it turns out that stripping women of their bodily autonomy,
not a popular position to have.
And when politicians who have supported abortion bans are confronted
about their past statements in support, they like to run away,
like Christy gnome governor of South Dakota.
I love this story because it shows you how terrified they are of having to
acknowledge their own record, The policies that they champion and support.
And so this all happened at an event at some sort of golf course she shows up and
she's greeted by two constituents in her state and
when the constituents tell her about their own experiences with abortion and
ask her questions about why it is that as a one and
she doesn't think that other women should be able to control their own bodies.
Again, she runs away within minutes of touching down for
an appearance at a virtual golf facility in Sioux Falls,
the top Republican in the state bailed upon being pressed by the women on their
personal abortion stories and the dangerous new reality after roe v wade.
So she was confronted by two women, one of whom, by the way, literally drove across
the state when she found out that Kristi Noem was going to show up at this event,
Leah Bottomley and Tiffany Campbell support abortion rights and
disagree with no support for a ban on most abortions in South Dakota.
The measure went into effect immediately after the U.
S. Supreme Court issued its Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe on june 24th Now by
Bottomley, as I mentioned earlier, is the one who drove across the state once she
found out that the governor was going to be at this event.
She called out her name, meaning Christie gnomes name and approached Gnome and
then said, I want my rights back, which she said she repeated about five times.
Gnome couldn't take that didn't like that.
Campbell said that she walked up, shook hands with the governor and engaged in
a short dialogue asking a technical question about the state's abortion law.
She has her own abortion story having obtained one to end
a pregnancy on september 20 of 26 22,006.
Campbell said she was pregnant with twins and
was told she could not carry both to term as NPR had actually reported back in 2008.
And so she wanted to make a point about how if she needed that abortion today,
under state law, it would be very unlikely that she would be granted that
abortion and Christy Gnome disagreed because she says, no,
no, our abortion ban makes exceptions for
the life of the mother except abortion doctors are so terrified of the legal
liability associated with providing any of these services that they turn women away.
They don't even risk it so effectively,
there is a total abortion banned in states like South Dakota and
when the women were talking to her, she didn't like it couldn't take the heat and
so we have a snippet of her basically running away like the coward that she is.
Let's watch
no one support
education,
sorry.
And you know, something that's been coming up over and over again and reading about
Christie gnomes leadership is how she is very inaccessible to her own constituents.
She doesn't like to have public events.
She doesn't like to talk to voters in the state.
And you can understand why it's really difficult to do so
when you can't even defend your own positions.
Yeah.
So look, you get into these type of situations when the politicians
only talk to donors and that's what Kristi Noem is an excellent case of that.
So she won't do town halls.
She's only doing one debate with her opponent.
She doesn't, she wants to limit the number of times she's seen in public.
And she's asked hard questions or any questions.
Well, this is a democracy.
You're supposed to be the representative of the people.
And so that's why people are getting frustrated and
you're going to a public event.
They came and there the public and they ask you questions.
And so she could have just answered a bunch of their questions and they said,
okay, look, I answered enough.
Now I'm gonna go do the event and that would have been normal, right?
No, she ran away from the event completely.
And then the guy putting the event together was just crying and
crying about it.
Put out this statement about how that it was all the protesters fault and
how dare they question their that someone who was elected to be the representative,
how dare they.
And then they had this hilarious line in the letter that I want to read
you guys having a six year old go home upset and
in tears because she didn't get to talk to her governor about horses.
Is not how this night should have gone, is it?
I mean, is that the most important question for the governor to get if
the governor was accessible and she had given people an opportunity and heard
them out on policy issues, then she wanted to talk to a six year old about horses.
Great, fantastic.
But if the only question she's willing to entertain is a question about horses from
a six year old, that's why you have confrontations like the one you just saw.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
And after she ran away from her own constituents and refused to answer their
questions, she had a spokesperson released a statement about how she's actually
a wonderful governor who's at very, very accessible to her constituents.
And I want to talk about that real quick.
Nome's fellow Republican, Lieutenant Governor Larry Rhoden,
who was also present but did not speak with the women.
Although at one point,
he did hold up a hand to indicate someone apparently Bottomley should be quiet.
She refused.
So there's that.
But here here's the statement from ian furry statement to the Daily Beast.
He clarified that.
He says that Gnome listened to Campbell clarified some facts and
then told her let's have the debate this legislative session.
He said Gnome tried to make it clear that she never supports a bill before.
She's seen specific language of the bill.
Remember Christy.
Gnome is also the right wing governor who
signed a trans athlete ban in school sports and
then failed to mention a name of a single trans athlete
who inspired the legislation in the state of South Dakota.
Because it's all theater.
That's all it is with Republican lawmakers.
It's all manufactured culture wars.
It's all theater, it's all meant to distract
you from the fact that they love to rob you or help their donors rob you.
And in the meantime,
if there are some casualties involved in this whole manufactured culture war.
Well, too bad.
But don't dare to ask them any questions about it, because if you do,
apparently you're somehow the bad guy.
If you're trying to ask your elected lawmakers,
elected governor any question about their leadership, How dare you?
You're the bad guy.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
And and by the way, casualties is quite literal because
there's look if kristi Noem wanted to just say, hey look,
I don't comment on the bill until I see the specifics of the bill.
That's a weaselly excuse because you already know your abortion stance.
It's not like it's news to you.
And then we're gonna read the bill.
And so I changed my abortion stance, but
at least it's a legitimate weaselly answer, right?
But she on top of that lied to the citizen that you saw there, and that's and that's
she said the person asking her questions said that's what made her so angry.
That was a lie, because Christina says there's already something in there to
protect the life of the mother.
But the woman was telling her, wait, no,
this question isn't about the life of the mother.
The doctors told me that if I didn't have this procedure,
both of the twins would die.
So I did the procedure which would now be illegal.
And one of the boys survived just like the doctor said,
he's 15 years old now and he wouldn't be alive today if this bill passes and
has passed and is in effect, right?
And she's and Gnome was basically like, no, the bill covers that.
Know the bill doesn't cover that.
You're definitely wrong. You've seen the specifics of the bill,
you're in favor of it, and it doesn't cover that,
and that's why you shouldn't interfere with a woman and her doctor.
But Christina is in favor of big government and
government tyranny that gets between you and your doctor and limits your freedom.
So she's just be honest about that and say,
I don't think women should have the same freedom.
I just don't think that I think the zygote is more important than woman.
Just say it.
Be honest, and let's move on.