One day I was at the pharmacy trying to refill my birth control prescription, but I found out that I had no insurance. My dad lost his job but assured me that I still had health insurance until the end of the month, which it turns out I didn't. I very much needed access to my birth control, because if I suddenly stop taking it my hormones get out of whack, and I usually fall into a deep depression as they're adjusting. So I went to a Planned Parenthood. Growing up around Christian, I had always been told that Planned Parenthood was scary and evil. But when I walked in, I noticed that the place was very colorful and warm. I immediately found it more welcoming than most doctor's offices I had been to. The staff was all very nice. No one looked down on me for being uninsured and broke. They gave me birth control and also a bag of condemns and the day after pill. I was floored at how helpful and kind they were. Even if you're not getting abortions, people need access to clinics. People should just have access to healthcare period.
@@hammingdad1 You're right, the pro-life argument itself is a red herring. With all the war and actual young ones living that need food, shelter and healthcare, worrying about abortions is a huge distraction. Let's worry about real issues and allow women to choose what they want to do with their bodies.
Well its normal reasoning as the death penalty (which i dont support) - the reasoning is that they took an innocent human life, and they are not innocent, life for a life. I dont agree with a "life for a life" but its not hard to understand the reasoning if one is being honest, i think.
A personal friend of mine had an abortion so she wouldn't die. She didn't like the idea of terminating the pregnancy and, because she wanted to carry it to term and give birth, it was very hard for her to do it. She suffers from unrelated health problems and has come close to death repeatedly while not pregnant. The added strain on her body from pregnancy would almost certainly have killed her and, given her condition, there is no realistic chance she could have survived childbirth if she miraculously survived to that point in pregnancy. Even an antiabortion law granting exceptions for life threatening circumstances could have delayed her opportunity to have the abortion and thus could have killed her. She is not alone. Banning abortions not only oppresses anyone who can get pregnant, it leads to the deaths and suffering of countless people.
A lot higher percentage of people seeking abortion than most people realize, are seeking to terminate a desired pregnancy. Just because you want a baby, doesn't mean you'll willingly die for one.
Unfortunately, I think fundamentalists particularly theocrats, with their concept of sin and divine strikeback, probably think it serves all such women right, either for failing to get right with Him as the sect in question characterizes Him (obviously, no concrete idea what it would take), or in the case of Calvinists, for being rejected by Him before she was conceived. If that's truly how most fundamentalism-driven forced birthers feel, they're a death cult.
@@hammingdad1 Okay so if someone were to break into your house, would you not have the right to protect yourself with violence perhaps? I don't see how a fully grown human and a fetus are similar but even if they were, why does the line suddenly get drawn at women? It's completely sexist to suggest that women shouldn't have a right to defend their own blood against an unwanted pregnancy.
@@sinkopationYour questions are excellent questions: First, you are right - there is no connection between an aggressor invading my home and an innocent and defenseless unborn baby... BUT your reference to a kind of question regarding 'self defense' is not a dumb question. The answer is this: The 'line' you refer to is not being drawn at 'a woman'. The 'line' is being drawn at 'the beginning of another distinct human being, the unborn baby. And the logic I use would apply even if men could bear children. The abortion industry, and the unelected plutocrats that wish to control our population are the ones who hatched the idea of the horror of an abortion becoming a 'woman's right'. They did this to prevent the working class from ever being able to rise against them in any orderly fashion. Abortion has never been about 'women's rights'. Abortion is about men's rights without restraint... and especially rich men's rights. The women who actively promote abortion have simply attached themselves to the ideological 'gravy train; that rights without responsibility rationalize. The phony battle of pitting men and women against each other especially after WW-II was not designed to help women... rather it was designed to help very rich men! We need to stop pretending that abortion is some kind of compassionate thing. How many mathematicians, scientists, medical healers, engineers, poets, artists, great leaders and great thinkers have been thrown into the plastic garbage pail in the name of 'choice'? Finally this: Killing an innocent and defenseless human being is ALWAYS wrong. It is wrong no matter what our feelings tell us. The rights we accord to the unborn will eventually reflect upon us. Indeed, in parts of Europe, we are already seeing insurance companies and governments coercing or even forcing people to 'compassionately end their lives to stop being a burden on society'. We are already reaping what we sow. It will just be a matter of time before an insurance company will pay you for an abortion but penalize you for having a child. It's about money. This is why the UN hatched the phony 'the world is going to end FOR SURE in 2012 because of human activity. There are 32 distinct times we were told that abortion would save the world. NONE of them have come true. To borrow a phrase from the regressive 'progressives' look at the science. And in this case I mean don;t look at the 'scientific conclusions' - rather look at the REAL DATA. This is all to 1.) Tax us to death and 2.) Keep our population small enough so that every aspect of our lives can be policed. 2.) Make sure we never own enough to become a political threat to the unelected oligarchs and plutocrats that control every aspect of our lives. They can do this in 2 ways: In a democracy they simply use the corporations. In a totalitarian state like China they do this by government and 'social credits'.
A lot of these states voted against free lunch for kids who don't have lunch from home when they go to school. So .... where's the care for their lives?
Don't worry, they don't care about humans once outside the womb. These are most of the same states that refused to expand medicaid options even though they have the resources through the AMA (or "Obamacare"). If at the core of it, they're against feeding children and providing medical insurance, then we know they're not "pro-life." Pro forced birth is about it.
Ive had two abortions. I would have been trapped twice to an abusive husband. I spend zero hours regretting it ever. In fact i was grateful i had my choice respected and available to choose.
You could have found another way, you're suppressing the trauma. You need to forgive yourself and fight for the human rights of all people by standing against abortion 👍
@@MagdaleneDivine Isn't it interesting how many women are making excellent points in this comments section about bodily autonomy, human rights, health risks/risks to survival associated with pregnancy and other great points while most (if not all) of the people crying "baby killer" have youtube handles that contain masculine words like "dad or "king"? To them I say, govern your own bodies and let others govern theirs.
I think airports might be a good place to locate a women's health center because they could be behind the TSA security lines. The best airport might be Chicago O'Hare because Illinois allows abortions and there are a lot of flights from Texas that go there.
That would be great if the airports allow it. TSA checks are an easy way to help with the safety issue, and maybe could help in hiding identities of those going there, so no one will try to find their house to murder them
That makes a lot of sense. I’ve heard a group of assorted advocates was trying to pull together a boat that could cruise into international waters and perform the needed abortions and other health care, then return to port a couple days later; also a good idea! 👍
@@misspat7555Pittsburgh is building a new (half of a) terminal and I get their newsletter and I may suggest this idea to them, but probably will not get an answer because of such a touchy subject. But ORD would really be the one to get a clinic that would be the most accessible with all those flights from Texas from Southwest which is a low price carrier.
I agree. Because despite what so called pro-lifers think it's going to happen. Personally tired of Religious Fundamentalist Dogma. That includes Christian.
Women have the right to control their body, including their uteruses. Fetuses do have rights. For example, you can be charged with double homicide if you murder a pregnant woman and her fetus. You also shouldn't smoke or drink heavily while pregnant. However, the rights of the fetus do not supercede the rights of the woman. It is first and foremost her body, which the fetus is using. She decides what happens to her body, the fetus does not get more rights to use the woman's body than she does. Think about it another way. You control your organs and blood. Nobody could force you to donate blood, even if that means someone else could die. Even if donating blood causes you no harm, you still cannot be forced to donate. You control your own body, even at the expense of others. Same with a pregnant woman. Her rights are more important than the fetus' rights. You do not get to use someone else's body without their consent (and agreeing to intimacy is not agreeing to pregnancy, besides consent can be revoked at anytime). You are free to not like abortion, to not want to personally have one, etc. You are not free to dictate what another person does with their body or their organs
Respectfully: The fallacy in your logic in saying "Same with a pregnant woman. Her rights are more important than the fetus' rights". An unborn person's rights are EQUAL to the mother. And under most circumstances (I refer here to the more than 4,000 abortions on a day)... those rights do not NEED to be pitted against each other. Adoption is always an option. Also, a woman who has had ONE abortion is 85% more likely to have a second. Moreover, this divisive issue is used by both political parties in order to keep good people like you and I fighting with each other. It is an intentional distraction so that we do not notice that both parties have their hands deep in our pockets. As long as the killing of an innocent person is illegal in a society then abortion should also be illegal in a civilized society. For it to be otherwise will eventually and most certainly make the society become UNCIVILIZED... as is already happening (knock out game anyone?). Be careful what you wish for.
@@Where_is_Waldo I have the greatest respect for women, who I have worked with and for all my life. The best and brightest of them will tell me that the abortion industry peddles lies for political and monetary gain. I happen to know some awesome women. I got my pro life views from several female doctors and nurses back in the 80s. When I became part of the pro life movement... most of the people I WORKED FOR were professional medical women.
@@hammingdad1 Ah, I see, there are so many well informed women out there who oppose abortion on rational medical reasons and not religious reasons that this comments section is flooded with them as opposed to being flooded with antichoice comments from someone who's youtube handle has the word dad in it.
I’m from JC, don’t live there anymore. But I’m happy to know it must be upsetting some of my relatives and former colleagues/classmates that there is an abortion clinic that is only a 40 minute drive away! ETA: JC is Johnson City, TN, for anyone not from that area that may be confused. It’s one of the “Tri-Cities” with Bristol.
To the people saying abortion should be outlawed because it kills babies: should people with fertility issues be barred from pregnancy? The same mechanisms as pill based abortions occur in people with fertility problems and sometimes just arbitrarily in any pregnant person because human biology is a mess. For a successful birth for someone with fertility issues who is trying to have a child there will often be several "spontaneous abortions."
In not saying women should not have the right to kill their own child early in their life. But ita nothing to do with religion: You believe if someone killed you at X point after your existance, then it wouldn't harm you. That is a BELIEF you have about something that is unknown to you or me - what happens after death, if we have a soul or not, etc.
Im telling you to change your beliefs, im asking you to notice the arrogance of you claiming with certainty "if i kill someone at this point in their life it doesn't harm them". That is an esential od any right to kill, inc abortion.
@@pebblepod30, you can use all the dysphemistic and misleading language you want, but that doesn’t change the reality of the science. Nobody is “killing” anything. Also, the rights and body of an actual living person is far more valuable than a clump of unwanted cells. Women don’t exist as broodmares just so forced birth wackos can get their rocks off.
@@pebblepod30sorry, if someone is clinically braindead and are only being kept alive by life support, doctors and family have the right to cease life support. Prior to 24 weeks, there is not enough brain to have sentience. The mother, on the other hand, is usually a sentient being and should have her health and rights protected.
Abortion is the DENIAL of a human right. How many mathematicians, doctors, inventors, brilliant men and women have been killed since the abortion industry hijacked the women's movement? One must DENY THE SCIENCE to think that abortion is not simply the killing of an innocent human being who can't fight back and who has become inconvenient. The great writer Peggy Noonan once wondered "if the Democratic party would some day become abortion's final victim". I think this is actually happening. It makes me sad because I was once a Democrat. It is the silent holocaust of abortion which made me leave the Democrat reservation many decades ago. And now my children, and my children's children avoid the party of abortion.
And im not saying women shouldn't have the right to kill their own child because of their own personal beliefs that it doesn't harm a human to kill them early enough. That is what majority want, under some circumstances. My point is your own framing of it as nothing more than your own body & selfish right, not at all any responsibility & power over the other genetically, phyiscally (& maybe spiritually?) different human growing inside you. Sorry but my notifications are off while i challenge my internet addictions.
