This is the same country with no maternity or paternity pay, no mandated paid leave, sick pay, low minimum wage, no free access to contraception or healthcare. However, controlling women's bodies and banning books is priority? American freedom!!!! Priorities people, priorities.
I hate to break it to you, but a lot of these things are very complex issues and have facets to them that most people don't even vaguely understand. For example, take the fact that Americans have to pay much, much more for healthcare per capita than basically any other country in the world. It's also the case that America produces more medical research papers than any other country in the world (at least, of those that share them freely - so that omits places like North Korea or China). It's also the case that the research is decent because you also see the number of citations the papers receive from other countries being the highest. In other words, its easy to look at the American system and think its stupid or wrong, but you're stupid and wrong if you don't also recognise that every other country is benefitting from it. In fact, certain models (not produced by America or Americans) actually predict that humanity would be much, much better off if other countries started charging for healthcare across the next few decades (one of the ways this is measured is that if healthcare costed more now, that would affect R&D and reduce costs later down the line - leading to a dramatic overall saving for everyone). I'm not saying if they should or not, I'm just saying that complex things don't have easy answers and when people assume they do, they look silly.
Thank you for highlighting what that senator said. When I was pregnant, I wanted a child but still struggled with feeling like I was just a vessel, a host. I lost a lot of my sense of identity, and I wanted my child. For a woman who had to deal with sexual assault to then be forced to carry the child. My pregnancy almost killed me and my baby. Some states have said they won't stop the pregnancy even if life is at risk. If a woman has an abortion her and the person who performed the abortion will be tried for murder. They investigate late miscarriages and charge the women if they doubt the legitimacy!!! I can't imagine how distressing a late term miscarriage is but to then have to go through investigation. Where is the bloody compassion for the women? This law is abhorrent and so wrong. If you want to disagree with it, fine but don't force others to follow it. This isn't what most Americans want, it's what the evangelical and catholic extremists want.
I've heard plenty of mothers talk about how having a child only made them MORE pro choice because of the trials they went through with WANTED pregnancies, they couldn't imagine how hard that would be having to go through with a pregnancy that was unwanted or life threatening or after having been assaulted
How to tell Russel is being deadly serious: When he looks annoyed that he can't make his point because the audience is still cheering at the previous one.
Look around buddy...the tories are striking hard at the ordinary folk here in the uk...doen't need to be big items but lots of little ones, which are nibbling away at our rights. As well as some biggies...people need to waken up...smell the crap...
Russell, you are such a great man. I wish there were more men out here like you, especially in the US government. I'm an FtM man, and the idea of possible pregnancy for me is the most terrifying thing I can imagine. For me it would only be possible from r*pe, but that's not the point. A person can use protection or not, an unwanted pregnancy is an unwanted pregnancy. No one should be forced to carry to term if they don't want to. The person who impregnated the person is just as liable for the pregnancy, yet there seems to be no consequence for that person. Thank you for always standing up for womens rights and trans rights. You're a truly wonderful human.
So you're a women, and if the person is equally liable why do fathers have no say in abortions? What consequences should a man have in your deluded world?
Why on earth do you people think you shouldn't be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy? All matters of rape aside. You chose to have unprotected sex. That was your choice. You don't get to kill babies. Simple as.
I’m going to say this now we do have men like Russell but those men don’t have loud voices unfortunately and the way the media portrays men is such a false portrayal of what most men are actually like. I’m not justifying our actions against women there are no excuses for those men but they do not personify all men they represent the minority they have loud voices so they end up on news articles or on the news way more giving men a bad name
Thank you Russell. I'm from Minnesota and even though I'm in a blue state, I'm terrified. This is going to hurt or kill so many women. I wish the UN would require any country that wants to continue to participate to guarantee women's rights.
@@hninzilwin3288 That's a painful evidence for the caveman mentality that suppresses and dehumanize women all over the world. This should be impossible in a modern civilized society, it makes whichever country less civilized with every new fucked up law or rule.
The grip from old men in power on a society that wants to progress is utterly scary. Look at the regress we've seen in the last decade. Corruption is exploded, human rights are being contested by countries that have fought for them. If a new and open minded generation doesn't take control soon, society will never recover.
That thing about to wearing shorts under skirts has been going on in American schools for decades. Plus, girls and young women in certain schools are told that they have to wear a skirt--even in freezing temperatures. Some schools let them wear pants beneath their skirt, but not all...They also get blamed or ignored if a boy makes fun of them for their period (I mean, surely a 12-year-old girl should be able to hide their very first period despite it usually coming unexpectedly, right? *eyeroll*)......As an American, I can honestly say that America's always been in the dark ages. Social media just makes it more obvious.
and birth control... can't be killing kids before they are fertilized - shouldn't be allowed to take away the potential for life. Cancer treatments too, they are human cells that live off of the body of another as well.
The United States has not banned Abortion. Removing Roe vs Wade does not ban abortions. It simply leaves the laws around it up to the individual states.
@@R3WIRED Which is dumb as hell. What happens when a state let's say Texas says abortion is treated as murder. A woman goes to California and gets a procedure done can she return to Texas or is she now a wanted criminal? Is the doctor that preformed the procedure in California a criminal in Texas? Edit: Can Texas sue California or try and extradite or send bounty hunters after said doctor?
Well if you listen to some of the comments coming from reich-wing trolls like Ben Shapiro, then every rights issue thats been passed in the states in the last 60 years is in the firing line, these would include - Same sex marriage Interracial marriage Minority rights Womens rights Republikkkans want to turn the US into a theocratic state similar to Iran or Saudi Arabia, with an all powerful ruler for life in charge and evangelical nutjobs advising.
@Valerie Payne What is next?, well at the rate this is going. You better not grow herbs in your garden,have a black cat or annoy someone. Cause you will be accused of witchcraft, but before that I foresee you having to basically wear a burka. So you don't entice men with your hair,shoulders or ankles.
@@harrisondenton2621 What if the protection failed/ you were set up by your partner/ you weren’t properly educated by your school because of these dumbass people still opposing sex ed/ it wasn‘t friggin voluntary?
That is not just the woman's responsibility harrison. The one with the seed is the man. Also, protection is not always guaranteed to stop a pregnancy. Sometimes you vomit and the pill doesn't work, sometimes diahhrea has an effect on the pill. Condoms can break, hormones can change. And sometimes you get raped and there is no change to take a pill.@@harrisondenton2621
As an American living in UK I never want to go back. Worked here, earned a pension here, bought my own home here. I like my universal health care and being able to go to a shopping centre without fear of getting shot.
