Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- John Oliver discusses the ongoing fallout from the overturning of Roe v. Wade as the November elections approach.
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The fact that people against abortion are also fully opposed to free child care, raising wages, and providing free heathcare for the already born says it all.
They're hypocrites.
@@scottadkinshill2493 under sexed, under educated, and over opinionated
It’s about control, not compassion.
Yes, it says that they're all for people being more responsible in a society that dumps all of its problems on anything and anyone but themselves.
@@benmohatunWhich is why they obviously support teaching comprehensive sex education in schools. OH WAIT.
It's been said before and I'll repeat it. Banning abortions doesn't stop abortion. It just stops safe, legal ones.
@@danielroscoe5797They have to make up nonsense like that because the real reason they support abortion is that they want women to never be held accountable for their horrific behavior.
Abortion, by definition, is any termination of a pregnancy. Miscarriages are abortions. They will present the exact same way. It's why we already have cases of women being charged with murder for miscarrying. We have cases of women DYING because of miscarriages. And doctors are afraid of assisting in cases that toe the vague lines in certain states. So their argument is correct. It directly means people will be harmed from the lack of legal care. @@danielroscoe5797
Sure, an embryo or fetus should Not be granted greater rights than a living, breathing autonomous human being. Right now, in the US a dead body has more rights than a living, breathing Woman in many states in the USA. But what about the baby? It doesn't have a Right to use my Body if I don't want it to. Just like a person needing bone marrow or an organ transplant(who could Die without it ) doesn't get to just use yours without your permission. People Die every day because they couldn't get a heart, lungs,liver,kidney transplant, etc. If there is a match from someone that has just Died and they are Not an Organ Donor their organs can't be used to save those lives eventhough they are No Longer using them. 😏 How's that, asshat? 🤨
@danielroscoe5797 The argument is that it's not your body, and you don't have the right to restrict what is done with it or if someone can choose to care for it or not.
Abortion is a medical procedure best decided by a doctor and Patient that should not be influenced by religious views as all religions do not think abortion is forbade by scripture. In fact if you read the bible you can find a clear case of abortion being permitted by the clergy Number :20 where it outlines the process @@danielroscoe5797
“We are a very safe place for little babies” Saying that in a country with the amount of children living in poverty, going hungry, dealing with school shootings, going into the abysmal foster system is so infuriating! None of these people care about children or anyones life at all just control!
Often more in red states, too.
Wasn't so safe when all that baby formula was unusable. Thanks consolidation, deregulation and defunding the oversight bodies! /s
Notice he said little babies not children seeing as Texas has the highest number of school shootings. Shame on the interviewer for not calling him out more
Yea, like the little babies in Uvalde….
The US is not a safe place for children. You rank number 1 in the world with 288 school shootings in 10 years. Mexico is number 2 : 8 shootings. Afghanistan : 3. And keep in mind that the "pro-life" and the "pro-weapons" are basically the same guys.
How about being pregnant in 1958 with twins that expired in the womb and the doctors could not give me a d&c. I carried these dead babies inside of me for 4 extra weeks, taking the chance of septic poisoning. Not only the danger, but having to through the extra time when friends tell you, “ You are six months, you sure aren’t getting very big”, do you tell them, “Oh my baby is dead and I have to wait until they spontaneity abort.” Just imagine the horror of having a decomposing baby inside of you. Sad indeed.😔😢
I can't even imagine. That must have been so devastating. I'm so sorry you had to suffer through that experience and hope that the years have dulled the pain. I hope your life since then has been much kinder. My mom was born around then and we've talked about how it was for her growing up, hearing whispers that such-and-such cousin or older sister or family friend had had to go out of state for an undisclosed medical procedure. Maddening that we seem to keep having to fight for all our old victories again. Wishing you the best, internet stranger 🙂
@@Zibanu Yes, even though I still carry those little girls deep inside my heart,
I also sill carry the sadness over not being able to see them or hold them because the nurse in the emergency room thought it best I not see their decomposing little bodies. She thought it may be too traumatic for me and I’m sure it would have. I appreciate her compassion.
Here's a gently hug -- you shouldn't have had to suffer for someone else's cruel "morals" made up to punish women for having had sex.
Jesus, that must've been awful, I'm so sorry
@@banhammer3904 sorry. You’re wrong on this one. Both babies born and had died in the womb. No one absorbed the other. Get you facts straight.
"Allow our children to get abortions without our consent"
Wtf ?
Your underage child is pregnant and you want them to stay pregnant.
That's the nightmare.
What kind of a parent would you be to force you underage child to have a child which would be result of SA (as they are underage), which due to their age would be super dangerous for their bodies? WTF?
@@bazildai believe the answer is a republican
children can't consent to getting a credit card there's no way they can consent to an abortion
Before we start the debate, is it fair to pose the question why your underaged child is getting pregnant?
@@darkerthanblack6413 Why? It doesn't matter. It could be rape and nobody would care. If it is a pregnancy by underaged kids exploring their urges, who cares. You are just shifting the topic and in the end you gonna act like a fetus is a person. It is always the same.
I love how companies get years of delays on laws to allow them to 'prepare' but abortion bans get enacted INSTANTLY
That's... a beautiful observation actually.
Well, America does hate its women.
That's because corporations are citizens, thanks to the brain-damaged non-ruling of "Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886)" Our society now has two kinds of citizens, the lowly flesh-and-blood peasantry, and the immortal supercitizens called corporations. What a great country.
Yeah, amazing point. They should have to give everyone 2 years to crowdsource the money and take the time to move to a state that doesn't see them as expendable.
As I like to say, we have the best government and legal system money can buy.
I'm European. I never cease to be amazed at how medieval the US is, and how much more medieval it gets by the day. There is no other country in the world that self praises being the best in everything, while being the worst in almost everything.
Please adopt me I too am disgusted and I do deserve a better country
The US is richest third world country on the planet
This country (being the US) is still in the petulant teenager phase of national development. As a nation, we simply have not had the same level of horror and devastation that other parts of the developed world have undergone for people to understand that the only time a system remains honest is with rigorous maintenance, review, and adaptation.
It simply will not be until we see a catastrophic collapse of the overall system that we will have a genuine chance to make many of the changes that are being heavily advocated for.
The unfortunate reality is that increasingly, the US is a backsliding Republic (we're not a democracy, we haven't been since our founding. We're barely a democratic Republic) and the comparisons that have been made to the Roman Republic are increasingly, disturbingly accurate in a deja vú sense.
We'll see in 2024 if there is a real chance for the nation to recover and stabilize. I'd like to be optimistic with the drive for term limits on Supreme Court justices, accountability efforts against politicians from all parts of the country, and so on (though to be candid, some States frankly pay more than their share in federal taxes to prop up States that without this parasitic relationship would have been called "failed states" by any other metric... insane how this country takes active efforts to take from those who spread compassion and give to those who exercise control.)
😂 Word. Those of us that left decades ago, looking back, feel like we dodged a bullet. I can't imagine moving back, and I've let my passport expire back in 2008.
A lot of people i meet from Europe really underestimate how much the majority of us suffer over here in the US. Its a great place to be rich, but if you're not, then these are some really hard times.
If there was ever any thought that this was "for the children" please remember that currently there are two different lawsuits actively going through Texas courts, both brought by different women against the State of Texas. The first of which is close to the story presented here, a mother was told her baby would not make it and her life would be in danger, she couldn't get an abortion and ended up suffering dearly for a couple weeks from it, she's asking for clarification on the law and arguing it's unconstitutional, the State of Texas is saying that that unborn baby that will 100% die is a person and has rights.
The other case is brought by a pregnant female prison guard who was working a shift when she felt something was wrong and asked to be let off early so she could go to the hospital, to which she was told she'd be fired if she did leave - losing medical insurance and her pay right before she was supposed to have a baby - so she stayed, after her shift she went to the hospital and found out her fetus had died. She is now sueing Texas for violating her unborn child's rights, to which the State of Texas is arguing the unborn fetus isn't alive and therefore doesn't have any rights.
The State of Texas is, right now, arguing that an unborn fetus is both alive and has rights so terminating it, even to save the mother's life, is murder, while simultaneously arguing that unborn fetuses are not alive and do not have any rights. They do not care about the Children, they care about control and whatever is convenient for them.
Holy shit, that's some mental gymnastics texas is doing 🤦♂️
Sorry if this is too cynical, but they're playing Schrödinger's Fetus with human lives.
@@evan08rhys09 Doublethink exists.
@@alasdairgodewife8534Shrödingers Foetus is the exact phrase that came to mind when I read this comment. Then I saw your reply and realised I wasn’t alone . Now I’m feeling a queasy mix of relief (that I’m not the only person on earth to have this very specific, awful pairing of words run through their brain) and abject horror (that we live in a world where a term like ‘Shrödingers Foetus’ can accurately describe the state of public health legislation in the United States)
@@alasdairgodewife8534 I had the same thought
"I don't want my kids to get an abortion without my permission" truly is one of the conservative statements of all time.
yeah, got the same feeling as "it would allow your daughter (over 18) to marriage her boyfriend. even without your permission!"
to these people children are possessions not people.
To you babies are not people. I'd rather be thought of as someone's "procession" then be dead.@@SharienGaming
@@franktank1984after this entire fucking video that’s your response? Lmao
It's really up there with "My children are blameless [in my divorce]" -Steven Crowder
I had a conversation with an anti-abortion friend, and by the end, her argument was "she should have kept her legs crossed." It always seems to end that way, and never "He should have kept it in his pants."
This. It always devolves into the truth: their sense of moral superiority.
