>> Georgia's Governor, Brian Kemp, has officially
signed into law one of the most restrictive
abortion laws in country.
Now this is referred to as a fetal heartbeat
law and it is not the first state that has
passed this.
And the whole point is to go through the courts
and hopefully end up in the Supreme Court,
where of course there is a conservative slant
among the judges, and essentially completely
shut down Roe v Wade reverse Roe v Wade.
So let me give you the details.
The Georgia law, which would take effect in
2020, prohibits most abortions once doctors
can discern a fetal heartbeat.
A milestone that occurs before some women,
most women, know they are pregnant.
In practice, the limit on abortion in Georgia
will now be 6 weeks of pregnancy, instead
of 20.
So let me just note that previously all of
these red states, under the Obama administration,
were trying to pass these abortion bans past
20 weeks.
And the way that they did it made it seem
as though they were being reasonable.
Look, at 20 weeks, look at how developed the
fetus is.
And they would sway even people on the left.
But everyone who was paying close attention
knew that that was just a facade, or that
was just an avenue in which they would further
restrict abortion to the point where it would
be illegal.
And that's exactly what they're trying to
do here.
Now, exemptions are allowed, according to
this law, to prevent death or serious harm
to the woman.
And in cases of rape or incest in which a
police report has been filed.
So if you are the victim of rape or incest
and you get pregnant as a result of that,
you are not allowed to get an abortion unless
you went to the police and you filed a police
report on it.
>> Mm-hm, so Alabama's gone further, or is
trying to go further.
It's in debates right now.
One of their legislative chambers, they do
not make an exception for rape or incest so
if you have been raped, the Sharia law in
Alabama could be that because of someone else's
religion, you must carry your rapist child
to term.
And in that case, there is no six weeks, there
is no nothing, it's just simply outlaws abortion.
>> Can I actually talk about what happen in
Alabama when it came to that legislation?
They were actually supposed to vote on that
today.
And the reason why they decided to table it
is because some of those state lawmakers fought
back and they did so aggressively.
>> Mm-hm.
>> So I just wanna spread the word that fighting
back works, it works, and it certainly worked
here.
Now, of course, they're gonna reintroduce
the legislation next week, but you gotta keep
fighting, because if you don't fight then
they're gonna get everything that they want,
we know how the right wing works, they're
relentless, and it's about time that the left
wing is.
Just as relentless if not more especially
when it comes to protecting reproductive freedoms.
>> Two more things about Alabama.
They're not playing when they say make it
illegal.
They say the doctor who performs an abortion
would get 99 years in prison, a life sentence,
they say abortion is illegal as soon as it
is fetuses in utero, in other words, all abortions
obviously.
There are no abortions that aren't in utero.
But the reason that they had the fight was
actually somewhat of a procedural but one
that makes a lot of sense.
Cuz the republicans tried to pass it on a
voice vote.
They're like, all in favor?
Aye, okay, good, good enough.
Let's pass it, right?
And Democrats said, no, no, no, we wanna get
everybody on the record.
Now, why?
In the State of Alabama, you would think that
the anti-abortion position would be popular
and that the Republicans would be proud to
be on the record as ending abortion, but they
don't want to do that.
You wanna know why?
Now, this is not specifically Alabama, it's
for the whole country.
Let's go to graphic 40.
71% of Americans, including, and this is a
little shocking, 50% of Republicans oppose
overturning Roe versus Wade.
So the great majority of the country is on
our side.
They think that Roe versus Wade should be
the law of the land.
So since most Americans are pro-choice, seven
out of ten, not even close, not even close.
Even the Republicans in Alabama don't wanna
go on the record as actually doing it.
So are you in favor of it or are you not?
Are you proud of it or are you not?
I thought you ran all of your campaigns on
this.
Now, you know what those Republicans and Alabama
understand?
That if they are successful and they actually
outlaw abortion, there's gonna be enormous
blowback.
And this goes to the problem with democratic
and independent voters.
They just believe maybe because of what television
tells them that Republicans and Democrats
are the same thing.
On some issues when it comes to corporate
matters, it's true and it comes to favoring
the tax is true, but an issues like abortion,
they're not remotely the same thing, not at
all, that's a total lie.
If you vote for Republican, they will try
to take away your liberty and that is what
it is.
They will have big government impose to real
law and tell you what to do with your body,
not based on your beliefs, not based on your
religion or your interpretation of your religion.
But based on their interpretation of their
religion, that is Sharia law., it happens
to be fundamental with Christian's Sharia
law but Sharia law anyway.
That is what Republicans believe.
If you don't believe them, put them in office
see what happens.
Do you think it's just Alabama and Georgia?
First of all, Georgia is now a purple state.
If they didn't do voter suppression, it would
have a democratic governor and would not pass
this.
Stacey Abrams would've vetoed this law.
So they barely won in Georgia.
Ohio passed the same law.
So if you vote for a Republican, understand
you're giving away your freedom.
If you're a woman, they're gonna tell you
what you can and cannot do with your body.
They're gonna have big government come in
and put in religious law that dictates what
to do.
You probably, it's not remotely an exaggeration,
that is a stone called fact.
