Republicans left sputtering as anti-abortion zeal runs amok, puts IVF at risk
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In November of 2022, just five months after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, |
| 0:05.8 | former Vice President Mike Pence sat down for an interview on CBS. |
| 0:22.0 | Well, the Dobbs decision this summer that I was so grateful to see, the majority of which was made up by Supreme Court justices that we we appointed and |
| 0:25.5 | confirm to the to the court really gave the country a new beginning for life. |
| 0:32.0 | It was a new beginning for life. It was a new beginning for life, according to the most pious man in the Trump White House, a man so conservative |
| 0:38.9 | he would not allow himself to be alone in the same room with a woman who was not his wife. |
| 0:45.1 | Mike Pence was unafraid to be a Christian warrior. |
| 0:48.4 | He was unafraid to call for a national abortion ban when other members of his party shied away from the issue. an |
| 0:55.0 | national abortion ban when other members of his party shied away from the issue. But then Mike Pence was asked about in vitro fertilization. |
| 1:00.0 | There are people who are concerned that if you start with abortion access |
| 1:06.2 | restrictions that it will also lead to restrictions on IVF treatment. |
| 1:10.0 | If you believe life begins at, you can make that argument. |
| 1:15.0 | Should it be protected as a right? |
| 1:17.0 | The Vice President began his answer with details about his and his wife struggles with fertility and their use of IVF to conceive their children. |
| 1:26.0 | And that led Mike Pants to this. |
| 1:30.0 | But I fully support fertility treatments and I think they deserve the protection of the law. |
| 1:37.0 | They gave us great comfort in those long and challenging years that we struggle with infertility and our marriage. |
| 1:47.0 | Mike Pence was a sign that Republicans should have better heated. |
| 1:52.0 | Overturning Roe would lead to all kinds of unforeseen consequences, |
| 1:56.1 | consequences that even the most die-hard Christian conservatives |
| 1:59.9 | would have a hard time reconciling, |
| 2:02.2 | consequences that would affect even their families. |
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