The Supreme Court is hearing this very important case now.
It's Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization,
which everyone is talking about for women's right to abortion services.
This case is gonna come very pivotal when it comes to that.
So, Mississippi, the state of Mississippi is arguing for
a 15 week ban on abortions at 15 weeks.
So that's the basis where we're going and
we're gonna probably have some more down the line of what this makes fallout maybe.
Now the argument from Mississippi, it does hinge on progressives and progressivism
and movement forward in our country crazy enough, but not the way you may think.
So what they're saying is how much women have so much more access to jobs,
childcare and things like that they can actually move forward without even
having to deal with abortion.
So let's go to straight to the story from the attorney general,
Mississippi had this to say in their arguments.
In 1973, there was little support for women who wanted a full family life and
a successful career, maternity leave was rare, paternity leave was unheard of.
The gold standard for
professional services success was a 9-to--5 with a corner office.
In these last 50 years, women have carved their own ways to achieving a better
balance for success in their professional and personal lives.
By returning the matter, returning to the matter of abortion policy to state
legislators, we allow a stunted debate on how we support women to flourish.
So they're talking about all these things that women now have access to and
there's no need for any of these abortion services anymore.
But that thing itself is one of the reasons that women may need these kinds of
services.
So continue on in a brief that was filed ahead of the hearing, attorneys for
Mississippi wrote that quote numerous laws enacted since roll.
Things like addressing pregnancy discrimination,
requiring leave time assisting with childcare and more facilitate the ability
of women to pursue both careers success and a rich family life.
So Amy Coney Barrett,
who was I think the latest justice that trump appointed to the court.
She had a similar argument as well, so this is what she had to say on this.
Roe and Casey emphasized the burdens of parenting and in so far as you and
many of her Amici focus on the ways in which forced parenting, forced motherhood
would hinder women's access to the workplace and equal opportunities.
It's also focused on the consequences of parenting and
the obligations of motherhood that flow from pregnancy.
Why don't the safe haven laws take care of that problem and doesn't seem to follow
that pregnancy and then parenthood are all part of the same burden.
Before I go to the obvious problems with this,
what they're talking about is we've progressed so far in this country.
We've gotten all these laws passed before we
didn't hear about maternity leave paternity was absolutely unheard of.
And now women have all these access to parental needs and childcare needs.
And look what we you don't even need abortion services, so
why are we even trying to figure this out now?
>> Yeah, so boy, there's a couple of issues here [LAUGH] So
basically there to summarize their argument, they're saying, look before,
if you got pregnant, you'd have trouble getting a job because people judged right.
Now we don't judge, we say we don't give a damn that you're pregnant,
get back to work.
Yea, okay [LAUGH] By the way,
you won't have maternity leave in the majority of jobs in America and
the government does not mandate it were one of only six nations in the whole world
out of 200 nations that does not have paid maternity leave.
Obviously we don't have paternity leave, we don't have any of that stuff.
And we're the only wealthy nation without it according to Bloomberg and
everyone else because the fact.
And so the second, but what I'm hearing from it is what,
well, we let you guys work now,
you wanna have access to work and control over your own body.
Come on, you're asking for too much here rave on it.
>> I mean, honestly, it feels like these attorneys just stood up in
front of the Supreme Court and said women have had it far too good for far too long.
I'm asking you to change that, let's make it worse for them.
There's just something so deeply horrifically ironic about
pointing to all the benefits that people who can get pregnant have.
Now because of protecting reproductive rights and
saying we should get rid of those protections.
It just doesn't add up, it's inciting, protection from discrimination laws and
parental leave and all of those things that they cited when
Mississippi has absolutely none of those in the state.
There's no state laws protecting against pregnancy discrimination.
There's no state like parental leave, no maternity leave,
absolutely no paternity leave, none of it.
So just using these examples when you're representing a state that
doesn't have any of these laws on the books, it's just grotesque.
>> It's weird that this somehow that these attorneys and
these folks can come in a court setting and have these arguments and miss that.
Very huge point that everyone's gonna start saying is what they said,
paternal leave used to be obsolete and that maternity leave was hard to come by.
That's today, that's right now.
It's so weird number two, those things that we have had,
were women allowed to get a job.
Or maybe since the early 70s when they didn't have as many rights as far as even
those type things like the job, and then the times we do have maternity leave and
things like that are child care.