If you like that and you like being guided
by somebody else's religion and you don't
want control over your body, then all right,
vote Republicans.
If you don't, you should vote them all out
of office.
>> So I wanna go to Governor Kemp from Georgia.
He had a signing ceremony for this legislation
and I found what he had to say during the
ceremony fascinating.
Let's take a look.
>> We must protect life at all stages.
We must remember our higher calling.
And we must remember to work in the days,
months, and years ahead.
>> So he says, we have to protect life at
all stages.
But if you look at simple statistics in the
state of Georgia, it's abundantly clear that
the lawmakers there do not actually care about
life in all stages.
In fact, Georgia is not doing well at all
when it comes to the economic situation for
a lot of people, including children.
And I'm not talking about zygotes, I'm not
talking about fetuses, I'm talking about children,
living, breathing children that Republicans
always turn their backs on because they don't
have the ability to control women once the
children are born.
So let me give you the details on that.
Go to graphic six.
So let's take a look at their poverty statistics.
So 14.9% of Georgia's overall residents are
below the poverty line.
When it comes to children, that statistic
goes up to 20.7%.
20.7% of children are living in poverty in
the state of Georgia.
Is Kemp concerned about that?
Are the right-wing lawmakers spending any
time trying to alleviate the pain that these
people are feeling?
No, they're much more concerned about what's
happening in a woman's uterus.
Let me give you some more details.
>> Ana to be fair, he did threw some bootstraps
at the one-year-olds.
You're out of the uterus now.
I don't care.
Here's some bootstraps.
You got a good health, you don't have good
health, your mom might die in childbirth.
Those are health care issues.
Don't care, your life don't care.
All I care about is what are you gonna do
with your body.
You must follow my religion and you must do
as I tell you.
That's not America.
You hate America if you believe that.
You wanna be pro life?
You wanna say, hey, listen, to me, it is life,
that's my interpretation of my faith.
We don't disagree with that.
You make those decisions for yourself, but
not for the rest of us.
That is un-American.
>> More details.
The teen birth rate in Georgia was already
high, so for instance in Georgia, there is
a birth rate of 23.6 babies per 1,000 girls.
That's in 2016, again, these are teenagers,
ages 15 to 18.
In Massachusetts, it's 8.5 per 1,000 girls
in 2016.
And I included Massachusetts to juxtapose
just how bad it already was in the state of
Georgia.
So are there any education programs in the
state to do other than abstinence-only education
to prevent teen pregnancies?
Because if you care about abortion so much,
wouldn't it make more sense to educate the
youth there to provide resources to prevent
unwanted pregnancies that way abortions don't
happen?
>> I know, Ana.
But Ayatollah Kemp's Sharia law says that
you also cannot decide what to do with your
body when you're making decisions about who
you're going to love, who you're going to
sleep with.
Any kind of activity you might have, you don't
need to make those decisions.
Ayatollah Kemp make those decisions for you.
So you want education, so you don't get accidentally
become a mom when you're a teenager or pregnant
when you're a teenager and have to face those
incredibly difficult decisions.
Don't care, we're gonna make sure you do not
get that information.
That is why, ironically, there's more abortions
in Georgia, not less.
It turns out ignorance is not a good solution.
>> Exactly, and again, Kemp argues that we
need to protect lives of all ages.
Well, 27.2% of people living in Georgia did
not have health insurance in 2017.
Yeah, we're really great at protecting life
in Georgia, arent we?
>> 30,000 people a year die cuz they don't
have health insurance.
That's 10 9/11s every single year but republicans
like Ayatollah Kemp says, I don't care if
you die in the streets, as long as a private
company is not making profit off of it, I
don't care, go die.
And then turns around says, no, no, no, I'm
pro life, why?
Cuz I'm gonna tell a woman when who she can
sleep with, when she can sleep with them and
what happens to her body afterwards.
That's who Ayatollah Kemp is, and all these
people are the right wing who favor big government
controlling our bodies.
>> And I'm bringing up all of these statistics
because these are issues that actually impact
living breathing human beings, that the right
wing in America pretends to care about when
they're looking to get elected but do nothing
about.
In fact, only push for counterproductive measures
that make it increasingly difficult for average
Americans to live above the poverty line.
I'm talking about people who are working full
time jobs but then you have Republicans working
to keep the minimum wage as low as humanly
possible so their full time jobs don't even
pay enough for them to get by or feed their
children.
In fact, 13% of households in Georgia were
food insecure on average from 2015 to 2016.
So why aren't the lawmakers in Georgia doing
something about that?
Why?
I'd like to know.
Because if you care about life, this is impacting
people's lives every single day in your state.
>> And as I've told you numerous times, Numbers
5:20 through 22 in the Bible, shows you that
God is in favor of abortion.
Not neutral to it, in favor of abortion.
So read your bible, Ayatollah Kemp, if you're
gonna go around enforcing your Bible on either
people, you should at least read it and know
what's in it because you're wrong about that,
as well.
So if you don't want religious law in America,
don't vote for Republicans cuz they do not
agree.
They will try to enforce their interpretation
of their religion on all of us.
It is the single most un-American thing you
can do.
