I agree 100% When I see those women parading around with signs that say, "I regret my abortion," I am infuriated. OK...regret it for yourself. You have no authority to judge other women for different choices. You HAD A CHOICE. You took it. The outcome is between you and your conscience, religion, whatever. But you have NO RIGHT to judge others for their choices.
They might not “regret” their abortion if it saved their life. Part of the problem is not looking at the many reasons for an abortion or surgical abortion. It is health care.
Heck, they can judge others all they want. What they don't have the right to do is prevent others from making their own decisions. People do things they regret every single day. We don't outlaw things just because some people regret them.
Twenty-nine years ago I almost died from a tubal pregnancy. The next year I had my son, healthy and full term. Both were wanted pregnancies, and without care for the first, the second would not have happened. Please vote for Harris for everyone
What you are describing is a very small percentage of the 1 million abortions performed every year in this country. The overwhelming majority are performed to eliminate an unwanted prgnancy. In other words, birth control.
I could have died in 2013 when at 5 months there was no heartbeat and the rotting fetus was not coming out of my body. Why is there restrictions to women's healthcare?
The far Christian Nationalist right do not trust doctors or women. They assume they are just evil baby killers. So ironic when they are letting women die. Women do not have abortions lightly.
Yes. I am thankful we had emergency healthcare when we needed it! I am very concerned about the young women and girls, who don't, the millions more who won't if this is allowed.
If you ate Good Nutritional Food, your body would Not have reacted the way it did. STOP EATING JUNK PESTICIDE CHEMICAL FOODS. BUY ORGANIC FOOD. STOP EATING MACCAS. GROW UP FOR ONCE. 🙄
Why are there restrictions to women's healthcare? The answer is "simply because men who may or may not be ignorant about women's health, men who act as though they are scared of women and therefore hate and want to control women, are in positions of power where they can do as they please." Would men who like women, even think about removing a form of healthcare from women? Methinks not in a thousand years.
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From overseas. It has always puzzled me. Pro life protects foetus’ but doesn’t care about children slaughtered in your schools. 😵💫
Retired healthcare professional. Abortion is healthcare. VOTE 💙💙💙🇺🇲 Indiana now lacks Obstetrics services in more than 40/92 counties and only increasing.
@@lesliezammit3456it is the red state legislators and state supreme courts that ignore medical professional orgs and science while quoting Bible verses and criminalizing especially physicians. By design healthcare is directed now by Hospital legal departments and these regressive intentionally vague laws....NOT physicians and patients.
This whole debacle has had a silver lining for me and my state of Michigan. Because of where our jobs and lives took us, I have been here most of my life and one brother has been mostly east coast, and the other, west coast. I have no kids, so my nieces and nephews are as close as I get but I don't get to see them much. But one niece was an English literature teacher in Louisiana, and her husband, an electrical engineer. She was already getting sick of interference with her teaching, and last year they decided they were ready to start a family. That was the straw that made them decide to move. So they called uncle Pat and asked if they could stay with me while they looked for jobs and a home here. Within a year, they both had good jobs in this area, and found a home about 10 minutes from mine. So Michigan got a great teacher and an engineer, and I got a "daughter" living near me. Too bad Louisiana, your loss is our gain, dummies.
@lesliezammit3456 well, Doctors are threatened with imprisonment. Hippocratic oath is ethically correct but in the face of lifelong imprisonment, how easy is it to adhere to it?
Stop caring just for your own family . Stop being an abusive jerk. Be a decent human being who cares for peer human beings because it's the only ethical thing to do! If people need to think of a person around them to be able to launch their empathy skills, then that's huge problem right there!
Even if Trump is not re-elected, people who were behind him and the members of the Catholic Supreme Court remain. You will still have the bureaucrats in power to enforce abortion bans, and reject the changing of these bans.
I was 5 1/2 months pregnant when I experienced an abrupted placenta and while hospitalized in a catholic hospital, my Dr recommended Dr. George Tiller. Living in Wichita, I was well aware of Dr. Tiller, the picket lines, and the controversies. This was the most difficult decision my husband and I ever made. It didn’t make it any easier to have to cross picket lines to get the care I needed. This was in 1990 and I thank God Dr. Tiller was there and I was able to get the healthcare that likely saved my life. We must vote blue, for all the women who have fought so hard, for all the girls yet to become women, and for all the men who care about the women in their lives.
Dear Rachel...thank you for your very trustworthy reporting...and so very necessary truth telling...my heart breaks for these women and families 😢....vote 💙💙💙🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What gets missed in all this, and the reason so many older women are now fighting the bans, is the fact that the way they are written intrudes on a woman getting breast exams and cancer screenings. They aren't thrilled with the fact that their daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than they did either. That's from my wife, a 68 year young black woman who is a nurse.
I am Australian 81yrs old, and these stories could have been me. The rights we women have were hard fought by generations of women. Women of my generation are with the young women and our generations of women to come. The ball is in our court, and we must smash it out of the park. Women in Democracies around the world stand with the women of the United States and urge them to bring this election home. Vote for Kamala Harris up and down the ballot. 💙💙💙🇺🇲❤️🤍💙🇦🇺
Same here, sort of. I spent 1/3 of my life fighting for females to have serious rights . We’re all let down, but ready to vote for women, all women’s rights, Nov. 05 ‘24
No. Older women are angry that the rights we fought for, that we sacrificed for, are being ripped away. We marched, they arrested us, our families shunned us, we lost jobs over this. We may not need this now days but WE ARE NOT GOING BACK.
@meredithtiller2090 As I said, my wife is a nurse. She has heard the statements directly from the women she treats. Also, at 68 she herself falls in the category of a senior woman. Are you suggesting that my wife is not intelligent enough to focus on more than one reason for opposing something she disagrees with? As for what women have sacrifice over the years, did you just call my wife a pandering dilettante? Because that was the thrust of your comment, as if to suggest that she could not possibly have been part of the marches and protests because you didn't see her there. For all that you know, you may HAVE seen her, but not knowing who she is, you can't say, legitimately, either way. Or was your diatribe directed at me for being a "mere man" and therefore I couldn't possibly know anything about what it means to be a woman. After all, it isn't like I had a grandmother and mother that did the majority of the rearing of my siblings and myself. Additionally, it isn't like I didn't have two sisters to go with my four brothers. It also isn't like I didn't have a daughter that my wife and I raised together to be a self-reliant, self-actualized well-spoken and well-educated woman in her own right. I mean everyone knows that all men are like Diaper Filling Donnie Orange Bonespurs, right? Would you care, at some point, to reevaluate what you said, or are you going to keep calling my wife and I stupid?
Actually if you knew your Bible it's God that's in charge anyways of your body not you. Both of you women just want to go out and have fun but don't want to deal with the consequences of it. That's why you're pulling for abortions.
Yes. It's terrifying to think that everyone wasn't horrified by Atwood's Gilead. The MAGA faithful seem to think it's a wonderful prospect. Their plans for women are Taliban-adjacent. Luckily women can still vote... for now.
Another death of an 18 year old in Arizona who miscarried and was not given treatment. Miscarriage is now a death sentence for the mother as well as the fetus.
