WTH Can Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Americans Agree On? A Lot, Say Alyssa Rosenberg and Marc Thiessen
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In a post-Dobbs political landscape, abortion policy has become the great divider. But disagreements over abortion cannot stifle much-needed conversations about what can be done to support American women, mothers, fathers, and children. To nobody’s surprise, WTH co-host Marc is a conservative. His colleague at the Washington Post Alyssa Rosenberg, is liberal. Together, they undertook the critical task that one might expect from our lawmakers, and put their differences aside to write a productive, respectful, and intelligent guideline for family policies that have been proposed by lawmakers, yet to be passed. They selected policies that did not require them to compromise on their respective positions on abortion, and those that have a serious chance of becoming law if the work is done by Congress. It is a model of good-faith hard work, and the kind that is rare among those who actually make policy – we commend you to read it here.
Alyssa Rosenberg writes about mass culture, parenting, and gender for The Washington Post's Opinions section. Before coming to The Post in 2014, Alyssa was the culture editor at ThinkProgress, the television columnist at Women and Hollywood, a columnist for the XX Factor at Slate and a correspondent for The Atlantic.com.
Marc Thiessen writes a column for The Post on foreign and domestic policy. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is a Fox News contributor.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, I'm Mark Teece. |
| 0:35.6 | And I'm Danielle Pletka. And welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? |
| 0:40.0 | Danny, what the hell is going on that I'm starting the podcast? |
| 0:42.8 | Well, that is an excellent question. |
| 0:44.5 | It's not opposite day here at what the hell is going on, studio. |
| 0:48.5 | No, today we're actually... |
| 0:50.2 | You're interviewing me. |
| 0:51.0 | Today we're talking to, of all people, Mark Teson, in his role as a columnist at the Washington |
| 0:57.4 | Post. |
| 0:58.1 | We have as well his co-author of a really, I think, important piece that they wrote together, |
| 1:04.5 | Alyssa Rosenberg. |
| 1:05.5 | I'll tell you about Alyssa in just a second. |
| 1:07.6 | But together they wrote a piece called We Disagree on Abortion. Here's a pro-family agenda. |
| 1:13.0 | Both parties can support. Now, Mark, I ask you everything in our quite long interview, so we're |
| 1:19.7 | going to have just a quick intro here, no outro. But I, what was behind this for, just for you, |
| 1:25.9 | you get the platform by yourself for a minute? |
| 1:28.9 | Well, I mean, Alyssa is a pro-choice liberal, and I'm a pro-life conservative, but we are |
| 1:33.2 | colleagues at the Washington Post and we're friends, and we've become even closer friends |
| 1:37.2 | throughout this process. And we started talking about how, in the wake of the Dobbs' decision, |
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