Red States Prevent Pregnant Women from Escaping Marriage
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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A Missouri lawmaker Ashley Aune says it is time to end an archaic law that forces pregnant women to stay in potentially dangerous marriages. Similar laws threaten women in Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas. Also, a GOP senator blocked a conservative colonel’s promotion because he criticized racism in 2020. Plus ADHD: Study the Lives of Other Unique People.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to our program here and anything goes weekend, |
| 0:20.0 | picking up your calls on whatever's on your mind. |
| 0:23.3 | I'll get to that in just a moment. |
| 0:24.7 | But first story, this is the headline over at Alternet |
| 0:27.9 | by Carl Gibson. |
| 0:28.8 | GOP Senator Bloc's Conservative Colonel's promotion |
| 0:32.1 | because he criticized racism in |
| 0:34.6 | 20. Honest God this is amazing. Senator Eric Schmidt he's the Republican from |
| 0:41.5 | Missouri or one of the two Republicans from Missouri. |
| 0:46.9 | And Colonel Ben Johnson is in line for a promotion. |
| 0:50.7 | He worked as Chief of Staff for the Illinois-based Air Mobility Command. He oversaw of |
| 0:55.0 | a promotion he worked as chief of staff for the only based air mobility command. He oversaw 110,000 employees. |
| 0:57.0 | He's a graduate of the Air Force Academy. He's fluent in Arabic. He has seven air metals. He's flown 900 combat hours over Iraq, Afghanistan, |
| 1:07.8 | and Syria. He's described as a devout Christian devoted to his biracial family and Colonel Johnson |
| 1:20.3 | who is scheduled for a promotion to what, |
| 1:24.0 | Admiral or General or something like that. |
| 1:27.0 | He wrote back in 2020, three years ago, |
| 1:30.0 | he wrote an op-ed in the Air Force Times |
| 1:32.0 | in which he called on his fellow white |
| 1:34.4 | colonels to quote address our blind spots around race. Now I'm assuming if he's |
| 1:42.0 | referring to himself as a white colonel and he has a biracial |
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