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  • Опубликовано: 22 янв 2024
  • As Donald Trump and Nikki Haley fight it out in New Hampshire, US President, Joe Biden, is launching a campaign to try and put the fight over reproductive rights at the heart of November’s election.
    It is a repeat of the strategy Democrats deployed to achieve better-than-expected results in the 2022 midterms.
    This comes on the 51st anniversary of Roe versus Wade, the landmark supreme court decision which legalised terminations across the US and was overturned by the US Supreme Court in 2022.
    Newsnight's Joe Pike has been in Illinois speaking to some of Carbondale's residents.
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  • @kendallbald
    @kendallbald 4 месяца назад +33

    US politics is like going to a circus

    • @cmvdoo
      @cmvdoo 4 месяца назад +6

      And it's the clowns that rule...

    • @mattfisk7695
      @mattfisk7695 4 месяца назад +3

      I live here and I am in constant fear of the stupidity

    • @user-yg7fv3jo8v
      @user-yg7fv3jo8v 4 месяца назад

      All due to Iran's intervention

    • @monudey118
      @monudey118 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@mattfisk7695dude it's everywhere. Politics means madness.

    • @mariamoments478
      @mariamoments478 4 месяца назад

      Pro life ❤

  • @alexwall7204
    @alexwall7204 4 месяца назад +15

    Please fix your audio... left vs right channels

  • @hiccuphufflepuff176
    @hiccuphufflepuff176 4 месяца назад +18

    It's sad that it's up to a small-town's church community to offer the financial support needed to allow a struggling mother to keep her baby or not. That's something every pro-life citizen should be aggressively pressuring their government to spend their taxes on, instead of harassing vulnerable people on their way to often life-saving procedures.
    If you really want to decrease the number of abortions in your country, you should be voting for more food-stamps, subsidized daycare, school lunch programs and paid maternity leave, not passing laws that recklessly endanger women's lives and torture babies that doctors know are slowly dying in the womb.

    • @I.____.....__...__
      @I.____.....__...__ 4 месяца назад +5

      They assume that every case is about money, that it's always just about someone not having enough money to raise a child. Of course they do, the kind of hypocrites who insist on imposing their personal religious beliefs on others are also the kinds of hypocrites who would blaspheme against Christ's anti-avarice teachings and obsess about money and always be thinking of money. 😒

    • @rons.9678
      @rons.9678 4 месяца назад +1

      I agree with you but I can’t stop seeing the unborn child as having value equal to a born child

    • @paul7TM
      @paul7TM 4 месяца назад

      ​@@rons.9678It does. People are clueless.

    • @hiccuphufflepuff176
      @hiccuphufflepuff176 4 месяца назад

      @@rons.9678 Most pro-choice people don't want to hurt an unborn child any more than you do, the issue is that these types of bans are placing more value on the baby than the mother. There's never a definitive line where a doctor can declare and prove in court "this mother will die unless we abort" there's only a scale of risks and benefits to weigh, and if termination's not an option, the doctors will be forced to never help an endangered mother, and will often lose the baby anyway. There are countless complex scenarios where choosing abortion is what's best for everyone, and it should be decided by the people who fully understand those situations.

  • @moonlightpixie9976
    @moonlightpixie9976 4 месяца назад +21

    Abortion is healthcare plain and simple lawmakers have no business butting into medical decisions...
    Voteblue 💙

    • @monarchist1838
      @monarchist1838 4 месяца назад

      Ending an innocent’s life is healthcare? Did you say the same when Biden and Harris demanded Americans get vaccinated? Choice didn’t matter then?

    • @Jen-lg4hp
      @Jen-lg4hp 4 месяца назад +3

      What about the rights of the unvaxxed? Where were the 'my body my choice' feminists then? Spending big pharma pay-offs?

    • @moonlightpixie9976
      @moonlightpixie9976 4 месяца назад

      @Jen-lg4hp the antivaxers nobody made them get the vaccine and most of them died or came close to it...
      Your argument holds no water since nobody made the antivaxers get the vaccine they said no and we said it's your funeral and we were right..