As if a child is supposed to be a lesson or a punishment
Look, I’m pro choice, but both of those arguments are wrong. If hers is unfairly putting the responsibility on women, then yours is unfairly putting it on men. The decision to have sex is a decision that is made by both parties, and thus both are responsible for the consequences of that decision.
People who believe sex is *only* for conception need to stop forcing their beliefs on others.
Maybe you haven’t realized this glaring fact of reality but, women fuck who they want, men fuck who they can.
8:33 The same thing happened to my mother. Not only was my brother going to die in a horrific manner but my mom had a high chance of dying herself. My parents went to their priest. He said, “How can I tell two young parents what the right choice is when two little girls could end up motherless?” He made them feel okay about going through with the late term abortion to save the life of my mother and prevent my brother from suffering. My mom got the abortion and went on to have another baby. I shudder to think about what could have happened if they went to any other priest of didn’t even have the choice at all.
Wow...I'm glad the priest gave them the comfort they needed
@@JudgeyJudgeyable - I'd be curious to know what percentage of priests would have given the same advice.
@@Hal_T Probably more then you would think. I find that in most situations people tend to actually want what is best for people especially people they know or are in their community.
I think males should not be allowed to pass laws about women's health.
Because doctors never get it wrong 😒. Have you thought that maybe your murdered sibling and mother would have been just fine?
those legislators should be hold accountable for every dying mother whos dead could have been prevented by immediate treatment.
I took a woman for an abortion because her narcissistic boyfriend had "baby trapped" her - messed with her birth control, then terrorized her with threats of stealing the baby.
She knew she could not be tied to this man for 18 years.
I never realized how crucial abortion care is in terms of abuse.
And how _abusers don't want women to be able to escape a baby trap._
And that's what this is teally about: the ability to abuse women through their fertility. It now makes sense why these men don't care at all about the children.
Suffering is the point.
Thats really scary
*Cruelty is the point
Commenting for the algorithm.
These fucking GOP men are completely ignorant to the repercussions of their votes.
@dundukk9450 that would be an excellent solution! Except for the fact the right leaning faction wants to ban homosexuals from adoption or even being around children. It also ignores that there are already more children without parents than there are would be parents looking to adopt.
My wife had an abortion because our baby was diagnosed with a severe skeletal dysplasia on the 21 week ultrasound. She had a severely small rib cage, undeveloped lungs and would have suffocated to death if carried to term. The abortion had to be approved by the hospitals ethics committee. All late abortions are done for dire reasons. We don’t need more laws regulating this.
Yep! 100% of the times that people get late abortions, it's because either it's a medical reason, or they were physically prevented from getting one.
Nobody willingly carries a child they don't want for that long.
Exactly. People forget that human beings with morals and ethics have to perform abortions. Most doctors wouldn't perform an abortion passed 20 weeks unless it was an emergency.
sorry to hear that about your wife and child but 99% of abortions are not because the baby is not healthy but just because they do not want to have a baby and that is a big issue and should be illegal.
@@adamw7411 Why should people be arrested for not wanting a baby?
@@adamw7411 WHY don't these women want to have a baby? Would you be willing to increase everyone's taxes to address the economic issues that drive women to seek abortions?
A baby is a tremendous financial burden for the next 18 years -- the kind of burden that destroys marriages and breaks women raising a child alone. Are you willing to take financial responsibility for the laws you support?
Thank you for doing this segment. As someone who could have died while pregnant from pregnancy and/or my fetus died inside me, it means a lot.
I'm happy you're still alive, and I'm sorry you had to go through that trauma, which I can't even imagine. Keep projecting your positive attitude :)
Thank you, that means a lot :)@@SpaceSnaxxx
@@SpaceSnaxxx Oh you’re sweet, thank you :)
Don't try to get prego again
Now would be the right time to introduce a abortion for fatherhood. By that I mean the right that a man can leave his wife, children or pregnant women without paying alimony. His money his choice.
My child was diagnosed with anencephaly and my wife was going to be forced to carry our child without a brain, which means she couldn’t think hear smell feel or do anything it means to be alive, to term and risk health complications. On top of that if the baby is not still born which can still happen we would’ve been forced to pay for life sustaining treatment and bring the child home and cover life support and at home nursing until the baby passed on it’s own. Even though by definition she was never really alive she never had a brain. The amount of trauma and money and health risks we would’ve had to endure if not for her family being able to pay to get us out of state was insane! We weren’t inducing labor on a live child. She had no brain and 0 chance for survival yet was going to be forced to carry…… so sad and I pray for all these poor women and families.
Bruh what do you mean a child without a brain...
NOTHING in the body lives or grows without the brain.
@Heathernd
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I have a friend with a child who has this condition and her child is actually very fulfilled in life. They have many difficulties but this child is still a beautiful happy image of God. Never give up on your children.
@@Heathernd Don't bring God into this.
You guys made the right choice even though I’m sure the whole experience was very stressful. My mom had to make a similar choice. I hope your wife is doing well 💗
This is so insane! hating women at its most cruel.
In the states where abortions are banned, the people should DEMAND complete childcare, public education, nutritional assistance etc from the legislature. Since they claim they are the safe havens for the babies, the states then MUST provide so. Call them out for their hypocrisy. It won’t save all mother’s livelihood, but it will help some.
It's the *very least* they could f**king do
That’ll never happen. Makes you wonder if it’s not the republicans who are eating babies, just trying to expand their dinner tables. After all they are the party of projection. Jesus! Vote blue. 💙💙💙
AGREE
Agree
It really gets bizarre when the same people who want to revoke birthright citizenship and deny social services to undocumented immigrants also were the ones who refused abortion access to pregnant women in ICE detention, many of whom were victims of sexual assault during the long journey from their home countries.
Anyone involved in forcing a 12-year-old to give birth is a monster. Full. Stop.
or extremely delusional.
It's also monstrous to have sex with a 12 yr old and getting her pregnant in the first place. I guess accountability doesn't exist any longer, at least for women
@@andethidialbubabibub3261 I was with you in the first half, but the second sentence doesn't seem to make much sense in context.
@@andethidialbubabibub3261 This does not mean that the people preventing the 12-year-old from getting an abortion are any less of monsters. Your comment reeks of whataboutism.
perhaps a first step would be to ban child marriages all over the country.. cause, well, once married, it's not really forcing them to give birth but rather under the maritial (/religious) contract
I literally JUST finished an essay on abortion rights last week for college. I’ve been pro-choice since my parents informed of the concept, but I have to say, it was probably the most depressing essay I’ve ever had to write for a class. Outlawing abortions doesn’t solve the problem, it is the problem. Abortions were actually decreasing for the past few decades, but after Roe v. Wade was overturned they skyrocketed because a lot of women didn’t have any other solution. There’s gonna be an increase in women dying due to unsafe pregnancies and unsafe abortions because now they can’t get the professional help they need. It’s especially bad for poor people and people of color because they now have even less access to safe and professional help than they did before. And even worse, the Republicans who call themselves “pro-life” do everything they can to make people’s lives worse. They don’t care about healthcare, mental illness, homelessness, not even fucking gun control, even after school shootings became one of the leading causes of children’s deaths in this country. If someone’s going to be pro-life, especially if they’re a politician, then they need to fully educate themselves on WHY people get abortions and the consequences of outlawing them because it’s a life or death situation.
Wow! Love that you have a much better understanding of just how complicated this issue is by completing a college assignment. I’m hopeful for the future of our country because young people like you exist.
Thanks for sharing your passion. The sad thing is the pro-life don't actually care about life. So their education on women who need or want an abortion is always "give it up for adoption" or God will see to it when death is right. It's so infuriating and yes the powerlessness creates a sense of depression. Keep your head up.
Someone fully know why someone would get an abortion. They don’t CARE because the point is to CONTROL women’s circumstances by sticking them between a rock and a hard place.
It’s a lot easier to pay a woman a lot less than a man makes when she can’t just let her children starve by quitting. It’s a lot easier to give the men the promotion or the higher paying job when she has leave by a certain time every day to pick up children from daycare. That’s why they don’t want to provide subsidies for daycare, btw.
Once you realize that making raising children as difficult as humanly possible in order to keep a group bent over a barrel is the point, then you can stop trying to make sense of the inconsistency.
Once you understand that the fetus is just a stand-in to achieve their real agenda, the picture becomes a lot more clear.
Same with guns. I can agree to some restrictions, but restrictions should still be kept to a minimum in a free country. So I don't agree with gun bans either. And the same with how drug prohibitionists claim to be about saving lives. I don't see how forcing people in need of something onto the black market saves lives. Prince died because of this. Not to mention the poor manufacturing by those who only care about profit and dirty or mislabeled drugs. Maybe it's better to work with people rather than against them? Especially if its for some sort of pain or medical use. The whole point of drug stores in the beginning was to ensure that what people needed was a quality product, not snake oil, and they were educated about how to use the drug they need along with dosage information. NOT to be gatekeepers, in a "free" country.
Drugs don't kill people, misuse and prohibition does.
Seriously feels like a lot of USA is just another third world country, at least where republicans are in charge. Things only seem to be getting worse year by year...
That Samuel Alito's mom joke made me laugh way harder than it should have
I don't get it.
@@BloodlyshivaSamuel Alito is one of the conservatives in the US supreme court, so by naming it "Samuel Alito's Mom's Abortion Clinic" they suggest that his mom founded it after realizing how terrible it was that she'd had to give birth to him.
When I was 19, my water broke at the end of my first trimester. I was told that the fetus' lungs hadn't even formed then and if I were to carry it to term, it would be stillborn, plus I could get a serious infection that could kill me. I was fortunate enough to be able to get an abortion, even though, at that time, I was against abortions. I still ended up with blood poisoning that damaged my right wrist and left foot because the doctor missed some of the tissue. If this were today, I would NOT have been able to abort the fetus and both of us would be dead. These MEN making laws who know nothing about women's health should be ashamed of themselves. They are causing pain and suffering to women and fetuses. Not to mention that once a fetus is carried to term and born, these same politicians don't give a f*ck about the child because they also vote against childcare policies.
