THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT
IN THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION PREVENTS AGAINST EXCESSIVE BALES
AND FINES AND PUNISHMENT.
THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT IN IRELAND HAS
OUTLAWED ABORTION SINCE 1983 BUT THERE IS A REFERENDUM THAT WENT
ON TODAY AND IRELAND, POLLS CLOSED AT 10:00 PM.
100,000 NEW
PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF
OVERTURNING THAT REFERENDUM AND ESSENTIALLY LEGALIZING ABORTION
AND IT HAS NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY CALLED BUT ACCORDING TO THE EXIT
POLL DATA, IT IS 68 OR 69% IN FAVOR OF OVERTURNING THAT BAN ON
ABORTIONS, WHICH HAD ESSENTIALLY MADE IT SO THE PRIORITIES
OF THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WAS ON EQUAL FOOTING OF THE LIFE
OF THE FETUS AND THE ONLY TIME YOU COULD HAVE DONE IT WAS
IN FAVOR OF SAVING THE MOTHER'S LIFE IF IT WAS IN JEOPARDY
BUT THAT WAS A BIG TURNOUT IN IRELAND.
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF FETUS IN IRELAND?
THEY WERE SAYING YOU CAN'T DO ABORTIONS AT ALL.
FETUS HERE IS AFTER, THAT IS ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS.
UNBORN CHILD WAS HOW IT WAS SET UP IN IRELAND.
EVEN IF THIS WINS AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS GOING TO WIN,
THEY'RE GOING TO DO LEGISLATION, IT IS OUT OF THE CONSTITUTION
AND THE LEGISLATION IS STILL NOT GOING TO BE LIBERAL.
YOU ARE ONLY GOING TO GET TO HAVE AN ABORTION THE FIRST
12 WEEKS WHICH IS TINY AMOUNT OF TIME, YOU BARELY KNOW YOU
ARE PREGNANT THE FIRST 12
WEEKS AND THEN AFTER THAT THEY WILL HAVE DIFFERENT LAWS SO
IT IS NOT AS CLEAR AND YOU WILL HAVE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT
THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER AND THE HEALTH OF THE MOTHER, ETC.,
SO THEY HAVE NOT PASSED THOSE YET IF WE GET TO THAT
EVENTUALITY BUT THIS WAS STRIDENT.
NO ABORTION UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ANYTIME.
THE REASON I ASKED, I KNOW WHAT A FETUS IS, I HAVE HAD TO
THAT DON'T SHUT UP NOW,.
THERE JUST SAYING FEED US.
THAT IS ARGUMENT, WHEN DOES LIFE BEGIN, WHEN DOES IT BECOME LIFE?
I AM ALL ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS, I DON'T REGULATE OTHER PEOPLE'S
MORALITY, WHATEVER YOUR DECISION ABOUT YOUR BODY, YOUR HAVING, I
AM ALL FOR IT BUT IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IRELAND IS ON A PATHWAY TO
BE A MORE PROGRESSIVE AND MORE LIBERAL AND LETTING PEOPLE
CHOOSE THEIR LIFESTYLES AND I THINK THAT WE SEEM TO BE GOING
BACKWARDS,
THEY JUST GOT A GAY PRIDE MINISTER, GAY MARRIAGE, THEY ARE
DOING IT.
I LIKE IT.
REPRESENT.
THERE WAS A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT INITIATIVES IN ORDER
TO TURN OUT THE VOTE.
THERE WAS A GROUP OF GRANDFATHERS THAT SAY
YES, TAKING TO THE STREETS AND THEN THERE WAS A GIANT MOVEMENT
CALLED HASHTAG HOME TO VOTE WERE PEOPLE WHO HAD MOVED AWAY FROM
IRELAND NATIONALS WHO WERE LIVING IN SAY ENGLAND OR
CONTINENTAL EUROPE, THEY MOVED BACK.
HERE'S A VIDEO FROM ONE OF THE GROUPS CALLED HASHTAG
TOGETHER FOR YES.
HERE'S PART OF A VIDEO THAT THEY PUT TOGETHER.
