We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb,
they're as safe as they are in a classroom, the workplace, a nursing home.
>> That was Trump's former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
threatening fetuses by saying that she wants them to be as safe as children
in America's classrooms or in the workplace or in nursing homes.
And honestly, all three of those things, all three groups of people didn't do so
well, especially over the last two years.
And I wanna make my case in just a moment.
But obviously, I'm kidding here.
She's just so out of touch, so tone deaf, and so
disconnected from reality that she didn't even realize that saying that
you want fetuses to be as safe as kids in a classroom is insane as we have mass
shootings happening in this nation's classrooms on a regular basis.
In fact, to make matters worse, she made the comments
on the day she won the GOP primaries, get a load of this,
the same day when 19 children and two teachers were killed
in a mass shooting in an elementary school in Uvalde Texas.
Jessica, how are these people, they just live in a different world.
They're not living in the world we live in, because they get to enjoy safety.
They get to enjoy protection.
So in her mind, schools are totally safe because she can only see through her own
perspective of being a very protected person.
But no, a lot of kids in schools in America do not feel safe.
Neither do their parents, because of policies that goons like her have put into
place, goons from her party have put into place, expanding so called gun rights,
loosening the already lax gun laws we have.
To ensure that anyone who wants a gun regardless of their past criminality,
regardless of their domestic violence,
regardless of anything they've done, they have the ability to easily
purchase whatever weapon they want with high capacity magazines included.
>> Yeah. >> Go ahead.
>> Absolutely they're out of touch, that's a much better explanation.
Because I have a theory that maybe someone in DC who like really,
really needed a job, they took a job as Sarah Huckabee's speechwriter
kind of has a bit and they're trolling her by writing stuff like this.
I think it's probably a more realistic explanation that she's just terribly
out of touch.
But if we think about this, this might actually be hopeful for
post row America because if they're saying that they're going to make babies in
the womb as safe as children in a classroom,
what do Republicans do when children are murdered in a classroom?
Nothing, so are they going to do nothing if we continue to exercise our right to
abortion?
Maybe, maybe that's a good sign.
>> Yeah, I mean I wish I could be hopeful but they love to control women.
Evangelicals in this country specifically love punishing women for feeling sexually
liberated and engaging in intimacy that they feel comfortable engaging in.
You can't do that because according to weird, creepy evangelicals who for
some reason are sitting around thinking about our sex lives like creeps would,
you're not allowed to ever engage in intimacy for
any reason other than reproducing, allegedly.
But at the end of the day, we know that the destruction of reproductive rights
in this country by the right wing is about power and control.
That's all it is.
You look at the roots of the evangelical movement to ban abortion and
it didn't start because they actually cared about abortion.
It started because evangelical leaders who had responded to school
integration by creating private segregated institutions were very
upset that the federal government did away with their tax exempt status.
So in a way to galvanize right wing voters in the country, evangelical
leaders like Paul Wyrick decided to really focus on reproductive rights and
fear monger about reproductive rights to galvanize these right wing voters,
get them to spring into action.
Get together as part of like a broader religious coalition to essentially strip
americans of their rights.
And so by the way, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is definitely part of that plot.
And unfortunately, she won the Republican primary nomination
in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election with a landslide
victory last month after securing the support of Donald Trump.
So it's very likely since Arkansas is such a red state that she will be the next
governor of Arkansas, it's pretty terrible.
But one of the people who was outraged by her statement was Fred Gutenberg,
whose daughter actually died in a school shooting.
In a tweet, he says my daughter was murdered in her classroom when
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says, we will make sure that when a kid is in the womb,
they're as safe as they are in a classroom.
I take notice Sarah, your BS is deadly to kids when they are born.
And I think that's a really, really important part of the tweet.
And by the way, his daughter was shot and
killed during the mass shooting in Parkland in 2018.
So any final words Jessica before we wrap up the story?
>> Yeah, I think it's super important to bring in the history here like you did,
and before this pivotal moment where they realized that they could add
reproductive rights and outlawing abortion as a part of their policy platforms.
The right is the one that really took hold of it.
They said, we can get evangelicals and conservatives to vote for
us if we add this to the platform.
But the thing about anti abortion policy is, sure, you can galvanize your base
around that, take it as a part of your platform to get more votes.
Is that a terrible thing to do?
Yes, but they took it one step further because their solution to prevent abortion
from happening in this country is to not give women more resources.
It's not sex education in schools.
And I mean, another possible solution that a lot of people are talking about,
that I don't particularly like because I support people having bodily autonomy, but
people are talking about mandatory vasectomies.
Would that guarantee people not having abortions?
Yes, it would.
But they care way more about men's bodily autonomy than women's.
And this isn't always about controlling women and now it's about forced birth.
And so it's really scary to think that not only are they taking this issue and
galvanizing people's fear about their religious beliefs and making them
vote against their self interest, because these are the same people that
are governing on behalf of corporations and gutting public resources and
taking our tax dollars and using them for things that don't benefit us.
So they're making people vote not in their self interests, and
then their policy solution running on an anti abortion platform is one that hurts
women all across the country.
>> Yeah, you make such a great point, especially in regard to
the lack of resources necessary to ensure that a woman who's
now forced into carrying out a pregnancy has the health care
necessary to ensure that she and the fetus are healthy.
There has been no discussion at all on the right wing or to be quite honest, even
among Democrats about what we're gonna do about our broken healthcare system where
you still have tens of millions of Americans without health insurance.
And then you have countless Americans who might have health insurance, but
it doesn't cover the basic necessities to prevent severe illness.
That is the country we're living in.
This is not about protecting any life.
This is all about a political movement that has seen
reproductive rights as a tool for power accumulation.
That's it, that's all it's been from the very beginning.
It's about power and control.
And I would argue we're gonna see far more people die as a result because we have
that broken healthcare system.
It's like a dangerous cocktail, broken healthcare system,
forced pregnancy, forced childbirth.
A lot of women who are gonna be terrified to research what their options
are because in certain states with fetal personhood,
you could be prosecuted for a stillbirth or miscarriage.
It's gonna be a disaster.
And I'm terrified to see the ramifications to women across the country,
especially in these red states.
>> Yeah. >> Well, we got to take,
sorry go ahead, Jessica.
>> Just one final point on this, Kristi Noem was asked,
what are you going to do for all of the women that are having babies?
And the response was, I don't know, this just past.
We're not really sure what's gonna happen.
So you had time to write a bunch of trigger laws in advance of this ruling,
but not think once about those babies that were being born.
I find that hard to believe.
>> No, she's too busy writing anti trans bills against trans athletes.
When she was asked by the way, hey,
can you name a single trans athlete who inspired this bill?
Not one, she couldn't name one, much like other Republican lawmakers across
the country, but she's busy with that because it's all a game for them.
It's all about culture war narratives that they can exploit and use for
their advantage to gain political power or keep political power.
It's so sick how little these people care about us.