All those progressive things that change and
those things that we got along this country,
these same conservatives are the people who are fighting against it since then.
Since forever, not even since the 70s, since forever before that when people
weren't even pushing it as hard as they were then and now.
So you're saying congratulations, you guys got all these advances that we were
against and then right now you've got them.
So now you don't need your rights anymore.
This is like there's so many layers to the amount that they'd like to control your
lives as they talk about the land of the free, it's mind boggling.
>> Yeah, so a lot of times we read our members comments on it because we
like to show with you guys.
So TYT.com, I was joined,
but sometimes we'll reach super chance from YouTube as well.
Our stone wrote in about actually a previous Sir, but it's gonna connect here.
It still shocks me that democrats are more concerned about the votes of republicans
than the votes of their own voters, and he said passed for the people act.
So that's about voting rights, but in this case it's the same exact issue.
Democrats actually, probably a lot of people don't know this,
we don't need Roe V wade democrats have complete control of Congress.
They can just pass a national law that is the equivalent of Roe V wade then
the problem would be solved and you wouldn't Mississippi couldn't do this.
Texas couldn't do what they're doing cuz that would supersede state laws.
But the democrats say no, no we want the permission of republicans to pass it.
But of course the republicans are gonna give you permission like,
well then the filibuster is more important than women's rights.
So that's what the Democratic Party is saying, that's literal, that's literal.
And they said, well no,
it's we have a couple of turncoats to within Democratic Party like Joe Manchin.
And in this case Bob Casey from Pennsylvania and
there they agree that women should not be allowed to control their own bodies.
And they would vote with republicans if we take away the filibuster, it'll
be embarrassing because Democrats will help Republicans take away women's rights.
I got news for you, it's already embarrassing.
So and Ravana, I mean to the point of how embarrassing it is,
I'm just when I think about like taking away a woman's right to choose.
They literally snatched your body and they say you cannot control it,
you must let this zico grow within you no matter what, right?
And you just don't you cannot control your own body,
the government now owns your body.
And you must be an incubator for the thing we actually care about,
which definitely isn't you.
As a woman how does that make you feel?
>> I mean it's disgusting and it has like real world particularly
financial implications like just look at Mississippi specifically.
40% of people living in Mississippi are living or
sorry, 20% of people living in Mississippi are living in poverty.
There are more women living in poverty than men living in poverty.
Now, forcing women to give birth is putting a new undue
financial burden on those women.
And I also would just like to point out a little more hypocrisy on the end
of conservatives because they are endless hypocrisy machines.
They like to espouse that they're the party that cares about protecting
the children.
But in Mississippi, a child born to a single parent in over
80% of abortions are unmarried women, people who are,
will be single parents if they don't have the option of having an abortion.
If you are born to a single mother in Mississippi,
you have a almost 50% chance of living in poverty.
So passing these laws is going to vastly increase the child
poverty rate in Mississippi.
And it's just another way that they're demonstrating that they don't care about
children.
It's all about controlling women's bodies because if they cared about children,
they would be passing lots of comprehensive laws to provide care for
those children once they've been born.
But it's not about that, it's just clearly not about that,
it's about telling people what they can and cannot do with their bodies because
they're upset that women have made the progress that they've made in society.
>> Absolutely and by the way, so, again,
this argument about the the economic burdens or
the ability to get jobs and possibly have child care or maternity leave.
Those aren't the only reasons that women, which kinda proves the point that you
don't know what the hell you're talking about.
That's not the only reason that women may choose to abort.
There's many reasons and maybe if you actually talk to someone to find out what
how the reasons many women have to go through this decision.
It's not just about, I don't get maternity leave I don't I can't afford it.
There's dangerous pregnancies, there's rape [LAUGH] There's children,
there's ancestors, all these things that happen to folks and
then they have a reason that they're doing what they're doing.
It's probably one of the reasons I should stay the hell out
of people's businesses in their lives, because you don't understand it.
And you definitely have no interest in finding out, so
that you can legislate in a way that actually serves the people all of us.
So, the problem now is that you have to be the one to tell people what to do, and
now you have to find different ways of justifying this control that you
absolutely must have.
Instead of finding out what your constituents want in doing it,
because that's a representative government that we like to talk, but
we really don't like to practice.
>> Yep, the republicans have become literal body snatchers