leaked draft of the supreme court decision regarding the overturning of roe v wade
immediately sent people thinking what kind of horrible slippery slope could we be on at this
point well unfortunately we didn't have to wait long because we're already seeing the slippery
slope emerge joining me to talk about this our good friend heather digby parton from salon.com
and heather oh my god in just the last what eight nine maybe even ten days at this point we have
already seen these republicans kick it into high gear because they feel like they've essentially
been given a green light to go after not just pregnancy and abortion but just all of women's
health right now and this is a truly terrifying slope again in just a week we've already seen this
start develop it's terrifying it is terrifying and what you know we've seen this sort of growing over
time i mean you know there have been things going on in the past where you had you know you've had
these trigger laws that have been put into place over the past couple of years there have been this
this kind of you know acceleration of the idea of there being no exemptions for rape and incest i
mean these things have sort of been coming along and of course once the announcement was made
those people unlike the people in washington who were kind of walking around very uh you know kind
of delicately trying to figure out how the best way to deal with this because they do know that
is you know they make those people may be dancing in the streets their base the you know the other
side is also be energized and mobilized by this as well so they've been worried about it but the
the activists and the people who are working in the states which is where all the action is going
to be if they if they do end up overturning roe which really looks like they are they are
absolutely excited i mean you had things like in louisiana they immediately set out to pass
a new law that would make abortion homicide um and theoretically anyway at least from the way
it looks that this could also target the woman um who you know has the abortion i mean there
are laws and there's talk of of trying to find some way to keep women from crossing straight
state lines if they're pregnant which would somehow require some sort of tracking of women
because how else would you do such a thing and um you know this is this is just going on and on
there's an awful lot of it and it just accelerate exploded from the minute that the leak uh you know
was was revealed and you can see exactly meanwhile the republicans you've got sean hannity saying
last night on uh on his show these people are hysterical nothing's gonna change
you know i mean well it tells you that they're nervous about it right but the fact that he would
even say that to his own audience which you know that's where they all gather right this is where
all the anti-abortion people are and the fact that he would say that i found very interesting i mean
they are very nervous about this they're they're very cautious about this and there is a split
within the republican coalition on this that's a lot of the people who have to run statewide and
are worried about the election coming up in 2022 in in november i mean they are concerned about
this because they know that it's going to be a problem so it's been very interesting to watch
this happen democrats and you know pro-choice pro-abortion uh you know abortion rights advocates
are absolutely right to be up in arms and upset because this is happening it's happening all over
the country it's happening in all these red states and you can bet that there's going to be lots of
of pressure put on people even in blue states if only the additional pressure the financial
pressure of trying to accommodate people from all over the country who are going to have to
come there to get there to get abortions and other reproductive care so this is a very very volatile
situation it is and you know i did a uh i i did a live stream you know immediately after this uh
you know decision was leaked here and the thing i mentioned at the time i said you just watch
the first thing they're going to come after is making it illegal for a woman to leave the state
to go to a different area to get an abortion and of course we've already seen even before this leak
we saw inklings of that like in texas right texas is an area where they had said well what if now
women just go north of the border and try to do this okay well we'll work on that and now they
want to you know put a woman to death uh in texas that is the new proposed legislation like we'll
we'll kill you if you get an abortion they want to get the death penalty for that they're so pro-life
you know as the tweet said they're so pro-life they'll kill you for it um and that really is
what we're dealing with here because they don't care about women at all all they pretend of course
to care about is a fetus you know or or even based on these abortion bans a cluster of dividing cells
is what they pretend to care about of course if they cared they'd be offering prenatal care
they'd be offering you know free free ultrasounds and sonograms and all of these things to actually
help women who are pregnant but no they're not doing anything other than saying we don't care
if you were raped uh it's an opportunity one republican told us it's an opportunity
if you're raped and get pregnant from it there's no reasoning with these people at all i mean they
they have totally gone off the deep end on this so i don't even know how we have real conversations
about it when they're clearly not willing to listen and and rationalize things like rape
as an opportunity there's no talking to that to get this full interview and access to the complete
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