@@raven-nova275 Right. Every time I hear about how nuts the US is, it makes me a little bit more grateful to be British. We've got some serious issues but it could be so much worse.
@@astrologerdawn1200 5 times more Brits live in america than the other way around I promise you more people wanna move to america than britain could ever imagine in its wildest dreams.
"A republican is basicly a person saying 'I'm pro life until it got born, grows up and sets foot on my lawn. Then I shoot it.'" Dieter Nuhr, a german comedian.
@@gamecoolguy619 BS. You could as well argue that more people die in traffic. So what, should we ban cars? No, but regulate them. O wait, we did that. You need a licence, your car has to be in shape and the're a lot of rules to follow. Let's do THAT with guns!!!
@@chenzen1578 you missed the fact OP said there are more urgent problem, and this particular case may be more important to some then others ime there is no objective answer on what is more important/urgent...not to mention those that state it is not are usually supporters or coiters of it hence a bias is introduced...
I say, can you even IMAGINE if women told men they MUST get vasectomies? Especially if they didn't want one? Or if we decided pierced penises looked amazing so we told you all you MUST do that? Hell, I could go on and on. If women got to tell men they MUST do anything, men would flip shit! 🙄🤨
"Women told men they MUST get vesectomies" Happens far often then the opposite... "pierced penises looked amazing" How is this televam we already get most girls ears pierced due to popularity or culture...
I wish I knew, I wish people who said they wanted equality Actually did. In my perfect world we would just compliment each other. Like, I'm short so my tall boyfriend gets things on high shelves for me and I'm really good with spelling which isn't his strongest suit so I help with that. Sadly, most feminists Say they want equality but they just want to flip the script. And too many men are so used to being in charge, they can't fathom any other way. To sum up, I really wish I knew, it falls down to individuals to change and I've no idea if they will. Sorry for being long winded lol.
This is the bit that I just can't get over - There's thousands of kids looking for homes being bounced around the care system and yet they care about the unborn.
@@Hiforest I belive it isn't about the unborn at all it's about control. They just want to control women and taking our rights is a way to do that. It's disgusting.
@@9UWmember As mentioned elsewhere in this forum the long game by the elites is to ensure a steady supply of cheap, compliant, desperate and poorly paid menial labour to enhance their positions and reinforce the power of their privileged positions in a very class ridden society.
Thank you for highlighting the absolute craziness of these anti-abortion laws! I live in Maryland, a blue state with lots of protection for abortion, but I'm still terrified about where our country and Supreme Court are headed! I completely agree.. we need much stricter gun laws. I'd be very happy to have restricted laws like the rest of the world
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo listen d**khead, no contraception is a 100%, also rapists generally don't like wearing condoms, also it's none of your business what anyone does with their own body.
@@hyperbole6529 Embryos don't really deserve rights, they're just a few cells with no brain. If you care about the death of embryos you shouldn't be washing your hands, bacteria are about as sophisticated as an under-developed embryo and you kill billions of them when you wash your hands.
@@TheJMPD My concept of life? Lol The fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube for about 3 to 4 days. But within 24 hours of being fertilized, it starts dividing fast into many cells. It keeps dividing as it moves slowly through the fallopian tube to the uterus. Its next job is to attach to the lining of uterus. This is called implantation. At that point i would say its life but even then you can say from fertiliser the egg.
In Italy and Poland they have similar laws. And pregnant women, who wanted actually the kids, but got complications during the pregnancy, were not helped. Actually died, because of the fetus died inside and this can kill the mother. So this is dangerous even for women who were not planning any abortion
Every woman deserves the choice of an abortion. Her body, her rules. Why is that so hard for people to accept? What do these men (and let's face it a lot of women too) get out of women not aborting? I'm genuinely curious
It is absurd how these people sit on their high horses, believing they're in the right as in their eyes they've prevented a murder. But fail to see it from the perspective of the woman now forced to have and raise this child. If the baby was the result of an assault, she could end up hating the child and that is no environment to be raised in. Or what if in the worse case scenario the pregnancy causes health problems and causes the woman and unborn baby to both die. Which is a tragedy I have personally experienced, my own mother died a week before she was due to give birth to my half-brother. The pregnancy was too much strain on her body and she had a fatal heart attack and they both died and I was left an orphan. I feel like these pro-lifers as well don't realise that their actions are only going to result in more deaths, from woman going to shady places to have abortions and dying from the procedure. It'll also increase the rates of newborns being abandoned as the mothers didn't want them but were forced to carry them.
As someone watching from the UK with many friends in the US, I honestly just want to cry for what America is becoming, thanks to the lunatics in Congress who have WAY too much power now. It is literally morphing into Gilead.
holding women accountable for their actions isn't some fascist move. take the pill, use condoms, you stan murdering children, then you should have your womb removed.
The UK limits abortions to 24 weeks. That is still viewed as problematic and restrictive for American Progressives. They want Abortions allowed right up until a woman is dilating.
You're from the UK, and you're crying because the USA is bring its abortions laws to being more similar to the UK and Europe abortion laws? This really just highlights how you Have done absolutely no research and are literally getting news froma comedian.
Does it come under "irony" when comedians speak more truth and honesty than politicians do? When it comes to abortion the conversation should be between the woman and her doctor. No one else.
nah mate. i don't stan child murder. so i'm glad those children have real men stanning their right to life. you stan child murder, then you're a disgrace
@@jimwest7107 The foetus isn’t a child. They’re an insentient blob of cells, and as Russel says, not any more human than the sperm which men do casually kill in the millions. Pretty much every European country and most other developed country globally has figured this out using science and reasoning, yet a small clique of male Christian republicans are forcing their religious views millions of women with no regard for their rights.
@@jimwest7107 it's not a child. A fantasy book written by a bronze age goat herder is not something a reasonable person bases their decisions on. If you want to be a moron who never grew up and believes in supernatural bullshit, go for it. I don't give two shits about your infantile needs. But don't start pushing that crap on thinking people. P.S. the Bible has instructions on how to perform an abortion. So you should actually read the book you are claiming says it's bad.
I’m grieving the loss of woman’s rights in America, (I’m not American) it’s heartbreaking to hear plus it’s scary to think of countries going backwards like this because you worry that it might tend in your own country.
When people say, "I wanna go back to when i was little" this isn't want people meant. With multiple countries removing women's rights despite people fighting for decades to get them is disgusting and makes those sacrifices pointless.
women's rights are not being removed, the right to life is being given to all humans equally. Giving rights to minorities does not take away your rights.