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +2

      Baby grinders aren’t medical reasons.

    • @mariamoments478
      @mariamoments478 4 месяца назад +2

      Pro life❤

  • @goodbye_account_abandoned
    @goodbye_account_abandoned 4 месяца назад +9

    Why not just let us do whatever needs to be done? Because of your kind, a 12 or 13 year old got "grapped" and she was forced to give birth because it's illegal. To make it worse, she and her family didn't have money to drive or fly to Illinois to get an abortion. There has to be somewhere where people feel okay.

    • @I.____.....__...__
      @I.____.....__...__ 4 месяца назад

      12 is nothing, the "record" is 5 (at time of birth, so 4 at time of assault).

    • @goodbye_account_abandoned
      @goodbye_account_abandoned 4 месяца назад +4

      @@I.____.....__...__ 12 _is_ something m#ron. That's a kid in case you haven't noticed. What are you saying??

  • @captainbuggernut9565
    @captainbuggernut9565 4 месяца назад +17

    I'm glad this is a settled issue in the UK. The politics involved is appalling.

    • @janewest2845
      @janewest2845 4 месяца назад +2

      We have about 80 MPS that vote anti abortion ( majority areTories) we can never be complacent, specially when a few religious MPS (Cates,Krueger, Mogg etc)are continually going on about increasing UK birth rates

    • @mariamoments478
      @mariamoments478 4 месяца назад +5

      Abortion is wrong 😢

    • @danomyte67
      @danomyte67 4 месяца назад +3

      @@mariamoments478 many people would disagree

    • @sharontabor7718
      @sharontabor7718 4 месяца назад

      It was a settled issue in America until the new SCOTUS. They all swore under oath they would not touch any standing law - but they did. And there is no one to hold them accountable.

    • @sharontabor7718
      @sharontabor7718 4 месяца назад +1

      @@mariamoments478 So you think it's OK to kill the mother rather than abort a dead fetus? You are obviously a man or someone who has never known anyone with a toxic pregnancy.

  • @circleoflife3806
    @circleoflife3806 4 месяца назад +45

    This should have been a private issue.
    It's heartbreaking to see a girl as young as 12 not able to get a better chance at life and has to let a rapist ruin her whole life because of the barbaric six-week law. Evil has embodied itself in such inhuman anti abortion law.

    • @realpolitics527
      @realpolitics527 4 месяца назад +5

      Blame religion

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +1

      @@realpolitics527 religion has Zero to do with it. it’s basic human rights. I follow no god and yes baby grinding is bad. Clownshoes.

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +3

      @@realpolitics527 blaming religion for your own moral faults, is an amazing gaslighting tactic.

    • @realpolitics527
      @realpolitics527 4 месяца назад +5

      @@Cryaboutmyhandle my apologies, blame the people using religious scripture to take away rights from women and force their own religious beliefs down these women's throats.

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад

      @@realpolitics527 again if you need to blame that instead of having a convo about it with normal people. You are just a a room temp iq muppet yourself. You know only 7 nations out of the 200 in world think it’s ok right? Literally the entire world thinks you are wrong. Now back to the child’s table with you.

  • @spatehicks4724
    @spatehicks4724 4 месяца назад +3

    why is the comment section a bunch of whiny pro abortion leftists?

    • @jmipraimundo
      @jmipraimundo Месяц назад

      Because if they controlo woman they control everything and they know that 😢

  • @jeansherwood2428
    @jeansherwood2428 4 месяца назад +23

    No love like Christian hate.

    • @I.____.....__...__
      @I.____.....__...__ 4 месяца назад +4

      All religious zealots are hypocrites, but Christian zealots are the most hypocritical.

    • @mariamoments478
      @mariamoments478 4 месяца назад

      Pro life ❤ ✝️

    • @spatehicks4724
      @spatehicks4724 4 месяца назад +1

      what about muslims or jews? why do you roasties hate christians so much?

  • @inn0cencel0st
    @inn0cencel0st 4 месяца назад +2

    Convert your audio to mono before uploading.

