Our Bodies, Their Choice – May 6, 2022
No BS Newshour with Charlie LeDuff
Charlie LeDuff
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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Michigan ground zero in the abortion war. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, abortion |
| 0:12.0 | immediately becomes illegal in Michigan. Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said she |
| 0:17.6 | will not prosecute her neighbor. The home County prosecutor Pete Lacito will bring |
| 0:23.2 | charges that and the complaints from the grocery aisle economy out of control. And in |
| 0:29.8 | Wayne County, what a graft pit. Sheriff Feely hands and red live somewhere from |
| 0:37.6 | the sticks. Talking about Dave Chappelle being attacked on stage, he told you that |
| 0:46.3 | more and the end. |
| 1:16.3 | The big news this week abortion a leak draft opinion shows that the United States Supreme |
| 1:44.1 | Court will quite probably overturn Roe v Wade ending 50 years of federal abortion |
| 1:51.7 | protections. Instead of federal protections, state legislators and voters would now decide. |
| 1:58.4 | The court's final opinion is expected in about eight weeks and if it is in fact the case |
| 2:04.2 | of what we're reading in this draft opinion, ground zero will be Michigan. Michigan is |
| 2:12.0 | one of nine states that currently has on its books a depression era law that bans abortions |
| 2:19.4 | in all cases except a woman's life if it to be in danger and it will immediately become |
| 2:26.9 | the law of the state. Joining us is Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald, a Democrat |
| 2:33.5 | who is one of five Michigan County prosecutors who signed a statement this week saying she |
| 2:38.9 | would not enforce that law. Welcome Karen and please explain. |
| 2:44.0 | Well good afternoon. I did in fact sign a statement with several of my colleagues stating |
| 2:49.5 | that that is not something as a prosecutor. We would choose to prosecute not only because |
| 2:56.0 | it's not a good use of our resources at a moment where we're experiencing an all time |
| 3:01.4 | high and gun violence, human trafficking and substance abuse issues but also because I don't |
| 3:10.4 | think the law is constitutional and I firmly pro-choice. I've never said I was anything but |
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