7 | So it's just all of this fascinating stuff that we'll be talking about in the program today. |
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