Today we're going to talk about the Republicans finally being forced on defense

after their war on women's reproductive rights backfire spectacularly on them.

And I interview PAC attorney Joe Birkenstock to discuss whether it's legal for

Trump's PAC to spend money on legal expenses

and whether he has an obligation to disclose how the funds are going to be used

when soliciting donations. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to no lie.

Republicans are now in the defensive to a degree that I by.

Republicans are now in the defensive to a degree that I haven't seen since Dobbs was first handed down.

So the quick rundown here is that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos created and stored for in vitro fertilization, IVF, are now considered human beings. and death of those children if, for example, an embryo is mishandled. And so to avoid liability,

to avoid like manslaughter or homicide charges, fertility clinics are stopping treatments and

people that relied in IVF to build their families now can't.

And let's be perfectly clear, this decision was only made possible because of Dobbs.

The majority opinion in this Alabama case literally cites the Dobbs decision that the unborn are living human beings meaning that had Dobbs not happened we wouldn't be here right now. This is the direct result of Donald Trump appointing a Supreme Court that vowed to overturn Roe and the direct result of a Republican

Party that saw their 50-year plan come to fruition.

I don't know how else I can say this.

This is exactly what they wanted.

And so is, by the way, this IVF decision.

Democrats actually introduced a bill specifically to protect IVF,

called the Right to Build Families Act back in December of 2022,

knowing that it was in jeopardy because of Dobbs, and that

bill was blocked by a Republican senator.

And just before that, the Rights of Contraceception Act was blocked by another Republican

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