The Republican party forces its vision on America of more restrictions on abortion
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | tonight on the readout. I'm just saying if this is about the church and if this is about God, |
| 0:09.0 | you are the same people that will slap them loaves of bread out of Jesus hand. Slap out the fish |
| 0:14.3 | out of Jesus hand. This is absolutely an offense to women. This is an offense to everybody. And |
| 0:20.7 | it is offensive that you're going to go celebrate the oppression of women at a church. |
| 0:25.6 | Felicia Hilton of Des Moines calling out Iowa Republicans today as the Iowa legislature |
| 0:32.2 | returns for a special session to implement extreme new restrictions on abortion. Meanwhile, |
| 0:38.8 | in terms of former football coach will understand, Senator Tommy Tuberville's hold on military |
| 0:44.4 | promotions is weakening the defensive line of his own team, the United States of America, |
| 0:50.3 | to score points with his extremist fans on abortion. Also tonight, oversight chair James |
| 0:56.7 | Comer talks a lot about getting laughed at on MSNBC. After Comer's latest whistleblower embarrassment, |
| 1:04.4 | the laughs are going to keep on coming. And you may know Hill Harper from CSI New York or from |
| 1:10.8 | his many other performances. Now he wants to play a role in America's future as a United States |
| 1:16.6 | Senator and he joins me tonight. But we begin tonight with the Republican Party forcing a |
| 1:24.9 | draconian and possibly deadly vision on America. More restrictions on abortion. Despite voters across |
| 1:32.0 | this country saying no, we don't want this and fighting to protect their access to abortion care. |
| 1:38.0 | Here's some of those Americans today protesting a special session of the Iowa legislature, |
| 1:43.7 | where Republican lawmakers are racing to pass a near total ban on abortion. Republican |
| 1:49.9 | governor Kim Reynolds called state lawmakers back for the rare special session for the sole purpose |
| 1:56.4 | of enacting these new restrictions. Right now, lawmakers are debating a proposed six-week abortion |
| 2:02.6 | ban. They've been doing this all day and it means abortion laws in the state are poised to change |
| 2:08.1 | quickly and dramatically. Iowans are not going down without a fight, however. This is what pro-choice |
| 2:14.0 | to more in resident Felicia Hilton had to say when she testified against the severe restriction. |
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