@@cpirtle There have been several women who had miscarriages arrested for having miscarriages- anyone can look that up if they don't believe and I encourage that they do because the stories are horrific. So you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
In the 80s I heard my doctor screaming into the phone telling the insurance people they had no business telling him how to care for his patient. These policies are no different. They interfere with health care. Thanks to that doctor, I am alive today. Edit: Women are dying. VOTE 💙💙💙💙
The recent deaths of women as a result of complications during pregnancy, is a national emergency and a national tragedy. It’s time to hold those that are responsible accountable by voting. Your vote will empower legislatures to take actions and to begin the process of turning the tables for the good of the general public and for the good of women in particular. Change starts with each of us, make your vote count, get involved and get motivated to help end this current, national abortion crisis in America. We can do much better and together we can do this. V🇺🇸TE To Save Lives
Brilliantly stated. 71 year old female here, that received BALLOTTRAX confirmation for my HARRIS/WALZ vote and my husband and daughter’s HARRIS/WALZ vote.
Unfortunately, this battle won't be over until the SCOTUS has been reformed as well. And to make sure that that happens requires all those down ballot votes as well.
My friend, at age 15, had to help raise 4 siblings when her mom died from a coat hangar abortion. I can only imagine all of the reasons, but she most likely didn't have resources to have any more kids. Maybe mentally it was too much too.😢
And healthcare is not a Federally protected right. Now we can argue back and forth all night about the merits of a socialised healthcare system at the Federal level but until one is implemented it makes no sense that a single type of procedure such as abortion should have any special type of classification over any other type of healthcare. Trump made the correct call in pushing it back to the States.
I had a dream last night that there was a massive BLUE tsunami that hit the Harris/Walz campaign on Tuesday November 5th…dreams do come true…I voted early for Harris/Walz…all BLUE up and down the ballot…now it’s your turn.
I want the Senate count to increase to 53 or 54 Democrats. I want Hakeem Jeffries to take over as Speaker of the House. No more MAGA Mikey. Patty Murray should be extended as President Pro Tem of the Senate. That would place her third in line of succession behind Madam president Harris. So, we have a black/East Asian woman, a 60 year old white guy from Minnesota, a black man, and a septagenarian from Washington state as the top four in government. The rest we won't know until the transition team tells us who she has in her Cabinet. Secretary Pete Buttigieg I might consider for State. Cheney could be either UN ambassador or head of National Intelligence. Maybe there's a possibility of a Republican as Secretary of the Army, Navy or Defense. Those two would fulfill her promise to have a Republican in her Cabinet. Joint Chiefs Chair is another Cabinet level position that could get a Republican without creating partisan rancor or stress. These are just a few thoughts.
Despite using birth control, I became pregnant during my third year in college. I had already had to drop out for two years to work and save some money to continue with my studies, and I was still a poor student. And, as the third of nine children myself, I could not possibly consider burdening my parents to help me. Thank goodness I lived in New York City at the time, 1970, when they had made abortion legal, safe and cheap three years before Roe vs Wade allowed that the constitution protected a woman’s right to an abortion. I had no money to travel anywhere else and could barely feed myself, never mind provide for the needs of a child. I am so grateful that I was able to get an abortion when I needed it at the age of 22. I was then able to finish my degrees, become a special education teacher, eventually meet the man I wanted to marry and have children with, and have two beautiful babies, now happy successful adults. I shudder to think where I would be now had I not had the freedom to make that choice. The loss of one’s right to choose is what, of course, will be on the minds of American women - and hopefully men - this election.
Thank you, Ali, for lending your space to Rachel Maddow and for helping draw attention on this very important issue. Thank you, Rachel, for carrying the torch of women’s rights and educate people on the issue of women’s health. Thank you, Rachel, for being you.
I'm so glad that we have solved all the worlds problems, we don;t have runaway inflation, job losses, close to WW3, over ran by illegal immigrants many who are convicted murderers, and the ONLY issue left to deal with is which candidate make it easier for me to murder my unborn baby?
According to the gold standrad polls in Iowa, where Harris is ahead 4 points in a red state, it's all about abortion and women are MAD. Gender gap 20 points (30 with women over 65, a typically GOP group).
I hope women remember this for some time to come, that the Republican party is not their friend or comfort zone. Even if Roe gets codified into law, the Republican party will continue to try to repeal it over and over again. This is a long term fight.
i almost die with my first pregnancy. I was so sick but i wanted to keep our daughter i was 28 weeks pregnant. My body couldn’t take it anymore my husband and i made the choice to spare my life. Just understand that women don’t take a abortion lightly it asked an emotional and physical toll so it should be always our choice
There was a reason why America passed an abortion law in the 1970’s. That reason is still here. America has seen history repeat itself. Thanks to the press for getting the true stories out.
Unfortunately, the USA didn't pass an abortion law. There was a SCOTUS decision (Roe v Wade), and that was overturned by a SCOTUS that had been packed by the Repugnican Party. And I deliberately refer to them as that because the SCOTUS embodies everything that is Repugnant about the GOP.
The argument "leave it to the states to decide" How about leave it up to the woman and her care provider? Women have every right to be federally protected. Women's bodies do not belong to the government.
You know I could understand a man, who is a physician, trying to come up with healthcare for women but NONE of these men controlling women’s healthcare are doctors. Vote Blue! 💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙
I was a young woman with high risk pregnancies. I was prone to miscarriage. I am so thankful I had medical care available when I needed it. After 13 pregnancies, I wound up with three fantastic sons, who grew into amazing adults. They've Blessed me with WONDERFUL grandchildren. I am really concerned for my granddaughters, for all the young women, and little girls, who don't have access to healthcare. I am terrified it could get worse. Women and little girls will DIE if we allow these draconian laws to continue.
There are people who are so far gone in the anti-abortion movement that they are completely disconnected from facts. I have a length back and forth with a woman after sharing my mom's abortion story, who had PROM at 18 weeks pregnancy. The lady insisted that my mother needlessly murdered her child and that her pregnancy was viable, even when I informed her that my father was not only an oncologist but a pediatric oncologist. Not only her doctors but her own husband all agreed there was nothing left to do. Still, that woman insisted my mother made the wrong choice. She wrongly insisted that sepsis or PROM is not life threatening and are not reasons to end a pregnancy. She had no medical training or knowledge, just some misplaced confidence in her jugdement. The reality is that women have died and will continue to die unless we collectively choose to keep people like her outside of our doctor's offices. She and all those like her are a danger not just to our freedom, but our lives. There's a reason we don't see doctors advocating for those laws. In many of her comments during our back and forth, she clearly insinuated that if only my mother had suffered a bit more and persisted, her baby would have survived. I wished it was that easy... but medical conditions don't care how deserving you are. Merit has nothing to do with it. I don't even want to think about what a person like that thinks of a woman who has an elective abortion. Those people are completely without empathy.
Dunning-Kruger effect is real. The amount of MAGA devotees in comments all over UA-cam who seem oblivious to the many reasons a woman needs a D&C is infuriating. They are blinded by dogma and just will not accept medical facts.
What you are describing is a very small percentage of the 1 million abortions performed every year in this country. The overwhelming majority are performed to eliminate an unwanted prgnancy. In other words, birth control.
@@keithm9337I am pro-contraception and education but no contraception is 100% effective. A 1-12% failure rate is millions of people. Most women seeking abortion were using some type of birth control. 93% are done in the first trimester, some birth defects can be detected that early now, so not 'all' of those were contraceptive failures. There are also abortions for birth defects that can't be detected until 12-18 weeks. There are 400,000 children in foster care and 117,000 available for adoption today. Forcing people to be parents is not a good idea.
To all the women out there, it’s time we take back our right to healthcare. And to all the men who love the women in their lives, it’s time to fight for them. VOTE 💙 BECAUSE ALL OF US HAVE TO KEEP THOSE RIGHTS! 💙🇺🇸💙🌊
Or you can just stop pandering to the uneducated, ignorant people who feel their feelings should supersede the medical decisions of licensed physicians… nobody tells them how to read their special book, so stay tf out of our healthcare, k 🤷♀️
Part of my clinic job was obtaining prior authorization for patient's med. For women with dysfunctional uterine bleeding, continuous oral contraceptives were prescribed. I would have to submit Gyn MD notes, pathology, blood work and other treatments tried and failed. To get Viagra or ED meds approved, all I needed was a verbal diagnosis of ED from the primary care doc; that's how effed up the insurance protocols are.
