The shocking moves by Republicans in Alabama that intend to set up a Supreme Court case that could possibly outlaw abortion provide the backdrop for a deep conversation between guest host Jefferson Smith and deeply worried callers on the cultural divide between red and blue states.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Jefferson Smith, guest host, analyzes the political and cultural moment in which Alabama Republicans appear to be moving to challenge the legality of abortion in the Supreme Court. ~~~ Are women's fundamental rights on the line in the ongoing national fight over abortion? Women call in from across the nation, and men too. ~~~ Jefferson continues the discussion- does the fact that the Alabama law does not include rape or incest exceptions lay bare the fact that the Republican party is deeply anti-woman? Or how does this play in Roy Moore country? ~~~ Angela in Silver Springs Florida thinks the fight over this issues could divide our country into two camps. Guest host Jefferson Smith considers the Republican strategy of 'divide and conquer.' ~~~ Michael in Colorado puts the Alabama law in the context of the long-view of history. ~~~ As Trump is pulling out non-emergency personnel from Iraq, Ellen Rattner of Talk Media News has the most significant headlines. ~~~ Guest host Jefferson Smith finishes out the national discussion on Alabama's abortion law.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Good morning everybody. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Jefferson Smith sitting in for Tom. |
| 0:20.3 | Tom is sick and so might be the nation. |
| 0:23.0 | And sweet home Alabama indeed, but for whom? |
| 0:28.0 | As you probably already have heard, or may already have heard, |
| 0:32.0 | the state of Alabama has voted now for the most extreme |
| 0:36.0 | anti-abortion law in the nation. |
| 0:38.8 | There is no exception in this law for rape or incest or death of the mother or life of the mother. |
| 0:46.9 | There are two intentions of this law. |
| 0:50.2 | One is it stated intent. |
| 0:54.7 | The second is not only its impact in Alabama, |
| 0:57.9 | but the impact it could have in the United States of America. |
| 1:02.1 | During this portion, we're going to talk about the reminder of why it mattered so very |
| 1:07.0 | much that a Supreme Court seat was stolen. We're going to connect this to what's |
| 1:11.8 | happening in the media. |
| 1:13.2 | A little bit later on, I want to talk about Elizabeth Warren's refusal to be on Fox News, |
| 1:17.1 | get your opinions on that, and offer my own. |
| 1:20.9 | I want us to remember the essential arguments about why a woman's right to choose was so important in the first instance. |
| 1:28.5 | Why Roe versus Wade was so important in the first instance. |
| 1:31.5 | I worry that this is a generation that knew not Joseph. I |
| 1:35.0 | worry that we have forgotten a critical debate in the country and some of the most |
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