    • @thomism1016
      @thomism1016 4 месяца назад

      How’d you do that, please 🙂

  • @robinhood20253
    @robinhood20253 4 месяца назад +18

    Its heartbreaking to think women are forced to drive hundreds or thousnds of miles to get healthcare or just have bodily autonomy. REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +1

      Grinding up your baby isn't healthcare ccp bot.

    • @Jen-lg4hp
      @Jen-lg4hp 4 месяца назад

      I remember Biden firing those who didn't want the jab- I'll NEVER forget or forgive that DISCRIMINATION!

    • @robinhood20253
      @robinhood20253 4 месяца назад

      @@Jen-lg4hp lol. If you want to participate in society, other people have the right to be safe from getting sick. However I actually did not support forced vaccines, unlike those people who resisted the vaccine but want to force women to give birth , I am not a hypocrite.

    • @richardkey1678
      @richardkey1678 4 месяца назад

      It was the backlash from the overturning of R v W that crushed the GOP in the 2022 midterms, and will do the same this November.

    • @robinhood20253
      @robinhood20253 4 месяца назад +3

      @@Jen-lg4hp I guess you think that is the same, lol. And you people call liberals snowflakes

  • @annab9994
    @annab9994 4 месяца назад +8

    I’m sorry to see that US politics went completely crazy…

    • @lexruptor
      @lexruptor 4 месяца назад

      It tends to happen when the people go crazy and start demanding rights they either already have or will never have. Especially when they become entitled to such a degree they forget how to be responsible.

    • @mariamoments478
      @mariamoments478 4 месяца назад

      Pro life ❤ ✝️

  • @I.____.....__...__
    @I.____.....__...__ 4 месяца назад +6

    So that woman thinks that a 5yo should be forced to give birth and raise the child of her assaulter, or else, give birth and have her child taken away from her? 🤨

    • @cheryldeboissiere1851
      @cheryldeboissiere1851 4 месяца назад +1

      Yes...

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +2

      A 5 year old can’t give birth short bus rider.

    • @mariamoments478
      @mariamoments478 4 месяца назад

      Pro life ❤ ✝️

    • @rosewood1198
      @rosewood1198 4 месяца назад

      Can't she just give the baby for adoption?

    • @queenbutterfly1586
      @queenbutterfly1586 3 месяца назад

      ​@@Cryaboutmyhandlethe youngest mother was 5 years old she gave birth via c section. Her grandfather was her baby daddy.

  • @bog6106
    @bog6106 4 месяца назад +1

    Money only has value because we believe it does, its just paper. How much imaginary paper value is a life worth?

  • @JohnSmith-fu2df
    @JohnSmith-fu2df 4 месяца назад +1

    Yeah so "pro life" is give them a bag of freaking diapers and Alabama so called "pro life" state is gassing down human being, Sick!

  • @Nightwalker-
    @Nightwalker- 4 месяца назад +19

    Abortion is a medical procedure, and not a morality issue. Moral issues should be handled with your minister, and not your doctor.

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +1

      Unless it’s to save the life of mother. It’s not a medical procedure. Facts prove you wrong.

  • @Paws4Thought669
    @Paws4Thought669 4 месяца назад +7

    The woman should be able to do as she feels right ( her body and circumstances ) People should keep their beaks out. 8 billion of us , we do not need more . They are not even a child by that timeline

    • @tridentanimation2981
      @tridentanimation2981 4 месяца назад +1

      Does that right extend to a girl? What about a young girl? What about a baby girl? What about a fetal girl? If people were allowed and permitted to do what they thought was right without any other consideration, forethought, analysis or contemplation, no almost one would be able to do anything that was good, right or decent , and there certainly would far fewer than eight-billion homo sapiens.

  • @experimentalme7438
    @experimentalme7438 4 месяца назад +1

    Let me guess. the old timers vs the young people

  • @Anna-tj7mp
    @Anna-tj7mp 4 месяца назад +1

    I cannot accept the phrase my body, my choice, since a foetus has its own DNA from conception. Yes, there are some circumstances in which abortion may be the lesser of two evils. Yes, it is essential if a woman's life is in danger. But it is horrible, horrible, horrible. And maybe if the full horror of abortion were more clear, people would be more careful about pregnancy. Fact: the number of men having vasectomies has risen steeply in the parts of the US where there are stricter limits on abortion.

