Of course abortion access is being taken down from Midwest and
south all over the country.
So of course, as this is happening,
we have to make sure at least from these particular legislators and
these leaders in these states, let's find a way to make it worse.
So, in this particular case,
we have a couple of examples of how things are gonna go further down.
First of all in Georgia, there is a law that is gonna now be considered making
that fetus giving personhood and also in Missouri if you're pregnant woman,
you can no longer get a divorce.
Actually, always kind of been that way but
with these other laws that's gonna make it that much worse.
How about we go to some of these details just to talk about how all of these freak
outs about what happened are actually true.
So, Georgia's ban on most abortions after about six weeks into pregnancy is
now in effect after a three judge panel ruled on Wednesday
that the 2019 law can no longer be seen as unconstitutional.
Georgia's law also redefines a natural person to include the unborn and
other personhood provision.
The decision rejected claims that considering an unborn child a natural
person is unconstitutionally vague.
This impact is gonna have on tax law cuz of course,
it's gonna reflect everything else.
George law also allows expecting parents to claim their unborn child as a dependent
requires the father to pay child support while their offspring is still in
utero and deems an unborn child to be quote, a natural person.
These taxpayers now in 2019 will have to pay a certain amount more because of
these changes now.
In 2019 1 Republican legislator told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that private
accountants had estimated that the band could cost the state between $10 million
and $20 million dollars in taxes.
However, the state official didn't perform a formal evaluation of the potential cost.
So, we've got personhood, we've got potentially having to pay for
this child Watts in Utero.
Maybe that's some of the things that we're getting floated by some lips and
some some progressives, they're like, hey,
how about we have the men that are involved in these things, take care of it.
We'll see how that pans out.
But I mentioned Missouri as well and being pregnant in that state, there's an old
log into fact after this royal recall that prohibits divorce for pregnant women.
More of these triggers.
Let's get the details of that, before the High court struck down Roe versus Wade,
a divorce in Missouri could be finalized after a woman had an abortion.
But Missouri divorce cases cannot be finalized if woman is pregnant since
a custody agreement must be in place,
that custody agreement cannot be completed until the child is born.
Now, it kinda seems like it makes some sense because if you're gonna have
a child, we have to know if we're gonna get divorced,
Is this person gonna be responsible for that child, is it really his child?
That's where the sticking point comes.
There are eight questions asked of everyone filing for divorce in Missouri.
One of them is whether the wife is pregnant, if the answer is yes,
the divorce proceedings can continue if the attorney chooses but
cannot be finalized until the woman is no longer pregnant.
According to the Missouri statute, the court must first establish paternity of
a child before a divorce can be finalized.
That's what Shannon Gordon said she's a family law attorney practicing in
the Kansas city metro area.
Due to a statutory presumption that a baby born during a marriage is the child of
the husband.
A DNA test is often completed after the child is born in order to
establish paternity in court then divorce proceedings can continue.
For more part about this you guys, there are no exceptions to the divorce law for
survivors of domestic violence.
Another sticking point, it's weird.
It's almost like they didn't think of this stuff, even though some victims can
physically escape their abuser while the divorce is on hold,
other things like finances can be wielded to quote a really devastating degree.
And we already know when it comes to control when it comes to marriages and
abusive folks.
It's not always just about physical abuse, but of course in these cases it may be,
but then also financial abuse and holding that over some folks head and
having them positions where there's not much freedom there.
So, of course, let's just punch in a couple of few laws that will make these
restrictions on someone's life, specifically,
a woman's life that much tougher.
>> Okay, two different issues here.
One is the divorce issue that's in Missouri.
Can it be done in a different way?
Of course, most other states do it in a different way and
you can figure out the pregnancy issue later etc.
I don't think that's a hard fix.
And in Missouri, lawyers will divorce lawyers will literally tell women,
if you're getting a divorce, don't get pregnant.
Whatever you do do not get pregnant cuz it will delay it by 9, 10 months.
Okay, so there's definitely another way to do it.
Now, the more important issue is the fetal person because that's gonna affect
everyone across the country.
And so, does it affect the divorce in the state?
Of course it does, right.
But it also affects many other things.
So, or do they count as dependents for tax purposes?
Because now you guys, the Republicans are saying no,
at the moment of conception, it's already a fully independent human being,
despite the fact that it's not, right.
So, can you claim as a dependent?
Of course, but then how do you know, you're not pregnant?
Maybe you did conceive last night.
You just don't know it.
And maybe it's twins, maybe it's triplets.
I'll put that down as dependence and see how it goes, right?
I mean, we don't know, right.
We got a lot of potential human beings running around.
I mean, wait till you get into anyway.
I'm just gonna talk about male genitalia and how much potential life that has.
Okay, I'm gonna have a lot of dependence.
Okay, I want those tax forms come around cuz it's absurd here.
I got one more for you guys.