@@neonwired4978 Wrong. People already born are not given the right to life. If they were, there'd be better gun laws, and the Republicans would support the live-saving help that would ensure that mothers and infants don't starve or die of disease. They're ensuring the right to be born. After that, they don't give a single crap about you. If they actually cared about life, they would have been enraged when a gunman mowed down f***ing KINDERGARTENERS. Instead, they bowed to their NRA masters and refused to do anything to prevent any more children from being shot to death in their schools.
Literally no right is being taken. You don't have a right to abortion. Living beings do have a right to life though. Which is precisely why you can't go around get rampant abortions. Because you are a baby murderer if you do that.
A fetus isn't a "minority", either, lmao. And yes, giving a clump of cells more right's than a full human being does take their rights away. The cellclmp is literally using another persons organs and blood system, and it doesn't have an inherit right to those. You and I don't have a right to other people's body's, either.
Absolutely bloody foul sodding mysoginistic bill. Also, in other news, as a Scottish person I agree with you. I got married in a kilt over 30 years ago. It was blowing a gale. Fred Flintstone boxer shorts since you ask.
@@ConfusedOxygen he said he's Scottish, I was joking (as he'll know, it's more common to go commando - however, I think anyone wearing boxers with a kilt in a gale on their wedding day is excused).
Thank You Russell! Love everything you do! I have watched stuff from you, that is 5-6 years old, and it's still relevant today! Some even seem like they were made yesterday!:)
Same people who said old people should sacrifice their lives for the economy. Right to life, right? Also cried "my body, my choice" in response to mask mandates. Scum. Of. The. Earth.
I really respect Russell for such precision in these jokes about pro-lifers and abortion, which make us laugh whilst highlighting serious cultural issues. That material must have taken so long to write.
pro-lifers ? what about the life of that innocent child you are aborting ? isn't that a life ? May be you measure the importance of life by inches & feet 🤔
@@jimwest7107 it's a politically motivated issue that tgey ran with 50yewrs ago and lost. There's nothing more to understand. This is what it looks like when politicians force extreme views on the public for votes.
Gun rights are in the constitution... Women's reproductive rights are not. That is regulated by the Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision. That is why we are in this mess now. The court is striking down Roe v Wade. To be clear, the gun laws CAN be changed as they are part of the Second Amendment... An amendment can always be amended or repealed, as with the amendment on alcohol prohibition... Hence why they are called Amendments. 😉
Precisely. Republicans claim to care about "babies"(in other words, a collection of cells in a woman's womb), but have no concern for children being murdered in school shootings at an ever increasing rate. They believe that protecting guns is MUCH more important than protecting a child's life once they've been born.
@@MrBawdry I was making an important distinction. Reproductive rights are NOT constitutional rights. But they could be. In the meantime, it is up to the Supreme Court.
@@sophiedash4026 could be argued under the 14th amendment but I don't know enough to be certain. Interestingly the 21st amendment is a repeal of the 18th (prohibition) so all those who argue there is no possibility of the 2nd ever being changed are wrong. As I say I'm a Brit who doesn't know enough to offer much of an opinion, but it is is interesting.
There's too many people that really don't understand how dangerous pregnancies can be for women. A small percentage end up with severe sickness and on IV drips like a close friend of mine, who lost about 2-3 stone from constant sickness and was in hospital for 2 months. Pregnancy aside, giving birth isn't always straightforward and can cause serious issues. The last point is simple, who are you to tell anyone else what they can or can't do with their body?
If a woman knows she is pregnant, but waits 7 months before demanding an elective abortion, I'm thinking "no way" Woman's rights should go hand in hand with woman's responsibilities. Getting an elective abortion in a timely manner being one of them.
@@JohnSmith-kf8mv as the final sentence of my original post reads: who are you to tell anyone else what they can or can't do with their own body? The USA is going backwards to the dark ages with this, probably to appease the various Christian groups in the country... a decision to appease people who been in fairytales and fables
@@kentendo6453 yes ... ultimately that will be the demise of man kind and the planet if we are not careful. Remove emotions and personal experiences . It's quite simple to see the problem. Unfortunately it's not that easy . I'm glad your friend is ok. I wish you, her and the baby all the best.
The second amendment was written when it took a good marksman 3 to 8 minutes to reload, tamp and prep the gun to shoot a second shot. Not when AK47s were sold without background check. It was also intended for organized militias, and not the average person. As to Abortion, when midwives were doing them and delivering babies, with a much lower rate of post partum infections and deaths, nobody was concerned.
The other thing that strikes me... They say the 2nd amendment can't be changed? Listen to yourselves, whoever you are who say this: the 2nd **amendment**. The law has been changed before, so it can be changed again. To paraphrase Russell: "Get the Tipex out, and start saving lives!"
You can't get an ak47 without a background check. You can't buy a firearm without a background check. You can't buy an ak47, without additional paperwork due to the hugh ammendments. Please, shut the fuck up. You clearly do know what you're talking about.
@@thomasfolio7931 the "current issue" is what is know as 80% builds. These are unfinished firearms, that are to be finished at home. These circumvent the background check because you don't need a background to buy pieces of metal. Which is what a disassembled gun is.
Legal access to safe abortion literally saved my life. Trying to have a child nearly killed me. I will never stop defending my own life first and foremost. How people judge without knowing our situations is truly unChristian, disgusting and shameful. The trauma that I've already dealt with from almost dying is enough, let alone the judgment of ignorant people who want to throw stones and demonize a very private situation involving my body parts and MY waking consciousness, trying to make me less than a dog to value what still could die even if I were to miraculously survive throwing up every 2 minutes and losing 20lbs a week with trips to the ER every day for dehydration and several IV bags, begging for my life. Why is my right to life less than my child's because of some other persons emotional beliefs? The fact is, if I died, they would have died too. Is that a better option? Do you judgers feel good about making a person feel terrible for choosing to life through extreme trauma? I will pray this disgusting insane judgement ends and all people with uteruses who are alive and breathing can make decisions for their own right to life BEFORE someone else who is not suffering what they are, and their life be truly valued for the individual they are and not just an oven for a potential life that some people's beliefs make them prioritize with sentimental emotional choices over facts. If a heartbeat means something, then mine counts. Who is to say anyone else's life gets to be valued over and destroy my chance of already being alive here. If that is true then we'd be the same as China, harvesting organs from those we disagree with. Child abusing republican like my abuser? Go to the education camp where your heart is less valued than mine so I can have it transplanted when I need it because my life is more important than yours and my life depends on your heart. Now sterilize your family for hearing your beliefs, they might pass it on. See how far this goes? Only creates more trauma, abuse, suffering and death to force women to be used as birth slaves. Completely wrong and the opposite of what forced birth anti choice pro woman deathers want. Oh wait or is it, they want women to be left single burdened with children that they harm from being unwanted, Foster homes full to the brim, juvenile delinquency and absent fathers, suffering and dying mothers and children. That's where this unconstitutional ban and immoral whacky emotional hive mind is heading deeper into. And I'm pretty fin sure none of you pro lifers gave a hoot about actual children who suffered like me. Just blame me and call me names for "acting up" while my father beat my mother in front of me. I don't think any anti choice judgers could man up and do the right thing, take responsibility and be a real parent, apologize for the damage you cause everyone including to your own children, stop throwing stones at people first, pointing fingers, and see how you're not helping this situation at all. Least of all with the compassion and understanding Jesus expects of you. I'm not perfect so I'm going to admit it's hard to not be angry at people attacking me and all the others (at least 10% of pregnant people) for choosing not to die over the 2% chance that my child might live if I took birth defecting life damaging, possibly carcinogenic drugs to prevent my own death and theirs. Yay we both live a few months longer to suffer and die together because the drug stopped working and now it's 8 weeks so it's too late to save my life! Pro life saved a life by killing two! /Sarcasm
You are just as deserving of rights as any person, and your experiences are not to be dismissed nor your sacred being denigrated! You are not alone, not alone in being abused, in coping with abandonment, in being diminished by the hurtful treatment of ignorant “authorities”; not alone in experiencing harm and suffering. Not alone in being a complex and impressive survivor! 💛 I will fight for my autonomy also. An abortion saved my life too. RESPECT ❤️
The states aren't outlawing medical abortions, this idea was caused by a misreading of legal documents. And medical science has more or less proved a foetus is a private individual, and legally speaking the states are trying to find a balance between two individual rights. That's why and how RvW was struck down, its own arguments were used against it.