    • @jmipraimundo
      @jmipraimundo Месяц назад

      😂 but the number of women singles too! With this stupid law you only go back 50 years! Women stop trusting governments, women prefer to be single... now the risk? And what's the point of seeing that the number of rapes and suicides among men in these states has also increased? 😮

  • @Cryaboutmyhandle
    @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +3

    Remember now, baby grinding is fine. Refusing an unknown medial jab isn’t though.

  • @karunagaranmuniandy2740
    @karunagaranmuniandy2740 4 месяца назад +1

    Babies has rights too. Who is going to speak for them. Killing babies is appalling, inhumane and dead wrong.

  • @rebekahlittle2131
    @rebekahlittle2131 4 месяца назад

  • @sirensynapse5603
    @sirensynapse5603 4 месяца назад +8

    Why don't both sides of the issue work to promote not getting an unwanted pregnancy in the first place, instead of bickering and arguing about who killed who, etc?

    • @I.____.....__...__
      @I.____.....__...__ 4 месяца назад

      (1) It's impossible to guarantee birth-control. With over 8 billion humans in the world boning constantly, it's just a matter of time until even the most foolproof scenario fails.
      (2) The kind of people who insist on imposing their own personal religious beliefs on others are also against birth-control. 😒

    • @dxruling
      @dxruling 4 месяца назад

      The unwanted pregnancies are done by men. So men must be restricted with their activities.

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 4 месяца назад

      rape victims? You think they chose to be impregnated by their rapists? Groomed children, you think just because a baby can grow inside them, that they are adult enough to know what they are getting into? A guy who pulls off the condom without the woman knowing, because he wants to have a full feel? How do you avoid that as a woman?
      And even contraceptives are never 100%. So you want people to not ever have sex, unless they plan on having children.

    • @phoque121
      @phoque121 4 месяца назад

      The pro-choice movement is also pro-birth control and pro-sexual education. The other side is against all that because of their religion, which they want to impose on everybody

    • @AdrianneJH
      @AdrianneJH 4 месяца назад

      I can't see any replies so I'll assume all of them are stating that Republicans vote against sex Ed and birth control whenever they think they can get away with it. It isn't about life, it's about control.

  • @titteryenot4524
    @titteryenot4524 4 месяца назад +13

    Woman’s body; woman’s choice. No one else’s business, aside from the father.

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +2

      Says the fake postbot account.

    • @titteryenot4524
      @titteryenot4524 4 месяца назад +4

      @@Cryaboutmyhandle Paranoid, much? 🤣

    • @titteryenot4524
      @titteryenot4524 4 месяца назад +3

      @@Cryaboutmyhandle Just for the record, even if I _were_ a bot, that doesn’t invalidate the comment. 🤖

    • @shadowmaydawn
      @shadowmaydawn 4 месяца назад +4

      Even the father shouldn't really have much say because it is the mother's body that going through the process.

    • @yanx4797
      @yanx4797 4 месяца назад

      Well, technically it's the fetus's body inside the mom's body, so this statement does not hold. You can argue that it's a choice between protecting the mom or saving the baby, which would be similar to the Trolley problem.
      I also don't get why you said aside from the father. Saying abortion yes/no should be determined by the mom is not a perfect argument, saying it's determined by the dad is worse. You can say that the familial bond is a factor, but I think it's a minor thing.

  • @rons.9678
    @rons.9678 4 месяца назад +3

    I believe that an unborn child is an unborn child. So I believe that the killing of an unborn child is wrong

    • @phoque121
      @phoque121 4 месяца назад +5

      A foetus is a person as much as a seed is a tree

    • @jmipraimundo
      @jmipraimundo Месяц назад +2

      You...but some people have a diferent opinion....My anger today with the ignorant USA is that you allow the choice to carry a weapon that can kill 3 and 4 people in seconds. But they don't allow a desperate mother to choose 😢

  • @user-yg7fv3jo8v
    @user-yg7fv3jo8v 4 месяца назад

    All due to Iran's intervention.

