The Senate and Abortion
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
John discusses the recent Senate abortion vote, interviews Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff on media literacy, media control and how to have a conversation in a fractured society, via their book “Let’s Agree to Disagree”, and speaks with Caller Jessica in Oregon.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Let's do a damn show, shall we? |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome. I'm so glad that you are with us. |
| 0:15.0 | We have a great one tonight, as I said earlier. |
| 0:18.0 | Look, in March, a Senate vote on an abortion rights bill failed. |
| 0:23.2 | 46 to 48. |
| 0:24.4 | Remember that? |
| 0:25.0 | Way back, due the miss of time in March of 2022? |
| 0:29.2 | Well, today, the Senate failed to advance |
| 0:31.6 | a sweeping abortion rights bill in the wake of the leak last week of a draft Supreme Court opinion that will overturn Roe v. Wade that will criminalize abortion rights in many states. |
| 0:44.0 | Today, Democrats failed to pass the Women's Health Protection Act. |
| 0:49.3 | You may have heard a bit about it. |
| 0:50.4 | People are really angry. |
| 0:51.5 | We're going to break down everything about it for you right now. So grab a pen. You might want to jot down some details here. There was a method to this madness. This was a bill that guarantees providers ability to perform an abortion, |
| 1:03.7 | and it guarantees individual citizens' right |
| 1:07.0 | to access one. |
| 1:08.3 | And it was a move that was pretty much destined |
| 1:12.1 | to fail from the start. |
| 1:14.4 | And they knew it, and they had the vote anyway. |
| 1:18.0 | And I hope to convince you why, through civil debate, |
| 1:21.6 | why I think it was the right call and why I think it's |
| 1:24.2 | actually brilliant and why I think they should do it again next week. This comes |
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