SING IT LOUDER!!! ✊🏽🗳️💙🌊 *I’m sorry this happened to you*
Please ignore this question of this is too Personal:
I feel like 19 is such a young age to have children. Like almost too early, but it seems normal in the USA.
Is there a reason, in you opinion, why that is?
with all do respect less than 1% of all abortions are because of medical reasons. all you did was say that abortion is okay because of your rare anecdotal story. Tell me why abortion is okay in 99% of elective abortions.
Politicians are not doctors and should not be making laws about medical procedures they are not qualified to perform.
@@radschele1815terrible sex ed in school, if there is even any to begin with is a big one. Kids are not properly educated on what sex is and what the consequences can be. Instead kids are scared into not having sex at all, whilst not knowing why or what it means. That doesn't stop them, it only results in them keeping it secret cause they know their parents would get angry.
Plus, the whole Christian fundamentalism thing, where marrying young and fast is encouraged and getting pregnant quickly is seen as normal
John forgot to mention that it's also caused maternity doctors and medical students to leave states, which causes entire maternity wards to shut down. The entire state of Idaho has ZERO maternity wards. Even anti-choice women and their babies are being punished for their cruelty
This American Life did a great series of episodes on this... The last one (the "fallout" episode) was crushing.
This is why legislators need to learn about the actual repercussions of the laws that they enact.
For anyone else who's spidy sense was tingling at this comment. I looked around and it seems like one major hospital stopped doing on care, not all of them. Still an issue, but let's try to avoid hyperbole.
"Bonner General Health in Sandpoint -- 400 miles north of Boise, Idaho and serving about 9,000 people -- said it would nolonger be providing obstetrical care due in part to the state's "legal and political climate,"
@@jecsah Yeah, it was the only Hospital in the COUNTY, so still a big deal, but certainly extreme to claim the whole state is without maternal care. Due to the location of Bonner County it still is closer for many to go to Washington instead, so maybe that's where the misinformation came from.
@@gypsyveganis this on youtube? I'd like to watch it
The fact that the courts are even entertaining the mifipristone case is insane. The FDA did it's job, there's no jurisdictional reason the courts get a say. Especially since it's not just used for abortions, there are other, non-pregnancy related uses for the drug.
You speak the TRUTH!! Completely insane and totally unjustifiable! Instead of delaying their decision on this case, the Supreme Court needs to refuse hearing it. There’s no rationale for a nationwide ban of FDA approved mifepristone, yet Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, Thomas and Coney-Barrett could easily make an illogical argument and ban it anyway. They cannot be trusted to make judicious decisions for the public. They don’t care what the majority of Americans believes, deserves, thinks, needs or wants.
They already think they know better than doctors regarding what medical procedures patients are allowed to have, it’s not a big leap to thinking they know better than the FDA regarding which drugs should be approved for doctors to prescribe. You’d think if they were that keen on practicing medicine they’d have become doctors instead of pursuing careers in the government.
I mean, the case _is_ being pushed by the same people who pretend to believe the morning after pill is an "abortifaescent." What else are they supposed to do when government regulators prevent them from being controlling and cruel to people?
@@anondecepticonespecially since they're ALL lawyers
Justice Thomas put in the official record in his opinion that went with Roe that they were coming for Birth control, marriage equality, and the very right to exist. All have cases in the lower courts already. The only thing that can stop it it publishing the #ERAnow
I just love how Republicans REALLY don't give a crap what their actual constituents actually want
ummm what? Republican constituents are ….wait for it… republicans. Who also are pro life. So they do give a shit, they just don’t care what people like you think
WRONG!! Republicans do give a crap about their ACTUAL constituents. You just assumed it was regular people like you and me. The Republican "constituents" are the filthy rich, big companies, and others in the 1 percent. And buddy, you and I aren't in that exclusive club. 😢
All Republicans Are Rapists
Thankfully, we have a Representative Democracy and not a "Issue of the Moment Democracy Voted by the Current Idiot of the Day". Our founding fathers did this to prevent kneejerk decisions from emotional nutjobs who have no ability to "think" at all.
Read the words of all the Libs here.. this is the ultimate example of how evil this ideology is. The only thing that matters is their OWN feelings, their own comfort, their own gratification. They don’t think they should ever be uncomfortable or face consequences. The abortion lobby represents our most selfish impulses. They don’t even acknowledge the humanity of the child, if it brings any discomfort or inconvenience to the ego of the mother. It all boils down to a poisonous ideology that was designed to destroy the American family. The hierarchy that makes us strong. Free healthcare, free college, free abortion on demand. It all exists to make you dependent on State power, and to appeal to your darkest most selfish nature. To make you believe that you don’t have to take responsibility for anything, and all you need is more State power. And it’ll never be enough. It’ll never satisfy. When was the last time you saw a grateful leftist? Left wing ideology needs a permanent underclass that is taught to always blame everyone but themselves to thrive. It needs continuous chaos.
To be clear: Even before the overturn, forced birthers ran this country. When I was a school nurse, I was asked in a district training day what I would tell a pregnant student. I answered like a nurse and said I would give them their three options: Parenting, adoption, or abortion and offer them what support I could for their choice. IMMEDIATELY, I was told by my colleagues that I could never even be heard to ever suggest abortion to a student, as the State of Missouri would go after my license.
This was when abortion was (in theory) legal nationwide.
This is misogynistic domestic terrorism.
thank you for calling it what it is. these people aren't "pro-life." they don't care about "little babies" or the health & wellbeing of women. they are misogynists who saw the patriarchy starting to slip with the sexual revolution of the 1960s and they panicked, and they will reassert that male dominance by any means necessary.
That's awful, it's a medical decision, and they can go after your license for even talking about it? That's completely and utterly fucked
I wonder why we allegedly fight terrorism overseas. we are ruled by terrorists/republicans.
Yes it is!!!
I’m amazed at the US’s ability to maintain its status as an out of control raging dumpster fire, year after year.
After all this time, I think that is actually the only thing we lead the world in currently. Now that might be a bit patriotic of me, might be a bit too American of me, but I do just feel like we're the champions in that regard.
Better than whatever shithole you don’t have free speech in lmao
@@LevyathynAmerica is indeed leading the world in a lot of metrics. And no it isn't a "bad country" like you think.
@@gyurhanaziz7676"in alot of metrics", You should've said "in alot of inches" lol
@@bl00by_lmao got 'em
It is so hard to grasp that it has been over 16 months that the United States proved to the _Entire_ world that both our Judicial Branch and our Health Care system *do not function* properly.
Showed that decades ago
Don‘t worry about that. The whole western civilization has known this for decades.
To paraphrase Abigail Thorn on the the subject of Children having access to Abortion: “If a child goes to the doctor and says ‘I need an abortion because daddy made me pregnant’ and the doctor says ‘I have to tell your parents’ there is a non-zero chance that child will be murdered.”
It is so god damn maddening how dangerous pregnancy is for people and so much of the arguments against abortion rights revolve around pretending it isn’t.
There is a great/sad video out there of a legislator from, I believe, Idaho - who asked the question “can’t we have a woman swallow a camera to film the baby?” He literally did not know that fetuses do not develop in the stomach. And he has more say over the bodies of women in his state than gynecologists in that state.
His mother should have swallowed him
He was just a huge Death Stranding fan.
I wonder which hole he thinks we're born from 😶
The terrible thing is Idaho is now an OBGYN desert. Hospitals have closed Drs are unwilling to practice in these conditions.
Ty. I had forgotten all about that.
I grew up in a catholic high school and their stance on abortion was a bit strange. They'd "support the mother throughout the pregnancy and help welcome the baby into the world", but as soon as the baby is born, both parents are expelled from the school. They were vehemently anti-abortion, but at the same time, they refused to support anyone once they got their child because they feared the stigma of teen pregnancy, despite one predicament being arguably more dangerous and burdening than the other
expelled from school... that's the most effed up thing I ever heard.
Because the Catholic church typically don't like women. There's historical precedent to that.
The Catholic Church is one of the largest pedophilic organizations in the world and should never be trusted on any matters.
Catholicism itself is hypocrisy
“a bit strange” lmfao.
Lets go Ohio for voting Yes on issue 1. Huge win for women's rights!
I was honestly surprised with how wide of a margin that Yes vote won by, given that Ohio is a red state.
@J0eMega Ohio in the past has been a purple state but has gone red recently because of the rural vote. When the folks in the 3 major cities come out on an issue the vote turns blue really quickly.
Huge L to all the Catholic Churches who advocated for a No vote, suckers had it coming!
republicans attack drugs while they eat bleach they attack abortion while they sell babies into india for sx and russia for organs ie 0 minimum marriage age laws and texases last governor caught selling homeless babies thru said states while they preach about their family values
Fight's not over yet. Already the Repubs are trying to find a way to gimp both measures.
Kudos to John for managing that quip about Bob Murray. Death doesn't stop the mockery, and that will forever be one of his greatest episodes.
Eat Sh*t Bob!
What pisses me off is that Congress had decades to encode women's rights in federal law but did nothing.
Agreed. As much as I loved RBG, she should have resigned during Obama's tenure so that he could have appointed someone to take her place who would have been on the bench longer. Then we wouldn't be stuck with Amy Coney Barret.
Obama campaign on it to and it still didn't get done..
Then there would be less reason to vote Democrat. It's almost like they never intended to.
