>> [LAUGH]
>> Let's say you've got a father
who doesn't wanna really be involved in the life at all, really.
>> He knows that if if she carries through the pregnancy,
he's gonna have possibly some sort of child support obligation.
And so what he wants to do is, he wants to, in a sense,
encourage her to go and find a way to get an abortion.
Because he knows that if it's a certain individual, if he has any kind of
familiarity with her, he knows that she might be of such a state of mind.
She may be in such a vulnerable position that she decides, it's not worth
everything he's going to put me through to carry this pregnancy forward.
It's gonna be easier.
It's gonna be better for me to go and just terminate this life.
And so what she does is, she goes over to Virginia, she goes over to some
other state where abortion is legal, and she goes and gets the abortion.
And so, I think that's a really clear possibility.
If we enact the Second Amendment here, I don't wanna be doing
anything whatsoever that is encouraging folks to go and get an abortion.
>> There's a lot that I don't know in politics.
There's a lot I'm not sure about in politics.
But I am sure of this, whether a person has bodily autonomy, should at the end of
the day be up to people like Chris Pret, who he saw in that video, definitely.
A guy who seems very confused about his own point.
Now, he has a law practice.
Pritt law specializes in divorce, custody arguments, and child support.
And he seems to be making a pretty clear argument in that video,
that if child support exists, then that is gonna influence
whether a guy encourages a girl to get an abortion.
Because he doesn't wanna pay the money, so he wants to get rid of the kid.
So, we're gonna get rid of abortion, which still leaves the guy in a difficult
financial position that we're not gonna help him in.
And might lead him to do something even crazier since now abortion is illegal.
But we're not gonna address that.
He seems to be making the argument for getting rid of it so
that guys won't want the abortion, because they won't have to pay child support.
It's very confusing.
>> Yes. >> And that's even before we get into what
the reference to the Second Amendment was doing in there.
>> But Francesca, what do you make of this guy?
>> I mean, he's trying to make a case for his Pritt law offices, like his services.
He's like, what I'm trying to say is, 555, like child support.
That's what you call to call Mr Pritt over here.
And I will help you.
Since you didn't wanna support this child anyway, I'll help you get out of it.
And, if your partner won't support, then I will help you as well.
He's just trynna make a financial case for
the fact that lawyers like him are trying to leech off of working people.
But the reality is this, yeah, man, it is a reality.
A lot of men are not ready to be fathers because they
are not financially able to be fathers, >> Yeah.
>> Right, whether or not they're with their partners, whether or
not they are not with their partners, that is a perfectly legitimate concern.
>> However, that is still the decision I would argue of the person who is pregnant.
But it for sure is a factor, right?
And so, I feel like he's making the argument for
abortion being legal,- >> Yeah.
>> Being legal, again, not mandatory, right?
>> Legal, and safe, and accessible.
That's all.
So, [LAUGH] >> He's clearly acknowledging.
>> So, it is interesting the point of view that he enters in this conversation on is,
about the financial obligation on a guy to do child support.
His default assumption is that, they're not gonna be together.
He's just gonna bolt or whatever.
But what about the obligation of, I don't know, the person giving birth to a child,
what about them?
You seem to acknowledge that that's a big burden.
Would you like to do something about that?
No, let's manipulate in the other way.
And someone in the chat is saying, Stefan, thank you.
Says that, it's just a coincidence that he's saying the Second Amendment,
what he means is the Second Amendment to the bill that they're considering.
Okay, so that's confusing, but that's a clarification there.
All of this, regardless of what he meant to communicate,
and we're gonna get to what he has said in the last couple of days.
But he's acknowledging that financial strain.
If you can acknowledge that, if you can say that,
that would strongly influence whether a person would want to have a child or
not, that is that not something that we should consider?
I don't feel like that's asking too much.
>> No, it's not. But it's also really sad that we have to
generally consider the father's perspective, or
the person who is usually not the one giving births perspective.
In order to sort of Rube Goldberg our way into empathy for
the person actually carrying a child that they don't want.
[LAUGH] Cool, whatever you need to do to understand what 50% of
this population goes through, and how you got onto this Earth.
>> Cool, cool, cool.
>> Yeah, that's the closest approximation of empathy that they can do.
[LAUGH] Involves a mouse on a wheel, and then the candle pops, and
then the candle, I don't know.
Okay, look, we're gonna bring it up.
You can see he's at print for the people.
Chris Pritt possibly even worse than Chris Pratt.
He says that he is not actually saying we shouldn't have child support.
It is possible that's true.
It's possible that he just rung himself up into a knot of his own arguments.
It's also possible that he's backtracking because of a massive amount of
condemnation from around the country.
I don't know the guy.
We'll see what else he has to say.
But this is the sort of person that believes your rights should be up to them.
Let's just be clear about that.
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