@@pebblepod30 "I'm not saying woman shouldn't have the right to an abortion" while saying "woman shouldn't have the right to an abortion b/c of spirituality or whatever "
@@AvaAdore-wx5gg I do not know what 'you people' means frankly. It sounds like 'group talk'. I am an individual. How well would it have worked out if Hitler had asked to work out a 'sane compromise' regarding his desire to eliminate an entire race of people because he and all of his followers deemed them harmful and inconvenient? IN abortion, we're talking about either chemically burning or else dismembering (arms, leg, head, torso) from a full formed (albeit small) human being. You can use a comfy word like 'fetus' but human offspring are HUMAN BEINGS. Abortion is the object proof of the pessimism of materialistic greed. Repudiating it has little to do with religion and much to do with common sense. If an unborn baby is disposable, then YOU are disposable and I am disposable. I do not want to live in a world where any human being is disposable. Now we can talk about all the extreme cases and so forth but at the end of the day it is false charity to say it is somehow a right to kill an unborn child willfully.
@@AvaAdore-wx5gg That is irrelevant. Im only asking you to be more humble, and admit you dont know what happens when you kill someone - you are just guessing based on your culture & beliefs about life and death. Also, such issues are very open to debate and have changed over the years with more research.
Imagine thinking it's completely ok to let someone else use your body against your will. McFall v Shimp outlined that no one can use your body or organs even if they will die without them. This is about punishing women for having sex, hook line and sinker.
They really have people believing that slavery is logical, ethical, and godly. Giving someone else rights to our bodies because they've been deemed a "legal person" is crazy!!! Corporations are legal persons.
Or not having sex. Remember that r*pe victims must also carry their attackers' seed to term, even if said victim is 11 years old. And then, there's that bit about miscarriage rebranded as m*rder. It's about oppression to preserve that patriarchy.
@@JohnT.4321One has to DENY SCIENCE in order to rationalize abortion. Modern fetology tells us that the unborn baby feels pain, is indeed a human (remember when PP told us it was "just a lump of cells" before high-res ultra sound was invented) and is as unique as our eyes, our finger prints and our personalities. Less than 100 years ago a very scientifically advanced nation in Europe told us that a specific group of their population was 'less than human'. And then big American and German corporations helped that government legalize the killing of millions? One does not need religion in order to know that abortion is the willful destruction of an innocent human being due to inconvenience. AND... when a people rationalize that... they are merely a decade away from terminating you because your medical costs are a burden on Corporate insurance. Be CAREFUL what you wish for.
It's either safe and legal or "let's see what I've got under the kitchen sink". Have known actual women who throw themselves downstairs or off trampolines and whatnot to induce a miscarriage. Some even drown themselves in alcohol while eating basically nothing in hopes that kills it off.
@@Kyle496 And, gee, I wonder how well that works out for these women's reproductive organs. The antichoice movement is an anti-women's rights movement.
"maternal health desert" shouldn't even be a phrase 🤦🏽 Knoxville is definitely a maternal health desert... i live around the corner from that clinic that was burned down 😢💔
In an ideal world, abortion would be exceedingly rare or even nonexistent. We don't, never have, and never will live in an ideal world. A woman is an actual life while her fetus is, at best, potential life, and I will always preference actual life over potential life.
Well stated. My comments often disappear when I respond to antichoice ignoramuses in this comments section so I'm commenting the following point as much as I can to make sure as many people as possible will see it. A personal friend of mine had an abortion so she wouldn't die. She didn't like the idea of terminating the pregnancy and, because she wanted to carry it to term and give birth, it was very hard for her to do it. She suffers from unrelated health problems and has come close to death repeatedly while not pregnant. The added strain on her body from pregnancy would almost certainly have killed her and, given her condition, there is no realistic chance she could have survived childbirth if she miraculously survived to that point in pregnancy. Even an antiabortion law granting exceptions for for life threatening circumstances could have delayed her opportunity to have the abortion and thus could have killed her. She is not alone. Banning abortions not only oppresses anyone who can get pregnant, it leads to the deaths and suffering of countless people.
And to be clear, that ideal world would include these conditions: * Perfect birth control * No rape * No medical conditions in pregnant women that increase their chance of injury * No medical conditions in fetuses that cause damage to the pregnant women * No childbirth injures the pregnant woman (because people will always change their minds about the risk / reward trade-off of giving birth, if it's risky). This set of requirements will _never_ be fulfilled. We can work toward these goals, but we can't get there 100%. In a just world, there will always be abortions.
@@OrigamiMariedon't forget, in an ideal world pregnancy would have no detrimental affects on the pregnant person, as being pregnant at all is dangerous and increases the risk of blood clots, etc.
Yall i really hated my ex husband. Im sorry but a baby with him was a trap. Im sorry ill risk hell before i was tethered to Lance via an umbilical cord.
(Im a trans man, not a woman, just want ppl to see that before i share my response) I was pregnant by a severely abusive husband, and while i regret that i don't have my baby i know that i am better off. If i had that baby, I'd likely be dead along with any kids i had with him. Abortion saves lives in multiple ways
@@monsterglacier exactly. And there were times I chose to keep the baby. Even though my second daughter's father was abusive he was schizophrenic. So I saw I needed to leave because all I could visualize was her being a baby thrown against the wall like in the scene of Beloved, in that case I was already showing. So I've made both decsions so I'm probably the most valid opinion here lol cause I decided to keep and aborted another 2 times. I have 3 daughters. I do know what was likely lost but I'm living proof of what was saved Life is not black and white. I wish it could be but it simply isn't that easy
@@Alaskan-Armadillo It’s not just politics. Religion actively requires delusional thinking and fear of those whom think differently. It’s a harmful ideology that encourages certain actions.
@@2l84me8 I'm pretty sure that Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin were atheists. Not saying that you're a godless heathen, as I'm definitely not one of these fundamentalist idiots with their heads up their backsides, but you're a bit myopic if you genuinely think getting rid of religion will get rid of the world's problems as well.
Some Republicans, including at least one GOP Presidential Primary Candidate have called for a 15 week abortion national law, but that is a 15 week maximum law ( for states with higher than 15 weeks allowable abortions ). But the law would not REQUIRE states which now ban abortions ( or have 6 week maximum limits ) to allow abortions ( with no "TRAP Laws" ) until 15 weeks. It initially sounds good, but is terribly misleading.
I imagine it's because they're courting votes from religious extremists who haven't accepted the fact that women don't just sleep around all week by default. Or maybe it makes those prospective voters feel better about their own theology.
The root cause of the problem is that the average US eligible voter doesn't take politics seriously, or not seriously enough. The coming election might be the last election that offers the freedom to the US citizens to support a real progressive candidate. Now, the attentive observer has seen that it is not in the Grand Old Party that progressive ideas are found or supported. In the Democratic party however, a last stand of politicians with progressive ideas are struggling for surviving. If these last progressive politicians get no broad support from the average eligible voter, the US will slip further and further into a dystopian nightmare.
When people view far right wing anti government extremists who support white supremacy, patriarchy, and planet destruction for profit on the right and progressive activists that care about anti-racism, land conservation/climate change, and providing poor people with a dignified life regardless of what they are “worth” to the capitalist class as morally equal to each other and both as political extremes we have lost the plot.. centrists are insane and they don’t recognize it. So many people support good stuff but refuse to actually vote for the party that wants those policies.. so many people are against bad stuff but support a party that wants bad stuff because they don’t believe they will actually do the bad stuff.
@@TheEverFreeKingYeah they do. Look across the globe. We have plenty domestically and abroad. Fascism isn’t relegated to the past. Like idk how you even think that idiotic shit
I know journalism as a whole tends to be descriptive rather than prescriptive. However, watching this report, the calls to action are clear. Donate to your local clinics. Protest for ALL medical rights. Talk to memebers of your community to discuss the cheapest options, ways to facilitate travel, ways to get resources. There's the National Network of Abortion funds that help low income women, there's the Magnolia fund that subsidizes visits in Georgia, and there's Access Reproductive Care. I see some commenters saying "Why focus on abortion, when I or my friends or my family can't seem to access any healthcare, or any worthwhile?" And they are right, to a point. Abortion is just once piece of the entire medical infrastructure puzzle. But that just means you have to fight for the rest of it as well, not shirk the blame onto others fighting for their rights. Personally, for the medical field as a whole, I think the way foward is as such : 1) Nationalize, not the insurance model like with "Obamacare", but the medical field as a whole. The insurance middle man system leads to an excess of unneeded labor (insurance bureaucracy, salesmen, advertisers, CEOS and shareholders that make millions or billions sitting around), of paperwork, and adds a confusing layer to navigate for people. 2) Increase regulations on drugs and drug companies to ensure that they are safe. Extend those regulations to vitamins (often with mislabeled dosages, and they have a history of having fungal contaminates). Disallow patents for drugs so monopolies that can charge exorbitant prices cannot form, or else put a roof on the prices that are allowed. 3) Encourage the medical field to focus more on preventative care 4) Make medical schools extend their admissions (instead of artificially deflating them to maintain high wages) and subsidize further the schooling necessary None of this is easy. Or individually actionable. But there are groups who push for it and you are free to bother representatives directly about it (not that I trust them to listen).
So you are saying we should do what all the other wealthy countries that have good healthcare for everyone for a fraction of the cost we pay do?? We could just pick one of many different models we like that have worked for many years for other countries? Or perhaps pick and choose the best ideas from each and apply them here?? 🤔 You mean if we all voted like crazy for progressive lawmakers we could have this all fixed by for the next generation.. easy peasy?
@@bitchywoman I pointedly omitted any actions that would be suspicious or illicit to reply with in a UA-cam comment section. I also made a point to mention to join affinity groups that are working to either change the system OR provide nongovernment related support directly to people in need. You yourself, with regards to abortion care for example, can obtain *a manner of abortive care that I can't name* and *give it less than legally* to people with a fetus in a *totally not illegal" way. I don't think the government is benevolent, I don't think they'll bend over backwards even if it's the right thing. I DO think that, with regards to healthcare, you need a vast amount of resources and people reorganized in way that would either be facilitated en masse by a government body or by the much harder way of somehow obtaining the land, money, and education to do it with members of your own community. Which is also a pathway to follow! The Black Panthers worked to introduce access to healthcare to their communities. But I personally don't know how to even begin with that pathway, so I don't have any advice on how to pursue it. Community building isn't easy. It's hard and it involves joining groups and talking to people and deciding what parts of society you want to uphold and mutual aid (in my previous post, for example, in the form of donating to groups on the ground already or directly to the people affected). I agree, it's not "vote for someone and forget". I never said anything about voting in my initial post anyway.
How does paying for people to kill their babies facilitate social change?? I'm happy if you do it just wondering how politicians will magically vote differently because you made abortion corporations more profitable
I grew up conservative. I remember when "Tiller the Baby Killer" was murdered, conservatives openly cheered for his death. It's wild reflecting upon that as a Marxist decades later.
I'll respect the pro lifers when they start adopting all of the children without parents, making sure that poor children have all that they need, and ensure they are educated. They're never interested in that though. Once those kids come out of their mothers, they totally lose interest.
For the record, I would have been one of those children. Best day of the week was pizza Friday. The only day of the week my mother could afford to give me lunch money. Once a week I got lunch. I'll never forget pizza Friday.
