4.9 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Washington Post follows up on a nightmare scenario and finds it's worse than ever. |
0:05.0 | I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green in this episode of Right Angles |
0:09.0 | brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com. |
0:11.0 | And gentlemen, the nightmare scenario is that a couple had babies. |
0:17.0 | They had some twins. |
0:19.0 | Yes. And they were teens. And in fact, they followed up two years later, |
0:24.2 | the Washington Post did on the story of this couple. And what set me off and was the genesis of this |
0:32.8 | entire episode was this headline. An abortion ban made them teen parents. An abortion ban made them teen parents. |
0:46.6 | And Bill Whittle, the story is basically a couple of teenagers who, whether advisedly or ill-advisedly, wound up getting pregnant, and then because of the abortion ban, could not get an abortion, and then since it's become somewhat of a success story on the right where people point out that they had these lovely twins. |
1:08.1 | And the story does talk a little bit about them having fun with their twin children and enjoying playing with them and bathing them and all that kind of stuff. |
1:17.6 | Other trivialities. |
1:18.6 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
1:19.0 | But the upshot of the story is, Bill, that it was the abortion ban that made them teen parents, not sexual intercourse, not, |
1:29.6 | and they start out by talking about what dire straits they're in. |
1:35.3 | She had to quit her promising career as a real estate agent. |
1:39.4 | Now, of course, she had no promising career, but she was taking a course so she could get a real estate license, |
1:43.5 | and then maybe would have a promising career. |
1:47.2 | During the course of the story, he was working as kind of a minimum wage job, but then he |
1:51.6 | joined the Air Force and is working as an Air Force mechanic and getting paid $60,000 a year. |
1:56.8 | They ran a crowdfunding campaign through which they raised $80,000 because they had some notoriety |
2:04.0 | from previous stories that were written about them. |
2:07.8 | And the young woman bill doesn't understand why people on the right would see them as such |
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