@@jasonburch9535 So what your'e saying is you're so simple you don't know the difference between a contagious potentially deadly disease and a pregnancy. Yeah that tracks with the level of intellect forced birthers display.
@@jasonburch9535 Imagine if MAGA had embraced the COVID vaccine. They could have cheered to the end of time how Trump saved the world's population with an amazing vaccine. He could have been championed for saving BILLIONS. Instead, he's a convict. Great work MAGA
I have two kids, and one miscarriage that I needed to abort. The thought women are not able to get proper health is so inhumane and scary. Women’s health should be #1 issue. If you have a mom, a sister, a wife, or a daughter, they are in danger in a Trump presidency.
I also am in medicine, an RN and I wonder if the doctors, nurses, and hospitals in Texas had saved these women, gone against the "law" and been put in jail....filled the jails....where would these laws be now? I truly wonder.
Nowhere. After all Texas was long in the side of being full with sexistic abusers. They've always been as extreme as the law allowed. And doctors aren't dumb. They are leaving. They have their own families totake care of and they are also VERY often women.
One question that always gets me about these so-called Pro-life people: why can’t they just not have an abortion for themselves? Just leave it at that! If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one . Just leave others alone. Like Tim Walz says: mind your own business!
Because theycare dysregulated people who literally do not trust themselves and mist importantly do not trust their own wives and daughters or themselves to NOT ask for health care when things get hard. They are aiming to have the world to their regulation work for them and to ease their abuser burden.
It's also a criminal statistics issue. We know historically that abortion rights literally improve criminal statistics and not just by the way of women notbein persecuted, but actually by the way of less crime.
I’ve been a pastor for 30 years now. For a short time, I was a hospital chaplain. In my role as a hospital chaplain, I baptized two stillborn babies. It was heartbreaking. Mom and dad wanted that baby. Honestly, I did not want to be there either. But… I want every single elected official to look a mom and dad in their eyes while holding a dead baby (and did what I have done), to look them in the face and say, “This is the law that I voted for, and there is nothing we can do about it.”
What I heard is “This is the law that I voted for, and there is nothing YOU can do about it.” Those who voted to take away health care of women, decided you should control their fate.
I lost my best friend to the lack of abortion, her husband, her two daughters lost the most important woman in their lives. 😓😩 I know other women who did have ectopic pregnancy, needed an abortion to stay alive, stay healthy. I know a woman who has a prolapsed uterus that had to have a pregnancy aborted. NOT any of these is frivolous. NONE OF THEM.
Doctors should be allowed to treat women-period. Pregnancy can go wrong in a hundred ways and to punish women for what their body does is immoral-like Kamala said. Stop saying you are pro life when you don’t care about the lives of women.
Let me state the obvious. Rachel advocates for women for an issue that is unlikely to impact her personally. This is how we all should be. Why can't men empathize and also advocate for women. I am a man. I really like women. Why would I want anything but the best for the women I love. I just don't get it. Good news. Women get it. And they will save democracy by saving themselves.
😊 vote 😊 States that have banned or heavily restricted abortions have seen worse health for women of reproductive age overall: Between 2018 and 2020, death rates for women between 15 and 44 years old were 34% higher in states that presently have more abortion restrictions. Women of reproductive age in these states also have tended to have less access to private health insurance and maternity care, the report found. States with more abortion restrictions had a 32% lower ratio of obstetricians to births in 2020 and a 59% lower ratio of certified nurse midwives to births than states where abortions are more accessible.
Sure, abortion is healthcare... but preventing someone from getting an abortion is slavery. It forces a Woman to labour against her will. This is the literal definition of slavery.
Women never entered the picture when SCOTUS decided to cancel Roe V Wade. That decision is all about going backward in time to enforce a legal oppression. Period.
Another take on it, I have a history of miscarriage and planned parenthood gave me an ultrasound with an early pregnancy. I was heartbroken when my clinician told me there was no yolk sac, and fetal development had stopped … another miscarriage 😢 I was devastated, and also grateful to know sooner so that I could help another family through my egg donation. I lost my baby, but because of planned parenthood, I helped another family have a baby.
I had an ectopic hemorrhage in a small town with a Catholic hospital. If I had to wait even a few hours for the required abortion, I would be dead now.
The answer is currently very clearly "No". In fact it's still a worldwide "No". Abuse is still disgustingly common in absolutely all areas and all forms of bigotry are still very much thriving. They're just not as publicly acceptable everywhere as they currently are in places like America.
These are 2 incredibly courageous, articulate & brilliant reporters who are joining forces to help save democracy. We are so grateful for your work to educate & inspire us! We really need your strong & clear voices! 😂❤😂
Best Medical Practices First. Separation of Church and State. Personal beliefs are just that. Personal. I don't live your life. You don't live mine. LIVE AND LET LIVE.
For any old or myopic men who can't understand how furious women might be about the abortion issue, I suggest they think about how they would feel if the Democrats passed a law that required compulsory vasectomy or castration for all men over 40... I'm pretty sure they would turn out and make sure they voted to ensure that didn't happen. Not saying, just saying...
It’s not the same though is it? In abortion you are taking a life, there is another person involved. Does the baby not have a right to choose whether it lives or dies?
The US, has the worst maternal health care than most countries. In some cases maternal deaths are two or three times more than some developed countries. Look it up, it's easy enough to find. Most developed countries, the mother gets 12 months paid leave. In some cases, longer.
I grew up knowing what a wire coat hanger was really for, and it wasn't for hanging up coats. Women died alone in dark closets using one. I NEVER want to see those days again!!
I really believe, she created a positive shift in VP Harris support last week. More Men are speaking up on Tic Toc❤❤❤ The Obama's are called the closer for reasons 😉
We fought so hard in the 70’s for women to have bodily autonomy and the freedom to chose. We cannot allow the fanatics to force the death of women in need of healthcare! OUR BODIES OUR CHOICE!!! REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN RIGHTS ARE WOMENS RIGHTS!
Abortion continues to be safer than going through pregnancy and childbirth. If your concern isn't with the woman and her well-being, then you cannot consider yourself proIife.
If you don't want to get pregnant then there is an easy way to avoid it in the first place. If you make the conscious decision to have intercourse then you accept the potential risks, I.E. having to care for a new life that your actions helped create.
@ryant2568 Thanks for proving that it's all about controI for you peopIe. BC doesn't always work like it should, but you don't really care about that, do you?
@@wtfisthishandIebuIlshit so completely false. Child birth is always safer than abortion. 1 in 25 women land in the ER after taking the abortion pills.
Thank You Rachel and Ari for educating us on how abortion IS Healthcare. I watched a new ad today that was very frightening. It continues to haunt me all day & night. It was guttural and horrifying. It ends with an anonymous man who steps out from the dark shadows and the woman was crying and begging for help and was told she will die. Her husband was told…but you (the husband) can still have children “just not with her…”
Vote straight 💙 to retain our Republic, SS, Medicare, Education - AND - to restore medical care to women in the throws of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies.
Bernie Moreno running for the US Senate from Ohio doesn't see why women of menopausal age should care about abortion. Yet he thinks men of ANY age should?!?
What gets me about the abortion debate, over decades, is that the onus is put on women. What about the responsibility, or lack thereof, of the men involved?