Thank you for doing this. It is such a commonly overlooked reality of the violence used regularly against the places and people who are heroic in their service to men and women and their bodies. Here in St Paul the first arson bombing of a planned Parenthood building took place. 1974 I think. The larger neighborhood fought back, esp. when the nearby priest said that the neighborhood was a Catholic one. And it was students from a catholic university that set the fire. The response they got? Reminds us of Kristilnacht. The Jewish community was angry. Women's rights people joined with the citizens angered at the religious intolerance and the business community's concern with safety and harmony, republican and democrats and movement people were all there. We demanded better police security, arrests of harassers, threatening both the patients and the staff. Much more. On TV with the Mayor, and a full house of "concerned CITIZENS" as we called ourselves. That coalition lasted into much good work in the area. WE MUST SEEK OUT BROAD COALITIONS TO PROTECT HEALTH RIGHTS the issues are not simply abortion yes or no. Most Americans are pro-choice. We all know in providing services for reproductive rights all the other barriers arise, such as poverty, work bias, accessibility, a refuge from a violent family, the pressure from all around, so much. So it makes sense to fight for safety for your community as well as health rights. People need to be outraged. All of us. We know it is not just a " womans issue". The immmediate rallying at the Dobbs ruling was a diverse crowd and the surveys show such high support that it reaches all the people. Delighted that you sre working on this now.
I thought this video would touch on why- because the model of our economy needs a population of low wage earners to survive. That's why govt has gone after women. I'm afraid it will only get worse. Also, we ladies, in these red states, now have less body autonomy than a corpse. Think on that.
The organizations of men with power over women are far more broad and far longer than a simplistic analysis of needing workers. That's true, but should be seen in the context of all systems of control over jobs. I always loved the phrase from China's revolution that says, Women Hold Up Half the Sky.
Wild how far some men will go to ensure they never need attempt to care for themselves emotionally or financially, or to meet the most basic domestic needs. Maybe instead of continuing to unalive women and children and calling it “war,” why not, I dunno, prove your strength and courage by taking care of your damn selves. Give that a go for a bit, see how it feels.
A family member posted about wanting respect for their religious beliefs. I held my tongue but while these fanatical politicians enter our houses, they deserve less and less respect and tolerance, imo.
I hate how time and time again we see focus on things that aren't even a large problem for American's. Focus on abortion when access to any health care is hard. Focus on "trans literature" in the classroom, when funding public education is dying. Focus on anti-immigration when worker's rights are eroding. It's insane how much harder our lives have to be because of this mental illness that seems to make it so that the only kind of policy that can passed is restricting other's right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
The reason for this is that if the unborn are not safe then nobody is safe. Attitudes create philosophies. Philosophies have consequences. A systematic reduction in the value of human life (which is already happening) is the end result. I promise you that your great grand kids will not be safe in a world where first the people, then the insurance companies, and then eventually the government can DEEM AN INNOCENT PERSON INCONVENIENT and decide to 'terminate' that person.
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut, but it really does feel like its all a big distraction from any real issues. Many young people my age feel a good job and a house of their own is an almost impossible goal. The old track of getting an education to get a good job is no longer a guaranteed path, and the cost of that education just keeps rising. My grandparents have never seen a winter this warm, or forest fires this extreme, yet we keep avoiding the topic of climate change because its so bi-partisan. I wish we could just follow the science to solve the problems that need cooperation to solve, and leave people to make their own decisions about their bodies.
@@hammingdad1 women already are unsafe as they have lost the right of bodily autonomy in the US. Why should a bunch of cells that haven't even formed into anything resembling a foetus have more rights than the actual living person that happens to be carrying them?
Listen I'm pro-trans rights but I'm against abortion because it's homicide and part of the biggest genocide in human history. Workers rights are eroding because of mass immigration as well, you're going to have to compromise some of your beliefs and come to reality👍
Montana may be a red-leaning state, but I’ve been enormously proud of my fellow Montanans in terms of resisting any change to our currently reasonable and relatively minimal abortion laws. All American citizens should have the liberty and freedom to make their own decisions in such deeply personal matters. It’s no one else’s business.
Being anti abortion is NOT being pro life, it is anti the life of the mother, it is anti the life of no viable fetuses, it is anti the life of families...stop saying "pro life" & say anti abortion.
I like how these pro-abortion rights videos get so few views. Reading the comments, I’m struck by how the public is understanding that abortion is used by those in power as a “wedge issue” to keep people in political boxes.
Mandatory vasectomies for all men unless their significant other approves for the reversal. No partner no swimmers. No approval no swimmers. Easy & reversible
They say this today, tomorrow they say "death to the church" all in the name of protecting womens rights and whatever progressive views yall wanna push.
I couldn't imagine living without my kids. To this day we are still struggling financially, but our 2 unplanned kids are a blessing. Those pregnancies were to be awesome PEOPLE.
@leadwithgreeneconomy The details, however, do apply to the millions of lives that are taken due to this sick practice. The dismissive "mind your own business" is so incredibly pathetic and so commonplace as if you people like you believe in child murder so deeply that you absolutely cannot stand people with stories where things actually worked out for good. You can't handle it being possible. Sad.
Because it's a moral issue involving the killing of another human being. It would be the same thing if you said why do these abolitionists care about somebody else owning a slave🤷
@@TheEverFreeKing If I needed blood or tissue to continue living, do you think I could steal your blood or organs without your consent? Or do you value your individual bodily rights over my so-called right to life? Most certainly, my right to life is more important than your "rights over your own body,?" right?
To me this is a disgrace and a nightmare now! This country is a burning pyre and this has added onto the mess. This should have NEVER happened in the United States but it did. What else will we allow to happen to us because someone else holds the purse strings! A woman should not have to cross state lines and potentially risk her life if this procedure is necessary. I’m in the middle on this topic. I took a friend years ago to get an abortion, this was in high school because she had no one to help her. I was a teenager that had to support another teenager, it was horrific. I’m still uncomfortable when I think back in time. However, I believe these services are needed and necessary. This government just stinks in this country!
Damn, I love how you mention that mobile Planned Parenthood clinic includes gender affirming care, but then throughout use “women” as shorthand for folks who can get pregnant. Sorry for being a trans person who voluntarily removed my ability to get pregnant I guess.
One of the issues us leftists really need to work on is purity testing. We should not let less-than-inclusive language in an otherwise vitally important message cause us to denounce the whole message. Our rights are actively under attack, we need to worry about fending off that attack, not attacking those on our side for relatively minor transgressions. Let's get our rights back, then we can work on less consequential issues like inclusive language.
Hi thank you for your comment! We very intentionally used “patient” throughout because access to reproductive healthcare is an issue that impacts many people, not only cis women. We used “women” for the name of the clinic and when the data available only included information on cis women -like the stat from the Forbes article on “maternal health deserts.” We intended this story to be inclusive and apologize if it didn’t seem that way.
@@BShumanMPU Nothing you would have done could have made this person happy. They go around life thinking the world revolves around them and pronouns. Meanwhile this clinic in VA faces actual threats of physical violence (rewatch the part about the crazy Republican celebrating the murder of a doctor) and this person thinks using the word "woman" is on the same level of injustice.
1:10 Well, if these centers were mostly doing care other than abortions, why would they need to close? It's not illegal anywhere to practice gynecology, prescribe birth control, etc. This only adds credence to the argument that these aren't "care" centers, but abortion centers
You are wrong. If you listen carefully, the clinics said they did provide services but they were prohibited from doing so. Also, you must not know about all the ways health care is limited to many Americans. Do you have community health care clinics in your area? Go on in. See what happens. For real. Satisfy your paranoia
Elevated Access is a nonprofit group of private pilots who, totally for free, will fly women who need abortions to-and-from places where they can get abortions. It usually can be accomplished in one day.
All these people protesting, need to go adopt the children available for adoption, they need to raise them and love them and pay for college. SMH that’s where you can make a difference. SMH 😒😒😒
If you want less government interference and fewer unnecessary government restrictions, as a good portion of this video is dedicated to listing, join the Libertarian party.
In case the FACE Act is overturned, we will see a return to those horrible blockades. In fact, that might happen anyway, if Republicans refuse to enforce that law. So, with that in mind, clinics need to have doors that open in both directions, along with windows that can be opened. That way, some patients will be able to step over/through the protesters, and still get inside. Sufficient protesters will still make this extremely difficult, but this will definitely be helpful.
As a man I promise if I ever find myself pregnant I’ll be running to get an abortion! But in all seriousness this is a really complicated issue and I have no idea how I feel about it because both sides have good arguments and they shouldn’t treat the opposite side like they are monsters
I'm pretty sure that the side that vilifies women for getting abortions is more monstrous than the side that wants the OPTION of abortion to be accessible to ANYONE. Remember, NO ONE is requiring you to get an abortion.
I am 100% on board with making sure an abortion clinic is a surgical center. Loss of a mother is very common. Let's just upgrade the clinics as best as possible. No need to risk lives. Plus like, as a net positive for the whole world?
Why aren't we hearing from doctors why aren't they going to congress to fight for women medical nassitie it's between the doctors the clients and their families not these men making these dangerous decisions.
Mother Theresa said: If you can convince a mother to kill her own child, how can you convince others outside the womb NOT to kill one another. God bless.
Healthcare shouldn't be entangled with abortion. It's good that fewer women need them and have better access to other forms of bc. The government should have a responsibility to provide free, abundant, and easy accessible healthcare to every citizen in the US.
Abortion is a serious trauma for the woman concerned as well as for the soul of the being in the making. often this remains attached to the mother for a long time, unable to ascend into the light
Guess what I’m living proof that your little blurb is moronic blathering. I’m so thankful that I wasn’t doomed to be tied to an abusive jerk with offspring we couldn’t afford or take care of. You may speak for your own opinion and experience but not for mine.
@@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205 sex isn't just for procreation, it can also be for pleasure. Woman are NOT a baby making machine. Banning abortion doesn't get rid of it it just makes it unsafe, and mothers will use coat hangers or other objects to have an abortion which hurts the mother more than the baby.
@@SmolBean631 Condoms are found in nearly every single liquor mart or pharmacy in this country, same with birth control and other medication (although I completely understand why some are hesitant with using medications and such like that but yet again condoms don't even apply to that) Regardless of one's religious or personal views, safe sex does exist and is pretty much taught to everyone due to the school system and is easily accessible. It's hilarious how often people want to promote safe sex only to them pretend like it doesn't exist or that its not even an alternative worth investing in just so they could further their pro abortion arguments. Can accidents happen, sure but theres risks to literally everything in life and normalizing killing babies is an incredibly nihilistic excuse to be free of consequences. plus a thousand prevented abortions is a thousand saved fetuses and babies. Will pray for all who do coathanger abortions but your argument sucks when ur trying to guilt trip people to protect a few murderers in able to excuse mass murders on a daily basis.
@@HappyCam2000 again, banning it won't get rid of it since people will just do it themselves if it's not available, yes safe sex is great. Abortion is not murder, it's a way of saving the mother. Would you much rather a child be born to an abusive mother who was forced to give birth to it and then have the kid go to multiple foster homes until they eventually end up back with the abusive parent. Also what happened to adopting kids in foster care? Can't you do that if you want a baby so bad? The government should NEVER be in charge of a mother's health!