How some call it the greatest country in the world is absolutely boggling. It's an embarrassment. In education, in health care, in safety in almost every important aspect of a country. It's the blight on the planet.
Thousands are applying to join the greatest country in the world, every single day. Imagine that. As a Canadian... I understand completely. We love our friends and family down south. We all sleep better because of the USA.
@@ellecampbell3271 America has a great Public Relations team. I hear so many people come here then are shocked when they need healthcare. Even a few stories of immigrants who passed the US Citizenship tests and became citizens, only to up and move back to EU and Mexico...you heard that, Mexico... because of healthcare cost. Can't recall specifics but one got diabetes and just couldn't afford to live in the US anymore because over $1,000 a month for insulin. Now imagine the over $10,000 cost of a hospital bill for having a baby you never wanted... google cost to give birth at a hosptial in the US then tell me "it's the greatest."
I am a Texan and I live in this backward state and I am appalled. If I wasn’t at the back end of my life I would so be out of here. Pease don’t judge all of us. So sorry to the generations to come.
It appears that old women, men of all ages and some overly religious people are allowed to have more say in this debate than those on the frontline, metaphorically speaking. The one sector that should have most say are women aged 12 to 45 or so, women at risk of becoming pregnant. All other sectors should have less say in the final decision in this highly divisive matter.
I feel you. I live in a very conservative, right wing Canadian province (led by someone who got their start in politics blocking same sex partners from being at their dying loved ones’ sides as they were succumbing to AIDS, which he gleefully bragged about.). Not every Texan is represented by their representatives.
@@joshualeonpearl3724 who? the babies that aren't wanted, the same babies that are born into poverty because the same states that won't allow abortion don't believe in helping the mother/father financially or have healthcare or a non traumatising childhood, yes they will be born and no one to help them, yeah that's fucking great.
Thanx Russell for bringing laughter during these horrific changes coming about in the U.S. I'm grateful, at least for now, that I live in California. Many other states are going back to the stone age 😡
@@wingedferret5713 What do you mean it's a "just a clump of cells"? That is just what people say in order to excuse their actions isn't it? Well, in reality we all know that it is obviously not "just a clump of cells" and we also know that it is *LIVING* - these are basic biological facts. However to add something extra....it is a child. I use the word child in the relational sense, not age sense. I don't mean " a human from birth to age 18". I mean "the offspring human parents" You may still say that a human child's life is less important than an adult human's life - this is philosophical and you are entitled to your opinion. However one person being less important than another person does not give the important person the right to kill the less important person. That is obvious. You know all this is true.
Thanks for talking about this. It does affect the entire world. Just wait til “they” see what this does to the (horribly overtaxed) foster care system in the US.
So appreciate you covering this Russell, can’t quite believe we’re going backwards on abortion & that it’s men running it😥😡 Coming from Ireland & growing up in the 1970’s, I was so relieved to come to UK, free contraception & abortion if you needed it. Take it from me, getting an abortion for almost all women, is not an easy or “great” choice, it’s something thought about deeply & needing to do it for many reasons.
@@mental-pineapple4283 Ok so that is not what they are doing. Women have equal rights to men under the law currently. Roe vs Wade being overturned has no impact on that.
American woman here. Thanks for caring about us over here, it is actually a comforting feeling, 💛 Russell Howard! You make me laugh lots. :) Apoplectic as many of us are now it’s harder to find mirth.. 🥺 We have a higher likelihood of dying from pregnancy here as you may know, especially women of color and any who are socioeconomically disadvantaged (of whom there are tragically a massive number). All of our lives are threatened by the myriad harmful outcomes. Anyone who becomes a parent is then legally responsible to provide financial support, and care, and any people who are not in a position to afford this will be more at risk of being prosecuted and jailed. Here in America, the profiteers running our prison industrial system have no problem with jailing mothers for even very minor infractions and without competent legal representation; they are at the mercy of the backwards and often racist courts. Though it’s not discussed very much, men aren’t excepted in loss of choice and agency : paternal obligations & bills that are owed are also subject to our oppressive laws, pay-to-win courts, racist sentencing and excessive prison terms. And our prisons are inhumane facilities in which no human being should be forced to subsist. So, the heartbeats these draconian fascists “care” about are not those of anyone who has been born. We are trapped in a usurious cycle of cruelty here. It is slavery being reinstated, and it’s a sickness we’ve never truly been cured of; this new assault on our people is truly a hate crime against the masses. The terror and exponential harm this is inflicting cannot be overstated. We are not living in a free country. Never been free for all people and now it is Equally Unjust for All. The wealthy and demented rulers have the upper hand as of today. I am, we are, in desolation. But we want to take our collective power back so... here’s hoping we can truly overcome. !!! 🤝 Appreciate any and all support from our progressive friends abroad. 💙
your humour continues to be both funny, and yet also remains a powerful rebuttal/antidote to the stupidity that has been part of the ethos of the country to the south of me for more than five years! I enjoy your capacity to pick out those moments that reveal the ridiculousness of folk "in power". So long as we are still able to laugh, there is hope for improvement, even though it might remain an election or two away, given the curiously complicated structure of elections in the USofA. There are days when I think the "A" stands for a part of the human anatomy, rather than a proud, strong and free nation.
