Hey guys. Do you ever wonder why lawmakers
who claim to be pro-life make it so hard
to live life?
They love the unborn but
once you're past the birth canal,
get a job.
So why make a video about abortion
rights now? After all abortion is already
a right, and 7 in 10 Americans believe
that that right should stay.
So why are we talking about it?
Well, because state
legislatures are in session, and the
first order of business on the docket of
oppression nostalgia?
Taking that right away.
A Missouri State House panel
discusses potential new litigation to
outlaw abortion.
A bill that would
essentially ban abortions in Iowa has
won approval of an Iowa Senate
subcommittee.
Representative Tony Tinderholt
proposed the Abolition Of Abortion
In Texas Act, which would legally
designated abortion as murder.
Now of
course, a lot of these bills aren't going
to pass, but that's not the point.
See, pro-life lawmakers are like
Confederate Civil War reenactors: a group
of angry old white men who get together
and try and relive the glory days. No
matter how unrealistic.
And just because
something is unconstitutional doesn't
mean they won't try to pass it.
In Oklahoma, state lawmakers are voting on a
bill that would require a woman to get
written consent from a father to have
the abortion.
The bill's sponsor,
Republican Justin Humphrey, described
pregnant women as mere "hosts" for fetuses
and that "irresponsible" women do
not have a right to abort when
"you're the host and you invited that in."
A "host" ... Okay let's get something straight.
A woman's uterus isn't a potluck, and if
it was then men are the kind of guests
that only bring paper plates.
Can't eat
food without plates, am I right?
You're welcome ladies.
The day it should
be necessary to get consent from the
father is the day we invent the male
uterus. We'll call it the Duderus.
Until then ... our bodies our choice.
in Wyoming, lawmakers have been so eager to
pass pro-life bills this session, they
went ahead and passed two of them in
their all-male Senate Committee on
*Agriculture.*
Yes, that same body that will
vote on whether to establish a captive
breeding ground for the Sage Grouse.
Oh, Wyoming.
A captive breeding ground for birds and
the human female.
Lawmakers in South
Dakota will vote on a bill that could
sentence a doctor to prison if they
provide an abortion after three months
of pregnancy. One republican defended the
law saying it in no way discriminates
against women.
It's just an attack against the women they'll become.
They'll have a few
good years.
Then there's the airtight reasoning of
former pro-life Representative Pete
Nielsen of Idaho.
Last year while
describing why abortion rights don't
need to apply to cases of rape or incest,
Nielson demonstrated his vast knowledge
of the female reproductive system now.
Did he just say, "incest a little bit"??
Listen, besides being
biologically incorrect, is it worth
mentioning he's got five daughters? No,
I wouldn't want to add to the trauma of
the situation.
But Missouri has really
outdone them all.
Their lawmakers have
introduced 20 anti-abortion bills in
this session alone. One Missouri rep went
so far as to introduce a bill stating
that life begins at conception and
he called it the All Lives Matter Act.
That's right. The already bogus "All Lives Matter" slogan
has new life with pro-lifers.
God who holds a sign like that--
OKAY. yeah.
But co-opting a line from Black Lives Matter,
a movement about ending
police brutality, naturally begs the
question: what exactly is the life that these soon-to-be-born will live?
In Missouri, where the Black Lives Matter
movement began, one in five children
lives below the poverty line, and almost
30% of the poor are black. And lawmakers
there aren't exactly helping. They've
been creating tougher rules that have
been kicking people off of welfare.
Between 2011 and 2016, families receiving
assistance dropped by 66%.
Where's the money gone that would have
helped poor families? Well, over four
million dollars of it has been directed
to Alternatives to Abortion,
the pro-life
program that assists women in carrying
their unborn child to term and, if need
be, putting it up for adoption.
Which feels like so much of a cruel joke, I
can't think of a cruel joke.
And remember South Dakota, where
anti-abortion laws were definitely not
anti-woman? The same day legislators took
a step in toughening abortion laws, they
also scrapped a bill requiring employers
to give working mothers accommodations,
like a place to breastfeed. One
Republican defended that decision with
this message to women:
Yeah lady! You have a choice!
And every day you can choose that choice.
Because this is a nation that is pro-ch--....
And it's fitting that Pete "rape-can't-lead-to-pregnancy" Nielsen hails from Idaho,
a state that ranks last in adequate day
care standards.
And guess what? The former rep held out against day care regulations,
arguing that
" a mother's intuition" will prevent her from
putting her kids in a bad facility.
OK, Pete, let me get this straight:
a mother has intuition, but a pregnant
woman just can't make up her own mind?
OK, male.
To recap: in the same states
where legislators are making it harder
to have abortions,
you've got gutted welfare systems, fewer
protections for working mothers,
and crap child care.
It's mind boggling that these
lawmakers can still call themselves
"pro-life," because at this point you think
they'd just call themselves part of the
"Good luck with that life" movement.
Because if life is so precious,
why pass legislation making it harder to live it?
The logic is self-defeating.
It's a never-ending circle.
And maybe that's the
point? ...  It's the circle of pro-life.
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