Abortion IS healthcare, it is a choice for some and a necessity for others. It is NOT a political issue. Politicians are needed to provide a supportive environment that delivers the facilities and professional care that everyone needs at some point in their lives. Anything beyond that is oppression.
Why does the right want to ban abortion? Because they can. This is a step in the plan to ban one right after another by working on the citizens' emotions.
Warren Herne in Boulder Colorado, saved my life at 19, he is a doctor who gives clean, safe abortion care. To not see abortion as health care is a potential death threat to many women. And, as Michelle said, men, your wives, daughters, girlfriends, are in danger, step up
@@midnightblue6668 the book of the first series is called “Prequel” and it’s available as an audio book narrated by Rachel as well as in ebook and paper
Vasectomies would drastically reduce the number of abortions. TV stations also shouldn't be airing adverts for Viagra and fake Viagra. "L.D.S." is normal when a dude reaches a certain age.
I'm totally in line with your opinions and words. Please SLOW DOWN so the men can follow and UNDERSTAND the truth of your honest, true, real argument. Simplify for men who really might care and support. You truly are talking too fast for the majority of men who might come on board. The women of the nation already know the truth.
@@Viper-ln6yt If it was arrogance then we wouldn't have to fight for basic bodily autonomy for women, you fool! Too manymen are emotionally and socially inept and incapable of compassion. There's literally evidence and something called "Generalised male alexithymia". Why the heck are you more busy trying to talk away the problem than busy actually assuring that abusive men top giving meb their abysmal reputation?! If you care about men, do your damnest to sort them out!
The bible is neither antiabortion nor pro-life, but does provide a biblical basis for the real motivation behind the antiabortion religious crusade: hatred of women. The bible is anti-woman, blaming women for sin, demanding subservience, mandating a slave/master relationship to men, and demonstrating contempt and lack of compassion: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." Gen. 3:16 What self-respecting woman today would submit willingly to such tyranny? The antiabortion position does not demonstrate love for humanity, or compassion for real human beings. World Health Organization estimates maternal deaths at 500,000 a year, with at least one in five stemming from unsafe, illegal abortions. Thousands more are hurt and maimed from illegal or self-induced abortions. Unwanted pregnancies and complications from multiple pregnancies are a leading killer of women. Why do antiabortionists want North American women to join these ghastly mortality statistics? Every day around the world more than 40,000 people, mostly children, die from starvation or malnutrition. We must protect and cherish the right to life of the already-born.
Yep, not only is the Bible a ragbag of absurd contradictions, but it's also transparently self-serving patriarchal propaganda. A ludicrous and pernicious text.
Alas it doesn't seem to be. USA has gone from do no harm to deliberately killing women & little girls in a celebration of misogyny that gives more rights to rapists than victims.
I had a stillbirth at 51/2 months pregnant. I hate the thought of forcing others to go through the same hellish experience I've had. Vote for Freedom Vote KAMALA HARRIS
Women have died and has driven doctors to not treat. I totally agree with the description that "save the mother's life" laws are too vague meaning no treatment. What I think about is the mother that passes due to a pregnancy emergency while she already has kids left without a mother.
One told me even ectopic pregnancy should be in God's hands. I told him the mother would without treatment. He again said it should have been in God's hands. And few will say what rules they want concerning abortion...which may be not even allowing contraception...
No, 65- 85% of Americans want the protections of Roe restored. *Before* Dobbs 65% of Americans were pro-choice. Now that people know more- 85% of Americans have decided that we don't want The "Handmaid's Tale". Either *you* are a troll or you need to remove your head from your butt.
I agree 100% When I see those women parading around with signs that say, "I regret my abortion," I am infuriated. OK...regret it for yourself. You have no authority to judge other women for different choices. You HAD A CHOICE. You took it. The outcome is between you and your conscience, religion, whatever. But you have NO RIGHT to judge others for their choices.
I feel the need to hold up a sign "my mother regrets getting married".
They might not “regret” their abortion if it saved their life. Part of the problem is not looking at the many reasons for an abortion or surgical abortion. It is health care.
Heck, they can judge others all they want. What they don't have the right to do is prevent others from making their own decisions. People do things they regret every single day. We don't outlaw things just because some people regret them.
Does the man who told them get it regret it?
@sharonreddy5557 Are you saying that women can never make decisions themselves?
Are you saying that women have to follow the orders of men?
Twenty-nine years ago I almost died from a tubal pregnancy. The next year I had my son, healthy and full term. Both were wanted pregnancies, and without care for the first, the second would not have happened. Please vote for Harris for everyone
Trump didn't ban anything.
He sent the decisions back to the states which is where medical decisions should be made, not at the Federal level.
What you are describing is a very small percentage of the 1 million abortions performed every year in this country. The overwhelming majority are performed to eliminate an unwanted prgnancy. In other words, birth control.
@@keithm9337 That's not how abortion OR BC works, KEITH.
@ so, do you think the life of the mother is so unworthy that YOU get to decide how it unfolds?
@@wtfisthishandIebuIlshit That is precisely how it works. Facts are facts. Look at the statisics.
I could have died in 2013 when at 5 months there was no heartbeat and the rotting fetus was not coming out of my body. Why is there restrictions to women's healthcare?
The far Christian Nationalist right do not trust doctors or women. They assume they are just evil baby killers. So ironic when they are letting women die. Women do not have abortions lightly.
Trump and the GOP. BTW, Trump wanted to abort Tiffany.
Yes. I am thankful we had emergency healthcare when we needed it! I am very concerned about the young women and girls, who don't, the millions more who won't if this is allowed.
If you ate Good Nutritional Food, your body would Not have reacted the way it did. STOP EATING JUNK PESTICIDE CHEMICAL FOODS. BUY ORGANIC FOOD. STOP EATING MACCAS. GROW UP FOR ONCE. 🙄
Why are there restrictions to women's healthcare?
The answer is "simply because men who may or may not be ignorant about women's health, men who act as though they are scared of women and therefore hate and want to control women, are in positions of power where they can do as they please."
Would men who like women, even think about removing a form of healthcare from women?
Methinks not in a thousand years.
From overseas. It has always puzzled me. Pro life protects foetus’ but doesn’t care about children slaughtered in your schools. 😵💫
That part!
Pro-life don't care about the life of the mother either
Makes absolutely no sense, right?
Looks like pro life means pro adult men's lives.
It doesn't make sense to us either.
Retired healthcare professional.
Abortion is healthcare. VOTE 💙💙💙🇺🇲
Indiana now lacks Obstetrics services in more than 40/92 counties and only increasing.
Thank you!
No-one life or liberty should be threatened for providing lifesaving care to a woman in need. Period. The Hippocratic oath has to mean something.
@@lesliezammit3456it is the red state legislators and state supreme courts that ignore medical professional orgs and science while quoting Bible verses and criminalizing especially physicians. By design healthcare is directed now by Hospital legal departments and these regressive intentionally vague laws....NOT physicians and patients.
This whole debacle has had a silver lining for me and my state of Michigan. Because of where our jobs and lives took us, I have been here most of my life and one brother has been mostly east coast, and the other, west coast. I have no kids, so my nieces and nephews are as close as I get but I don't get to see them much. But one niece was an English literature teacher in Louisiana, and her husband, an electrical engineer. She was already getting sick of interference with her teaching, and last year they decided they were ready to start a family. That was the straw that made them decide to move. So they called uncle Pat and asked if they could stay with me while they looked for jobs and a home here.
Within a year, they both had good jobs in this area, and found a home about 10 minutes from mine. So Michigan got a great teacher and an engineer, and I got a "daughter" living near me. Too bad Louisiana, your loss is our gain, dummies.