I JUST ON THE JOURNEY THAT A LOT OF WOMEN TO AN OPPOSITE
WAY FROM LIVERPOOL AND I FEEL THAT IRELAND SHOULD FAMILY
TRUST WOMEN AND THAT'S WHY I'M VOTING YES.
THERE WERE PEOPLE AT THE AIRPORT HOLDING UP SIGNS IS
THAT YOU NEED A RIDE TO GO VOTE?
I AM DEAD INSIDE BUT I SAW AND I WAS STILL A LITTLE EMOTIONAL
WICKING OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER FORÖ IT WAS AMAZING.
I HAVE PTSD FROM ALL THE RECENT ELECTIONS, SO I WAS SO
WORRIED ABOUT THIS ONE BECAUSE WE HAVE PREPARED TODAY SHOW AND
NOW THE EXIT POLLS ARE COMING AND WE ARE ALIVE AND SO I AM
SEEING ALL THESE EMOTIONAL THINGS IN THIS HUGE MOVEMENT FOR
A GUESS VOTE WHICH WOULD BE TO REPEAL THIS AND BRING CHOICE TO
IRELAND AND I AM SEEING A LOT OF GOOD THINGS AND THEN --
[STREAM BUFFERING]
MY NORMAL METRIC FOR THIS IS WHO IS THE POPULIST?
THE POPULIST HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING ALL ACROSS THE WORLD,
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE ISSUE IS, OR WHAT SIDE YOU ARE ON, THE
POPULIST HAS A BETTER CHANCE BUT IN THIS CASE, THAT IS NOT AN
ISSUE.
NEITHER SIDE IS MORE OR LESS POPULIST SO I AM LIKE IT
LOOKS GOOD IN PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA MIGHT BE IN FAVOR OF IT
AND HENCE REPRESENT THE PRO-CHOICE SIDE AND I'M KEEPING
IT REAL ON THAT AND I DON'T KNOW HOW IRISH MEDIA WORKS HERE ARE
MEDIA'S VERY CONSERVATIVE WHEN IT COMES TO FINANCIAL ISSUES
BECAUSE THEY ARE RUN BY BILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATIONS BUT
A LOT OF THE REPORTERS ARE LIBERAL SO ON SOCIAL ISSUES THEY
WILL PAIN IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT AND I'M BEING HONEST ABOUT THAT
SO I WAS LIKE ON PINS AND NEEDLES SO WHEN I SAW DICKSTEIN
9%, ONE ORGANIZATION HAS IT AT 79% SAYING YES, REPEAL IT I WAS
LIKE THANKS, FINALLY, THE GOOD GUYS WENT.
IT IS A VERY CATHOLIC COUNTRY, IRISH CATHOLIC AND IT'S
A BIG MOVEMENT FOR A COUNTRY THAT HAD THIS LAW, THE ONLY
OTHER COMPARABLE COUNTRY TO HAVE A LIKE THIS IS MALTA.
EVERYONE
ELSE HAS MORE CHOICES QUEUING LOSS.
HERE'S ONE TWEET FROM
SOMEONE WHO POINTED OUT THE CONSEQUENCES THAT WERE FACING
WOMEN IN IRELAND AT THE TIME SHOULD THEY HAVE AN ABORTION.
IT SAID:
THESE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS, WITH THE HASHTAG HOME TO VOTE
WORKED IN THERE.
EVERYONE WAS BROUGHT IN ON THE SITUATION,
EVEN ED SHERIDAN.
WE COVERED THIS ON POP TRIGGER.
SOMEONE USED
ONE OF HIS SONGS CALLED SMALL BUMP, A SONG ABOUT HIS FRIENDS
MISCARRIAGE, THERE WAS A PRO-LIFE GROUP REGISTERED USING
IN THE CAMPAIGN AND HE HAD TO RELEASE THIS LETTER WHICH WAS
REPOSTED SAYING:
IT CAN'T STAND TO PULL HIM INTO
THIS.
THIS IS JUST THE EXIT
POLL DATA SO WE WILL SEE, KEEP FOLLOWING IT.