Thats why trump should win, it really doesnt matter who wins it's the same bullshit. Both sides scare you and promise you things then they get to power and have the ability to make some change and they do nothing 😂
THIS 👏 they campaign on it + never deliver
I'm egyptian, abortion is a non-starter here. I got pregnant at 19 and found out about 5 weeks in, went through hell to secure medication for an abortion, and was lucky enough to be in the UK when I took the medications. It was insanely painful, I thought I was dying more than once, and gross things came out of me. But in the end, I went to university the next day, and had the privilege to move on with my life. I cannot image how my life would've looked like if I wasn't so lucky, to find a kind doctor, for supportive friends, and the possibility of leaving the country. Abortions don't stop because they're banned, they just stop becoming safe. Women need control over their bodies and their lives, and it's something I will never understand why it's so difficult. If you don't like it, don't get one. If you're a man, why do you get an opinion on my body, and what I choose to do with it? It should be that simple.
Because abortions it's not just about women's,.if I were married i must have an opinion in this decision.
I'm in like... 99% agreement with you.
Though I do think that men should be considered as well. NOT in any extend to what happens with the woman (her body, her choice), but with their own responsibility.
I know this is an insanely difficult can of worms, as I have no idea how a society would even _attempt_ to stop this from being exploited, but:
The current situation is _very_ lopsided when it comes to the power each person in such a situation has over their own future.
The woman, if she's not ready to have a child (health-issues, monetary issues, education like it sounded to be the case in your experience, etc), has ways to stop this whole thing from entirely changing her life (again, if abortion is legal, which it should be).
However, the man is completely at the woman's mercy. He has no chance (besides a DNA test, but I'm going from a hypothesis where it _is_ his child) to get out of it. If the woman decides _she_ wants a child, then - depending on that particular nation's laws - the man will have to pay most of his expendable income on a child he _might not even have the right to even see once until it is an adult._ His dreams or wishes for the future are utterly irrelevant in the current process.
And I get it. This would've been a necessity in days gone past, where women could not (or rather: were not allowed to) support themselves, where women in the workforce or social welfare weren't what they are today.
But in the big scheme of equality, we need to talk about _both_ parent's ways to continue their life in the way they want to, and not just one being able to do that for herself and then just exert that choice onto the other.
The man shouldn't have a _legal_ opinion on your body. However, he deserves the same rights as you when it comes to deciding his future.
@@MohammadIsmail-sq5jy1st why are assuming the married Status.
2nd my guy, you can say you'll support a child. But you cannot decide of a woman will give her body parts to save another human being. Pregnancy is awful, and you will shut up.
The man gets an opinion on the potential life you're ending, not your body.
*gross things came out of me*
Yes, that was your unborn child lol
My southern niece in law had a terrible problem that her baby died while still unborn. Baby already dead. Mom's life in danger. Emotional grief.
On top of this, they had to FLY to a far enough state to empty the rotting necrotic mass in her body. She also lives in fear people she knows might find out she had an even medically needed "abortion" they are good churchgoers.
This is not only illogical. It is cruel. It's evil. My poor niece and nephew.
Evil. Yes.
Here in Canada a doctor, an immigrant concentration camp survivor might I add- just kept non-complying and taking on court battles/jail time to fight for our right to decide. We have him and his wonderful legal team to thank, that and the fact that we had and continue to have a pretty good panel of supreme court judges.
Abortion is healthcare!
This is also a class issue. Rich Republicans can and will continue to get abortions while the poor will struggle mightily to get one. Also as a Kentuckian Beshear has been a damn good Governor and I'll do my part in the election Tuesday.
That's 100% true. A rich teen can "go backpacking" in Uruguay and no one will know. And they'll also get to know Uruguay, which is pretty cool, I guess.
@@dr.victorvs your comment made me bust out laughing but you're correct.
"Poor"? Condoms are basically free and/ cheap. Whats crazy is that we all consider ourselves "adults" but that all goes out the window when it comes to abortions. If you're a woman and youre poor, maybe the last thing you should be doing is drinking and fuxing without a condom. Its incredible how much lack of accou to women have. Unreal.
@@bbabbich3467expect record youth voting this cycle
@@bbabbich3467 There is also a privilege issue with voting. Not everyone can afford to take a day off work to vote at a poling station. I can walk to mine and vote in about twenty minutes. For many, it takes hours on public transit and hours waiting in lines, assuming they don't close the polls before even getting to vote. Voter suppression is a very real problem and I'm not gonna wag my finger at people who don't do something that's easy for me but difficult for them.
These politicians should be charged with practicing medicine without a license.
💯top-notch comment
Yes!!
That's really clever. If I was a lawyer, I'd try that one.
No the women should be the ones being charged. If they didn’t want a kid they should have kept their legs closed
By the bribed Supreme Court Justices. Sure. Lol.
Thank you John Oliver for shedding light on the hardships that countless women have faced due to the recent restrictions!!! Thank you for standing up for women’s reproductive rights!!!
But apparently 64.4 MILLION* other women weren't prevented from receiving their procedures before now.
*Since Roe V Wade, 1973-2020.
Having the vote is not enough.Women must help each other, identify with each other and create a cohesive force for the female opulation of humanity.
i lived in a trigger state until september and it is *impossible* to overstate how terrifying living in a post-roe state was and will be when i go back. i was teaching my friends how to work a vpn, and how to be invisible online. me and my friends were seeing go-fund me’s for classmates, or sisters, or moms. when you live in a state that doesn’t take SA seriously, and doesn’t take women’s health concerns seriously, and then legally doesn’t give you the right to even *try* to do anything about an unwanted pregnancy, you live your life at a low-level terror.
As someone who was forced to continue their pregnancy as a teenager, it changed the trajectory of my whole life. I do everything I can to provide my child with better opportunities than I had, but I have had to struggle most of my life both financially and with all of the grief that comes with mourning a lost childhood. I'm still struggling over a decade later as an adult, thanks to the current economic and personal mental health struggles. The impact it has on your life never goes away.
Pregnancy certainly is a serious business.
I am so sorry this happened to you. Wishing you a lucky break soon and lots of support.
@@benfaunce7496 yes, so let's not force anyone to go through it, yeah?
Hugs and positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during these trying times.
I'm genuinely sorry you feel this way. At the same time, I applaud your decision to be responsible for your own actions and decided not to make your innocent child pay for it. All I can say about "mourning your lost childhood" is that depending on your social background it's highly unlikely that you would have amounted to anything exceptional, which I really don't mean as an insult. That vast majority of us go about our daily lives and try to live as decently as possible which from what you're saying is pretty much what you're doing already. I'll also add that I admire the likes of you about a billion times more than any egocentric loser who kills their own offspring to "focus on their careers" which means being a drone for someone else's company in 99% of cases. Don't feel sorry for yourself. During your life you will have left a much more enduring and true footprint that will echo through time than any of the rest of those losers.
Thank you America for being a negative example for everything related to politics. It helps us to make better decisions for our own countries.
Our chief export is a warning to others
Where do u live?? I might want to relocate. All of this madness is making me sick to my stomach!!
I don't wanna say your welcome, because I wish we were a good example not a bad one. But I get it, take the warning. Don't make our mistakes
@@lauraallen661 You can pick one country randomnly and you'll be better than in the usa unless you got very unlucky. The vast majority of countries in the world provide medical health care to their people for example, the vast majority of countries in the world don't have mass shootings..... and so on... But unfortunately pricks like the republicans exist everywhere, the thing they should be minority and not have the power to legislate.
@lauraallen661 I don't know about OP, but I live in The Netherlands. Unfortunately more and more of our politicians seem to copy pages from the American handbook. Populism is on the rise. And some far right parties want to limit abortion now. Not on religious grounds, but because they want more Dutch (read: white) babies born. For the same reason they want to discourage women to work.
So please move here. We can use some sane people to counter the nationalist crazies here.
Someone needs to interview the people who are banning abortion and ask them the real question "What do you gain from banning abortion?"
Edit: I found out that apparently they think if they banned abortion that more babies will be born and therefore those babies can grow up to work for the rich people and make the money. I wish I was joking.
Our humanity back?
Power, that's what they gain. Power to control the lives of other people.
@@benmohatun Being a human means having control over your body. If you don't have control over that, you're a slave to whoever does have control over your body--the government, a person forcing you to remain pregnant. You're being treated like an animal that gets bred when a person who owns the animal chooses to breed them.
They gain the ability to harm people that they hate--women.
@@benmohatun how does banning abortion give us our humanity back?
I can't believe that in 2023 we have such sadistic laws being adopted.
not voting for Hillary has everything to do with why. Hillary = No trump. no trump = no reactionary fascist supreme court.
@@BlackLivesMatter1414 sadism is an enjoyment of pain, but fetuses literally have not developed the nerve endings necessary to feel pain. what exactly is sadistic about abortion?
abortion, on the other hand, saves a potential parent A LOT of pain they would experience if they were forced to raise a child they're not capable of raising. both the parent and the child would experience immeasurable suffering, which is avoided by the parent making a logical decision early on in the pregnancy.
you aren't against pain - you're just in favour of controlling women. we can all tell you're the sadist in this equation - it's very transparent
@@BlackLivesMatter1414because it reduces net financial and psychological trauma for both mothers and children. Improving the quality of life for both groups.
As males grow old, they get jealous of sexually active young women. They want some, but no longer can. hence their hatred being left out. Prostitutes cost too much money. poooor dear..
I blame religions for the sadism. Looking at the dead body on dead wood as a psychic boogieman created a jaded attitude towards protecting women.
Lawmakers on this issue seem to be under the impression that pregnancies are super easy and barely an inconvenience.