@lesliezammit3456 well, Doctors are threatened with imprisonment. Hippocratic oath is ethically correct but in the face of lifelong imprisonment, how easy is it to adhere to it?
Vote. Vote for your daughters, your granddaughters, and your great-great-granddaughters. Leave them a livable legacy.
Stop caring just for your own family . Stop being an abusive jerk. Be a decent human being who cares for peer human beings because it's the only ethical thing to do!
If people need to think of a person around them to be able to launch their empathy skills, then that's huge problem right there!
@KxNOxUTA, they agreed with you. Stop trying so hard to virtue signal that you need to tell others how to frame their decision.
Trump took responsibility for overturning Roe. Women will take full responsibility for getting rid of Trump.
Will those who outlawed abortion take responsibility for women dying because they could not get proper healthcare?
@@dianeyoung8068 all signs point to no
The WOMEN will dump trump.
To the dustbin of history!
Will brag about defeating Trump like he bragged about grabbing women by the 🙀!
Even if Trump is not re-elected, people who were behind him and the members of the Catholic Supreme Court remain. You will still have the bureaucrats in power to enforce abortion bans, and reject the changing of these bans.
I was 5 1/2 months pregnant when I experienced an abrupted placenta and while hospitalized in a catholic hospital, my Dr recommended Dr. George Tiller. Living in Wichita, I was well aware of Dr. Tiller, the picket lines, and the controversies. This was the most difficult decision my husband and I ever made. It didn’t make it any easier to have to cross picket lines to get the care I needed. This was in 1990 and I thank God Dr. Tiller was there and I was able to get the healthcare that likely saved my life. We must vote blue, for all the women who have fought so hard, for all the girls yet to become women, and for all the men who care about the women in their lives.
It's often not an easy decision, not taken lightly. More often a necessary medical procedure.
And for all the non-binary people who can be the ones who need health care or those who fear for fellow humans dying of legal abuse in 2024!
Dear Rachel...thank you for your very trustworthy reporting...and so very necessary truth telling...my heart breaks for these women and families 😢....vote 💙💙💙🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What gets missed in all this, and the reason so many older women are now fighting the bans, is the fact that the way they are written intrudes on a woman getting breast exams and cancer screenings. They aren't thrilled with the fact that their daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than they did either. That's from my wife, a 68 year young black woman who is a nurse.
I am Australian 81yrs old, and these stories could have been me. The rights we women have were hard fought by generations of women. Women of my generation are with the young women and our generations of women to come. The ball is in our court, and we must smash it out of the park.
Women in Democracies around the world stand with the women of the United States and urge them to bring this election home. Vote for Kamala Harris up and down the ballot. 💙💙💙🇺🇲❤️🤍💙🇦🇺
Same here, sort of. I spent 1/3 of my life fighting for females to have serious rights . We’re all let down, but ready to vote for women, all women’s rights, Nov. 05 ‘24
No. Older women are angry that the rights we fought for, that we sacrificed for, are being ripped away. We marched, they arrested us, our families shunned us, we lost jobs over this. We may not need this now days but WE ARE NOT GOING BACK.
@meredithtiller2090 As I said, my wife is a nurse. She has heard the statements directly from the women she treats. Also, at 68 she herself falls in the category of a senior woman. Are you suggesting that my wife is not intelligent enough to focus on more than one reason for opposing something she disagrees with? As for what women have sacrifice over the years, did you just call my wife a pandering dilettante? Because that was the thrust of your comment, as if to suggest that she could not possibly have been part of the marches and protests because you didn't see her there. For all that you know, you may HAVE seen her, but not knowing who she is, you can't say, legitimately, either way. Or was your diatribe directed at me for being a "mere man" and therefore I couldn't possibly know anything about what it means to be a woman. After all, it isn't like I had a grandmother and mother that did the majority of the rearing of my siblings and myself. Additionally, it isn't like I didn't have two sisters to go with my four brothers. It also isn't like I didn't have a daughter that my wife and I raised together to be a self-reliant, self-actualized well-spoken and well-educated woman in her own right. I mean everyone knows that all men are like Diaper Filling Donnie Orange Bonespurs, right? Would you care, at some point, to reevaluate what you said, or are you going to keep calling my wife and I stupid?
@@meredithtiller2090Exactly, and well said!
Men should not be telling women what they can do with their bodies.
Men shouldn't be getting them pregnant if they don't want to support a baby.
Fauci has entered the chat
Actually if you knew your Bible it's God that's in charge anyways of your body not you. Both of you women just want to go out and have fun but don't want to deal with the consequences of it. That's why you're pulling for abortions.
Politicians shouldn't play doctor.
STUV0, HAS DUMEECRATIC JUSTICE KATANGIE FINALLY FIGURED OUT THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD "WOMAN" YET? 😂!!!
Amber Nicole Thurman, Candi Miller, Josseli Barnica, Nevaeh Crain + hundreds more.
@@herstoryswitness thank you for saying their names. These are completely preventable deaths leaving other children without mothers.
Margaret Atwood must be horrified that the Christo-Fascist movement is using her novel as a handbook, and not the cautionary tale she intended.
Yes. It's terrifying to think that everyone wasn't horrified by Atwood's Gilead. The MAGA faithful seem to think it's a wonderful prospect. Their plans for women are Taliban-adjacent. Luckily women can still vote... for now.
Another death of an 18 year old in Arizona who miscarried and was not given treatment. Miscarriage is now a death sentence for the mother as well as the fetus.
I guess maybe teach young women not to be 304s?
Miscarriage treatment is legal in every state in America, even states with pro life laws
@@cpirtle There have been several women who had miscarriages arrested for having miscarriages- anyone can look that up if they don't believe and I encourage that they do because the stories are horrific. So you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
@@cpirtle it may be technically legal but it just doesn't happen that way in real life.
Every time we hear a story like this it is horrible of course but you don't write national policy based on statistically extremely rare occurrences.
In the 80s I heard my doctor screaming into the phone telling the insurance people they had no business telling him how to care for his patient. These policies are no different. They interfere with health care. Thanks to that doctor, I am alive today. Edit: Women are dying. VOTE 💙💙💙💙
"That concept, that abortion is healthcare," some people feel that's politicized. Yeah, well, some people are idiots.
Abortion always, repeat always, every single time, results in death. You're saying "Death is healthcare" Yeah, well, some people are idiots.
The recent deaths of women as a result of complications during pregnancy, is a national emergency and a national tragedy.
It’s time to hold those that are responsible accountable by voting.
Your vote will empower legislatures to take actions and to begin the process of turning the tables for the good of the general public and for the good of women in particular.
Change starts with each of us,
make your vote count, get involved and get motivated to help end this current, national abortion crisis in America.
We can do much better and together we can do this.
V🇺🇸TE
To Save Lives
Brilliantly stated. 71 year old female here, that received BALLOTTRAX confirmation for my HARRIS/WALZ vote and my husband and daughter’s HARRIS/WALZ vote.
Unfortunately, this battle won't be over until the SCOTUS has been reformed as well.
And to make sure that that happens requires all those down ballot votes as well.
Graphic, but this 74-YO grandma remembers coat hanger abortions. Not going back.
This is true. Over heard a few stories through my mum and her friends in the 60’s.
My friend, at age 15, had to help raise 4 siblings when her mom died from a coat hangar abortion. I can only imagine all of the reasons, but she most likely didn't have resources to have any more kids. Maybe mentally it was too much too.😢
I’m in medical. Trust me, abortion IS healthcare.
And healthcare is not a Federally protected right.