So, there's the theoretically that part of the constitution that says if you're not
born in America you could become a nationalized citizen and
100% of the rights of citizens except you're not allowed to become president.
Now, I happen to think that that was vitiated by the 14th amendment but
conventional wisdom is that's true.
Okay, but wait a minute.
That used to be if you're not born in America but
what if you were born in a different country but you were conceived in America?
I mean you say that I'm that it's a life that after the moment of conception,
a lot of people conceived in America on vacation and then went back home,
congratulations you now all have American citizen Children.
Hey, they're opening up a giant can of worms here.
Alright.
>> Yeah, I think also we all have to change our birthdays to now are the day we
were conceived, which is just like creepy to explain to a child.
But it's very, >> It's awkward.
>> Yeah, that's a tough conversation to have with your kid on the first birthday.
But, I suspect that they calculated these costs based on assuming
that these families would have a child tax credit.
They didn't really think too much about the cost to individuals to private
citizens.
So think about if you're a man and now you have to start paying child support at
the point of conception, that's something they have to think about now as well.
I also think about like kids eat for free promotions.
If you're pregnant, you're eating for the child.
I mean, we could cause a lot of problems that a lot of restaurants in America with
that one.
But I also think about the cost to the state when it comes to legal issues.
Because now, of course, if it's a person at the point of conception,
they're going to severely prosecute if a woman has a miscarriage,
they're gonna investigate that and figure out why that baby died.
And also, it puts a lot of pressure in these states where there's an exception
for if the woman's life is at risk, the pregnant person's life is at risk.
And they decide to go through with the medical procedure of an abortion.
Now they're going to investigate what doctor made that determination.
What was the likelihood that the woman would actually die if she didn't get
the procedure.
That's a lot of money that they're going to have to pay, state prosecutors'
offices, detectives, police who are gonna have to investigate this.
And so, that's a lot of additional money as well.
And not something that we should be putting pregnant people through who
are already going through traumatic events if their life is at risk with their
pregnancy.
>> Yeah, look guys, if you live in one of these Taliban states, cause a hot mess,
I'm being totally serious, don't make it up that you're pregnant.
But if you are pregnant, hit those buffets where the Children eat free or
whatever it is.
I'm not kidding at all create giant problems,
definitely file for them as tax dependents.
You're gonna get credit for
that just in every way where an actual human being would be an advantage.
If you got a zygote inside you go.
Okay, you know why?
Because that's the only other thing that republicans care about is money.
Okay, so, if it turns out this is costing the government a lot of money and
hence some rich people some money all of a sudden about whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I mean, we were just trying to trick you guys into voting for us.
Now, all of a sudden people have lost rights and
my wife has to fly to Paris to get an abortion and
now I got to pay more because you guys are filing the zygotes tax dependents,
who knows, maybe they'll send out their Republican servants to reverse the rule.
>> This is weird.
It's one of those things where you try to figure out people come up with all these
laws and these rules and like, we're gonna be sneaky all of this.
All these extra things that now we just think about 55 7 minutes,
all these extra things that now have to be taken into effect the way people might
respond, the way people might have to pay the way a state.
And a government has to then respond to all this and why?
Because they want to win the midterms cuz they want to continue this same culture
war approach to their politics.
That is the only reason why all these extra headaches that are absolutely
unnecessary for so many people, including the people that are trying to make these
laws and put them into effect are, and
they're gonna have to not be addressed only because of control.
But they're open to that.
They just didn't think about it before, but they're open to that cuz that's how
important is we've seen the January six hearings and we've seen the courts of
Donald Trump and the back and forth and back breaking bend over backwards things.
They've gone through only for control.
Kevin McCarthy was scared out of his mind on January six, but he went back
on his knees because of control and power and doesn't even have that yet.
The other, this is why we're doing it.
Yeah, totally.
The other interesting thing about the money thing is just that states,
they can't just vote to spend dollars, They're not currency issuers,
that's the federal government.
So by pushing this back to the states and making this a burden of the states,
the only way that they're going to pay for
this stuff is raising tax dollars because this is going to be
an expenditure to the state unless they decide to appropriate federal funds.
And, you know, members of the right when they want to get something done,
like pass huge defense budgets, they're not really playing the pay for game.
They're not asking people, how are we going to pay for this?
Are we going to have the federal reserve, just credit the account with new dollars
when it's the democrats trying to pass progressive legislation, then it's always
a cry that this will cause inflation and we absolutely can't do it.
But whenever they want to do something totally fine billions of
dollars to defense so they could appropriate federal funds,
it's more likely that they're going to have to have the states fund these things,
which means in these red states they're going to experience really high tax rates.
And if there's one thing that republicans really don't like its taxes, but
will they connect those dots.
I'm not really sure.
Yeah, I mean republicans do hypocrisy for a living,
freedom pass tricks except for women