They seem to forget too that the US has an incredibly high mother mortality rate for a first world county. The number of complications that come with pregnancy. To force someone to do that is inhumane and sadistic.
With absolutely zero risk to life, health, or well-being.
They need to get waaaay off womens' backs regarding abortion.
These are probably the same people that saw Mike from Breaking Bad do that sex ed video about how getting your period makes you better at bowling, and said that makes 100% sense.
Old white men never seem to get pregnant.
The worst thing about the abortion laws in Texas was that we were never given the opportunity to vote on it ourselves. Had there been an election where the voters decided, it would still be legal.
Which is complete bull shit, it needs to be put to a state vote, but texas is soo ass backwards the pro birthers wont do it cause they know theyll lose handedly
If you voted on slavery in 1863 it would've been legal too. It doesn't make it right.
@@keithkarvelis82I know you did not just compare voting on banning abortions to voting on banning slavery
@@keithkarvelis82 wow talk about a stretch did you pull something? Cause lets unpack that shall we, in 1863 only white land owning men could vote, now in 2023 everyone 18 and older can vote.limited by citizenship, pretty sure if everyone could vote in 1863 including women, black people (who out numbered white people in large areas) slavery would have been made illegal
@@keithkarvelis82 btw the proof of slaves outnumbering white people.is evident with the passing of 3/5ths compromise, and later on texas being the first state to recognize juneteenth as a holiday
A lady in Texas recently got court approval for an abortion and then the AG said "No you can't" anyway. Just so we're clear that the exceptions are only exceptions as long as nobody tries to use them.
Practicing medicine without a license needs his sorry butt sued and jailed
I really do feel for my family who live in the states, having to deal with... _this_ kind of nonsense. People having their right to bodily autonomy denied, at times even over that of a _corpse._ It's insanity.
Hating women and mothers costs lives.
Nonsense kills women.
As a pregnant person in Texas me and my husband had to come up with a plan if the worst case would happen. I have another child.We legitimately had to sit down and plan on how we would get across the border if something goes wrong. Something else they don’t talk about is how you are treated over all as a pregnant person in those states matter your voice is completely taken away from you. You are treated as an incubator not a human. It’s awful
I'm sorry.
There is a reason I keep making the comparison to blood donation. It actually saves human lives (not fetuses) and the impact is significantly less than a pregnancy that goes to term properly, let alone complications. Yet you are never going to be forced to donate blood.
@@MijmerMopper in the same vein, no one can force you to be an organ donor, even after death. corpses have more rights than women.
I am so sorry....no one a "free" nation should have to endure this at the hands of their own government.
I hope one day you & your family escape Texas.
@@samwarren2850I understand what you both are saying, and you’re absolutely right, but I’ve encountered forced birthers on social media (one literally just yesterday) wanting to jail parents for not donating blood/organs to their children. So kind of like how people said they’d never overturn Roe, don’t think they wouldn’t try.
I'm alive today because of safe, legal abortion. I had an ectopic pregnancy that was really well-hidden, so the doctors weren't sure what was going on, but things didn't look right. Because they weren't sure, they decided to perform surgery because it wasn't worth a risk to my life. Once they got a look, they found over 2 liters of internal bleeding in my abdomen. I was dangerously close to bleeding to death and they didn't know it. I felt fine and my vitals were strong. I have great insurance, upper middle class, white, married, was being treated by the chair of the emergency maternal & fetal medicine department at an excellent medical school. You probably couldn't get much better care than I received and had I been sent home to wait and see, then I'd have come back to the hospital in an ambulance at best and in a body bag at worst.
I'm glad you were able to get that necessary health care and are still here today. Everyone should have Access to all forms of healthcare
You were lucky. I know someone who was sent home with an ectopic pregnancy and was told her body would absorb it. 2 weeks later she was transported to the hospital dying. They performed the abortion and she can never have kids.she is 25 in Texas.
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@@marsbars007fuck Texas..
@@marsbars007😢
I live in Idaho. I also wished John Oliver covered this but states, like Idaho, have closed down their maternal mortality boards so that way they don't have to report maternal deaths which are definitely raising along with domestic issues rising and domestic abuse shootings. Our government will NEVER let us on vote on the issue. Prenatal and obstetrics wards have closed and some permanently! A friend of mine went viral for chronicaling her journey with trying to get a DnC in the state of Idaho and she was close to her deathbed before anyone would help after she had been in and out of the emergency room multiple times. She was told by the Dr., when she finally received help, that she wasn't helped because of the abortion laws. Idaho is really bad.
Yeah, there's an ahole in one of the other comment threads on this video trying to convince me that pregnancy and childbirth isn't REALLY such a big deal, and thus brutally forcing the risks and cost thereof on women isn't REALLY all that bad. Disgusting.
20-some years ago, a friend joked about starting a charity called "Aborters Without Borders" to help women in other countries from international waters. Now someone's creating it as a _domestic_ charity.
Forty years ago I became extremely ill with an ectopic pregnancy. I was in extreme pain and my life was in danger. I went to the ER and had the nearly bursting tube removed. Any man or woman who would prevent such a procedure is a real murderer.
Mine went to 17+ weeks. I had been hemorrhaging slowly for weeks. I really did almost die. I can't believe they want women to die, it's truly evil.
My mom had an ectopic pregnancy after I was born, with twins. I’m so F-ing glad she was able to get it terminated. I can’t imagine my life without her (or my little sister, who was born a few years later, against all odds).
Well, if you lived in Texas, it never would have happened. The president of Texas forced birth said she doesn't believe those happen. Look it up. I'd post the link but CZcams flagged me for doing it. Citing my sources is spam.
Oy veh.....
Please vote blue across the board and save our reproductive rights.
Preventing the progression of an ectopic pregnancy is not a fucking abortion
Wealthy Republican women and the wives, daughters, sisters, mistresses, and escorts of wealthy Republican men will always have access to safe abortion procedures. In any state they want. Laws are for little people.
This. Majorly. This is about making life as miserable as possible for everyone except those who will be impacted by it and have the power to get these procedures done on the low.
Or, they'll just fly them to Canada or Europe
Condoms are cheaper than all that too
Lol this guy's is Nuts 😂
Republicans only? So they will be above the law from what your saying?
Nuts 😂😂😂😂😂
@@LenGott8345 no this is about tricking christian voters in staying red by appealing to their hatred
And Americans actually think they are "free" this country is just so alien to me and I'm from the UK 😮💨
The first time I watched Last Week Tonight, I asked myself, “Why do they even bother with the jokes! You’re AMAZING at covering an issue, just lay out the argument straight!”
Now, I’m realising that if it weren’t for the satire, the show would be impossible to watch. When the state of affairs is THIS dire, an accurate representation of the situation alone is enough to be deeply disturbing.
Can’t exaggerate how much I love this show.
I was molested at 6 and 10. Violently beaten and I lived in rage. I self medicated with meth,a lot of meth while I worked a job. I at 18 was not going to bring a drug addicted baby into a world of rage.
It was responsible and well thought out. It never happened again.
I got my life together got sober and built a beautiful life and family. I have never regretted leaving that soul in heaven.
You changed your life because you were not forced to give up your life. I wish more people understood the financial and societal outcomes for women, especially low income single women, when forced to take care of a baby. They are forced into poverty which starts the cycle for their kids.
I am glad that you made it out safely.
Same. My first abortion got me out of a very dangerous life, now I'm doing well with my family.
You admit that you took a soul. Killed a person for convenience because you were not ready to care for a child.
@@traviso7810 The child was going to suffer if born, so I would imagine giving birth would be worse. Not to mention they may not have had a choice in conceiving the child. What's it like living without a soul so you can say such horrid things to people?
@@BinaryHedgehog1 what's it like defending child murder while you simultaneously pretend to be the moral authority?
As far as keeping "little children" safe, there's a positive correlation between abortion bans and infant mortality rates.
Free access to abortion also lowers the instances of abuse, crime rates drop, and women's net worth is higher.
@@Chhesterification "“Unwanted” children may be more subject to
child abuse and neglect"
www.economics.uci.edu/files/docs/faculty_review/bitler-zavodny-aer-pap-2002.pdf
@@Chhesterification "Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago and John Donohue of Yale University revived discussion of this claim with their 2001 paper "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime".[7] Donohue and Levitt point to the fact that males aged 18 to 24 are most likely to commit crimes. Data indicates that crime in the United States started to decline in 1992. Donohue and Levitt suggest that the absence of unwanted children, following legalization in 1973, led to a reduction in crime 18 years later, starting in 1992 and dropping sharply in 1995. These would have been the peak crime-committing years of the unborn children.[8][9]
According to Donohue and Levitt, states that had legalized abortion before Roe v. Wade (Alaska, California, Hawaii, New York, Oregon, and Washington), also had earlier reductions in crime. Further, states with a high abortion rate experienced a greater reduction in crime, when corrected for factors like average income.[10] Finally, studies in Canada and Australia claim[clarification needed] to have established a correlation between legalized abortion and overall crime reduction"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect
@@Chhesterification- abortion BANS? Nah fam.
@@itsthevoicemanpositive correlation means that they go up, so they are saying that in states where there are abortion bans, there are higher infant mortality rates.
My sister used to have a bumper sticker. It said in big letters: "The Republican Party loves and cares about you." Then in smaller letters underneath: "Until you're born, then it's all business."
A mother killing her own baby inside the womb is a mortal sin. Most women have an abortion because the baby is an "inconvenience." Democrats have always condoned abortion. Killing a baby up until birth is evil but the Dems have no problem with that. My Grandmother had 11 children and most were born during the Depression. She did not want handout's from the government.