Now we can argue back and forth all night about the merits of a socialised healthcare system at the Federal level but until one is implemented it makes no sense that a single type of procedure such as abortion should have any special type of classification over any other type of healthcare.
Trump made the correct call in pushing it back to the States.
@@ryant2568government should not be involved in women’s healthcare decisions, it’s not hard.
@@ryant2568You missed the point.
MAGA is a nihilist cult of fascist, domestic terrorists.
@@ryant2568 Healthcare should be managed by a board of medical professionals, not any government.
@@ryant2568 Trump didn't make the call, the Supreme Court did. Trump wasn't in office and had no authority to ban anything.
I had a dream last night that there was a massive BLUE tsunami that hit the Harris/Walz campaign on Tuesday November 5th…dreams do come true…I voted early for Harris/Walz…all BLUE up and down the ballot…now it’s your turn.
I want the Senate count to increase to 53 or 54 Democrats. I want Hakeem Jeffries to take over as Speaker of the House. No more MAGA Mikey. Patty Murray should be extended as President Pro Tem of the Senate. That would place her third in line of succession behind Madam president Harris. So, we have a black/East Asian woman, a 60 year old white guy from Minnesota, a black man, and a septagenarian from Washington state as the top four in government. The rest we won't know until the transition team tells us who she has in her Cabinet. Secretary Pete Buttigieg I might consider for State. Cheney could be either UN ambassador or head of National Intelligence. Maybe there's a possibility of a Republican as Secretary of the Army, Navy or Defense. Those two would fulfill her promise to have a Republican in her Cabinet. Joint Chiefs Chair is another Cabinet level position that could get a Republican without creating partisan rancor or stress. These are just a few thoughts.
when you dream, you dream big 💙💙💙 🌊🌊 Harris/Walz 2024 still time to vote 🗳️💙
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Despite using birth control, I became pregnant during my third year in college. I had already had to drop out for two years to work and save some money to continue with my studies, and I was still a poor student. And, as the third of nine children myself, I could not possibly consider burdening my parents to help me.
Thank goodness I lived in New York City at the time, 1970, when they had made abortion legal, safe and cheap three years before Roe vs Wade allowed that the constitution protected a woman’s right to an abortion. I had no money to travel anywhere else and could barely feed myself, never mind provide for the needs of a child.
I am so grateful that I was able to get an abortion when I needed it at the age of 22. I was then able to finish my degrees, become a special education teacher, eventually meet the man I wanted to marry and have children with, and have two beautiful babies, now happy successful adults.
I shudder to think where I would be now had I not had the freedom to make that choice. The loss of one’s right to choose is what, of course, will be on the minds of American women - and hopefully men - this election.
Keep telling yourself that. Probably best for the child. Not to be raised by you.
Thank you, Ali, for lending your space to Rachel Maddow and for helping draw attention on this very important issue.
Thank you, Rachel, for carrying the torch of women’s rights and educate people on the issue of women’s health.
Thank you, Rachel, for being you.
I voted blue up and down the ticket early and my 19 year old daughter voted blue for the first time, 💙💙💙💙💙🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
China and the military and medical industrial complex thank you for your votes!
I'm so glad that we have solved all the worlds problems, we don;t have runaway inflation, job losses, close to WW3, over ran by illegal immigrants many who are convicted murderers, and the ONLY issue left to deal with is which candidate make it easier for me to murder my unborn baby?
According to the gold standrad polls in Iowa, where Harris is ahead 4 points in a red state, it's all about abortion and women are MAD. Gender gap 20 points (30 with women over 65, a typically GOP group).
I hope women remember this for some time to come, that the Republican party is not their friend or comfort zone. Even if Roe gets codified into law, the Republican party will continue to try to repeal it over and over again. This is a long term fight.
I believe it
i almost die with my first pregnancy. I was so sick but i wanted to keep our daughter i was 28 weeks pregnant. My body couldn’t take it anymore my husband and i made the choice to spare my life. Just understand that women don’t take a abortion lightly it asked an emotional and physical toll so it should be always our choice
I know from my own personal experience that it's healthcare because I could have easily died.
There was a reason why America passed an abortion law in the 1970’s. That reason is still here. America has seen history repeat itself. Thanks to the press for getting the true stories out.
Unfortunately, the USA didn't pass an abortion law. There was a SCOTUS decision (Roe v Wade), and that was overturned by a SCOTUS that had been packed by the Repugnican Party. And I deliberately refer to them as that because the SCOTUS embodies everything that is Repugnant about the GOP.
Getting rid of women's health care will sure save insurance companies a lot of money. I believe they are behind a lot of this.
The argument "leave it to the states to decide" How about leave it up to the woman and her care provider? Women have every right to be federally protected. Women's bodies do not belong to the government.
You know I could understand a man, who is a physician, trying to come up with healthcare for women but NONE of these men controlling women’s healthcare are doctors. Vote Blue! 💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙
I wouldn't be here we're it not for a d&c for an incomplete miscarriage! My son would have grown up without a mother.
I was a young woman with high risk pregnancies. I was prone to miscarriage. I am so thankful I had medical care available when I needed it. After 13 pregnancies, I wound up with three fantastic sons, who grew into amazing adults. They've Blessed me with WONDERFUL grandchildren. I am really concerned for my granddaughters, for all the young women, and little girls, who don't have access to healthcare. I am terrified it could get worse. Women and little girls will DIE if we allow these draconian laws to continue.
Thank you for sharing your very personal story... ✌️💙🖖🌊🌎
There are people who are so far gone in the anti-abortion movement that they are completely disconnected from facts. I have a length back and forth with a woman after sharing my mom's abortion story, who had PROM at 18 weeks pregnancy. The lady insisted that my mother needlessly murdered her child and that her pregnancy was viable, even when I informed her that my father was not only an oncologist but a pediatric oncologist. Not only her doctors but her own husband all agreed there was nothing left to do. Still, that woman insisted my mother made the wrong choice.
She wrongly insisted that sepsis or PROM is not life threatening and are not reasons to end a pregnancy. She had no medical training or knowledge, just some misplaced confidence in her jugdement.
The reality is that women have died and will continue to die unless we collectively choose to keep people like her outside of our doctor's offices. She and all those like her are a danger not just to our freedom, but our lives. There's a reason we don't see doctors advocating for those laws.
In many of her comments during our back and forth, she clearly insinuated that if only my mother had suffered a bit more and persisted, her baby would have survived. I wished it was that easy... but medical conditions don't care how deserving you are. Merit has nothing to do with it.
I don't even want to think about what a person like that thinks of a woman who has an elective abortion. Those people are completely without empathy.
Dunning-Kruger effect is real. The amount of MAGA devotees in comments all over UA-cam who seem oblivious to the many reasons a woman needs a D&C is infuriating. They are blinded by dogma and just will not accept medical facts.
Sounds pretty selfish to me
What you are describing is a very small percentage of the 1 million abortions performed every year in this country. The overwhelming majority are performed to eliminate an unwanted prgnancy. In other words, birth control.
@@keithm9337 doesn't matter when that small percentage is needlessly dying because you can't deal with other peoples personal choices......
@@keithm9337I am pro-contraception and education but no contraception is 100% effective. A 1-12% failure rate is millions of people. Most women seeking abortion were using some type of birth control.
93% are done in the first trimester, some birth defects can be detected that early now, so not 'all' of those were contraceptive failures.
There are also abortions for birth defects that can't be detected until 12-18 weeks. There are 400,000 children in foster care and 117,000 available for adoption today. Forcing people to be parents is not a good idea.
Over 60 ob-gyns have left Idaho because of the abortion laws. It's terrible what is happening to women in this country.
