An anti-choice Republican by the name of Matt Rosendale just exposed
that he does not have a basic understanding of how abortion works.
In fact, why don't we take a look at this video and I'll explain more.
>> I wanna start by talking about the issue of chemical abortion.
Now, Walgreens, after being put on notice by 20 state attorneys general has decided
to roll back the distribution of abortion pills through the mail and
in pharmacies including in Montana.
What's your reaction to this?
>> I'm really glad that they have.
There's a lot of risks that's involved with Plan B abortifacient and
not everyone recognizes the danger that it poses to the health of the woman that is
taking these things and the reaction that might take place thereafter.
And if she's at home by herself with no one there to supervise what
is even going on, this could turn into a very tragic situation rapidly.
>> Now, a lot of words, there, Plan B, abortifacient, dangerous.
So, let's actually get to what's going on here, okay?
Here's what Walgreen says it will not dispense.
The two abortion drugs currently approved by the FDA are mifepristone and
misoprostol.
A drug that can be used alone to induce an abortion.
Walgreens confirmed early March that it would not distribute
mifepristone the first pill in a two-drug medication abortion regimen.
But Rosendale was talking about Plan B.
This is the thing that drives me crazy because he has no idea what Plan B really
is because he thinks Plan B is the same thing as the abortion pill.
It's not, this is a common misconception.
This is a common area of confusion, particularly for
Republican men who legislate our bodies, okay?
So, Plan B is the morning-after pill, okay?
And that has nothing to do with abortions.
It does not cause an abortion, it does not induce an abortion.
In fact, if you're already pregnant and you take Plan B,
it will not end the pregnancy.
Plan B is the brand name for or the brand name for
Plan B is something that I'm not even gonna try to pronounce here,
but it's designed to prevent pregnancy by delaying or
stopping the egg from leaving the ovary.
According to the FDA's handy timeline of the drug.
Now, an abortifacient, or
what he referred to is any substance that's used to terminate a pregnancy.
Plan B again, let me just repeat myself, does not terminate pregnancies.
And in fact, if the right wing is so against abortion and
wants to minimize the occurrence of abortions, one of the best ways
they can do that is by making birth control readily available to women and
by making things like Plan B, readily available for women, but
they won't do that because they actually don't care at all.
And in fact, more importantly, as we can see from that ridiculously
ignorant statement coming from this lawmaker,
they don't even understand how the female anatomy works or
how these various drugs impact a pregnancy or the ability to get pregnant.
So, Rosendale is an idiot.
Then he called oral abortions and Plan B dangerous.
So, this is also a right-wing tactic to fear monger and spread all sorts of
doubt about medical abortions, meaning the abortion through a pill.
The right-wing group alliance defending freedom is also amplifying
this myth in its lawsuit to rescind the FDA approval for mifepristone.
So, here's how dangerous it is compared to other easily available
drugs Republicans apparently have zero issues with.
So in this graph, you'll see mifepristone at the top
which shows five deaths per one million users.
You have penicillin, the number jumps to 20, obviously,
we shouldn't ban penicillin.
But why would you look at that, okay?
According to data Viagra actually is far more dangerous than the abortion pill is.
You have 49 deaths per one million users.
But I don't hear a single Republican lawmaker advocating for
the banning of Viagra.
Not a single, I wonder why?
I wonder, can we look into your medicine cabinet?
I'm just curious what's going on in there, Matt Rosendale.
Maybe you have a little bit of a bias in this situation.
Nonetheless, Rosendale is exposing his own drawbacks,
his own ignorance when it comes to understanding abortion.
And he has zero reservations about the fact that he's ignorant and
continues to be one of these warriors against women's reproductive rights.
Here's his voting record on abortion over the last three years.
So as you can tell,
he voted yes on the so-called Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,
which is, let me just stop and say was a ridiculous bill to begin with
because the idea that abortions happen after the baby is born.
It's just not a thing, but there are laws for that, it's called murder.
Once a baby is born and is an independent life,
you can't abort it, it's called murder.
But they know that they know that it's just the same garbage that they engage in,
the theater, the performative nonsense, and
it's meant to sow fear and division in the country.
In January of this year, he was actually the co-sponsor of that
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act bill.
He also voted no on Women's Health Protection Act of 2022.
No, on ensuring access to abortion, and also no,
on Women's Health Protection Act of 2021, he's anti-abortion.
And it is amazing to me that the right-wing is still going with this
big government control women's body avenue knowing full well that it
hurt them in the midterm elections.
So by all means, if you wanna keep signaling and messaging to the American
people, then you don't believe that women should have agency or
autonomy over their own bodies, go ahead and do it.
But you should know people are paying attention, they don't like it,
they don't want weirdos like Rosendale between themselves and their doctors.
This is an intimate decision that women should be able to make
without the interference of any government official or any congressional lawmaker.
And the fact that they're still hyper-focused on this
nonsense gives you a sense of how they have nothing else to offer,
fear, hatred, control over people's intimate lives.
God forbid they do anything that actually materially improves the lives of their
constituents.
They can't do that.
Their corporate donors would be very upset.