I am Canadian and as far as I know, it has always been legal to get an abortion here in all our provinces. I cannot wrap my head around it being possibly illegal. Not being able to choose things about your own body or your life is just astounding to me. When I was 17 I had gotten my girlfriend pregnant and we both decided after a few weeks to get an abortion. Our relationship would not have made it through the pregnancy, so it was the right decision. We were able to make the decision though. I just can't understand how you wouldn't be able to decide such a life altering situation. The government has WAY too much power over people as it is.
It hasn't always been legal here. From my understanding at some point the government more or less just decided it would be legal.
Republicans: "We think abortion rights should be decided by the states, not the federal government!"
States: *vote to overturn abortion bans*
Republicans: "Wait, no!!!"
Then we’ll go to scotus and have them reverse it. We don’t care how it gets to the point we want
See, you're planning to vote. They're planning to stop you from voting.
Republicans: We don't want a national abortion ban, we just want to return it to the states.
SCOTUS overturns abortion rights.
Republicans: Just kidding, now lets work on a national abortion ban.
Much like LBJ and the Civil Rights Act in 1965, I say to Republicans good fncking Luck winning another election in this country. There are a lot more mothers and daughters nowadays. GET OUT AND VOTE!!
@@JTwelks32Did you even watch the video, or do you just prowl around abortion related comment sections to spew ignorance?
Priests disguised as politicians asserting their expertise as gynaecologists. We’re back to the 1500’s.
Bro huh
The anti-abortion movement only really gained steam during Victorian Times actually: The Catholic Church originally taught that a fetus was only truly alive after "Quickening" (Once the fetus begins to kick and move around.).
But they get their instructions from the great gynecologist in the sky. Or rather, from the guy who gets his instructions from the GGS. They have access to the good book! Check it out, nothing fishy going on in there!
Most women who get abortions do it because they got drunk and couldn't keep their legs closed. Its that simple. Condoms are free in alot of counties. Plan B is available almost everywhere. And yet, women keep fuxing the wrong guys, panicking and getting abortions. Only to do what? Go back to fuxing the wrong guys again.
@@chinkasuyaro8983except the recipe for an abortificant...
Oh wait, they don't actually pay attention to that part just like they ignore what Jesus actually said...
I live in FL I got pregnant in 2022 not long after Dobbs. I was 33 and would have been low risk. I didn’t want to wait until I was older and higher risk and risk the laws becoming even more restrictive. Turned out I got pregnant with twins and was high risk. It was sooo scare.
We consulted on a patient who didn’t get OB care early on. About 18 weeks she was found to have cervical cancer. She could opt to end pregnancy and get treatment. She has to wait until she can deliver then get treatment. It’s horrible. The state tell doctors how to practice when they don’t have a medical degree is horrible.
But all these old geezers hate women and think that every fuck is a pleasure, they wanted it.
Living 50Km north of the US, its astonishing that this kind of stuff happens so close. If a politician brought up this stuff here it would end their chances of being elected...
If your kid doesn't trust you enough to talk to you about the fact that they're pregnant and want to get an abortion, it's because you're a bad parent who has taught your kid that you're not a safe space for difficult and uncomfortable conversations, and you probably need to go to therapy
You are absolutely correct. And good interpersonal communication within families isn't something that laws can just - Poof! - create.
This!
Hey you worded that so succintly, thank you!
This exactly!
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Everyone else already weighted their opinion on the topic of abortion. I just want to point out that we really need to restrict political ads for being misleading or just outright lying. Hell, just ban attack ads altogether because they usually don't add anything to the candidates themselves and it's often a vector for misinformation.
Many Americans don't know this but attack ads are actually a very strange and unusual thing in modern democracies. In fact, the US is the only country I can think of where they are legal. Most of my fellow Europeans are shocked when they find out you can legally smear your political opponents in campaign ads in the US. Such practices are strictly banned in Europe. Most European countries don't even allow political ads on TV or radio, regardless of what the ads are like.
This is why we need publicly funded federal elections. Give all candidates the same amount of money and make them all managed it (we'd find out who was a bad money manager), and ban TV and Radio ads, but mandate that the 3 big networks give a small amount of free air time to 1 ad where the candidate highlights their position, and it runs for 4 weeks before the election and that is it. No donations, no Superpacs, just one lump sum of money, make it work.
That's a good point. But also freedom of speech is regulated...for example you can't yell "FIRE" in a movie theater when there is no fire...I'm not a lawyer, but I presume this is because it causes public harm. I think a similar case could be made for attack ads. And if that is the case, then we could certainly strive to make attack ads illegal.@@BlackLivesMatter1414
@@SpaceSnaxxxSummed up quite well. 🍻 Plenty of speech is illegal. Ask John Gotti.
@@SpaceSnaxxx you can do that all you want, its just that if you do, and people are hurt or die in the reaction to you doing git - you have zero defense.
Hello, fellow Canadian residents who are only now able to see this because we don't have VPNs. As a dual US citizen, I would just like to thank you for taking an interest in your neighbours' current events; and remember, most Americans are not as dumb or heartless as the lawmakers who force women to follow through on fatal pregnancies.
I'm a member of TST. We're also helping people travel across state lines if they can't afford it, providing safe residences and giving them resources for therapy during their recovery. We like our jokes, but we take this issue seriously and assist professionally.
I have spoken to real satanists a while ago, during a party and from what they've told me, it is _nothing_ like goatsheads and human sacrifices.
(Obviously I get the joke though, I just wanted to respond to the satanicpart of the joke.)
I honestly have heard so many things I thought were rational and friendly and that I agreed with.
I have also read all the 150 unofficial sins from the bible and I have found only 8 or 9 that I haven't done (like rape, s-abuse, abortion, incest, murder, torture, drinking-excessively and having gay sex, but hey, I'm 32, there's still time to murder and have gay sex. Just kidding or am I.)
Either way, I I just wanted to highlight that I am a very friendly and kind woman and my therapist tells me I should maybe be a bit more bold and rebellious sometimes and even with that attitude, I *STILL* have more in common with the satanic group I met than with the Christians.
Damn straight we voted to keep abortion rights in Kansas. It wasn't even close
So proud of you and im not even an american..Congratulations 🤘 Keep fighting for others please..
Some red states didn't even give voters the choice.
@@SaraGrant-xj4lr Of course they didnt , imagine if the voters had said no to Theocracy? Silly them, they dont know whats best for them
My sister lives in Kansas, and I was SO happy for her when I found out. Give your fellow statesmen (and women!) a round of applause from the rest of the States.
Wherever people have the right to choose directly on that issue they always vote to keep it legal.
But if you obscure the issue by choosing between two political parties with varying stances on a slew of issues than maybe the people can lose it that way.
Got a moron of a lawmaker in my state said terminating an ectopic pregnancy was murder. When I was 8 or 9 my mom almost died because of one. She didn't tell me till I was 16. I can to this day describe everything from the robe my mom was wearing, the color of the furniture, the tubes running in and out of my mom at the hospital. Some man interfering with a woman and her doctor is a freakn disaster. A lethal one at that.
more people should ask these doctors to define the procedures they're trying to outlaw. if they can define "woman" then they should have no problem defining an ectopic pregnancy and explaining how terminating a pregnancy that is incapable of surviving to term is murder but allowing that pregnancy to kill the woman carrying it isn't.
Personally I would not describe such a politician as a disaster, that would be unfair to those that are just disasters. I would call them for what they are, psychopaths.
U are so right ! Politicians should be prosecuted for practicing medicine
This is everything. Validating. I cried. It’s infuriating and terrifying how silenced I have felt in the past several years.
The correct term for the “pro-life” movement is forced birth. As a few of the interviews said, “we are being forced to give birth.” That is literally a crime against humanity.
If you don't wanna be pregnant, then don't get pregnant.......
@@davidofergals6947 "If you don't wanna be pregnant, then don't get pregnant......."
Yeah, right. Unfortunately, rapists do not check if a woman can get pregnant.
@@stephenjustice6097 well said 👏 👍
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How can that make any sense when pro-choice people also support the choice to give birth???? Become a parent? Seek adoption services??? Is that baby murder??? That's what pro-choicers do: they support people's CHOICES.
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Poorly said. It reeks of deliberate ignorance and you're just as disgusting for encouraging it.
What gets me, is that these same people who are against abortion and worry about the life of the fetus, will, after the child is born, also be against making sure the child is fed or cared for while the mother has to work.
You can Google the infant mortality rate by state to find a helpful chart by the CDC that shows it year after year. The pandemic made the last couple of years a bit weird, but up until then it may as well have been a chart of political lean as the highest infant mortality rates were in red states. Blue states almost always provide health care for new mothers and babies. Red states couldn't care less whether your newborn can afford health care or not.
that's how you know they don't actually care about the life of the fetus, they care about subjugating & controlling women. they care about ensuring we are "punished" for the sin of having a working uterus. they care about keeping us uneducated, dirt poor, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen to raise an army of soldiers & cogs in the capitalist machine.
Reminder that they also don't support universal pre-natal care. They don't even care about fetuses. Just control. Just ensuring that any girl or woman who gets pregnant must pay the price for daring to have sex.
Conservatives only care about control. They hate people.
Hell a lot of these states are even stripping away child labor laws. Who the heck thought that in 2023 we would be fighting against child labor IN the US
Just came here to let John and company know how absolutely delightful it has been watching the world’s reactions to your Bird of the Century campaign all week 😆 Congratulations John!!! 🎉
And Ohio voters said HELL YES! 56.6 to 43.4 in favor of a woman’s right 😃🎉. The Dems also took it in Kentucky and Virginia.