I needed this health care to have a D&C after a miscarriage. If I hadn’t had this available I would have bled out!
Older women are marching for CHOICE! We have marched before and we are angry 🗳️🗳️🗳️
To all the women out there, it’s time we take back our right to healthcare. And to all the men who love the women in their lives, it’s time to fight for them. VOTE 💙 BECAUSE ALL OF US HAVE TO KEEP THOSE RIGHTS! 💙🇺🇸💙🌊
Or you can just stop pandering to the uneducated, ignorant people who feel their feelings should supersede the medical decisions of licensed physicians… nobody tells them how to read their special book, so stay tf out of our healthcare, k 🤷♀️
If contraceptives become criminalized, then shouldn't Viagra and its generics also be put in that bucket of ####?
Should be but will not because it’s for men
If contraceptives are criminalized, women's mortality will rise exponentially
Should force men to have vasectomies too. See how they like being told what to do with their bodies!
I wish I thought to add vasectomies.
Part of my clinic job was obtaining prior authorization for patient's med. For women with dysfunctional uterine bleeding, continuous oral contraceptives were prescribed. I would have to submit Gyn MD notes, pathology, blood work and other treatments tried and failed. To get Viagra or ED meds approved, all I needed was a verbal diagnosis of ED from the primary care doc; that's how effed up the insurance protocols are.
women's healthcare. the single most critical and important issue now. geography should not determine health care for a human being.
Her body. Her choice.
@jasonburch9535 keep that tin foil hat on so you don't fall off the edge of the world
@jasonburch9535 are you serious? What other times do you feel that women should have their voices blocked by a federal ban?
@@jasonburch9535 So what your'e saying is you're so simple you don't know the difference between a contagious potentially deadly disease and a pregnancy. Yeah that tracks with the level of intellect forced birthers display.
@@jasonburch9535 Imagine if MAGA had embraced the COVID vaccine. They could have cheered to the end of time how Trump saved the world's population with an amazing vaccine. He could have been championed for saving BILLIONS. Instead, he's a convict. Great work MAGA
I kind of remember a few years where a certain Dr Fauci was telling everyone what they could and could not do with their bodies.
I have two kids, and one miscarriage that I needed to abort. The thought women are not able to get proper health is so inhumane and scary. Women’s health should be #1 issue. If you have a mom, a sister, a wife, or a daughter, they are in danger in a Trump presidency.
My mother was a nurse before Roe. She saw women die due to back alley and self inflicted abortions. She was pro choice before that was really a thing.
Excellent presentation of reality. Thank you!
I also am in medicine, an RN and I wonder if the doctors, nurses, and hospitals in Texas had saved these women, gone against the "law" and been put in jail....filled the jails....where would these laws be now? I truly wonder.
Nowhere. After all Texas was long in the side of being full with sexistic abusers. They've always been as extreme as the law allowed. And doctors aren't dumb. They are leaving. They have their own families totake care of and they are also VERY often women.
So the baby dies due to miscarriage and the women die too from the lack of doctor intervention for fear of being prosecuted....but they're pro life?
I wish I could speak so passionately about things the way Maddow goes off on abortion...
I thought I did understand abortion rights before this. It never entered my mind that women would be denied basic health care. I voted blue 💙
One question that always gets me about these so-called Pro-life people: why can’t they just not have an abortion for themselves? Just leave it at that! If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one . Just leave others alone. Like Tim Walz says: mind your own business!
Because theycare dysregulated people who literally do not trust themselves and mist importantly do not trust their own wives and daughters or themselves to NOT ask for health care when things get hard.
They are aiming to have the world to their regulation work for them and to ease their abuser burden.
Abortion is healthcare AND it's an economic issue!
It's also a criminal statistics issue. We know historically that abortion rights literally improve criminal statistics and not just by the way of women notbein persecuted, but actually by the way of less crime.
I’ve been a pastor for 30 years now. For a short time, I was a hospital chaplain. In my role as a hospital chaplain, I baptized two stillborn babies. It was heartbreaking. Mom and dad wanted that baby. Honestly, I did not want to be there either. But… I want every single elected official to look a mom and dad in their eyes while holding a dead baby (and did what I have done), to look them in the face and say, “This is the law that I voted for, and there is nothing we can do about it.”
What I heard is “This is the law that I voted for, and there is nothing YOU can do about it.” Those who voted to take away health care of women, decided you should control their fate.
Rachel Maddow thank you just thank you.
Our gov't has NO business enforcing a religious belief.
It is so important to vote!
I lost my best friend to the lack of abortion, her husband, her two daughters lost the most important woman in their lives. 😓😩
I know other women who did have ectopic pregnancy, needed an abortion to stay alive, stay healthy. I know a woman who has a prolapsed uterus that had to have a pregnancy aborted.
NOT any of these is frivolous. NONE OF THEM.
Also no abortion is frivolous and it's not acceptable to ever frame it like any abortion isn't healthcare. Mental heath care IS health care!
Doctors should be allowed to treat women-period. Pregnancy can go wrong in a hundred ways and to punish women for what their body does is immoral-like Kamala said. Stop saying you are pro life when you don’t care about the lives of women.
Let me state the obvious. Rachel advocates for women for an issue that is unlikely to impact her personally. This is how we all should be. Why can't men empathize and also advocate for women. I am a man. I really like women. Why would I want anything but the best for the women I love. I just don't get it.
Good news. Women get it. And they will save democracy by saving themselves.
😊 vote 😊 States that have banned or heavily restricted abortions have seen worse health for women of reproductive age overall: Between 2018 and 2020, death rates for women between 15 and 44 years old were 34% higher in states that presently have more abortion restrictions.
Women of reproductive age in these states also have tended to have less access to private health insurance and maternity care, the report found. States with more abortion restrictions had a 32% lower ratio of obstetricians to births in 2020 and a 59% lower ratio of certified nurse midwives to births than states where abortions are more accessible.
Sure, abortion is healthcare... but preventing someone from getting an abortion is slavery. It forces a Woman to labour against her will. This is the literal definition of slavery.
Women never entered the picture when SCOTUS decided to cancel Roe V Wade. That decision is all about going backward in time to enforce a legal oppression. Period.
💙💙💙💙👑 Harris👑💙💙💙💙
Despicable
Another take on it, I have a history of miscarriage and planned parenthood gave me an ultrasound with an early pregnancy. I was heartbroken when my clinician told me there was no yolk sac, and fetal development had stopped … another miscarriage 😢 I was devastated, and also grateful to know sooner so that I could help another family through my egg donation. I lost my baby, but because of planned parenthood, I helped another family have a baby.
I had an ectopic hemorrhage in a small town with a Catholic hospital. If I had to wait even a few hours for the required abortion, I would be dead now.
Sincere love to Rachel 😊
AND healthcare should be a human right and not a privilege of those who can afford it. Are we civilized or are we not?
The answer is currently very clearly "No". In fact it's still a worldwide "No". Abuse is still disgustingly common in absolutely all areas and all forms of bigotry are still very much thriving. They're just not as publicly acceptable everywhere as they currently are in places like America.
These are 2 incredibly courageous, articulate & brilliant reporters who are joining forces to help save democracy. We are so grateful for your work to educate & inspire us! We really need your strong & clear voices! 😂❤😂
Best Medical Practices First. Separation of Church and State. Personal beliefs are just that. Personal. I don't live your life. You don't live mine. LIVE AND LET LIVE.
ROEVEMBER IS COMING, women want freedom of their body, marriage, children and how to raise them.💙
For any old or myopic men who can't understand how furious women might be about the abortion issue, I suggest they think about how they would feel if the Democrats passed a law that required compulsory vasectomy or castration for all men over 40...