If you weren't from the UK I would vote for you. You make more sense and know more about our laws than probably most of the politicians in our country.
The guy that made that law should have been aborted. Bet he wouldn’t have done that if his wife got pregnant through rape. With insanely stupid laws like that, I don’t now how you can call yourself the land of the free when clearly that’s not the case.
What guy? What law? What are you talking about 😂 The decision was made by group of people who are both men and women. Jane roe, is a woman. And the current issue isn't that a law is being made, quite the opposite a law is being lifted. Nobody is taking any abortion away from anywhere. 😂 This whole issue is that states get to decide their own laws on abortion. Like they do on basically every other law. You people are so wildly under-edcuated and so reactionary. Its simply astounding.
I dont think America realises how poorly they are regarded by people in the Western World. Its bordering on contemptuous. Al Murray asked his audience to describe nationalities in two words - America was described as fat and stupid. No smoke without fire and they do have the highest levels of obesity in the World. Now look at what Texans are doing! Seems like, "I rest my case your Honour."
...which makes a foetus a parasite (as a biological relationship with a host)? Also to be called a "host" the occupying entity is also a different species...
none of these men realise that, by their own definitions they would no longer be men, but simply "gamete donating nozzles" or something of the like. Which makes them even less important. didn't think ahead, did they -.-
@@useyournoodle100 And is also home to the most ‘Woke’ of people who have fits over whatever, like putting race or gender on things that shouldn’t be, like colours, shoes, hats, and (Not making this up btw) the entire English dictionary as a whole.
as a possible father to an unborn "child", I would like an imput to the possible future, but at the end of the day, its an opinion, not my body, not my bloody say! Always religious people, always men forcing their views of this on women who go through it! Disgusting.
No, let’s not. Ignorant and bigoted anti-abortion arseholes should have their opinion changed through education and persuasion. Democracy is precious and throwing it out with the bathwater would be really, really dumb.
No, absolutely not. You can't get pregnant without my semen. I'm as inherently involved and have as much right as the women. Women have no right to decide on another beings body, the baby. You cannot sit here and demand women get the right to decide what happens to somebody else's body *and* claim they're immune from other people deciding what happened to their body. That its peak hypocrisy.
@@idiotbuster8662 (Reply to a pro-female-enslavement comment that seems to have been deleted) men do not get unlimited, irrational control of women's bodies. We are not fields for you to plough. We are not resources for promoting your dna. We are not heifers or incubators or any other vehicle for for your ego projections. You don't want a "child" of yours aborted? Be more careful who you poke and get and agreement in writing before you bump uglies. And if you've pleasured yourself how many "children" have you wiped out? Btw the bible does not consider an unborn child a life. It is part of a woman's body - like a limb. Read deuteronomy in the original hebrew. Your Christian translators took it out.
conservatives: what if sharia law comes to Wisconsin?? The president is a secret Muslim trying to bring their religious rule here! Wouldn't that kind of oppression be awful?! Also conservatives: Everyone should have to live by our religion or else!!
@@wordforever117 Depends how you look at it. There are way too many people on this rock already. So the right move would probably be, to stop making so many as we do.
@@maxmoller Ah so you agree with China's one-child policy? It is two-child policy now. But sounds like your kind of thing! One question though....how do we stop making new humans by crushing the skulls and ripping off the limbs of humans that have already been made?
@@maxmoller The idea that the planet is overpopulated is a long standing myth. It is easy for us to share our opinions but probably more useful for us to check the facts.... I will send a doc below but it might get deleted. It is from the UN Population Division and it states that population is slowing down and pretty much max out by 2030 and begin to fall in most parts of the world.
@@maxmoller Page 15 is where the data is presented: www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/wpp2022_summary_of_results.pdf
Here's some info for non-us people. In the U.S., the average cost of a vaginal birth is $13,024, including standard predelivery and postdelivery expenses such as facility fees and doctor fees. A cesarean section (C-section) is much more expensive, costing an average of $22,646 including standard predelivery and postdelivery expenses. As of Feb 28, 2022. Now imagine having to have a kid you didnt want because of these laws. Now what if you are living pay check to pay check. That's over a $10,000 dollar bill. What could you do? I think these laws will cause a lot of people to self harm. 😔
The fact that the "host body" has to "have a certain amount of rights" has nothing to do with the "host body" herself, it's entirely due to the life that she is "hosting". "America has real problems with guns, drugs, crime, and a thousand other thins, but let's distract people be dehumanising and degrading women - even more than we have already" I thought slavery had been abolished in the USA. As long as women are not free to make informed decisions about their own bodies, they are not free. They are owned by whoever feels that they have the right to make decisions for their property.
1 of 2 British comedians that are generally funny Russell Howard and Peter Kay it comes naturally. . . But when it comes to your political views you absolutely nail it spot on ..
I live in MD which is a very blue state thank god and even though our Governor is republican he would never 👎 approve of this insanity. These ppl think they have Trump power
As far as the school shorts rule goes, it's always easier to make the victim change something rather than the perpetrator. Take bullying in schools, most often any action taken to try to stop the bullying focuses on the victims. For example, the victim is most often the one who has to change school start/finish times, stay inside at breaks or even change school.
Rather, it's pretty much impossible to make perpetrators change their ways without catching them. Personally, I don't think it should be a rule, but simply everyone should just choose what they want to wear. while attempting to look up skirts is not acceptable and must be prevented where possible, it is ultimately a risk those who wear skirts choose to take (unless it's a school uniform, which is a silly and outdated concept anyway)
Yeah there was a kid in my school who was forced to move classes when he was bullied, they knew exactly who the bully was, they moved the kid away from his friends and the bully wasn't punished
@@ellecampbell3271 nexplanon. It works just fine. I'm not fighting for just me. Also good luck with that argument when they ban that too, they're working on it.
@@ellecampbell3271 Yeah, it's not like birth control ever fails. And it's free so no one ever has problems affording it. No woman ever gets pregnant from a rape. Incest never happens. No one ever tampers with their partner's birth control to baby trap them. No underage person is ever coerced to have sex before they've gone to a doctor and started a proper birth control regimen. No partner ever turns abusive once pregnancy occurs. No one lives in an area where a pharmacist can refuse to fill birth control scripts because it's against their beliefs. Yep, we live in a nice, safe world where nothing bad ever happens.
