Most Americans simply wanna live their lives in freedom and peace,
but we are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn't start and
never wanted to fight.
>> Wrong, they absolutely do start culture war battles.
That's what the right wing has really leaned into for
decades now, in lieu of any real positive policy solutions.
And when it comes to reproductive rights, I think it's pretty clear that it's
a right wing war that's been waged against reproductive rights for women in America.
And that's certainly the case in Arkansas,
where Sarah Huckabee Sanders serves as the governor.
Now, Asa Hutchinson, who's also a Republican lawmaker,
ensured that there would be a ban on practically all abortions and
the distribution of the abortion pill in the state of Arkansas.
And now they have signed into law,
the ability to erect some sorta monument on behalf of aborted fetuses.
Because in the state that has an insanely high child poverty rate, it's much more
important to focus energy on a monument as a symbol of their culture war battle.
Now, the bill allows the construction of a monument to the unborn near the state's
Capitol grounds.
The monument will remember those children we were not able to protect and
we will not be able to forget, state Representative Mary Bentley said.
Now, the bill is sponsored by GOP state Senator Kim Hammer,
claims that Arkansas was prevented from protecting the life of
unborn children by the decisions of the United States Supreme Court
in Roe V Wade from 1973 until it was overruled last year.
Luckily, they're not going to use taxpayer money for this monument,
it's gonna be funded through private donations.
But, if they're genuinely concerned about saving children,
they could start by saving the living, breathing children in Arkansas that
are suffering from extreme poverty based on their terrible policies.
They could start there, and I have some numbers on that by the way.
>> Yeah.
>> So just to give you a sense real quick Cenk,
the national child poverty rate according to the US Census Bureau,
is 16.9%, in Arkansas, it's 22.4%, 22.4%.
Meaning that in Arkansas, they are beating the national average on child poverty.
>> Yeah, they pretend to care about children though.
But the Republican hero was interesting in this story.
>> Yes.
>> So we're gonna get to him in one second.
But I wanna say this,
look, it's easy to fall into traps that are emotionally charged, right?
So, if you're a person who considers themselves, what you would say pro life,
we would say, anti choice, right?
But you're in that camp and you think this is really important and you think it's
important because you've heard about the holocaust and other atrocities that we
should never forget, so that we've gotta have a memorial so we never forget.
Okay, so let's take that same argument and say,
let's do a memorial in the middle of Arkansas, very big one,
about the lynchings of black folks in Arkansas, because we should never forget.
I mean, you would agree, that's a horrible atrocity, the hangings, the burnings.
They're having a picnic around, and then maybe we could build a monument where
white folks are having a picnic around the burned,
hung body of a black person and go what?
We should never forget, we should never forget, is that well, that's true, right?
Didn't you just say that?
So we should never forget your causes, but
we should forget the terrible things that happen to other folks.
So, no, you shouldn't do emotionally charged things that are gonna greatly
inflame either side in a place where you're trying to inflame people.
Starting a culture war, trying to divide people and
trying to create hatred and fear.
So, neither side should do that, that is a terrible idea overall.
But amazingly, it leads to a Republican hero of sorts.
>> A Republican lawmaker in Arkansas is actually against this move.
Anti-abortion Republican Representative Steve Unger,
argued that building the monument would only escalate
the divisiveness on both sides of the abortion debate.
Public memorials to our nation's wars where we face an external
threat are right and proper, Mr Unger said, per ABC.
A memorial to an ongoing culture war where
we seem to be shooting at each other is not.
>> Look, I couldn't agree with him more.
Look at this, us agreeing with a Republican in a very red state.
So thank you, Representative Unger,
maybe it's the closest to my name that drove the logic.
That's probably it, which is a very logical point by the way.
>> Cenk deserves credit for that.
>> Yeah, it's me [LAUGH].
No, seriously, Republicans overall leading this drive in Arkansas very bad.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Buffoon, and
profits off of the divisions that she creates.
In fact, in our state of the union address,
she basically said, I wanna own the Libs and they're terrible and
let's make fun of them and degrade them and take away their right.
But by the way, we should have child labor.
>> Exactly, exactly, yes.
>> And we should make sure that their defense contractors get paid a lot,
with warmongering talk, etc.
So help the companies hurt the children while pretending to be in favor of
children.
>> Right.
>> But we didn't find one Republican who's a good guy on this issue alone and
I'll take it, I'll take the victory [LAUGH].
>> Yeah, I mean, considering the proximity of this story to
the loosening of child labor regulations in the state of Arkansas.
I'm under the assumption that state lawmakers, Republicans in particular,
are just looking to bolster the workforce that they can exploit later [LAUGH].
>> Yeah, well, in the case of being anti choice, I think that's right.
>> Yeah.
>> But, and by the way, keep in mind as we're giving a lot of credit to
Represetative Unger, that remember actually all the states are pro choice.
Montana and Kansas, when they actually voted were deeply pro-choice.
So he might be in a district where it's uncomfortable to have this conversation
that might cost him his seat.
But I don't care, I just want the right results and any time I could find
a reasonable sounding Republican America, that's a good day, okay?
So don't ever say I didn't give credit to Republicans, there you go.