I agree abortion should be legal and available. However, how come in modern times with so many birth control methods there is such a demand for procedure. Men and women should practice more prevention. Start holding men responsible for their part impregnating women without responsibility illegal. Abortions would almost be unnecessary. Why do women always get punished and men just walk away without any liability.
Women are subjected to Taxation Without Representation, in every State in America, until such time as EVERY woman paying Federal taxes can travel to EVERY State to get healthcare. cc @potus @vp
As a European who doesn't support legal abortion except in edge cases (ex. to save the mother's life), it was funny to hear we should work to achieve the goal of accessible abortion care 😂
Pregnant women in the process of miscarrying in some places in the U.S. are being turned away from hospitals bleeding and waiting for their vitals to worsen so they qualify as a true "emergency". Must be nice to sit wherever you are and laugh about access to abortion.
This is one of the many rights unions fight for employees to have access to. This is one of the many rights denied to Union members. This is one of the rights, for which we collectively bargain with not only our employers but the politicians that would prefer to act as our rulers instead of our representatives.
The article ignores the fact that owning any small business is hard. Add in the fact most doctors regardless of their skill tend to be terrible business people.
Yes, I know, most things this video shows are routine problems for small business : - frequent protests against the rights of small business around their building, trying to stop their customers from entering, - laws specially targeting the small business so they upgrade their software and hardware to Google/Apple HQ standards or have to close, - laws prohibiting them from practice altogether, - arson and murder targeting the building and personnels, - difficulties recruiting janitors who have a religious or safety concern about small business. Yeah, I can understand how you would think this video really should recognizes that abortion clinics are just small business like any other and that their difficulties are only due to the weak financial skills of doctors (that generally are not the one to handle the finances but go on…).
What? People who have spent the majority of their education and professional lives healing sick people and treating medical conditions aren't great enough capitalists for you? Quelle surprise!
Abortion is a medical procedure, medical procedure s fall under police power, police power belong to the States, not the federal government. Please learn the law if you want change
@@Mike-zr7qb United States v. Robinson does not address the regulation of medical procedures, nor does it discuss the constitutional underpinnings of abortion law. If the context was regarding the states’ rights to exercise police power, that is a broader constitutional discussion which this case does not directly address.
So, you're clearly stating that you intend to plan and either undertake or incite others to undertake violent attacks on charitable organizations? Because how else would you "go after" charitable organizations?
@@Where_is_Waldoby seeking ways to cut off their revenue stream of money. At no point did I say anything about violence. I'm talking about passing state laws to interfere with their revenue stream or preventing them from advertising. There's lots of tricky legal things we can do including taking away their tax free status. I don't care what kind of unfair legal burdens we have to put up on them everything helps👍
I know many a happy family who was helped by a Crisis Pregnancy Center. They are like the 'underground resistance;; that sprung up after the Germans took over France.
Did you know that if the baby is dead and rotting inside you no one can take it out until you start to die? That is the result of these bans. 98% of abortions are with a few pills. The reality is so far from what you think is going on. It’s willful ignorance. Y’all can’t wait to butcher the golden goose…
I think Abortion should be like anything else which requires Reaponsibility, by needing a course and a license to do it. Would have prevented the severe abortion regret with women i know, if it was done properly. The choice to abort even if you personally believe it doesnt harm anyone to kill them early in their life, is still based on unknowns about life & death; and a very young human's future existance is in your hands. So, Responsibility rather than Selfish right makes it more like other things were you could kill someone (e.g. driving a car).
You're trying to say that someone should need to take a course and licensure exam to get an abortion? It strains me to believe you're arguing in good faith. Generally, the earlier an abortion happens the lesser the side effects, so delays are a bad idea from the outset. If the person can't have an abortion they would then need to be responsible to behavior during the pregnancy at a minimum. The flip side to this is someone is forced to carry a child to term because they failed a licensure exam. Your proposal is worthy of all possible ridicule.
@@FirstnameLastnames Maybe you didnt read my comment properly? Obviously the license is so they will properly consider the ethical issue of killing their own child early in life, and thus also if they will regret it later.
@@matthewbalch3324 No, the license could be done well before the right to kill is granted - even in high school. It much more equal, everything else where there is the potential to harm someone we need a license. I feel im acting in better faitb than you are bc you seem to not acknowledge the power & responsibility & arrogance issue of treating abortion like a special case where normal ethcial responsibilities or considerations don't apply. We can't women be treated equally, i think that more equal is good - both rights & responsibilities.
@@pebblepod30If you are trying to argue in good faith, I believe your idea wouldn’t be as effective as you think. First, pregnant people already have to consult with doctors who will tell them of the consequences and make sure that they know what they are doing. Second, abortion is a very time sensitive issue and delays could cause worse side effects. Last, this would likely disproportionately harm those who are poor because they would not be able to take time out of their day to take the tests and earn the license. Therefore, I believe that this would have an effect similar to voter ID laws, it looks good on paper but ends up harming poor people and solving a problem that doesn’t really exist.
@pebblepod30 That in no way goes around the issue of forcing someone to carry a pregnancy to term for lack of a license. Instituting licensure for an action because people sometimes regret that action is not a thing we do anywhere with anything else. It's nonsensical. Also, there is already a place called sex ed class to explain what happens during an abortion as well as a lot of other messy details of human biology that show that there is an astounding number of humans that die in utero before ~24 weeks for no real reason with no intentional abortion involved. Maybe health class should provide some guidance with coping with that, because whether they seek out an abortion or not, a lot of the kids in there are going to one day mourn a lost pregnancy.
So murdering potential mothers isn't cruel? Do you have any idea how stupidly common it is to die as the result of attempting to carry a child to term and give birth? I personally know someone who had an abortion so she wouldn't die. The legislation you argue for would have killed her and many others. And don't give me bullshit about making exceptions for such conditions because the burden of proof can easily delay the abortion which increases the risk. Giving birth isn't the only part of pregnancy that can kill someone. My friend's body would not have been able to handle the stress of continuing to support a potential child's development. Every moment she waited to have an abortion, her life was at greater risk. This is far from the only reason to support abortion rights. Judging by your youtube handle, I'm guessing your not worried about any risk to your own life from pregnancy so I guess you don't care about people dying from pregnancy.
@@harpsdesire4200 How about read my comment? It's about antichoice propagandists trying to legislate anyone who's pregnant out of the right to choose to live or, in other words, trying to create legislation that would effectively mass murder people for having become pregnant.
@@harpsdesire4200murder is a legal term which refers to the unlawful killing of a person under the law. That law specifically excludes fetuses from personhood.
You can feel that way. That’s fine. Outlawing abortion is like outlawing any other medical practice, stupid. People need access to care, they need access to these services. What are daughters supposed to do who carry the product of rape from their fathers? Brothers? What are women to do when they become pregnant and have NO WAY of caring for the child? Wether it’s mental illness, drug addiction, or worse?
@@neighbor9672 Not to mention, what are people supposed to do when the fetus isn't viable and keeping it until it dies could lead to irreversible damage of reproductive organs or death of the parent? Pregnancy isn't a safe thing. Things go wrong with shockingly high regularity.
Abortion is wrong, yet you Christians defend and worship a God who murdered millions of innocent children and adults because they wouldn't worship him. Make that make sense. 🤔
One day I was at the pharmacy trying to refill my birth control prescription, but I found out that I had no insurance. My dad lost his job but assured me that I still had health insurance until the end of the month, which it turns out I didn't. I very much needed access to my birth control, because if I suddenly stop taking it my hormones get out of whack, and I usually fall into a deep depression as they're adjusting. So I went to a Planned Parenthood. Growing up around Christian, I had always been told that Planned Parenthood was scary and evil. But when I walked in, I noticed that the place was very colorful and warm. I immediately found it more welcoming than most doctor's offices I had been to. The staff was all very nice. No one looked down on me for being uninsured and broke. They gave me birth control and also a bag of condemns and the day after pill. I was floored at how helpful and kind they were. Even if you're not getting abortions, people need access to clinics. People should just have access to healthcare period.
Which Planned Parenthood was it?
Glad you had a good experience. I agree. We all need access to decent healthcare and decent treatment while receiving it.
A "pro-lifer" taking a doctor's life is insanely ironic.
It is also a red herring in this discussion.
@@hammingdad1 Moastly Funny
Unimportant but funny
@@hammingdad1 You're right, the pro-life argument itself is a red herring. With all the war and actual young ones living that need food, shelter and healthcare, worrying about abortions is a huge distraction.
Let's worry about real issues and allow women to choose what they want to do with their bodies.
Probably while screaming "Thou shalt not kill!"
Well its normal reasoning as the death penalty (which i dont support) - the reasoning is that they took an innocent human life, and they are not innocent, life for a life.
I dont agree with a "life for a life" but its not hard to understand the reasoning if one is being honest, i think.
A personal friend of mine had an abortion so she wouldn't die. She didn't like the idea of terminating the pregnancy and, because she wanted to carry it to term and give birth, it was very hard for her to do it. She suffers from unrelated health problems and has come close to death repeatedly while not pregnant. The added strain on her body from pregnancy would almost certainly have killed her and, given her condition, there is no realistic chance she could have survived childbirth if she miraculously survived to that point in pregnancy. Even an antiabortion law granting exceptions for life threatening circumstances could have delayed her opportunity to have the abortion and thus could have killed her. She is not alone. Banning abortions not only oppresses anyone who can get pregnant, it leads to the deaths and suffering of countless people.
A lot higher percentage of people seeking abortion than most people realize, are seeking to terminate a desired pregnancy. Just because you want a baby, doesn't mean you'll willingly die for one.
Unfortunately, I think fundamentalists particularly theocrats, with their concept of sin and divine strikeback, probably think it serves all such women right, either for failing to get right with Him as the sect in question characterizes Him (obviously, no concrete idea what it would take), or in the case of Calvinists, for being rejected by Him before she was conceived. If that's truly how most fundamentalism-driven forced birthers feel, they're a death cult.
Which, I suspect, *IS* the idea.
@@hammingdad1 Okay so if someone were to break into your house, would you not have the right to protect yourself with violence perhaps? I don't see how a fully grown human and a fetus are similar but even if they were, why does the line suddenly get drawn at women? It's completely sexist to suggest that women shouldn't have a right to defend their own blood against an unwanted pregnancy.
@@sinkopationYour questions are excellent questions: First, you are right - there is no connection between an aggressor invading my home and an innocent and defenseless unborn baby... BUT your reference to a kind of question regarding 'self defense' is not a dumb question.
The answer is this: The 'line' you refer to is not being drawn at 'a woman'. The 'line' is being drawn at 'the beginning of another distinct human being, the unborn baby. And the logic I use would apply even if men could bear children. The abortion industry, and the unelected plutocrats that wish to control our population are the ones who hatched the idea of the horror of an abortion becoming a 'woman's right'. They did this to prevent the working class from ever being able to rise against them in any orderly fashion. Abortion has never been about 'women's rights'. Abortion is about men's rights without restraint... and especially rich men's rights. The women who actively promote abortion have simply attached themselves to the ideological 'gravy train; that rights without responsibility rationalize.
The phony battle of pitting men and women against each other especially after WW-II was not designed to help women... rather it was designed to help very rich men!
We need to stop pretending that abortion is some kind of compassionate thing. How many mathematicians, scientists, medical healers, engineers, poets, artists, great leaders and great thinkers have been thrown into the plastic garbage pail in the name of 'choice'?
