The Personal Is Geopolitical
The Gist
Peach Fish Productions
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🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following recording may or may not include instances of words being said that the FCC would find me for if their long arm could ever reach. |
| 0:13.1 | It's Thursday, May 16th, 2019 from slated to the Gistai Mike Pasca. |
| 0:17.8 | The vote of the Alabama Senate to illegalize all abortions was by a vote of 25 to 6. |
| 0:26.5 | The political makeup of the Alabama Senate is 25 Republicans, 6 Democrats. |
| 0:33.7 | Now the vote of the Georgia Senate to ban all abortions after an S in 6 weeks was 34 to 20. |
| 0:39.8 | The makeup of the Georgia Senate is 35 Republicans, 21 Democrats. |
| 0:44.7 | We should also note that two senators did not vote. |
| 0:47.8 | In Missouri, their very restrictive abortion law passed their Senate by a vote of 24 to 10. |
| 0:53.2 | The Missouri Senate is 24 Republicans, 10 Democrats. |
| 0:57.9 | So in every one of these states, in the upper chamber of the three states voting for the most restrictive abortion laws, |
| 1:08.4 | every single Republican voted for those abortion restrictions and every Democrat voted against them. |
| 1:16.7 | Two senators in Georgia didn't vote. |
| 1:19.0 | This is what's called a perfect correlation between the party of the senator and the stance on abortion. |
| 1:25.3 | The Republicans are against the right to abortion, no matter what the Constitution says, |
| 1:32.1 | and the Democrats are for a right to abortion. |
| 1:35.4 | But much of the coverage in the emphasis has been on the gender of the legislator's who voted for the ban. |
| 1:44.0 | Now on one level, this is useful information. |
| 1:46.4 | It's good to know that of the 10 Democrats in the Missouri Senate, 6 are women and 4 are men. |
| 1:53.5 | There is also only one female Republican senator in Missouri. |
| 1:57.2 | Of the two total two female senators in the state of Alabama, both are Democrats. |
| 2:01.9 | And so it is true as CNN reports, |
| 2:04.9 | The nation's most restrictive abortion law, all those in favor Republican men. |
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