  • @princepsmickey934
    @princepsmickey934 4 месяца назад +2

    Wow. I really can’t describe the shock of seeing a story about Carbondale. I’m only a couple hours away from there.
    As an aside, that is where I will be viewing the solar eclipse this April!

    • @lukaszurov
      @lukaszurov 4 месяца назад +1

      You're a narcissist, right? You somehow managed to make it all about you

    • @princepsmickey934
      @princepsmickey934 4 месяца назад +1

      @@lukaszurov Did my idle comment offend you? Block me

    • @lukaszurov
      @lukaszurov 4 месяца назад

      @@princepsmickey934 Offended? no, only amused

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +1

      Anime loser makes it about him. lol

  • @jimcourt9164
    @jimcourt9164 4 месяца назад +9

    Abortion is not an election issue

    • @benitosalazar3749
      @benitosalazar3749 4 месяца назад

      Exactly. Just a side show liberal media circus.

    • @robinhood20253
      @robinhood20253 4 месяца назад +8

      Sadly it is.

    • @DriveInFreak
      @DriveInFreak 4 месяца назад +10

      Freedom is always an election issue.

    • @soton5teve
      @soton5teve 4 месяца назад +1

      No it's a civil rights issue, because actual rights of born individuals are under threat

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 4 месяца назад +1

      For a large chunk of the American electorate it is the only election issue

  • @Marclee37hk
    @Marclee37hk 4 месяца назад +2

    respect the lives. they are your children.

    • @realpolitics527
      @realpolitics527 4 месяца назад

      Respect them by giving them a painless death rather than a life filled with pain and suffering.

    • @rosewood1198
      @rosewood1198 4 месяца назад

      Frick children lol /j

  • @SalmanovGadzhimurad-pj9qq
    @SalmanovGadzhimurad-pj9qq 4 месяца назад

    Ты же родился от Байдена война ради чего ты живешь как научили украинцы и русские❤️🎃

  • @k4p1t4l9
    @k4p1t4l9 4 месяца назад

    The misinformation on this topic is disgraceful. If travelling to another state is too much of an inconvenience to have an abortion then you shouldn’t have an abortion.

    • @richardkey1678
      @richardkey1678 4 месяца назад +4

      If you don't have the resources to travel you might not have the resources to raise a kid.

    • @realpolitics527
      @realpolitics527 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@richardkey1678excellent point. However, ensuring a good life for the child after it is born, is not even within the talking points of ''pro life" people and politicians.

    • @chrisdalby
      @chrisdalby 4 месяца назад +3

      You’re a 17 year old who is pregnant with no money, no support network, no access to free sexual healthcare and parents who will beat you or kick you out if they find out you’re pregnant. The nearest abortion clinic is 350 miles away. Go. Tell me how that should be handled

    • @realpolitics527
      @realpolitics527 4 месяца назад +2

      @@chrisdalby ssshhhhh... don't ask such meaningful questions from pro life people, smoke starts to come out of their ears.

  • @h..8083
    @h..8083 4 месяца назад +3

    I’m pro life.

    • @DriveInFreak
      @DriveInFreak 4 месяца назад +2

      No, you're not. You're anti-freedom, anti-Women, pro-forced birth, and pro-dead women by default. In fact; you're that exact oppicite of "pro-life".

    • @_Phoenix3
      @_Phoenix3 4 месяца назад +6

      What does that even mean?

    • @annab9994
      @annab9994 4 месяца назад +8

      Your personal choice regards only you.
      Not me. Or any other women.

    • @parrotcracker6629
      @parrotcracker6629 4 месяца назад +5

      You sure you're pro life or actually pro BIRTH? There's just a lot to unravel in your comment.