Finally this: Killing an innocent and defenseless human being is ALWAYS wrong. It is wrong no matter what our feelings tell us. The rights we accord to the unborn will eventually reflect upon us. Indeed, in parts of Europe, we are already seeing insurance companies and governments coercing or even forcing people to 'compassionately end their lives to stop being a burden on society'.
We are already reaping what we sow. It will just be a matter of time before an insurance company will pay you for an abortion but penalize you for having a child. It's about money. This is why the UN hatched the phony 'the world is going to end FOR SURE in 2012 because of human activity. There are 32 distinct times we were told that abortion would save the world. NONE of them have come true. To borrow a phrase from the regressive 'progressives' look at the science. And in this case I mean don;t look at the 'scientific conclusions' - rather look at the REAL DATA. This is all to 1.) Tax us to death and 2.) Keep our population small enough so that every aspect of our lives can be policed. 2.) Make sure we never own enough to become a political threat to the unelected oligarchs and plutocrats that control every aspect of our lives. They can do this in 2 ways: In a democracy they simply use the corporations. In a totalitarian state like China they do this by government and 'social credits'.
A lot of these states voted against free lunch for kids who don't have lunch from home when they go to school. So .... where's the care for their lives?
Don't worry, they don't care about humans once outside the womb. These are most of the same states that refused to expand medicaid options even though they have the resources through the AMA (or "Obamacare"). If at the core of it, they're against feeding children and providing medical insurance, then we know they're not "pro-life." Pro forced birth is about it.
They only care about hypothetical babies. Not actual real live children already here and needing care. They do not give a 💩 nor a
🐀's🍑.
Nobody cares about them. It's all about preserving the patriarchy.
It's not about "life" - it's only about control.
They don't give a shit about quality of life. They are pro birth, anti choice and pro suffering
Ive had two abortions. I would have been trapped twice to an abusive husband. I spend zero hours regretting it ever. In fact i was grateful i had my choice respected and available to choose.
You could have found another way, you're suppressing the trauma.
You need to forgive yourself and fight for the human rights of all people by standing against abortion 👍
@@TheEverFreeKing dumbass.
@@TheEverFreeKing or you could go save me a seat in hell meanwhile
@@TheEverFreeKing Trash.
@@MagdaleneDivine Isn't it interesting how many women are making excellent points in this comments section about bodily autonomy, human rights, health risks/risks to survival associated with pregnancy and other great points while most (if not all) of the people crying "baby killer" have youtube handles that contain masculine words like "dad or "king"? To them I say, govern your own bodies and let others govern theirs.
Difficult but necessary work.
I think airports might be a good place to locate a women's health center because they could be behind the TSA security lines. The best airport might be Chicago O'Hare because Illinois allows abortions and there are a lot of flights from Texas that go there.
That would be great if the airports allow it. TSA checks are an easy way to help with the safety issue, and maybe could help in hiding identities of those going there, so no one will try to find their house to murder them
Good idea
That makes a lot of sense. I’ve heard a group of assorted advocates was trying to pull together a boat that could cruise into international waters and perform the needed abortions and other health care, then return to port a couple days later; also a good idea! 👍
@@misspat7555Pittsburgh is building a new (half of a) terminal and I get their newsletter and I may suggest this idea to them, but probably will not get an answer because of such a touchy subject. But ORD would really be the one to get a clinic that would be the most accessible with all those flights from Texas from Southwest which is a low price carrier.
I agree. Because despite what so called pro-lifers think it's going to happen. Personally tired of Religious Fundamentalist Dogma. That includes Christian.
Women have the right to control their body, including their uteruses.
Fetuses do have rights. For example, you can be charged with double homicide if you murder a pregnant woman and her fetus. You also shouldn't smoke or drink heavily while pregnant.
However, the rights of the fetus do not supercede the rights of the woman. It is first and foremost her body, which the fetus is using. She decides what happens to her body, the fetus does not get more rights to use the woman's body than she does.
Think about it another way. You control your organs and blood. Nobody could force you to donate blood, even if that means someone else could die. Even if donating blood causes you no harm, you still cannot be forced to donate. You control your own body, even at the expense of others.
Same with a pregnant woman. Her rights are more important than the fetus' rights. You do not get to use someone else's body without their consent (and agreeing to intimacy is not agreeing to pregnancy, besides consent can be revoked at anytime).
You are free to not like abortion, to not want to personally have one, etc. You are not free to dictate what another person does with their body or their organs
This may be the best possible way to state it. Thank you.
Respectfully: The fallacy in your logic in saying "Same with a pregnant woman. Her rights are more important than the fetus' rights". An unborn person's rights are EQUAL to the mother. And under most circumstances (I refer here to the more than 4,000 abortions on a day)... those rights do not NEED to be pitted against each other. Adoption is always an option. Also, a woman who has had ONE abortion is 85% more likely to have a second. Moreover, this divisive issue is used by both political parties in order to keep good people like you and I fighting with each other. It is an intentional distraction so that we do not notice that both parties have their hands deep in our pockets. As long as the killing of an innocent person is illegal in a society then abortion should also be illegal in a civilized society. For it to be otherwise will eventually and most certainly make the society become UNCIVILIZED... as is already happening (knock out game anyone?). Be careful what you wish for.
@@hammingdad1 Saying "respectfully" doesn't turn ignorant disrespect to all women into respect.
@@Where_is_Waldo I have the greatest respect for women, who I have worked with and for all my life. The best and brightest of them will tell me that the abortion industry peddles lies for political and monetary gain. I happen to know some awesome women. I got my pro life views from several female doctors and nurses back in the 80s. When I became part of the pro life movement... most of the people I WORKED FOR were professional medical women.
@@hammingdad1 Ah, I see, there are so many well informed women out there who oppose abortion on rational medical reasons and not religious reasons that this comments section is flooded with them as opposed to being flooded with antichoice comments from someone who's youtube handle has the word dad in it.
Thanks to these healthcare workers for their continued sacrifice
My hometown... it deserves so much better.
Your hometown sounds awesome they're doing a great job my respect 👍
I live just up the road in Abingdon. There's a lot this region needs.
I’m from JC, don’t live there anymore. But I’m happy to know it must be upsetting some of my relatives and former colleagues/classmates that there is an abortion clinic that is only a 40 minute drive away!
ETA: JC is Johnson City, TN, for anyone not from that area that may be confused. It’s one of the “Tri-Cities” with Bristol.
To the people saying abortion should be outlawed because it kills babies: should people with fertility issues be barred from pregnancy? The same mechanisms as pill based abortions occur in people with fertility problems and sometimes just arbitrarily in any pregnant person because human biology is a mess. For a successful birth for someone with fertility issues who is trying to have a child there will often be several "spontaneous abortions."
Red herring alert!
@@hammingdad1 You are too dumb for the convo. All you do is cry "red herring" while showing you don't know what your one catchphrase means.
Whataboutism alert!
Very true. But a non-sentient "potential" life should never take president over a sentient and existing female.
@@bennycarter5249 not how that works, dummy.
I love how we are voting away our rights to usher in a theocracy for a dying religion.
The culmination of years of defunding education and promoting anti-intellectualism.
In not saying women should not have the right to kill their own child early in their life.
But ita nothing to do with religion:
You believe if someone killed you at X point after your existance, then it wouldn't harm you.
That is a BELIEF you have about something that is unknown to you or me - what happens after death, if we have a soul or not, etc.
Im telling you to change your beliefs, im asking you to notice the arrogance of you claiming with certainty "if i kill someone at this point in their life it doesn't harm them".
That is an esential od any right to kill, inc abortion.
@@pebblepod30, you can use all the dysphemistic and misleading language you want, but that doesn’t change the reality of the science. Nobody is “killing” anything. Also, the rights and body of an actual living person is far more valuable than a clump of unwanted cells. Women don’t exist as broodmares just so forced birth wackos can get their rocks off.
@@pebblepod30sorry, if someone is clinically braindead and are only being kept alive by life support, doctors and family have the right to cease life support. Prior to 24 weeks, there is not enough brain to have sentience. The mother, on the other hand, is usually a sentient being and should have her health and rights protected.
Bro was so "pro-life" that he murdered an abortion provider.
Sad to see that abortion and human rights are being violated in the US. Let's hope that this all ends well.
Abortion is the DENIAL of a human right. How many mathematicians, doctors, inventors, brilliant men and women have been killed since the abortion industry hijacked the women's movement? One must DENY THE SCIENCE to think that abortion is not simply the killing of an innocent human being who can't fight back and who has become inconvenient. The great writer Peggy Noonan once wondered "if the Democratic party would some day become abortion's final victim". I think this is actually happening. It makes me sad because I was once a Democrat. It is the silent holocaust of abortion which made me leave the Democrat reservation many decades ago. And now my children, and my children's children avoid the party of abortion.
And im not saying women shouldn't have the right to kill their own child because of their own personal beliefs that it doesn't harm a human to kill them early enough. That is what majority want, under some circumstances.
My point is your own framing of it as nothing more than your own body & selfish right, not at all any responsibility & power over the other genetically, phyiscally (& maybe spiritually?) different human growing inside you.
Sorry but my notifications are off while i challenge my internet addictions.
@@pebblepod30
"I'm not saying woman shouldn't have the right to an abortion" while saying "woman shouldn't have the right to an abortion b/c of spirituality or whatever "
@@AvaAdore-wx5gg I do not know what 'you people' means frankly. It sounds like 'group talk'. I am an individual.
How well would it have worked out if Hitler had asked to work out a
'sane compromise' regarding his desire to eliminate an entire race of people because he and all of his followers deemed them harmful and inconvenient?
IN abortion, we're talking about either chemically burning or else dismembering (arms, leg, head, torso) from a full formed (albeit small) human being. You can use a comfy word like 'fetus' but human offspring are HUMAN BEINGS. Abortion is the object proof of the pessimism of materialistic greed. Repudiating it has little to do with religion and much to do with common sense.
If an unborn baby is disposable, then YOU are disposable and I am disposable. I do not want to live in a world where any human being is disposable. Now we can talk about all the extreme cases and so forth but at the end of the day it is false charity to say it is somehow a right to kill an unborn child willfully.
@@AvaAdore-wx5gg
That is irrelevant.
Im only asking you to be more humble, and admit you dont know what happens when you kill someone - you are just guessing based on your culture & beliefs about life and death.
Also, such issues are very open to debate and have changed over the years with more research.
Imagine thinking it's completely ok to let someone else use your body against your will. McFall v Shimp outlined that no one can use your body or organs even if they will die without them. This is about punishing women for having sex, hook line and sinker.
100%
They really have people believing that slavery is logical, ethical, and godly. Giving someone else rights to our bodies because they've been deemed a "legal person" is crazy!!! Corporations are legal persons.
Or not having sex. Remember that r*pe victims must also carry their attackers' seed to term, even if said victim is 11 years old. And then, there's that bit about miscarriage rebranded as m*rder. It's about oppression to preserve that patriarchy.
@@esanuevamexicana Exactly. It’s the same logic that granted corporations “personhood” with none of the responsibilities except to pay shareholders.
Amazing anyone thinks outlawing abortion is a good idea.
Amazing, ignorant, disgusting... there's all sorts of words we could use to describe it.
It always based on religious beliefs and not medical science.
@@JohnT.4321One has to DENY SCIENCE in order to rationalize abortion. Modern fetology tells us that the unborn baby feels pain, is indeed a human (remember when PP told us it was "just a lump of cells" before high-res ultra sound was invented) and is as unique as our eyes, our finger prints and our personalities.
