>> Governor Ivey of Alabama has officially signed the most restrictive law, banning abortion
in the state of Alabama.
So she had not committed to signing it into law, but she has decided to do so.
And so Alabama has officially pass the strictest anti-abortion law in the nation.
>> It took about 12 hours-
>> Yeah, not even.
>> To thoroughly read through a measure that goes against what's been law in this country
since 1973.
>> Yeah.
The Alabama Senate has officially passed the most restrictive anti abortion law in the
country.
According to The New York Times legislation bans abortion at every stage of pregnancy
and criminalize the procedure for doctors.
Who could be charged with felonies and face up to 99 years in prison.
It includes an exception for cases when the mother's life is at serious risk but not for
cases of rape or incest.
In fact, if this somehow manages to get through the supreme court and the intention here is
to get this case to the supreme court.
The doctors who perform abortions would have longer prison sentences than rapist themselves.
Just to kind of put everything in perspective for everyone.
In addition to the potential 99 years sentence for performing abortions, Doctors face the
threat of a 10-year term for attempting to perform one.
Women who receive abortions though would not be prosecuted.
Now, if you can recall back during the election, Trump had suggested punishing women who get
abortions.
I guess I am glad that Alabama hasn't gone in that direction yet, but I wouldn't be surprised,
considering how Draconian these laws are.
>> It's unfair to call this pro-life legislation because you can't be pro-life and pro the
death penalty.
>> That's right.
I mean this is huge- >> This is just simply anti-women having choice.
>> That's exactly right.
It's another example of hypocrisy, a huge contradiction among conservatives in the country.
And it's really sick.
I mean when you think about what this is gonna do to women in the state and how it's gonna
disproportionately impact poor women of color.
I mean it's just, it's such a backwards counter productive way of dealing with it.
And look, if you're pro life and you want to lessen the instances of abortion, I hear
you no one wants more abortions.
But you should be funding a robust comprehensive sex education program.
You should be providing contraception, you should do everything possible to equip people
to make the right decisions.
So they don't have unwanted pregnancies but they don't wanna go in that direction.
They're just wanna force women to have babies that they don't wanna have.
>> Isn't that weird, it's the same group of people that, like you said, oppose things
like comprehensive sex ed.
Giving people that educational opportunity of what they can do in a situation to even
avoid it.
So as we go through all this, of course, some of the folks in the Alabama Senate Legislature,
of course talk about how they want it to get to the Supreme Court.
Do I get it to Supreme Court.
Let's get it to the Supreme Court.
That's their only motivation.
So it has actually nothing to do with the women that they're affecting and their communities
and their constituents.
It has to do with getting to the Supreme Court.
And who can be crazier than the previous state that's passed something else dumb.
Like, hey, I know we can come up with something even crazier and make sure that our people
hate us even more.
And let's just get into the Supreme Court.
In the meantime, as I mentioned again also this morning, was the Supreme Court doesn't
have to take your case.
It's not like, just cause you raised your hand and say, hey I'm from Alabama and I passed
this stupid law, and I'm gonna make sure we're going to the Supreme Court.
It doesn't work that way, they have to take the case.
But the reason they think the case will be taken is because, hey, here's this guy, Brett
Kavanaugh who we pushed through because despite all of the allegations and issues that he
had.
We need another conservative in the Supreme Court so we can do this.
What happened to not legislating from the bench?
What happened to not appointing a bunch of people.
And by the way judges, I thought The supreme court is supposed to be this group of judges
that does things by the constitution.
Not based of because they can change something that was previously done by judges.
It seems that like it's arbitrary, based of what you want.
None of this will stick and it's odd, because if this was happening the other way they would
be screaming murder ironically about it.
>> So I wanna have a discussion about the likelihood of the Supreme Court taking up
this case.
But before I do so, I just wanna toss to this video that shows a State Senator Chambliss
who is very clear in the intentions here and everyone should be aware of this.
Take a look.
>> What this bill is designed to do, is to go to the Supreme Court and challenge that
particular precedents.
That said in 1973, that abortion is legal on-demand essentially any time anywhere for
any reason.
>> So they're not even hiding the fact that they're hoping that this gets to the Supreme
Court and I wanted to share that with you all.
So you know that it's not just a speculating, it's what they're very clearly and transparently
saying.
I think that it is likely to get to the Supreme Court.
I mean, there's always this talk about Brett Kavanaugh, mostly because of the fact that
he was the last Supreme Court Justice to get confirmed.
He was so controversial.
And we we know what his views on abortion are.
But Neil Gorsuch is also very, very, very conservative.
So I think that it's an incredibly risky situation for people who want reproductive rights and
reproductive freedom in the country.
I don't think it's ever a good idea to underestimate how incredibly powerful and persisted conservatives
are in this country.
They will not give up, their relentless.
And I think this is just another example of that.
>> And what's so frustrating is there's a part in this where they had the opportunity
to put in exceptions for rape and incest and many of them.
The majority chose not to and it was all a group of white men.