I'm pretty sure they would turn out and make sure they voted to ensure that didn't happen.
Not saying, just saying...
It’s not the same though is it? In abortion you are taking a life, there is another person involved. Does the baby not have a right to choose whether it lives or dies?
It's not a religious right, it's not a political right - it's a woman's right to determine her own health decisions.
A modern society should never deny its citizens ,access too health care .
The US, has the worst maternal health care than most countries. In some cases maternal deaths are two or three times more than some developed countries. Look it up, it's easy enough to find. Most developed countries, the mother gets 12 months paid leave. In some cases, longer.
To repeal the 2nd Amendment would not compare to removing an individual's right to control their own body.
Ali, great show! Live Rachel. Thank you!
Human rights are Womens rights.
I grew up knowing what a wire coat hanger was really for, and it wasn't for hanging up coats. Women died alone in dark closets using one. I NEVER want to see those days again!!
Michelle Osama's speech was brilliant and explained the entire flow on to all women's overall health.
I really believe, she created a positive shift in VP Harris support last week. More Men are speaking up on Tic Toc❤❤❤
The Obama's are called the closer for reasons 😉
We fought so hard in the 70’s for women to have bodily autonomy and the freedom to chose. We cannot allow the fanatics to force the death of women in need of healthcare!
OUR BODIES OUR CHOICE!!! REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN RIGHTS ARE WOMENS RIGHTS!
Abortion continues to be safer than going through pregnancy and childbirth. If your concern isn't with the woman and her well-being, then you cannot consider yourself proIife.
If you don't want to get pregnant then there is an easy way to avoid it in the first place.
If you make the conscious decision to have intercourse then you accept the potential risks, I.E. having to care for a new life that your actions helped create.
@ryant2568 Thanks for proving that it's all about controI for you peopIe. BC doesn't always work like it should, but you don't really care about that, do you?
@@ryant2568why are you so obsessed with other peoples choices? It's just plain weird.
@@wtfisthishandIebuIlshit so completely false. Child birth is always safer than abortion. 1 in 25 women land in the ER after taking the abortion pills.
@@cpirtle No it's not. Abortion is 14 times safer.
Thank You Rachel and Ari for educating us on how abortion IS Healthcare. I watched a new ad today that was very frightening.
It continues to haunt me all day & night. It was guttural and horrifying. It ends with an anonymous man who steps out from the dark shadows and the woman was crying and begging for help and was told she will die. Her husband was told…but you (the husband) can still have children “just not with her…”
Vote straight 💙 to retain our Republic, SS, Medicare, Education - AND - to restore medical care to women in the throws of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies.
Bernie Moreno running for the US Senate from Ohio doesn't see why women of menopausal age should care about abortion. Yet he thinks men of ANY age should?!?
He’s a fool. I am perimenopausal and I care very much about the women who are impacted by the Dobbs decision.
A Big Thank You to Ali and Rachel and all who put this together! 💗
Live saving information has been given out here today. 💗
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What gets me about the abortion debate, over decades, is that the onus is put on women. What about the responsibility, or lack thereof, of the men involved?
Election day = vote all republicans on your ballot out. Vote for independents or democrats.
Harris Walz 2024
Abortion IS healthcare, it is a choice for some and a necessity for others. It is NOT a political issue. Politicians are needed to provide a supportive environment that delivers the facilities and professional care that everyone needs at some point in their lives. Anything beyond that is oppression.
Why does the right want to ban abortion? Because they can. This is a step in the plan to ban one right after another by working on the citizens' emotions.
Warren Herne in Boulder Colorado, saved my life at 19, he is a doctor who gives clean, safe abortion care. To not see abortion as health care is a potential death threat to many women. And, as Michelle said, men, your wives, daughters, girlfriends, are in danger, step up
Thank you to the two of you.
Thank you both.
Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I want badly to hear her podcast on early fascism in America, but I'm not sure where it is or what it's called.
It's called ' Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra'
@@amygb Thank you. Do you know if it is also in book form? I'll google it...
@@midnightblue6668 the book of the first series is called “Prequel” and it’s available as an audio book narrated by Rachel as well as in ebook and paper
@@susanlowry701 Thank you! I actually have it on Kindle, just haven't read it yet. Happy days!
Vasectomies would drastically reduce the number of abortions.
TV stations also shouldn't be airing adverts for Viagra and fake Viagra. "L.D.S." is normal when a dude reaches a certain age.
Plus men's stuff hits the wall too with mutations the older they get
I'm totally in line with your opinions and words. Please SLOW DOWN so the men can follow and UNDERSTAND the truth of your honest, true, real argument. Simplify for men who really might care and support. You truly are talking too fast for the majority of men who might come on board. The women of the nation already know the truth.
Wow! What utter arrogance!
@@Viper-ln6yt If it was arrogance then we wouldn't have to fight for basic bodily autonomy for women, you fool! Too manymen are emotionally and socially inept and incapable of compassion. There's literally evidence and something called "Generalised male alexithymia".
Why the heck are you more busy trying to talk away the problem than busy actually assuring that abusive men top giving meb their abysmal reputation?! If you care about men, do your damnest to sort them out!
"Gutturally" - Rachel meant to say "viscerally," but we know what she means. And she's right on point, as usual...
The bible is neither antiabortion nor pro-life, but does provide a biblical basis for the real motivation behind the antiabortion religious crusade: hatred of women. The bible is anti-woman, blaming women for sin, demanding subservience, mandating a slave/master relationship to men, and demonstrating contempt and lack of compassion: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." Gen. 3:16 What self-respecting woman today would submit willingly to such tyranny?
The antiabortion position does not demonstrate love for humanity, or compassion for real human beings. World Health Organization estimates maternal deaths at 500,000 a year, with at least one in five stemming from unsafe, illegal abortions. Thousands more are hurt and maimed from illegal or self-induced abortions. Unwanted pregnancies and complications from multiple pregnancies are a leading killer of women. Why do antiabortionists want North American women to join these ghastly mortality statistics? Every day around the world more than 40,000 people, mostly children, die from starvation or malnutrition. We must protect and cherish the right to life of the already-born.
Yep, not only is the Bible a ragbag of absurd contradictions, but it's also transparently self-serving patriarchal propaganda. A ludicrous and pernicious text.
Doesn't the Hippocratic oath somehow trump Christo-fascism?
It should.
Alas it doesn't seem to be. USA has gone from do no harm to deliberately killing women & little girls in a celebration of misogyny that gives more rights to rapists than victims.
Turns out it is meaningless to doctors.
Not when doctors are threatened with imprisonment.
@@wtfisthishandIebuIlshit then write laws safeguarding abortion.
I had a stillbirth at 51/2 months pregnant. I hate the thought of forcing others to go through the same hellish experience I've had. Vote for Freedom Vote KAMALA HARRIS
Women have died and has driven doctors to not treat. I totally agree with the description that "save the mother's life" laws are too vague meaning no treatment. What I think about is the mother that passes due to a pregnancy emergency while she already has kids left without a mother.
One told me even ectopic pregnancy should be in God's hands. I told him the mother would without treatment. He again said it should have been in God's hands. And few will say what rules they want concerning abortion...which may be not even allowing contraception...
Russian troll bots have really got the jump on these posts.
No, 65- 85% of Americans want the protections of Roe restored. *Before* Dobbs 65% of Americans were pro-choice. Now that people know more- 85% of Americans have decided that we don't want The "Handmaid's Tale". Either *you* are a troll or you need to remove your head from your butt.
They hang out in Fox and MSNBC