WITH A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN COMING, COURT PACKING SHOULD BE BACK ON THE TABLE!
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Abortion can be re-legalized if Democrats in Congress choose to set aside the filibuster and either pass a law codifying Roe or, with a more long-term strategy, add new members to the Court. With a federal abortion ban court packing should be back on the table! Biden responds with calls on Congress to ‘Adopt Legislation That Codifies Roe.’ Director of State Abortion Access - National Women's Law Center, Heather Shumaker explains how the SCOTUS decision will be affected by states' rights. Was the leak meant to normalize a federal ban on ALL abortion?
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| 0:47.7 | My friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, |
| 0:53.5 | and the American way, and those of you who believe in abortion rights. |
| 0:58.5 | As the old saying goes, all hell has officially broken loose. |
| 1:03.1 | Politico published a draft report, a 96 or 98 page draft, not report a decision written by |
| 1:12.8 | Justice Sam Alito, one of the hard core, right wingers on the court. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm trying to be very careful in my language here. |
| 1:23.8 | Basically saying that, you know, it's not up to the court to make law. |
| 1:28.5 | With Roe v. Wade, the court did make law. |
| 1:31.2 | We are officially undoing Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:34.1 | The word abortion does not exist in the Constitution and therefore it's up to the states. |
| 1:41.2 | That's the essence of the decision. |
| 1:44.7 | Now, one of the main reasons why this has so many people flipped out, |
| 1:53.5 | well, actually there's multiple reasons. |
| 1:55.2 | Reason number one, of course, is that carrying a child of term is 14 times more deadly than |
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