Less than 100 years ago a very scientifically advanced nation in Europe told us that a specific group of their population was 'less than human'. And then big American and German corporations helped that government legalize the killing of millions?
One does not need religion in order to know that abortion is the willful destruction of an innocent human being due to inconvenience. AND... when a people rationalize that... they are merely a decade away from terminating you because your medical costs are a burden on Corporate insurance. Be CAREFUL what you wish for.
It's either safe and legal or "let's see what I've got under the kitchen sink".
Have known actual women who throw themselves downstairs or off trampolines and whatnot to induce a miscarriage. Some even drown themselves in alcohol while eating basically nothing in hopes that kills it off.
@@Kyle496 And, gee, I wonder how well that works out for these women's reproductive organs. The antichoice movement is an anti-women's rights movement.
"maternal health desert" shouldn't even be a phrase 🤦🏽 Knoxville is definitely a maternal health desert...
i live around the corner from that clinic that was burned down 😢💔
In an ideal world, abortion would be exceedingly rare or even nonexistent. We don't, never have, and never will live in an ideal world. A woman is an actual life while her fetus is, at best, potential life, and I will always preference actual life over potential life.
Well stated. My comments often disappear when I respond to antichoice ignoramuses in this comments section so I'm commenting the following point as much as I can to make sure as many people as possible will see it. A personal friend of mine had an abortion so she wouldn't die. She didn't like the idea of terminating the pregnancy and, because she wanted to carry it to term and give birth, it was very hard for her to do it. She suffers from unrelated health problems and has come close to death repeatedly while not pregnant. The added strain on her body from pregnancy would almost certainly have killed her and, given her condition, there is no realistic chance she could have survived childbirth if she miraculously survived to that point in pregnancy. Even an antiabortion law granting exceptions for for life threatening circumstances could have delayed her opportunity to have the abortion and thus could have killed her. She is not alone. Banning abortions not only oppresses anyone who can get pregnant, it leads to the deaths and suffering of countless people.
And to be clear, that ideal world would include these conditions:
* Perfect birth control
* No rape
* No medical conditions in pregnant women that increase their chance of injury
* No medical conditions in fetuses that cause damage to the pregnant women
* No childbirth injures the pregnant woman (because people will always change their minds about the risk / reward trade-off of giving birth, if it's risky).
This set of requirements will _never_ be fulfilled. We can work toward these goals, but we can't get there 100%. In a just world, there will always be abortions.
@@OrigamiMarie Exactly.
@@OrigamiMariedon't forget, in an ideal world pregnancy would have no detrimental affects on the pregnant person, as being pregnant at all is dangerous and increases the risk of blood clots, etc.
Exactly. Considering that any adult pregnant organism prioritizes existing life over potential life, we can take that cue to inform our own decision.
Yall i really hated my ex husband. Im sorry but a baby with him was a trap. Im sorry ill risk hell before i was tethered to Lance via an umbilical cord.
One of many great points.
(Im a trans man, not a woman, just want ppl to see that before i share my response)
I was pregnant by a severely abusive husband, and while i regret that i don't have my baby i know that i am better off. If i had that baby, I'd likely be dead along with any kids i had with him. Abortion saves lives in multiple ways
@@monsterglacier exactly.
And there were times I chose to keep the baby. Even though my second daughter's father was abusive he was schizophrenic. So I saw I needed to leave because all I could visualize was her being a baby thrown against the wall like in the scene of Beloved, in that case I was already showing. So I've made both decsions so I'm probably the most valid opinion here lol cause I decided to keep and aborted another 2 times. I have 3 daughters. I do know what was likely lost but I'm living proof of what was saved
Life is not black and white. I wish it could be but it simply isn't that easy
Like I said, I spent zero hours regretting my choices. Regret over the past destroys your present and dismisses the future.
@@Where_is_Waldo Killing your baby because you hate your husband is not one of many great points.
"I'm that little old lady. I give free hugs" What a sweetie. She's right, sometimes we need a little old lady to keep us sane and stable.
Abortion is health care. Only medical professionals and the patient have the right to make medical decisions.
Agree but the pro choice movement is losing
@@sidali2590 It’s not. It was just hoodwinked by liars.
@@Ketowskino it's not you're the hypocrite and liar
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You can always count on religion to hold back society with ignorance and violence.
It's not religion that is holding back society but religion being mixed into politics.
@@Alaskan-Armadillo It’s not just politics. Religion actively requires delusional thinking and fear of those whom think differently.
It’s a harmful ideology that encourages certain actions.
It's not religion, it's patriarchal religion. Every Sperm is Sacred, don't ya know...
@@2l84me8 I'm pretty sure that Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin were atheists. Not saying that you're a godless heathen, as I'm definitely not one of these fundamentalist idiots with their heads up their backsides, but you're a bit myopic if you genuinely think getting rid of religion will get rid of the world's problems as well.
capitalism not religion. get it right.
Thank you for making this video
Some Republicans, including at least one GOP Presidential Primary Candidate have called for a 15 week abortion national law, but that is a 15 week maximum law ( for states with higher than 15 weeks allowable abortions ). But the law would not REQUIRE states which now ban abortions ( or have 6 week maximum limits ) to allow abortions ( with no "TRAP Laws" ) until 15 weeks. It initially sounds good, but is terribly misleading.
I imagine it's because they're courting votes from religious extremists who haven't accepted the fact that women don't just sleep around all week by default. Or maybe it makes those prospective voters feel better about their own theology.
Do they know how to write any laws which aren't just doing the opposite of what they convince voters it will do?
Wait that's strictly a good thing
Well done, MPU. Thank you for this important video-and the whole series. You’re doing excellent, significant work in a challenging climate.
The root cause of the problem is that the average US eligible voter doesn't take politics seriously, or not seriously enough.
The coming election might be the last election that offers the freedom to the US citizens to support a real progressive candidate.
Now, the attentive observer has seen that it is not in the Grand Old Party that progressive ideas are found or supported.
In the Democratic party however, a last stand of politicians with progressive ideas are struggling for surviving.
If these last progressive politicians get no broad support from the average eligible voter, the US will slip further and further into a dystopian nightmare.
When people view far right wing anti government extremists who support white supremacy, patriarchy, and planet destruction for profit on the right and progressive activists that care about anti-racism, land conservation/climate change, and providing poor people with a dignified life regardless of what they are “worth” to the capitalist class as morally equal to each other and both as political extremes we have lost the plot.. centrists are insane and they don’t recognize it. So many people support good stuff but refuse to actually vote for the party that wants those policies.. so many people are against bad stuff but support a party that wants bad stuff because they don’t believe they will actually do the bad stuff.
Unfortunately, Americans don't have a real progressive candidate on the ballot.
Good historical review of freedom being attacked, stolen, and obstructed.
Can recommend Christian Fascists and the War on America by Chris Hedges
>believing fascists still exist in the year 2024
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@@TheEverFreeKing Spoken like a fascist.
@@TheEverFreeKing a dictionary would be a good start 👍
@@TheEverFreeKingYeah they do. Look across the globe. We have plenty domestically and abroad.
Fascism isn’t relegated to the past. Like idk how you even think that idiotic shit
You gonna call Amish fascists? @@Where_is_Waldo
I know journalism as a whole tends to be descriptive rather than prescriptive. However, watching this report, the calls to action are clear. Donate to your local clinics. Protest for ALL medical rights. Talk to memebers of your community to discuss the cheapest options, ways to facilitate travel, ways to get resources.
There's the National Network of Abortion funds that help low income women, there's the Magnolia fund that subsidizes visits in Georgia, and there's Access Reproductive Care.
I see some commenters saying "Why focus on abortion, when I or my friends or my family can't seem to access any healthcare, or any worthwhile?" And they are right, to a point. Abortion is just once piece of the entire medical infrastructure puzzle. But that just means you have to fight for the rest of it as well, not shirk the blame onto others fighting for their rights.
Personally, for the medical field as a whole, I think the way foward is as such :
1) Nationalize, not the insurance model like with "Obamacare", but the medical field as a whole. The insurance middle man system leads to an excess of unneeded labor (insurance bureaucracy, salesmen, advertisers, CEOS and shareholders that make millions or billions sitting around), of paperwork, and adds a confusing layer to navigate for people.
2) Increase regulations on drugs and drug companies to ensure that they are safe. Extend those regulations to vitamins (often with mislabeled dosages, and they have a history of having fungal contaminates). Disallow patents for drugs so monopolies that can charge exorbitant prices cannot form, or else put a roof on the prices that are allowed.
3) Encourage the medical field to focus more on preventative care
4) Make medical schools extend their admissions (instead of artificially deflating them to maintain high wages) and subsidize further the schooling necessary
None of this is easy. Or individually actionable. But there are groups who push for it and you are free to bother representatives directly about it (not that I trust them to listen).
So you are saying we should do what all the other wealthy countries that have good healthcare for everyone for a fraction of the cost we pay do?? We could just pick one of many different models we like that have worked for many years for other countries? Or perhaps pick and choose the best ideas from each and apply them here??
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You mean if we all voted like crazy for progressive lawmakers we could have this all fixed by for the next generation.. easy peasy?
@@bitchywoman I pointedly omitted any actions that would be suspicious or illicit to reply with in a UA-cam comment section. I also made a point to mention to join affinity groups that are working to either change the system OR provide nongovernment related support directly to people in need. You yourself, with regards to abortion care for example, can obtain *a manner of abortive care that I can't name* and *give it less than legally* to people with a fetus in a *totally not illegal" way.
I don't think the government is benevolent, I don't think they'll bend over backwards even if it's the right thing. I DO think that, with regards to healthcare, you need a vast amount of resources and people reorganized in way that would either be facilitated en masse by a government body or by the much harder way of somehow obtaining the land, money, and education to do it with members of your own community. Which is also a pathway to follow! The Black Panthers worked to introduce access to healthcare to their communities. But I personally don't know how to even begin with that pathway, so I don't have any advice on how to pursue it.
Community building isn't easy. It's hard and it involves joining groups and talking to people and deciding what parts of society you want to uphold and mutual aid (in my previous post, for example, in the form of donating to groups on the ground already or directly to the people affected). I agree, it's not "vote for someone and forget". I never said anything about voting in my initial post anyway.
How does paying for people to kill their babies facilitate social change?? I'm happy if you do it just wondering how politicians will magically vote differently because you made abortion corporations more profitable
I grew up conservative. I remember when "Tiller the Baby Killer" was murdered, conservatives openly cheered for his death. It's wild reflecting upon that as a Marxist decades later.
"as a Marxist" ok you lost me 😂
Right. So much for pro-“life”.
The hypocrisy abounds. Too bad that most of them can’t see it.
It is really sad to see a video so important as this one, from a channel with almost 400k subscribers, reach just over 8k views.
I think many people are reality-fatigued.
I'll respect the pro lifers when they start adopting all of the children without parents, making sure that poor children have all that they need, and ensure they are educated. They're never interested in that though. Once those kids come out of their mothers, they totally lose interest.
Yup. They need to pay all the expenses for women and children, lifelong.
They also often vote against free lunches for children in public schools. The idea of feeding hungry children infuriates them, for whatever reason.
For the record, I would have been one of those children. Best day of the week was pizza Friday. The only day of the week my mother could afford to give me lunch money. Once a week I got lunch.
I'll never forget pizza Friday.