    • @soton5teve
      @soton5teve 4 месяца назад +4

      Anti choice you mean, even for yourself you'd rather have someone else making your choice

  • @henryprzepiorka
    @henryprzepiorka 4 месяца назад +3

    Babykllers

    • @minthukq3235
      @minthukq3235 4 месяца назад +2

      Cope. Fetus is not human

    • @henryprzepiorka
      @henryprzepiorka 4 месяца назад

      @@minthukq3235 You are insane , or incapable of thinking in English. Or both.

    • @spatehicks4724
      @spatehicks4724 4 месяца назад +2

      @@minthukq3235 yes it is.

    • @minthukq3235
      @minthukq3235 4 месяца назад +1

      @@spatehicks4724 who said? Religious books?

  • @aladdin8819
    @aladdin8819 4 месяца назад +2

    Abortion issue dividing USA ? That's why US citizens should follow the Bible where God says get married and live honorably. Hebrew 13:4 "let marriage be held in honor among all ....for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. - meaning must get knowledge and educated about marriage life and get married honorably to avoid abortion problem.

    • @soton5teve
      @soton5teve 4 месяца назад +2

      "Bitterwater"

    • @richardkey1678
      @richardkey1678 4 месяца назад +2

      Oink, oink .... makes about the same amount of sense. Oink

    • @AdrianneJH
      @AdrianneJH 4 месяца назад

      Um...a more than a few of the women affected were married and wanted to be pregnant. They were forced to carry doomed pregnancies so people like you can feel better without it costing you anything

  • @TXFarmRoad
    @TXFarmRoad 4 месяца назад +7

    If only irresponsible & loose women were responsible with their bodies & choices 👍🏻

    • @DriveInFreak
      @DriveInFreak 4 месяца назад +2

      If only you'd keep your puritanical christofascist nose the hell out of other people's business.

    • @rvdb7363
      @rvdb7363 4 месяца назад +2

      If only loose men would keep their member in their pants.

    • @AdrianneJH
      @AdrianneJH 4 месяца назад +11

      What about those women who wanted to be pregnant but the law included "no exceptions including the life of the mother"? And before you say those places don't exist, both Texas and Idaho have Supreme courts that say there will be no exceptions. Should those women just die because other women were "irresponsible" therefore all women must be punished?

    • @rvdb7363
      @rvdb7363 4 месяца назад +8

      There are two parties involved in a pregnancy. Why do you only point at the women? What about the loose men that made them pregnant?

    • @TXFarmRoad
      @TXFarmRoad 4 месяца назад

      @@AdrianneJH
      That's a case by case decision...
      But you know as well as I do those cases don't make up the majority of abortions

  • @Jen-lg4hp
    @Jen-lg4hp 4 месяца назад +1

    Where were all the "my body, my choice" hypocrites when Biden was firing us for not taking the jab???? HYPOCRITES!!!

    • @ThomasFromTN
      @ThomasFromTN 4 месяца назад +4

      You were actually allowed to make the CHOICE to refuse the vaccine. That didn't extend to you the right to impose YOUR LIFE CHOICE on someone else who would be concerned you would therefore be a more susceptible candidate for being a virus carrier.

    • @Cryaboutmyhandle
      @Cryaboutmyhandle 4 месяца назад +2

      @@ThomasFromTN false gov bootlick. People weee fired for not taking it. Now without the lies answer the question.

    • @Jen-lg4hp
      @Jen-lg4hp 4 месяца назад

      You obviously fell for the propaganda! Don't you dare use the word "allowed" with me! I'm not some 5 year old who thinks the government and big pharma scum are my nanny! If the 'vaccine' is so great, shouldn't it protect all you idiots for the great unwashed unjabbed lepers like me???? Ps. The 'virus' is called SEASONAL FLU! Strange how it disappeared the past few years!@@ThomasFromTN

    • @danomyte67
      @danomyte67 4 месяца назад

      That’s a bs comparison. Vaccines save lives and abortion can potentially save lives too. And no an underdeveloped fetus doesn’t count. There are no double standards

    • @geofflepper3207
      @geofflepper3207 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@DisinfoWatch
      People who believe that women deserve rights and are not baby making machines
      think that women have a right to obtain an abortion if necessary but nobody is pro-abortion.
      Next time ask a question that makes sense.