@@spleen4life Rape is the exception to the typical consumer of termination services. Not a secret. Less than 1% are a result of SA or crime. Convenience is typically the reason for termination of babies in the mother’s womb.
When humour stops being funny and takes a line that the rest of the media seem to want to down play “ in the interests of balance “ etc. this is the end of the enlightenment as we go backwards in outlook and become slaves. Got to keep fighting this shit and calling it out all the time. Nice one Russell
Thank you, Russell. This is brilliant and prescient and tragic (with humor, of course). The US has such potential, but sadly continues to be dragged back into the past by the white conservative minority. Of course, when we look at our history - the repression of native peoples and the enslavement/repression of African Americans - it's easy to see why conservatives want to ban books that actually educate and illustrate our racist history. Maybe, just maybe the current supreme court's ignorance and arrogance will be the kick in the ass and the slap in the face that we need to stop being so complacent and to stop the destruction of our precious democracy.
Sadly, it's not even ignorance. This is 100% their intention to cause as much harm as possible. They know they're rich rough to be able to get contraceptives and abortions regardless of what the law states. Suffering for everyone else is, yet again, the end goal.
I guess rusty coat hangers and stairs come into fashion again after all. Utterly disgusting. This is the thing about these kind of laws. The same with drugs. It will always happen. The government can only regulate how, not whether it happens.
I'm waiting for Russell to tell jokes about a US Supreme Court justice citing, very specifically, a British judge from centuries ago who spent his time burning innocent old women for not having husbands ... err, I mean, being witches.
@@asseyez-vous6492 We’ll always be in Europe, just unfortunately not in the EU (for now). Young people still support the EU, so in a decade or so we might be able to rejoin.
@@ninja-gaming8988 I don't think so. Britain proved to be an unreliable partnership. I can't see why the EU would want them back. While they were in, Britain made it all about Britain. And they haven't stopped since they left. Sad for the decent people in the UK. You can thank your conservative inbreds for burning those bridges.
@@sandersson2813 on what precisely. He's totally correct by legal standards. Lethal self-defence is completely legal. Your abortions aren't so legal any more. Baby killer
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo Two weeks later here. 19 elementary school kids (and 2 teachers) have been slaughtered in Texas by a teenager with an AR-15. What were you saying about murdering children? Whose life were those kids trying to take? They weren't killed by abortions, they were killed by bullets.
As a woman if I lived the united states I would be getting a hysterectomy right now, before they make that illegal or before they start forcing women to become handmaids.
Problem is that you wouldn't be able to. I'm a trans guy who never plans to carry, and would probably kill myself if I was forced. I've been dealing with debilitating cramping for years (bad enough that my legs up and give out-collapsing is not fun), and terrifying amounts of bleeding (filling, overflowing, then leaking through a large menstrual cup in less than 3 hours, or completely soaking through a super tampon in less than one hour). The bleeding has stopped, but the cramping has gotten a lot more frequent since I've started testosterone. For years and years I've been telling Drs that I am in excruciating pain, and the response has always ranged from "you're young, it's normal" to "well, you aren't over 30, you don't have kids, and you don't have a husband to consent, so the best we can do is prescribe extra strength ibuprofen". So my quality of life, my ability to sleep, work, even something as simple as walking/standing is completely being shat on because of this pain, and it has been for a decade, but because I am afab, they will not help. It took a decade to finally convince a Dr to send me in for an ultrasound to see if there was anything to see, and even then I haven't been able to get ahold of anyone to go over my results with me (this was probably 6 months ago, so I've just kind of given up on calling them after so many times of the lines being too busy or just having no one answer, and am waiting for a scheduled visit with my gp that has already been pushed back twice because of scheduling errors on their part to ask her). So, no, even the "options" that could be potential solutions aren't really ever available. Anyone who claims the US has a good healthcare system is lying because they've been indoctrinated, or they've never experienced the bullshit because they are a middle to upperclass, cis/het, white, able bodied, man (and you can guess which category the majority of our lawmakers tend to fall under).
@@Kimmie9553 Beyond elective, to be frank. You can be dealing with problems and pain that literally keep you from functioning in day to day life, and Drs won't do more than prescribe pain relief medications that don't work.
Seriously? You can't have a hysterectomy without the consent of a husband? What if you're not married? Here in the UK, you can have one any age on the NHS (free at popint of use) without anyone else saying it's ok provided it's for medical reasons. If it isn't, you'd have to pay for it privately. I have seceral friends who had early hysterectomies, one was only 15 years old, because of endometriosis. If all other treatment has failed then it's offered. When my Mum had endometriosis, that was the first & only choice, but that was 50 years ago. Now there are lots of treatments that might help (not cure, there is NO cure), & hysterectomies are usually the last choice made, simpkly because they're final. But you can have one, you don't have to argue or plead. Youir medical care trumps anything anyone else says. I have another friend, a transman, who had one at 19 years of age as part of her gender reassignment surgery. If you're married, even if your husband doesn't want you to have it, the doctor will not listen to him but only to you. In many places, the husband is not allowed into medical consultations, unless you specifically request he be there. It's been like that with my GP for about 18 years.
@@angelaburrow8114 Just as a warning, this gets particularly ranty. I am incredibly angry while writing this, but it is entirely directed at the US healthcare. It's not written in the law (yet), but it is a very common practice. I have been dealing with pain severe enough to make me collapse, pain worse than a broken bone, pain that hasn't been limited by prescription pain meds, on a monthly (and more recently daily) basis for a decade. To spell out exactly what I have been dealing with: For hours to days at a time, multiple days a week, every week, for the last year and a half I have been dealing with excruciating pain that prevents me from sleeping and walking. Before that it was closer to a straight week of the pain every month. It is worse than a broken bone. It is worse than major surgery (the one I can compare it to is a double incision mastectomy). When I was still bleeding each month, I would completely soak through the largest overnight pads in less than 4 hours, I would fill, overflow, and create enough pressure to leak through a 25ml menstrual cup in 3 hours, through the largest tampon on in less than one hour. While still dealing with the same excruciating pain. I have talked to at least 6 different doctors about it. I've been prescribed numerous medications to help (none of which have actually been effective). After a full decade of complaints, I finally managed to convince my newest doctor to send me in for an ultrasound to see if they could find anything, and after 6 months I still can't get ahold of anyone to go over my results with me, and have resigned myself to waiting for my next scheduled wellness visit with my general doctor, an appointment that I can't get any sooner, and in fact have had pushed back twice now due to scheduling errors on their part. I was told outright by the Dr that sent me in for the ultrasound that no one in our area would perform a hysterectomy on me because of my age, lack of spouse, and lack of children. The best she could do was prescribe stronger ibuprofen, and later muscle relaxers, neither of which help. I have contacted places that do hysterectomies, and they aren't responding. My insurance is not going to cover it if I do manage, especially because I'm almost certainly going to have to travel several states away to find someone to do anything. I am tired, and in pain, and no one will help me. I am transgender and never want to be pregnant. Ever. (And this also means I'm going to have an even more difficult time finding a doctor, because I have to travel an hour and a half away just for my hormones, because despite having endocrinologists near me, none of them treat trans folks, and you can imagine how they react to surgery). I am just tired. And I'm not alone. There are other trans and cis folks out there trying to get the same help as me. And they aren't getting it either because the system is rigged against us. I just want the pain to stop.
