INTERVIEW: Texas Right to Life's John Seago
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
John Seago is the legislative director of Texas Right to Live, the group that recently helped shepherd Texas’s anti-abortion law into existence. We sat down for a wide-ranging, 45-minute discussion about the bill, why it was crafted the way it was, and some of his thoughts about the ethical nuances of the pro-life position.
Our newsletter is written by Isaac Saul, who conducted this interview. The transcript was edited by Bailey Saul, Sean Brady, Ari Weitzman, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social media manager Magdalena Bokowa, who also created our logo.
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| 0:40.6 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking and reasonable debate. |
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| 1:07.9 | And on today's episode, we have a very interesting guest, a man named John Sego, who |
| 1:11.8 | is the legislative director for Texas Right to Live, the group that recently helped Shepard |
| 1:17.0 | Texas's anti-abortion law into existence. John, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:22.7 | Absolutely. Thanks for having me. So before we jump in, I think, you know, there are some basics to get to, |
| 1:29.3 | and one of them is just, you know, what you do, what your role is at Texas Rights of Life and |
| 1:34.7 | how you got into this work. Yeah. So I serve as a legislative director for Texas Rights to Life |
| 1:41.2 | were the largest pro-life organization here in the state. |
| 1:44.9 | And I run our legislative department that has five kind of lobbyists and researchers. |
| 1:53.1 | And we kind of work with elected officials and government agencies to pass pro-life legislation and pro-life policies. |
| 2:04.6 | During our legislative session, we're in the Capitol every day, meeting with elected officials and their staff, |
| 2:11.6 | testifying on legislation, testifying against legislation. |
| 2:15.6 | That's one of the most important things we do is stop bad ideas that are moving through the system. And then whenever we're not in session, we're dealing with lawsuits. We have a strong patient advocacy department at our organization that my team helps with. And we research and write. We actually write policies and |
| 2:36.0 | proposals to give to the legislature. So kind of changes depending on what season. We're |
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