Glad to hear you respect pro-lifers :D
@@TheLegendOfRandy No I don't ?
Thank you for doing this. It is such a commonly overlooked reality of the violence used regularly against the places and people who are heroic in their service to men and women and their bodies.
Here in St Paul the first arson bombing of a planned Parenthood building took place. 1974 I think.
The larger neighborhood fought back, esp. when the nearby priest said that the neighborhood was a Catholic one. And it was students from a catholic university that set the fire.
The response they got? Reminds us of Kristilnacht. The Jewish community was angry.
Women's rights people joined with the citizens angered at the religious intolerance and the business community's concern with safety and harmony, republican and democrats and movement people were all there.
We demanded better police security, arrests of harassers, threatening both the patients and the staff. Much more.
On TV with the Mayor, and a full house of "concerned CITIZENS" as we called ourselves.
That coalition lasted into much good work in the area.
WE MUST SEEK OUT BROAD COALITIONS TO PROTECT HEALTH RIGHTS
the issues are not simply abortion yes or no. Most Americans are pro-choice. We all know in providing services for reproductive rights all the other barriers arise, such as poverty, work bias, accessibility, a refuge from a violent family, the pressure from all around, so much.
So it makes sense to fight for safety for your community as well as health rights. People need to be outraged. All of us. We know it is not just a " womans issue".
The immmediate rallying at the Dobbs ruling was a diverse crowd and the surveys show such high support that it reaches all the people.
Delighted that you sre working on this now.
Politicians should be prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license
I thought this video would touch on why- because the model of our economy needs a population of low wage earners to survive. That's why govt has gone after women. I'm afraid it will only get worse.
Also, we ladies, in these red states, now have less body autonomy than a corpse. Think on that.
The organizations of men with power over women are far more broad and far longer
than a simplistic analysis of needing workers. That's true, but should be seen in the context of all systems of control over jobs.
I always loved the phrase from China's revolution that says, Women Hold Up Half the Sky.
Don't like abortion? Don't have one.
Wild how far some men will go to ensure they never need attempt to care for themselves emotionally or financially, or to meet the most basic domestic needs. Maybe instead of continuing to unalive women and children and calling it “war,” why not, I dunno, prove your strength and courage by taking care of your damn selves. Give that a go for a bit, see how it feels.
A family member posted about wanting respect for their religious beliefs. I held my tongue but while these fanatical politicians enter our houses, they deserve less and less respect and tolerance, imo.
I hate how time and time again we see focus on things that aren't even a large problem for American's. Focus on abortion when access to any health care is hard. Focus on "trans literature" in the classroom, when funding public education is dying. Focus on anti-immigration when worker's rights are eroding. It's insane how much harder our lives have to be because of this mental illness that seems to make it so that the only kind of policy that can passed is restricting other's right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
One in four women will have an abortion. It is a large problem. Just one that you have little comprehension about.
The reason for this is that if the unborn are not safe then nobody is safe. Attitudes create philosophies. Philosophies have consequences. A systematic reduction in the value of human life (which is already happening) is the end result. I promise you that your great grand kids will not be safe in a world where first the people, then the insurance companies, and then eventually the government can DEEM AN INNOCENT PERSON INCONVENIENT and decide to 'terminate' that person.
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut, but it really does feel like its all a big distraction from any real issues. Many young people my age feel a good job and a house of their own is an almost impossible goal. The old track of getting an education to get a good job is no longer a guaranteed path, and the cost of that education just keeps rising. My grandparents have never seen a winter this warm, or forest fires this extreme, yet we keep avoiding the topic of climate change because its so bi-partisan. I wish we could just follow the science to solve the problems that need cooperation to solve, and leave people to make their own decisions about their bodies.
@@hammingdad1 women already are unsafe as they have lost the right of bodily autonomy in the US. Why should a bunch of cells that haven't even formed into anything resembling a foetus have more rights than the actual living person that happens to be carrying them?
Listen I'm pro-trans rights but I'm against abortion because it's homicide and part of the biggest genocide in human history.
Workers rights are eroding because of mass immigration as well, you're going to have to compromise some of your beliefs and come to reality👍
Montana may be a red-leaning state, but I’ve been enormously proud of my fellow Montanans in terms of resisting any change to our currently reasonable and relatively minimal abortion laws.
All American citizens should have the liberty and freedom to make their own decisions in such deeply personal matters. It’s no one else’s business.
Being anti abortion is NOT being pro life, it is anti the life of the mother, it is anti the life of no viable fetuses, it is anti the life of families...stop saying "pro life" & say anti abortion.
The term "pro life" was never intended to be anything but propaganda.
@@Where_is_WaldoThe term "Pro-choice" is a textbook example of propaganda.
Those zealots care so much for unborn babies, but once they're here they couldn't care any less what happens to them and their families.
No goverment should not get in the of a woman's Healthcare decision it is her decision an her alone her body her choice simple as that.
Abortion is not healthcare tho so we agree
I like how these pro-abortion rights videos get so few views.
Reading the comments, I’m struck by how the public is understanding that abortion is used by those in power as a “wedge issue” to keep people in political boxes.
Mandatory vasectomies for all men unless their significant other approves for the reversal. No partner no swimmers. No approval no swimmers. Easy & reversible
Poor Terrie at the front desk. I respect her for not bending to her families ideologies
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Tax the church.
They say this today, tomorrow they say "death to the church" all in the name of protecting womens rights and whatever progressive views yall wanna push.
In a just world the folks running these clinics would be saints. Sadly, this is 'Murica
Imagine complaining that you don't have "access" to murder.
I couldn't imagine living without my kids. To this day we are still struggling financially, but our 2 unplanned kids are a blessing. Those pregnancies were to be awesome PEOPLE.
Just mind your own business and life. Good for you. But that does not apply to millions of other peoples lives.
@leadwithgreeneconomy
The details, however, do apply to the millions of lives that are taken due to this sick practice.
The dismissive "mind your own business" is so incredibly pathetic and so commonplace as if you people like you believe in child murder so deeply that you absolutely cannot stand people with stories where things actually worked out for good. You can't handle it being possible. Sad.
Why do people care if a random stranger wants or NEEDS an abortion? How boring Is your life that you think about this topic.
because capitalism requires excessive birth rates in order to maintain a large enough unemployed population to keep wages down
Because it's a moral issue involving the killing of another human being.
It would be the same thing if you said why do these abolitionists care about somebody else owning a slave🤷
@@TheEverFreeKing try thinking for yourself sometime
@@TheEverFreeKing If I needed blood or tissue to continue living, do you think I could steal your blood or organs without your consent?
Or do you value your individual bodily rights over my so-called right to life?
Most certainly, my right to life is more important than your "rights over your own body,?" right?
funny how youtube deletes the comment pointing out that it is driven by capitalism not religion
To me this is a disgrace and a nightmare now! This country is a burning pyre and this has added onto the mess. This should have NEVER happened in the United States but it did. What else will we allow to happen to us because someone else holds the purse strings! A woman should not have to cross state lines and potentially risk her life if this procedure is necessary. I’m in the middle on this topic. I took a friend years ago to get an abortion, this was in high school because she had no one to help her. I was a teenager that had to support another teenager, it was horrific. I’m still uncomfortable when I think back in time. However, I believe these services are needed and necessary. This government just stinks in this country!
Damn, I love how you mention that mobile Planned Parenthood clinic includes gender affirming care, but then throughout use “women” as shorthand for folks who can get pregnant. Sorry for being a trans person who voluntarily removed my ability to get pregnant I guess.
For 99% of people impacted by the issue discussed here, it works. Sorry that the occasional exception applies. Try to not get it twisted.
One of the issues us leftists really need to work on is purity testing. We should not let less-than-inclusive language in an otherwise vitally important message cause us to denounce the whole message. Our rights are actively under attack, we need to worry about fending off that attack, not attacking those on our side for relatively minor transgressions. Let's get our rights back, then we can work on less consequential issues like inclusive language.
Hi thank you for your comment! We very intentionally used “patient” throughout because access to reproductive healthcare is an issue that impacts many people, not only cis women. We used “women” for the name of the clinic and when the data available only included information on cis women -like the stat from the Forbes article on “maternal health deserts.” We intended this story to be inclusive and apologize if it didn’t seem that way.
@@beetdiggingcougar my existence is not an exception, sod off
@@BShumanMPU Nothing you would have done could have made this person happy. They go around life thinking the world revolves around them and pronouns. Meanwhile this clinic in VA faces actual threats of physical violence (rewatch the part about the crazy Republican celebrating the murder of a doctor) and this person thinks using the word "woman" is on the same level of injustice.
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1:10 Well, if these centers were mostly doing care other than abortions, why would they need to close? It's not illegal anywhere to practice gynecology, prescribe birth control, etc. This only adds credence to the argument that these aren't "care" centers, but abortion centers
You are wrong. If you listen carefully, the clinics said they did provide services but they were prohibited from doing so. Also, you must not know about all the ways health care is limited to many Americans.
Do you have community health care clinics in your area? Go on in. See what happens. For real.
Satisfy your paranoia
They leave to go provide care in the free parts of our country.
These people are heroes
those poor oppressed women. someone should liberate them from the tyrannical american government.
Elevated Access is a nonprofit group of private pilots who, totally for free, will fly women who need abortions to-and-from places where they can get abortions. It usually can be accomplished in one day.
All these people protesting, need to go adopt the children available for adoption, they need to raise them and love them and pay for college. SMH that’s where you can make a difference. SMH 😒😒😒
Teachers jobs have definitely gotten worse over the last couple decades. Florida is a really good example of a good place to start.
Yep. And we're losing them in droves.
If you want less government interference and fewer unnecessary government restrictions, as a good portion of this video is dedicated to listing, join the Libertarian party.
In case the FACE Act is overturned, we will see a return to those horrible blockades. In fact, that might happen anyway, if Republicans refuse to enforce that law. So, with that in mind, clinics need to have doors that open in both directions, along with windows that can be opened. That way, some patients will be able to step over/through the protesters, and still get inside. Sufficient protesters will still make this extremely difficult, but this will definitely be helpful.
As someone from east TN, I can confirm that there’s nothing like crossing the border for an abortion and an ounce of pot 😂
This is nonsense we must reinstate women's rights! -Regards, Rogelio
As a man I promise if I ever find myself pregnant I’ll be running to get an abortion!
But in all seriousness this is a really complicated issue and I have no idea how I feel about it because both sides have good arguments and they shouldn’t treat the opposite side like they are monsters
I'm pretty sure that the side that vilifies women for getting abortions is more monstrous than the side that wants the OPTION of abortion to be accessible to ANYONE. Remember, NO ONE is requiring you to get an abortion.
Why is it legal to have religiously run hospitals/ healthcare providers?
Nitpicky, but Arkansas is not Alaska (as shown on the "Abortion bans in the US" map).
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3:20 So, it doesn't as a right unless you can compel other people to pay for the choice that they get no input on?
I am 100% on board with making sure an abortion clinic is a surgical center. Loss of a mother is very common.
Let's just upgrade the clinics as best as possible. No need to risk lives.
Plus like, as a net positive for the whole world?
Why aren't we hearing from doctors why aren't they going to congress to fight for women medical nassitie it's between the doctors the clients and their families not these men making these dangerous decisions.
Maryland isn't a southern state?
It's sad because this isnt a black and white issue and it's also goes a lot deeper than the right to an abortion.
