welcome to February yes I am 30 years old this is the first David Pakman show
with me as a
30-year-old I'm sure it will be completely different
CNN has been bringing on any number
%uh new contributors in an effort to kind of mix-up what they're doing on air
some other than compelling some less so and brand new CNN contributor Sally Kohn
made her presence known on a
recent episode love crossfire when
she took over the liberal host chair on the show
and she was moderating a debate over reproductive rights
between at near all Zyliss Hoag on one side
and live actions Lila Rose on the other
now at a certain point there was discussion is a conversation about
banning abortion
for rape victims and this
happened take a look are you really telling women
that they should be forced by the government to carry their rapists baby
heifers the way that I would answer that Bali when
a woman is raped that I can a horrible injustice against church
the brake pressure be held at the fullest extended a lot liable for that
culpable for that the woman need healing in a supportive community
but an abortion doesn't I'm rape a woman and Washington adds more violent on top
of that
that first violent that she and Eric yeah not
on raping a woman by having an abortion
this i think is actually a disconnect that we've pointed to
many many times which is that well that there's actually a couple of different
disconnect the number one is that
those who advocate for small government and people not
being subject you management and the mid the new shove their lives being managed
by the government at the same time
want the government very heavily involved in regulating in deciding on
what medical procedures
are okay and are not OK but the other issue here
is that when you talk about abortion
after being raped I don't think
any woman with think up the abortion
as reducing the impact above the rape in fact you could argue that the comment is
somewhat insensitive
the point of having an abortion whether you've been raped
or not is not too undue
the sexual act or with the case a break
a violent sexual act the violent act really more than sexual
I there are reasons that have nothing to do with the specifics %uh
the rape of course other than the fact that you were raped and that's how you
you were were impregnated which would justify not having a child
and the fact that the republican party is so obsessed with making sure that
nobody has an abortion
but then seemingly forgets about it when the child is born not wanting to fund
headstart
so many other different social programs education etcetera
to me has become the appear to me above
moral bankruptcy from the republican party yes but
you know I can understand their point of view
I mean if you believe that this is our life
and that this life has this person has the same rights as everyone else
but are unable to make any decisions for themselves
well I can understand them thinking that
okay well we need to protect these people
but of course I you know like George Carlin said
I if you're if you're rebirth
you're fine if your preschool your act because it seems like as soon as you're
born now
they just don't care about your rights yeah I don't disagree with you if you
fall if you buy into the
internal logic love the a
I don't know the urine invasion movement after get it what is that we're calling
it the anti-choice movement
if you buy into their premises it's not crazy to think you would come up with
some other conclusions like you shouldn't have abortions because they
don't
on rape the woman however we take a step back and we think about number one the
double standards and hypocrisy is that apply
to abortion rights when you look at policy from the republican party
the religious right evangelicals et cetera up and the realities on the
ground it just makes absolutely no sense and the comment on abortion doesn't
under on rape a woman represents so much of what's wrong with that movement