WE REPORTED THIS
THIS MORNING ON THE DAMAGE REPORT AND IT WAS KIND OF IN THE
ETHER, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE IT WAS
40% FOR AND THERE WERE A LOT OF UNDECIDED BUT IT SEEM LIKE
IT CAME DOWN THE OTHER WAY.
THERE IS ONE OTHER ISSUE HERE THAT IS NOT SPOKEN ABOUT NEARLY
ENOUGH AND THROUGHOUT THE ARTICLES THAT COVERED THIS BOTH
HERE IN THE US AND INTERNATIONALLY THEY TALK ABOUT
HOW A LOT OF THE IRISH WOMEN LEAVE TO GET ABORTIONS IN THE UK
OR OTHER COUNTRIES, THOSE OF THE RICH AND MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN SO A
LOT OF THE ANTICHOICE LEGISLATION IN DIFFERENT STATES
HERE IN AMERICA OR IN COUNTRIES AND THE REST OF THE WORLD ONLY
AFFECT POOR WOMEN.
RICH WOMEN GET TO FLY OUT OF THE COUNTRY
AND HAVE ABORTIONS ALL THEY LIKE.
REPUBLICAN, THEY CLAIM
JUST PAID $1.6 MILLION.
HE SAYS I DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER SHE HAD
THE ABORTION OR NOT, BUT I PAID HER 1.6 MAIN DOLLARS FOR IT.
WHEN YOU ARE RICH THERE ARE A LOT OF WAYS TO GET ABORTIONS,
BUT WHEN YOU ARE POOR, THAT IS WHEN YOU ARE CRUSHED IN THE
SYSTEM CRUSHES YOU AND YOU GET OPPRESSED EVEN FURTHER SO IT IS
A DOUBLE WIN IF THEY HAVE GONE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION HERE AND
ONE LAST VESTIGE FOR US HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, AS WE APPEAR
TO BE HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION WHILE THE REST OF THE
WORLD IS GOING GENERALLY SPEAKING THE RIGHT DIRECTION,
ESPECIALLY EUROPE, I STILL THINK THAT THE TRUMP ERA AND THE
EVANGELICALS THAT PUT HIM IN THE OFFICE, IT IS THEIR LAST GAS AND
SO DEMOGRAPHICALLY AND ALSO AS A MATTER OF JUST SIMPLY GETTING
INFORMATION, EUROPE IS FAR LESS RELIGIOUS AND EVERY DAY GROWS
LESS RELIGIOUS AND AMERICA EVERY DAY GROWS LESS RELIGIOUS.
WE
STARTED THE SHOW 16 YEARS AGO AND BACK THEN ONLY 4% OF
AMERICANS AND LOOK, A VERY SPY POLLS BUT IN ONE THAT WE COVERED
ONLY 4% OF AMERICANS DID NOT HAVE ANY RELIGION.
NOW THAT
NUMBER IS 24% AND IT GROWS AND IT GROWS SO THESE GUYS WHO HOLD
ONTO ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN CORRECT ABOUT IT,
AS I POINT OUT EVERY TIME WE TALK ABOUT ABORTION, THE BIBLE
IS ACTUALLY PRO-ABORTION, READ NUMBERS.
IT SAYS IF YOU THINK
YOUR WIFE CHEATED ON YOU, GOD SAYS YOU SHOULD GIVE HER TOXIC
POTION TO GIVE HER A MISCARRIAGE.
THAT IS
PRO-ABORTION IN THE BIBLE SO YOU ARE NOT EVEN WRITE ABOUT THE
TEXT BUT THAT OLD MYTHOLOGY IS VERY SLOWLY GIVING WAY TO
RATIONALITY SO I THINK WE ARE GOING TO WIN HERE AS WELL
BUT IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET.
IRELAND, HOLD STRONG, HOPEFULLY WE WILL JOIN YOU SOON.
WE HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK.
ALL RIGHT, AND MIND YOU, DON'T GET ME WRONG, WE ARE
PRO-CHOICE IN AMERICA, BUT EVERY DAY THEY WHITTLE IT DOWN.