Omg I'm really shocked about girls being told to wear shorts underneath their school skirts, When I was at school,we were banned from wearing cycling shorts underneath our skirts for health reasons- we actually laughed at this😂 but it can actually cause thrush 😮
Nothing should surprise any of us in 2022.......Society has changed so much in the last two years and very little of it for the better unfortunately 🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@nikkibyrne4241 I agree Nikki......it's got to the point where (because of the duplicitous liars we have in government) nobody really knows what to believe......Every truth they speak is 80% lie unfortunately....... Definitely strange times at present and in the foreseeable future. We all need to say strong 💪👌🇬🇧
@@johnmccann5104 unfortunately that is what we all believe,our government are just a bunch of liars they always have been. Even myself who doesn't do politics in any way,Shape or form..but I can still notice a lie lol. They want us to live in a better world,but it's them that are doing all the damage.
@@nikkibyrne4241 I never really followed politics until covid hit......Then through doing my own research and avoiding MSM I realised things weren't as they first appeared.... Follow the science one minute ,ignore it the next....ppe contracts given to friends, family and Tory donors with no experience and at extortionate prices....Then it was party gate and the list just goes on....Lie after lie,cover up after cover up....it is amazing so many of us are still sane. Luckily we can all still have a laugh on RUclips with the likes of Russel Howard and Johnathon Pie (definitely worth a look if you haven't heard of him) he is hysterical 👌🤣x
How America dares to call itself the 'Land of the Free' after removing the abortion constitution is beyond me. It is absolutely disgusting that a country would strip away the right to choice for women.
Can someone explain how a fetuses has the right to live? When as a child they Don't have the right to vote or buy there own things. As a child your are told what to do by your mum and dad until 18 years old. Also I have read a lot of comments about people blaming those unprotected sex for having abortions. You mean the 5 year old girl raped by you dad? No? Oh you mean the woman who was on birthcontrol while there partner was fixed? No not them either? Huh do you mean the couple who have unprotected sex because they wanted a child only to then find that the female has a serious illness that would kill her and the baby if she continued to have the baby until its full term preventing her from having adopting a child who are abandoned by mothers who couldn't get abortions due to men deciding they know more about a fanny then those who have one. No? not those either, huh... wait do you mean those who have unprotected sex cause they want a baby and can carry them to full term? Yes! Oh phew, glad we got there but wait if they are having unprotected sex cause they want a baby why would they need an abortion? Because they decided they didn't want one anymore? But that is probably like 1% out of the 99% who are getting abortions. You don't agree? Could you explain your reasoning without using the fetuses as a valid point as it doesn't have an legs to stand on. No one likes it but it should be an option for those in need.
@@joshualeonpearl3724 They don't care about "defenceless babies". If they cared, they'd work just as hard to protect life outside the womb, but they don't, so it's just a bunch of weirdos obsessing over the sex life of other people. We used to call people who did that perverts.
This is the same country with no maternity or paternity pay, no mandated paid leave, sick pay, low minimum wage, no free access to contraception or healthcare. However, controlling women's bodies and banning books is priority? American freedom!!!! Priorities people, priorities.
Yeah. Killing babies is awesome isn’t it:
Does make you wonder what the hell is going on, they’re regressing. It’s all down to evangelicals, and there strange view of life.
America is fucked
@@lizroberts1569 I don't like evangelicals, they're the worst hypocrites imo
I hate to break it to you, but a lot of these things are very complex issues and have facets to them that most people don't even vaguely understand. For example, take the fact that Americans have to pay much, much more for healthcare per capita than basically any other country in the world. It's also the case that America produces more medical research papers than any other country in the world (at least, of those that share them freely - so that omits places like North Korea or China). It's also the case that the research is decent because you also see the number of citations the papers receive from other countries being the highest. In other words, its easy to look at the American system and think its stupid or wrong, but you're stupid and wrong if you don't also recognise that every other country is benefitting from it. In fact, certain models (not produced by America or Americans) actually predict that humanity would be much, much better off if other countries started charging for healthcare across the next few decades (one of the ways this is measured is that if healthcare costed more now, that would affect R&D and reduce costs later down the line - leading to a dramatic overall saving for everyone). I'm not saying if they should or not, I'm just saying that complex things don't have easy answers and when people assume they do, they look silly.
Thank you for highlighting what that senator said. When I was pregnant, I wanted a child but still struggled with feeling like I was just a vessel, a host. I lost a lot of my sense of identity, and I wanted my child. For a woman who had to deal with sexual assault to then be forced to carry the child. My pregnancy almost killed me and my baby. Some states have said they won't stop the pregnancy even if life is at risk. If a woman has an abortion her and the person who performed the abortion will be tried for murder. They investigate late miscarriages and charge the women if they doubt the legitimacy!!! I can't imagine how distressing a late term miscarriage is but to then have to go through investigation. Where is the bloody compassion for the women? This law is abhorrent and so wrong. If you want to disagree with it, fine but don't force others to follow it. This isn't what most Americans want, it's what the evangelical and catholic extremists want.
I couldn’t agree with you more.
I've heard plenty of mothers talk about how having a child only made them MORE pro choice because of the trials they went through with WANTED pregnancies, they couldn't imagine how hard that would be having to go through with a pregnancy that was unwanted or life threatening or after having been assaulted
Not American Catholics.
How to tell Russel is being deadly serious:
When he looks annoyed that he can't make his point because the audience is still cheering at the previous one.
True
*Russell
You, sir, are the template for modern masculinity.
Smart, funny, insightful and, best of all, an excellent wordsmith. Thanks mate.
you mis-spelt: beta/pathetic/loser/cuck/incel
@BoxReactance Well thank you for providing the perfect example for why russell is the template for modern masculinity.
@BoxReactance ypur word games? Lol I trust that was a paraprax?
@BoxReactance Hehe
You’re funny
Even as an mtf trans girl, Russel is kinda a role model for me
It’s all quite sickening how far they’ve gone. Dark ages mentality.
not murdering children is ''dark ages mentality''? lmao.