Academic workers, particular adjunct academics.
Simple solution keep your legs closed if u don't Wana get pregnant
"abortions are health care" please elaborate seem this is a misunderstood concept
Nurses and PAs are just as qualified to do surgery?! Seriously?
Mother Theresa said: If you can convince a mother to kill her own child, how can you convince others outside the womb NOT to kill one another. God bless.
Healthcare shouldn't be entangled with abortion. It's good that fewer women need them and have better access to other forms of bc. The government should have a responsibility to provide free, abundant, and easy accessible healthcare to every citizen in the US.
You should do a video about retail workers
"Shrek closes book" Like that will ever happen.
Abortion is a serious trauma for the woman concerned as well as for the soul of the being in the making. often this remains attached to the mother for a long time, unable to ascend into the light
This is not story time😅
Guess what I’m living proof that your little blurb is moronic blathering. I’m so thankful that I wasn’t doomed to be tied to an abusive jerk with offspring we couldn’t afford or take care of. You may speak for your own opinion and experience but not for mine.
It should be called the the "MURDER HOTEL!! Murder your child and not be charged!!!
Bla bla bla, my body is not an incubator, go cry
@@hahahaaha7208 Than keep your legs closed or take your uterus out!!!
@@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205 sex isn't just for procreation, it can also be for pleasure. Woman are NOT a baby making machine. Banning abortion doesn't get rid of it it just makes it unsafe, and mothers will use coat hangers or other objects to have an abortion which hurts the mother more than the baby.
@@SmolBean631 Condoms are found in nearly every single liquor mart or pharmacy in this country, same with birth control and other medication (although I completely understand why some are hesitant with using medications and such like that but yet again condoms don't even apply to that) Regardless of one's religious or personal views, safe sex does exist and is pretty much taught to everyone due to the school system and is easily accessible. It's hilarious how often people want to promote safe sex only to them pretend like it doesn't exist or that its not even an alternative worth investing in just so they could further their pro abortion arguments. Can accidents happen, sure but theres risks to literally everything in life and normalizing killing babies is an incredibly nihilistic excuse to be free of consequences. plus a thousand prevented abortions is a thousand saved fetuses and babies. Will pray for all who do coathanger abortions but your argument sucks when ur trying to guilt trip people to protect a few murderers in able to excuse mass murders on a daily basis.
@@HappyCam2000 again, banning it won't get rid of it since people will just do it themselves if it's not available, yes safe sex is great. Abortion is not murder, it's a way of saving the mother. Would you much rather a child be born to an abusive mother who was forced to give birth to it and then have the kid go to multiple foster homes until they eventually end up back with the abusive parent. Also what happened to adopting kids in foster care? Can't you do that if you want a baby so bad? The government should NEVER be in charge of a mother's health!
I agree abortion should be legal and available. However, how come in modern times with so many birth control methods there is such a demand for procedure. Men and women should practice more prevention. Start holding men responsible for their part impregnating women without responsibility illegal. Abortions would almost be unnecessary. Why do women always get punished and men just walk away without any liability.
"Should" doesn't deal with present reality
IT'S THE WOKE, LIBERAL MOB
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Women are subjected to Taxation Without Representation, in every State in America, until such time as EVERY woman paying Federal taxes can travel to EVERY State to get healthcare.
cc @potus @vp
women need to stop voting for people who want to take away their rights, if they want rights
But women can get access to healthcare however abortion isn't healthcare 😎☝️
the founding fathers would have hated this nonsense haha
As a European who doesn't support legal abortion except in edge cases (ex. to save the mother's life), it was funny to hear we should work to achieve the goal of accessible abortion care 😂
Pregnant women in the process of miscarrying in some places in the U.S. are being turned away from hospitals bleeding and waiting for their vitals to worsen so they qualify as a true "emergency".
Must be nice to sit wherever you are and laugh about access to abortion.
What does this have to do with unions?
This is one of the many rights unions fight for employees to have access to. This is one of the many rights denied to Union members. This is one of the rights, for which we collectively bargain with not only our employers but the politicians that would prefer to act as our rulers instead of our representatives.
The article ignores the fact that owning any small business is hard. Add in the fact most doctors regardless of their skill tend to be terrible business people.
Yes, I know, most things this video shows are routine problems for small business :
- frequent protests against the rights of small business around their building, trying to stop their customers from entering,
- laws specially targeting the small business so they upgrade their software and hardware to Google/Apple HQ standards or have to close,
- laws prohibiting them from practice altogether,
- arson and murder targeting the building and personnels,
- difficulties recruiting janitors who have a religious or safety concern about small business.
Yeah, I can understand how you would think this video really should recognizes that abortion clinics are just small business like any other and that their difficulties are only due to the weak financial skills of doctors (that generally are not the one to handle the finances but go on…).
@@chaddaifouche536 Not that it would be hard to kick that guys ass in the comments section but you did it thoroughly. Well done.
What? People who have spent the majority of their education and professional lives healing sick people and treating medical conditions aren't great enough capitalists for you?
Quelle surprise!
Abortion is a medical procedure, medical procedure s fall under police power, police power belong to the States, not the federal government. Please learn the law if you want change
What idiocy! You please learn the law before stating such nonsense.
Source?
@@TheJLH United States vs Robinson 2000, and the u.s constitution
@@TheJLH that's why Biden couldn't enforce the vaccine mandate, vaccine is also a medical procedure. I didn't take it, my company said fuck you
@@Mike-zr7qb United States v. Robinson does not address the regulation of medical procedures, nor does it discuss the constitutional underpinnings of abortion law. If the context was regarding the states’ rights to exercise police power, that is a broader constitutional discussion which this case does not directly address.
So we need to go after the organizations that are funding these private clinics great advice 🧐
Trash.
So, you're clearly stating that you intend to plan and either undertake or incite others to undertake violent attacks on charitable organizations? Because how else would you "go after" charitable organizations?
@@Where_is_Waldoby seeking ways to cut off their revenue stream of money. At no point did I say anything about violence. I'm talking about passing state laws to interfere with their revenue stream or preventing them from advertising.
There's lots of tricky legal things we can do including taking away their tax free status.
I don't care what kind of unfair legal burdens we have to put up on them everything helps👍
You can provide women's healthcare without cutting their baby out. Ever heard of a crisis pregnancy center?
Cringe
@@ClockwerkMan It's true. Ty for liking your own comment.
I know many a happy family who was helped by a Crisis Pregnancy Center. They are like the 'underground resistance;; that sprung up after the Germans took over France.
Did you know that if the baby is dead and rotting inside you no one can take it out until you start to die? That is the result of these bans. 98% of abortions are with a few pills. The reality is so far from what you think is going on. It’s willful ignorance. Y’all can’t wait to butcher the golden goose…
@@alikaostermiller I'm glad that you agree that crisis pregnancy centers are cringe.
I think Abortion should be like anything else which requires Reaponsibility, by needing a course and a license to do it.
Would have prevented the severe abortion regret with women i know, if it was done properly.
The choice to abort even if you personally believe it doesnt harm anyone to kill them early in their life, is still based on unknowns about life & death; and a very young human's future existance is in your hands.
So, Responsibility rather than Selfish right makes it more like other things were you could kill someone (e.g. driving a car).
You're trying to say that someone should need to take a course and licensure exam to get an abortion? It strains me to believe you're arguing in good faith. Generally, the earlier an abortion happens the lesser the side effects, so delays are a bad idea from the outset. If the person can't have an abortion they would then need to be responsible to behavior during the pregnancy at a minimum. The flip side to this is someone is forced to carry a child to term because they failed a licensure exam. Your proposal is worthy of all possible ridicule.
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Maybe you didnt read my comment properly?
Obviously the license is so they will properly consider the ethical issue of killing their own child early in life, and thus also if they will regret it later.
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No, the license could be done well before the right to kill is granted - even in high school.
It much more equal, everything else where there is the potential to harm someone we need a license.
I feel im acting in better faitb than you are bc you seem to not acknowledge the power & responsibility & arrogance issue of treating abortion like a special case where normal ethcial responsibilities or considerations don't apply.
We can't women be treated equally, i think that more equal is good - both rights & responsibilities.
@@pebblepod30If you are trying to argue in good faith, I believe your idea wouldn’t be as effective as you think. First, pregnant people already have to consult with doctors who will tell them of the consequences and make sure that they know what they are doing. Second, abortion is a very time sensitive issue and delays could cause worse side effects. Last, this would likely disproportionately harm those who are poor because they would not be able to take time out of their day to take the tests and earn the license. Therefore, I believe that this would have an effect similar to voter ID laws, it looks good on paper but ends up harming poor people and solving a problem that doesn’t really exist.
@pebblepod30 That in no way goes around the issue of forcing someone to carry a pregnancy to term for lack of a license. Instituting licensure for an action because people sometimes regret that action is not a thing we do anywhere with anything else. It's nonsensical.
Also, there is already a place called sex ed class to explain what happens during an abortion as well as a lot of other messy details of human biology that show that there is an astounding number of humans that die in utero before ~24 weeks for no real reason with no intentional abortion involved. Maybe health class should provide some guidance with coping with that, because whether they seek out an abortion or not, a lot of the kids in there are going to one day mourn a lost pregnancy.
murdering children is cruel. Its about baby body.
So murdering potential mothers isn't cruel? Do you have any idea how stupidly common it is to die as the result of attempting to carry a child to term and give birth? I personally know someone who had an abortion so she wouldn't die. The legislation you argue for would have killed her and many others. And don't give me bullshit about making exceptions for such conditions because the burden of proof can easily delay the abortion which increases the risk. Giving birth isn't the only part of pregnancy that can kill someone. My friend's body would not have been able to handle the stress of continuing to support a potential child's development. Every moment she waited to have an abortion, her life was at greater risk. This is far from the only reason to support abortion rights. Judging by your youtube handle, I'm guessing your not worried about any risk to your own life from pregnancy so I guess you don't care about people dying from pregnancy.
How about murder neither?@@Where_is_Waldo
@@harpsdesire4200 How about read my comment? It's about antichoice propagandists trying to legislate anyone who's pregnant out of the right to choose to live or, in other words, trying to create legislation that would effectively mass murder people for having become pregnant.
Nope, it’s not about the body of an unthinking, unfeeling fetus.
It is only ever about the sentient woman.
@@harpsdesire4200murder is a legal term which refers to the unlawful killing of a person under the law. That law specifically excludes fetuses from personhood.
supposed to feel bad for these people? boo hoo.
Trash.
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I really think abortion is wrong,no matter the state. JMO!
My opinion is that your opinion sucks. Find something better to do with your life than stepping on the livelihood of women.
And that's fine, you can feel that way and you can decide to never have an abortion. However, you do not get to make that choice for other women
You can feel that way. That’s fine. Outlawing abortion is like outlawing any other medical practice, stupid. People need access to care, they need access to these services.
What are daughters supposed to do who carry the product of rape from their fathers? Brothers? What are women to do when they become pregnant and have NO WAY of caring for the child? Wether it’s mental illness, drug addiction, or worse?
@@neighbor9672 Not to mention, what are people supposed to do when the fetus isn't viable and keeping it until it dies could lead to irreversible damage of reproductive organs or death of the parent? Pregnancy isn't a safe thing. Things go wrong with shockingly high regularity.
Abortion is wrong, yet you Christians defend and worship a God who murdered millions of innocent children and adults because they wouldn't worship him. Make that make sense. 🤔