at a rally in Pennsylvania former president Trump recently told women you will be protected and I will be your protector what do you make of that so he who when he was president hand selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of roie Wade and they did just as he intended and there are now 20 states with Trump abortion Bans including bands that make no exception for rape or incest which we just discussed which means that you're telling a survivor of a crime of a violation
to their body they don't have a right to make a decision about what happens to their body next which is immoral so this is the same guy that is now saying that this is the same guy who said that women should be punished for having abortions this is the same guy who uses the kind of language he does to describe women so yeah there you go I do want to focus on abortion for a moment because two years ago roie Wade was overturned and women lost their constitutional right to an abortion I put out an
episode about it I flew to North Carolina I went to a preferred Women's Health Center I met with women that were getting screamed at and chanted at and called baby killers and it was the most eye-opening experience I've ever had because I am a privileged white woman that lives in Los Angeles and I am so aware of that um I understand that a lot of the younger generation sees things online and it's like what is right what is wrong what is real what is not can you explain and talk about what is actually happening to
abortion access right now in this country yeah so again I thank you for what you've been doing and at the earliest stage of this and following the stories so you know on public policy I often tell my team look I don't want to hear about public policy is a fancy kind of speech or or or paper tell me how it'll affect a real person so let's talk about how it affects a real person the majority of women who receive abortion care are mothers so if she's in a state and by the way every state in
the south except for Virginia has an abortion ban okay um so imagine she's in a state with an abortion B one out of three women are by the way in our country and she's a mom so she's going to have to figure out one God help her if she has affordable child care God help her if she has paid leave and then she's going to have to go to the airport stand in a TSA line sit on a plane next to a perfect stranger to go to a city where she's never been to receive the
care she needs she's going to probably have to get right back on that plane cuz she's got those kids her best friend's probably not with her cuz that's who's taking care of the kids to get back in that TSA line to get back on a plane to go home and that's all if they can even afford the plane ticketa or the bus ticket exactly exactly because when roie Wade was overturned I remember my DMs were flooded with thousands of women begging me to help and it's overwhelming and I can't even imagine I'm saying that in
front of you but it's it's overwhelming and I remember people begging me like I just need to afford a bus ticket so I can get out of this abortion desert that I live in in the South so I can get to state but they can't even AF you know what I mean so it's like these people are literally landlocked into a position that they don't want to be and and here's the thing here's the thing is that you don't have to abandon your faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government shouldn't be telling her
what to do if she chooses she'll talk to her priest her pastor her Rabbi her Imam but not the government telling you what to do and that's what's so outrageous about it is a bunch of these guys up in these state capitals are writing these decisions because they somehow have decided that they're in a better position to tell you what's in your best interest than you are to know what's in your own best interest it's outrageous it's outrageous I mean Daddy gang to put it in um our Tik Tok terms um I have seen girls
on the street walk up to men and be like do you know where a tampon goes do you know how many tampons we use do you even know how like do you know what a x or y or Z is of a part of our and they don't know the answer I was the first vice president or president to ever in office go to a reproductive Health Care Clinic ever really yes yes yes I didn't know that but I guess that makes sense MH to your point and yet the men are making the decisions about
our and here's and here's the other thing about this point that it's about IVF treatments and access it's about access to contraception which is very much at risk with these folks um it is about back to the point about reproductive health clinics you know what those clinics also do they do paps they do breast cancer screenings they do HIV testing and they're having to close in many places with these bands so think about the fact that for anyone who has gone to one of these clinics you understand that it is sometimes the most trusted place
where where people receive that kind of Health Care CU they walk in those places that are generally staffed by people who ex who create a safe place for people to come in without judgment so anyone seeking any kind of reproductive health care and and wanting to go to a place where they feel safe and without judgment these clinics have often been the place that people can go and many of them are having to close because of these laws I was raised Catholic and abortion is a sin and when I put out that episode I had
a lot of women reach out to me saying like wow I I you know live in the south and I never thought about it that way like maybe I am pro-choice because I won't get an abortion because of my religion but why should we control what someone else wants to do that's exact and you know what's interesting Alex to your point what I'm finding as I travel people who before two years ago before roie Wade was was overturned people who felt very strong wrong about that they are anti-abortion anti-abortion are now seeing what's happening and
saying H I didn't intend for all this to happen and I think that's also why in state after State so-called red States and so-called blue States when this issue has been on the ballot the American people are voting for freedom because ultimately it's about look this is not about imposing my thoughts on you in terms of what you do with your life or your body it's it's actually quite the opposite it's saying the government shouldn't be telling people what to do hi Daddy gang thank you so much for watching this video keep in mind that
was just a little clip from the episode if you want to watch the entire full video episode it is linked below it's the first thing in the description go watch it it's a great episode love you all I will see you next Wednesday
