good news, bad news on the topic of abortion.
As I'm sure, you know, at this point, the effort to strip protections for
abortion rights in Kansas.
That amendment was soundly defeated in Kansas and
some of the best news that we've had the primary in some time.
It went down 58.8% to 41.2.
It was not close, it seems according to polls that it might be, but no,
People were very clear, although in defense of the people, they've been clear
about this for longer than I've literally been alive and that's never stopped
the Republicans from endlessly trying to strip away people's rights.
Not only lost overall, it lost in every single county.
Take a look at this in one.
It went down 81 19.
No, it was just defeated and defeated and defeated and defeated.
But this is just one state and this is just one effort.
They're going to regroup and they're going to come for those rights again.
They're gonna do it in Kansas, they're gonna do it in other states.
In fact, some defense is even now being lodged against efforts in other states to
do this.
You have the Justice Department filing its first lawsuit since roe v
wade was taken out.
There's a new Idaho Idaho law that would impose a near total ban on the procedure.
They say it violates a federal requirement to provide medical care
when a pregnant person's life or health is at stake.
We covered that a few weeks ago.
No, they just want they want to outlaw in in all cases.
Merrick Garland said that their lawsuit is aimed at stopping the trigger ban,
it is set to take play to take effect in just a couple of weeks.
So again, fingers crossed that the judge stands on the side of the people or
the constitution in this case.
But anyway, it's a reminder that we, we can celebrate these things.
We should celebrate these things,
but they're gonna keep pushing they're gonna do in Idaho, they're gonna do it.
Let's jump ahead of this last graphic in Georgia, I guess, to prove a point,
I don't know,
they're allowing residents to claim embryos as dependence on state taxes.
You know how people in response to anti abortion arguments will often say,
well, why don't you do X?
Why don't you treat it as X?
If you believe it's a life, I guess they think this is a witty retort to that,
I suppose in this case Jr But
the the anti abortion effort continues, that's all over the country.
You're muted Jer and nobody puts JR in a corner.
That's outrageous.
Somebody did that to me.
I didn't touch that one.
As as they push these types of things consistently.
And then they see what the responses from voters specifically as we see there,
in Kansas.
I guess they're going all in this was the indications that maybe some people were
looking for and when I mentioned it, you know, just over an hour ago on my show,
I asked Jessica, So is this really that that that indication for midterms that
maybe some people are saying, and I'm I'm not sure about it yet, because of course
this is just specifically in Kansas, which they put forward in this way.
They made sure it was on this ballot because they figured they have a better
chance because there's more Republican primary voters,
we're gonna totally steamroll it and they totally got steamrolled.
Are they learning are they trying to flail and go for these other directions to try
and convince people otherwise, or are they just in trouble?
Because I wasn't fully convinced, I gotta be honest,
I wasn't fully convinced when the court overturned roe versus wade and
they said this is gonna change everything in the midterms.
I was like, if democrats actually speak out and do something about it will,
and that's what may be looking for.
Hopefully this continues to change, but we can't just sit back and say the american
people know now they know now now we can just sit back and watch because
the democrats do like to do that, let's make sure that it's actually a change.
And I'm curious whether or not you actually think that's something that will
be, I mean, are people gonna forget this in a few months?
I mean, we still got what, three months, four months left?
I mean, look, in theory, they could, and
I think some on the right are trying to make that happen, tamping down people's,
you know, fear is like saying no, like we're totally just gonna lead up.
The states were not like pushing for a federally or anything,
even though they're lying.
But at the same time,
like they can't stop the state parties from from doing this sort of thing.
Like that's a reminder in Idaho, they give you the reminder in Kansas,
they're like going out of their way to remind people of these terrible things
that they're doing and then of course you're gonna have things like, you know,
the, I believe it was a 12 year old girl who desperately needed an abortion.
Those sorts of the woman in texas as well who was forced to carry a deceased fetus
for a couple of weeks because the doctors were terrified of what would happen to
them legally.
Like these sorts of things are gonna keep coming up.
You can't help it when you set up an inherently intentionally cruel system,
it will generate cruel outcomes.
And it's on the job of the media to make sure that people know about it and
we're gonna continue to do that