And yes, I did post it on Facebook. Of course. If they can cross platform, so can we.😎
That is a scary bad ratio, for heck's sake! Anything below 80% YES for woman's rights to their bodies is absolutely scary. But I'm glad they barely made it at least!!
@@KxNOxUTA You are absolutely right. And as a woman until the day I die, and cannot, if I wanted to; I will be right there, front and center.
Without apology.
Just remember, abortions are not restricted to elective abortions. Medically and legally abortions are any terminations of a pregnancy where the fetus couldn't survive. This includes what happens for missed miscarriages, fatal anomalies, and other conditions where there really isn't a choice. These laws actively put people at risk, turning something that was already a nightmare into a potentially deadly one.
It’s also putting women in jail
@@franjkavI thought those who help you get an abortion, the medical staff, can go to jail.
@@franjkavthe pro-life movement has exclusively focused on prosecuting doctors not women, the laws banning abortion are to protect women just as much as The unborn.
So much for pro life!
@@TheEverFreeKingdo you even have a uterus??? How Are women safe When they Cant Get surgery to remove the fetus If it is a danger to the woman????
i still sometimes think of a Carlin line where he was talking about the 'pro-life' weirdos & conservatives/republicans in general: "if you're pre-born, you're fine - if you're pre-school, you're fucked"
Same. I also love his "conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers" line.
Literally, when the friends of Epstein get their dreams come true
What a genius George was.
as someone who pro-life, I'm fine with universal pre school though it is gonna cost money.
Start voting those legislators out of office, Texas. Get on it!
I am finally in a stable, loving situation where I am ready to have a child, but I'm stuck in Texas and can't leave and utterly terrified. And so, so, deeply enraged. How dare this fucking state try to take so much away from me? Not only my choice, but my ability to HAVE A CHILD WITHOUT SUCH A HIGH AND COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY RISK OF DYING.
I’m actually working in Arizona right now canvassing for signatures to put a voter initiative on the Nov. 2024 ballot to ensure abortion access for our women. Wish me luck, some people out here are actually INSANE about this issue. We’re not giving up though. 💪
A+ you. Good luck and stay safe!
@@rainbowyarn Thank you! 🙏🏼 I will do my best!
In AZ also - thank you, and I'll sign ❤
Luck. Good on. Victory!
@@careyculbert5071 Awesome! The office I’m working out of is in Tucson. But our campaign is running offices out of Phoenix, Flagstaff, Prescott and a few other places right now. Later on we’ll be branching out in less populated areas. You’ll find us all over with our clipboards, we’re not going door to door, just canvassing public areas like libraries, gas stations, shopping center, etc. If you happen to be nice to whoever ends up putting the petition in your hands, it really does go a long way. We take a lot of shit out there, people are cruel. Thank you for the support! ❤️ If you want to find a place to sign look up “The Arizona Abortion Access Act.” Cheers!
Forcing a baby to be born into these chaotic times by women who never wanted to be parents is downright evil. Even more evil is forcing women to give birth to a baby that is guaranteed to die, even at the risk of the mother's well-being.
When have times NOT been chaotic? Go ahead and Google it. I will wait....
Ahhhh... yes, the gift of human life is a terrible thing. The very idea that you're alive to type your dumb comment is about 1 in a trillion.
Again, another person comparing life/murder to money and hardship. That's evil. Not what you said
Wait a second. Why get pregnant if you don't want to be a parent? Who choosing murder and irresponsibility over "using protection" and "having sex with someone you love"? Yeah. Sorry, but I think we all know who is evil here.
Wow, the anti-medical-choice, anti-women trolls and zealots are out in full force.
If they had empathy maybe they would listen to all the examples where these laws put people's lives in danger.
Maybe instead we could at least make it SLIGHTLY more fair- legislate just as draconian laws for them- Viagra and masturbatory ejaculations are criminal offenses. Not allowed! Viagra- if nature no longer intends for you to be able to get it up, you aren't meant to have children and have to stop having sex, clearly. No masturbation, that's millions of potential babies you're flushing probably multiple times per week!
And how about we do away with all prostate exams and healthcare...I'm a woman and don't have one of those, so I don't understand or care about how it affects people who have one- make it illegal for them or their doctors to even talk about it.
Also since men are such apparent supporters of the often poor women creating humans to be the future's low-paid workforce (literally, CEOs of big corporations who don't want to pay living wages are saying shit like that), laws need to require a base pay of child support from every man who caused the unwanted pregnancies. I'd say.. the cost of a 2 bedroom rental where the pregnant person lives. (So ya know, about $2,000-$4,000/month per pregnancy?) From time of conception until age 18.
Even if we did all that it still wouldn't make up for all the risks pregnancy put on women.
The thing about denying people abortions is that it throws bodily autonomy completely out the window. We allow people to decide what happens to their body, their organs, even if they are no longer using them _and_ someone else's life is at stake. You are not allowed to use the organs of a _dead person_ to save a _living person,_ if that dead person did not consent to that.
When people say a fetus has the right to use a person's womb even against that person's consent, they are not only saying that that fetuses have more rights than any other living person, but that every person with a womb has less rights than a corpse. And if you ask me, that should be the end of the discussion.
Bodily autonomy is not applicable to abortion…organ donation is not a viable argument. The potential donor did not cause the sickness nor the existence of the sick person. The potential donor is also not the only way of sustaining life. The pregnant woman on the other hand is responsible for the baby's existences and the only means to sustain its life. It is also a huge difference if a person dies because you don't do anything and a human being, being killed actively. Keep trying.
@@paulk9188Those are just (dumb) opinions, not arguments. Bodily autonamy is a perfectly valid reason to allow abortion.
@@Anvilman Bodily autonomy is defined as the right to self governance over one's own body without external influence or coercion.A fetus is not part of a womans body, its entirely separate from it, even if its growing inside it.
So the argument is invalid.
@@Anvilman you literally have no argument, just ad hominem attacks..typical lib..The body parts that you donate via organ donation don't ever come back to you, whilst the woman body not only is "lent" for just 9 months but the woman has full control and use of it in the meantime. It is temporarily shared, not donated for good. Please don't use this argument, it's proposterous.
@@basdfef4775Speaking as a Democrat, you should probably look into what a pandemic is, the government's responsibilities during a public health crisis (such as a pandemic), and possibly the dangers of infectious diseases.
NO MEN CAN TELL A WOMEN WHAT TO DO ABOUT HER BODY😢
They say they are "pro life", but whenever people are religiously / ideologically motivated, they care very little about the actual well-being of an actual human being. It just sickens me, that this is even an issue.
Exactly!
They're not pro-life they're anti-human. They just want to cause the largest amount of suffering possible.
God loves you.
Yeah the 'pro life' is just BS. They put people in danger and worsen their lifes. It's all about control and 15th century religious insanity.
@@jomama3849
Which god?
They say they are "pro life but in reality they are just pro birth. If they were pro life there would be free prenatal care post-natal care, education and food support, Childhood programs and better schooling. Something that struck me about Denmark was when you move you do not look into what the school district is like because they are all equal.
that's why I always refer to them as "anti-choice"
"Here is the Republican message on everything of importance:
1. They can tell people what to do.
2. You cannot tell them what to do.
This often gets mistaken for hypocrisy, there's an additional layer of complexity to this (we will discuss this later in the piece), but this is the basic formula.
You've watched the Republican Party champion the idea of 'freedom' while you have also watched the same party openly assault various freedoms, like the freedom to vote, freedom of choice, freedom to marry who you want and so on.
If this has been a source of confusion, then your assessments of what Republicans mean by 'freedom' were likely too generous. Here's what Republicans mean:
1. The freedom to tell people what to do.
2. Freedom from being told what to do.
When Republicans talk about valuing 'freedom', they're speaking of it in the sense that only people like them should ultimately possess it.
So with this in mind, let's examine some of our political issues with an emphasis on who is telling who what to do. And hopefully there will be no confusion about what the Republican Party message is ever again.
Let's start with the COVID-19 pandemic. We were told by experts in infectious diseases that to control the spread of the pandemic, we had to socially distance, mask, and get vaccinated. So, in a general sense, we were being told what to do. Guess who had a big problem with that. All Republicans saw were certain people trying to tell them what to do, which was enough of a reason to make it their chief priority to insist that they will not be told what to do. Even though what they were told to do could save lives, including their own.
As you can see, this is a very stunning commitment to refusing to be told what to do. So much so that it is not in fact 'pro-life.' But Republicans will nevertheless claim to be the 'pro-life' party. That is because they recognize 'pro-life' can be used to tell people what to do. The reason they say they are 'pro-life' when they are trying to tell pregnant women and other pregnant people what to do with their bodies is not out of genuine concern for human life, but because they recognize that in this position, they can tell pregnant women and other pregnant people what to do with their bodies.
That's why when you use that same appeal - 'pro-life' - when you ask Republicans to do something about gun violence in schools, it doesn't work. Because you are now in the position of telling Republicans what to do. That's precisely why they don't want to do anything about it. So gun violence in schools is not a problem, but their children having to wear masks in schools is. Because somebody is telling their children what to do. Dead children don't bother them, but telling their children what to do? Only they should do that.
They claim to be for 'small government', but that really means a government that tells them what to do should be as small as possible. But when the Republican Party recognizes it has an opportunity to tell people what to do, the government required for that tends to be large.
The reason Republicans are so focused on the border isn't because they genuinely care about border security, it's because they recognize it as the most glaring example of when they can tell other people what to do. This is why it's their favorite issue.
'You want in? Too bad. Get out.'
If Republicans could do this in every social space - tell the people who aren't like them 'Too bad, now get the fuck out' - I'm here to assure you that would be something resembling their ideal society.