And what's interesting about that is I was reading kind of a reminder about some mistakes
that happen, lawmakers across the country, a lot of these men can't even pass a college
or high school health exam.
Because they don't even actually know how women's bodies operate.
There was multiple examples of a lawmaker, a male lawmaker saying in the past that women
couldn't get pregnant during rape.
>> Right, I remember that.
>> And there was just a recent one where a lawmaker was saying in Ohio about ectopic
pregnancies- >> Yes.
>> That they could remove it from the fallopian tube and put it back in the uterus which is
not.
Another lawmaker who thought that you can have a gynecological exam by swallowing a
camera.
>> Yeah, so I want to elaborate on the Ohio lawmaker a little bit more.
>> I know, I know and look, they're not even really interested in the science behind it.
They're not really interested in the so called morality behind it.
This is done, in my opinion, for two main reasons.
Reason number one is how do we appeal to the right wing evangelical voters ho have been
pushing us to pass this type of legislation.
And remember they are a lot of people in the middle of the country who are single issue
voters and that's single issue is abortion.
Which blows my mind.
But secondly like that Ohio lawmaker, he is a perfect example of Politicians who have
strong feelings about abortion but know nothing about anatomy.
They wanted to pass legislation that would force doctors to take an ectopic pregnancy
which, that's when the embryo or the egg does not implant in the right place.
>> Right.
>> And then reimplant it in the uterus.
>> Which is not possible.
>> It's not even possible, exactly.
>> Right.
>> If it's possible, do you know how painful it is?
>> Yeah.
>> And I've heard thhe stories of a woman that went through it.
It's painful.
>> An ectopic pregnancy.
>> Yeah, and it's traumatic.
And it changed her whole perspective.
There's a fear of even getting pregnant again.
Because it's one of those things where if you don't have to experience, you just go
whatever, we'll just do this to you.
What are you getting out of this.
You have moved on with your life yet?
And again it goes to the disdain and the disregard for someone else's life.
And we go with some folks who can put in certain legislation because they don't connect with
anyone.
You bleeding heart liberals.
Hey it might help to bleed a little bit and have your heart feel for someone else besides
yourself.
When you don't even, you have no possibility of experiencing this.
One last thing on this for me, as they hope for the Supreme Court to make this whole decision.
They forget that while they're competing for the worse laws possible to get to the Supreme
Court, those laws are still being put in place.
So however long it take for you to get to the Supreme Court and have you over turn Roe
versus Wade, their laws are in effect and it's affecting people.
They glossed that over completely.
>> They don't care.
>> We're lawmakers, we'll just put a laws in place.
Because we don't actually want it to actually affect the people that we're putting it on.
>> Right, we're wasting time.
We're using state funds in order to try and change something federally.
Also, can I just mention how this affects women who have miscarriages?
I remember years ago reading a story about women who talk about the pain of having to
go to Babies R Us and return car seats.
And have to explain how they should be able to return something that's usually unreturnable
because it turns out they don't have a baby at home and how painful that is.
And just putting that into perspective and thinking, how much worse that will feel if
they're having to go through some sort of police investigation.
To make sure that they didn't have an abortion or do something themselves to cause a miscarriage,
and just how cruel this is to women.
>> So in some of these red states that already have some pretty strict anti-abortion measures,
what they'll do if a woman gives birth to a stillborn, and it's usually women who are
living in poverty or women of color.
These are the ones who get Investigated, if they give birth to a still born or they have
a miscarriage, they will launch an investigation to see whether or not this woman has ever
had a history of drug use.
Has ever done anything that could have led to that miscarriage and then they will prosecute
that woman for murder.
I am not kidding, this has already happened in states like Mississippi.
And so this particular legislation doesn't have this specific wording indicating that
a woman would be punished.
In reality, women are already being punished.
And this would further reinforce the mechanisms to do that.
And it is disgusting.
I mean, you talk about caring about life.
I mean, we can go into all the other policies, including cutting food stamp funding and things
like that.
Demonstrate they don't care about life.
But in this case, it's also abundantly clear they don't care about the women's lives at
all, at all.
>> Crazy.
>> It's about controlling them.
It's about winning political brownies.
>> Crazy how people talk across and the ones who say, these feminist are out there to get
us men and subvert our society and make sure they control us, and then we have to do their
bidding.
It's crazy how that just happens the exactly we allow these guys were trying to do.
>> Or doing.
>> Frustrating, there's some many part of these that are just so cool.
We brought up this morning, there was a case in Alabama two years ago, a 12 year old.
Had to go due to appeal and go to a higher court to be able to get an abortion after
she was raped by- >> My God
>> A family member and impregnated.
And so just putting that into what they want to do now, they would want to force this 12
year old
>> Yeah >> Who was raped to have her family member's
child, a 12 year old It's hideous >> Yeah
>> And of course, majority of State Senators who voted in favor of this are over whelming
white men.
There are a total of 27 white male republicans in the state senate and 25 of them voted in
favor of this legislation two of then did not vote.
So that's what we are working with here in the state of Alabama