Now, there are economic policies that we've proposed that we can demonstrate would be of obvious benefit to even Republican voters. So how do Republicans leaders kill potential support for these policies? Make the issue about who is telling who what to do. They focus on the fact that Democrats may raise taxes. Even when it's painfully obvious that Democrats aren't going to raise taxes on everyone (or on very few people), what's important here is that Democrats are the people telling certain people what to do. If you want to know why Republicans can easily be talked out of proposals from the Democratic Party that are shown to be of benefit to them, it is precisely because they have to entertain the idea of Democrats telling certain people what to do.
What you didn't understand from the very beginning is that Democrats should not ultimately be in the position to tell anyone what to do. Only Republicans should be in the position to tell people what to do.
On the issue of climate change, a lot of them don't regard it as a serious issue to the extent that they think it is a hoax. This is because when you tell Republicans to do something for the sake of the planet, you are still ultimately telling them what to do. Furthermore, you are conceiving the planet as a thing that all human beings should have to share. I am here to assure you that the Republican Party's main concern with the planet is to ensure that they don't have to share it.
Now here's where things get interesting: when you explain to Republicans you want them to do something and explain it's on the basis of benefitting other people. Now you have really crossed a line. Not only did you tell them what to do, you told them to consider others. The whole point of an arrangement where you can tell people what to do, but you can't be told what to do, is precisely to avoid having to consider others. This is why this is their ideal arrangement: so that they don't have to do that.
As you can see, this is a very toxic relationship with the idea of who can tell who what to do. So much so that it seems like the entire point is to conceive of a 'right' kind of people who can tell other people what to do without being told what to do. Yep, that's the point.
So let's add one more component to the system for who tells who what to do:
1. There are 'right' human beings and there are 'wrong' ones.
2. The 'right' ones get to tell the 'wrong' ones what to do.
3. The 'wrong' ones do not tell the 'right' ones what to do.
As you can see, I've just been talking about white male supremacy and the accompanying caste system structure it enforces all along. And I'm talking about this because the message of the Republican Party is that they quite like it. But I realize that we are operating in an environment where white male supremacy is so entrenched that the press doesn't want to treat the Republican Party's agenda of sorting the 'right' human beings from the 'wrong' ones as maybe presenting a 'messaging problem.'
This is because the press has chosen to accommodate the Republican Party in a very specific way:
1. It normalizes the Republican agenda.
2. It normalizes framing the responsibility for stopping that agenda as ultimately being on Democrats.
Think about it: white supremacy is not allowed to be viewed as a 'messaging problem.' Even when it's a threat to democracy. Because if it's a 'messaging problem', to Republicans, that sounds like you're telling them that's a problem they have to solve.
Anyway, I composed this piece mostly because I realize that the press has a 'messaging problem.' Namely, in the sense that they seem extremely averse to explicitly identifying the message of the Republican Party. It's called white male supremacy. Thanks for reading."
-- Nathan Grey.
They are dead keen on saving babies that aren’t wanted… no thought for the life of the child who is not wanted and not loved. This is the most common trauma that humans suffer from: not being wanted and not being loved.
WAY TO GO, OHIO!! 🎉😍 Both abortion and marijuana passed!!
As an Ohioan, I'm quite proud of our state absolutely obliterating the special ballot a couple months ago attempting to put an abortion ban into play. I really hope we can pull through for round two here and protect the rights of our people going forward.
Same and same. Don't let us down, fellow Buckeyes. I'm actually afraid to hope at this point in the politics of America and ... Trump country.
Is that how that's spelled? How awkward.
Good job though.
Good luck!
@StoryOracle Our state might look kinda red if you look at our past, but as the old folks and old money die out, we've become much more purple in the last decade or so. Just gotta' stay the course and not turn into our parents, and we'll make this place decent.
@@Tyke-Myson I’m down on the river. It’s awful red here. But we’re hanging on. The thread we’re hanging by was a lot more frayed before August.
"There is no inappropriate time to be screaming about this." Thank you John Oliver!
Well, I'm at the library. In another country. But were I a woman in USA I would buy a gun.
How would you feel if you got aborted?
@@Gillsing The threat to access to legal, safe abortions becomes more and more global. So either you are in a country where those forces start to form already - that would make screaming in a library absolutely appropriate as well. Or you are in one of those few countries where good laws are in place and no one is trying to take women's rights to bodily autonomy away - then I bet that many women in that library would tune in with you out of solidarity and sisterhood to all other women in all those other countries. So yeah, just scream it all out :)!
Thank you. Really appreciate that you made this episode. It’s been an all out assault on reproductive rights for years. We could certainly use more supportive advocacy like this. Thank you again.
I get that many people don't have the privilege to move, but if you do have the capability to move elsewhere, why does anyone choose to live in a medieval place like Texas?
Cause everything's bigger there?
Watching this from Europe, feels like it needs mentioning, USA real life situations are used as horror stories here, and we literally have a class in which one of the essay topic options is parallels between the old regimes and USA current regime beginnings. And abortions being illegal is just one of the million reasons why.
? if you count abortion as a cause of death it is number 1 in usa, has been for a while. for comparison in 2020 usa had 930k abortions and 633k from heart disease, the official number 1. I mean usa uses horror stories from europe all the time with the long wait times for medical care and lack of free speech.
@@ballpython3310 Thank you for demonstrating OP's point.
Where are all the mandatory vasectomy laws?
@@Stossburg Not only that, but having an orgasm as a male would be evil (almost all of the sperm die). As would having a period (the egg dies)
When I asked my mother what she would do if I was dying from an ectopic pregnancy she assured me she would get me whatever help I needed even if she had to pay for it. So nice to know that she doesn't care about any other women in our state when she votes against our rights.
I live in Ohio and we just voted for abortion rights on Friday. I'm getting very familiar with the board of elections building after waiting for 4 hours back in August to vote to protect democracy when they were trying to push minority rule to avoid the abortion amendment. I'm so tired.
your mother would fit right in on the "only moral abortion is my abortion" page.
Great job stay motivated and let’s keep it going
Thank you for doing all you can to help save our democracy ~
"I'm against all abortion - with the usual three exceptions."
"Rape, incest and the health of the pregnant person?"
"I meant me, my daughter and my mother."
Also, from Ohio and I completely get it. It almost feels like yesterday that I voted on issue one and argued incessantly with my (admittedly older) male coworkers about why I should have more autonomy over my living body than my dead one. It’s like the past several months have been stuck in the same exhausting loop of stupidity and misinformation.
Doctors should be allowed ask legislators questions on medical tests to see if they are qualified to make decisions on our bodies and our healthcare.
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Murder is healthcare ? 99% of abortions happen because the mom is just inconvenienced by a baby
This should be a basic requirement baked into the Congressional Protocols.
A woman should have to get a medical degree to make her own decision about her body then? What does an illiterate pregnant woman know? Some don't even know where babies come from.
Makes perfect sense to me
It’s COMTROL CONTFOL COMTROL over women and DAMM IT IF ZHE DIES OR WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BEAR CHILDREN. AGAIN 😢
My only disappointment with this segment was that there was no discussion of the cause of these legislative changes - which is purely and simply Christian religious fanaticism. On this subject, these lawmakers and southern states ideals are no different than the Taliban. Its a general disturbing trend of the rise of Christo-fascism in America.
I’m from Ohio and the only ads on TV are anti-abortion ads, it’s ridiculous. So many of them imply (among other things) that if issue one passes people will be able to walk into a clinic and get an abortion at any gestational age - which is certainly not the case. Simply reading a page’s worth of text would clear up any confusion and yet so many people actually believe this shit. It’s honestly terrifying. I am so glad that I am able to vote on this tomorrow after signing the petition months ago but god, I’m also scared of what will happen if it doesn’t pass. Even without a total abortion ban I am still hearing constant stories of how women in this state are suffering because doctors don’t know how they’re allowed to treat them. It’s pathetic that it’s come to this.
My grandmother had one healthy child and then a stillborn. They refused her an abortion and she had to carry the DEAD fetus for nearly a month, developed sepsis and nearly died, which would have deprived the healthy child a mother.
Political campaigns are never meant to help people making informed decisions. They are supposed to gather support for an election which is far more efficiently achieved by providing simple and easy solutions for a given Issue, either percieved or real.
Your politicians dont give a rats ass about unborn babies, those dont get to vote after all. What matters is that this topic has proven to rally a lot of attention and that labelling yourself "pro-life" sounds like you are a good person. As long as it works to keep them in office why would they want to change their approach?
Oh there’s so much false info out there. I have seen yes on 1 ads. It depends on the channel you watch. I have my fingers and toes crossed today
Best of luck! I really hope abortion rights become protected in Ohio and eventually in every state again!
LETS GO (common sense) OHIO!!!!!
I am a resident of Ohio (moved from Texas last year), and I spent a couple of hours filling out postcards in a campaign to promote Issue 1, the one that would enshrine abortion rights in our constitution, and I also got a bumper sticker that states that reproductive rights are human rights and instructs the reader to vote Yes on Issue 1 tomorrow. I do not know if any of that will help, but I want so badly to do something to help Ohio be better than Texas.
Well more than most do. Can't say it actually helps or not, but the effort is appreciated anyways.
It's something! : )
Thank you!!
As a lifelong Ohioan, welcome! We're so happy to have you and thank you for your efforts ❤
Welcome to Ohio! Yes, this fight for Issue 1 has been long happening, they tried to sabotage us back in August, and they failed.
They will fail again. I’ve been out doing my part as well, and sharing my story of unfortunately aborting my own very wanted and expensive (fertility treatments) pregnancy. Personal stories - making the people who get the abortions real to them - I think it helps.
My abortion saved my fertility and allowed me to have healthy children. My daughters deserve that same choice.