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo think you seriously misunderstood.
Look around buddy...the tories are striking hard at the ordinary folk here in the uk...doen't need to be big items but lots of little ones, which are nibbling away at our rights.
As well as some biggies...people need to waken up...smell the crap...
Need to add the witchcraft laws now
Is it sickening to allow mothers to kill their own children?
Russell, you are such a great man. I wish there were more men out here like you, especially in the US government. I'm an FtM man, and the idea of possible pregnancy for me is the most terrifying thing I can imagine. For me it would only be possible from r*pe, but that's not the point. A person can use protection or not, an unwanted pregnancy is an unwanted pregnancy. No one should be forced to carry to term if they don't want to. The person who impregnated the person is just as liable for the pregnancy, yet there seems to be no consequence for that person. Thank you for always standing up for womens rights and trans rights. You're a truly wonderful human.
We are so lucky to have a comedian like Russell in the world. He should really do more tours in America.
Well said!
So you're a women, and if the person is equally liable why do fathers have no say in abortions? What consequences should a man have in your deluded world?
Why on earth do you people think you shouldn't be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy? All matters of rape aside.
You chose to have unprotected sex. That was your choice.
You don't get to kill babies. Simple as.
I’m going to say this now we do have men like Russell but those men don’t have loud voices unfortunately and the way the media portrays men is such a false portrayal of what most men are actually like. I’m not justifying our actions against women there are no excuses for those men but they do not personify all men they represent the minority they have loud voices so they end up on news articles or on the news way more giving men a bad name
Thank you Russell. I'm from Minnesota and even though I'm in a blue state, I'm terrified. This is going to hurt or kill so many women. I wish the UN would require any country that wants to continue to participate to guarantee women's rights.
Maryland is preparing our hospitals to take more volume re female patients. We are expecting an explosion of new patients.
I wish you all the luck in the world.
@@hninzilwin3288 that's nightmare fuel - when hospitals know in advance that women will try their own.
It won't hurt or kill anyone they can just get the abortions before 6 weeks
@@hninzilwin3288 That's a painful evidence for the caveman mentality that suppresses and dehumanize women all over the world. This should be impossible in a modern civilized society, it makes whichever country less civilized with every new fucked up law or rule.
If Russell ran for Prime Minister of the UK, I'd give him as much support as I could.
I don't live in the UK, but honestly same
The grip from old men in power on a society that wants to progress is utterly scary. Look at the regress we've seen in the last decade. Corruption is exploded, human rights are being contested by countries that have fought for them. If a new and open minded generation doesn't take control soon, society will never recover.
That thing about to wearing shorts under skirts has been going on in American schools for decades. Plus, girls and young women in certain schools are told that they have to wear a skirt--even in freezing temperatures. Some schools let them wear pants beneath their skirt, but not all...They also get blamed or ignored if a boy makes fun of them for their period (I mean, surely a 12-year-old girl should be able to hide their very first period despite it usually coming unexpectedly, right? *eyeroll*)......As an American, I can honestly say that America's always been in the dark ages. Social media just makes it more obvious.
George Carlin said it best..."if your anti-abortion then your anti-women"
I'm just curious, do you believe all the women who are anti abortion are against women
as well?
So true !!!
@@stevenking2463 yes !
@@stevenking2463 just curious, do you think old men get to marry their rape victims?
@@stevenking2463 of course they are, what a stupidly obvious question.
Any country that bans abortions should also ban the sale/prescription of drugs like Viagra.
and birth control... can't be killing kids before they are fertilized - shouldn't be allowed to take away the potential for life. Cancer treatments too, they are human cells that live off of the body of another as well.
Shit if us men got pregnant in America you could get an abortion out of a gumball machine and no one would be arguing against it.
@@timcirulis5273 cringe.
The United States has not banned Abortion. Removing Roe vs Wade does not ban abortions. It simply leaves the laws around it up to the individual states.
@@R3WIRED Which is dumb as hell. What happens when a state let's say Texas says abortion is treated as murder. A woman goes to California and gets a procedure done can she return to Texas or is she now a wanted criminal? Is the doctor that preformed the procedure in California a criminal in Texas?
Edit: Can Texas sue California or try and extradite or send bounty hunters after said doctor?
Russell, thank you for shouting this from the rooftops. I’m in Virginia. I’m a grandmother, and I think this is AWFUL. It’s scary. What’s next?
Well if you listen to some of the comments coming from reich-wing trolls like Ben Shapiro, then every rights issue thats been passed in the states in the last 60 years is in the firing line, these would include -
Same sex marriage
Interracial marriage
Minority rights
Womens rights
Republikkkans want to turn the US into a theocratic state similar to Iran or Saudi Arabia, with an all powerful ruler for life in charge and evangelical nutjobs advising.
It goes to the states.
@Valerie Payne What is next?, well at the rate this is going. You better not grow herbs in your garden,have a black cat or annoy someone. Cause you will be accused of witchcraft, but before that I foresee you having to basically wear a burka. So you don't entice men with your hair,shoulders or ankles.
Feel for you, and I hope things get better.
@@lizroberts1569 Thanks, Liz. I never thought I would see this.
And just when I thought I couldn't love Russell Howard any more.....I do. Thank you Russell on behalf of women everywhere.
Is it morally wrong to kill innocent human beings?
Unwanted pregnancy is traumatic no matter how it started.
Use protection 👍
@@harrisondenton2621 Its been found that more than half of the people wanting abortion used some form of protection. Seriously?
@@harrisondenton2621
What if the protection failed/ you were set up by your partner/ you weren’t properly educated by your school because of these dumbass people still opposing sex ed/ it wasn‘t friggin voluntary?
That is not just the woman's responsibility harrison.
The one with the seed is the man. Also, protection is not always guaranteed to stop a pregnancy.
Sometimes you vomit and the pill doesn't work, sometimes diahhrea has an effect on the pill.
Condoms can break, hormones can change. And sometimes you get raped and there is no change to take a pill.@@harrisondenton2621
@@harrisondenton2621Protection can fail.
As an American living in UK I never want to go back. Worked here, earned a pension here, bought my own home here. I like my universal health care and being able to go to a shopping centre without fear of getting shot.
As a British person living in the USA, I agree with you. Looking at moving home if this goes through
@@raven-nova275 Right. Every time I hear about how nuts the US is, it makes me a little bit more grateful to be British. We've got some serious issues but it could be so much worse.
@@astrologerdawn1200 5 times more Brits live in america than the other way around
I promise you more people wanna move to america than britain could ever imagine in its wildest dreams.
@@jennifercox225 yeah.we do have our fair share of nutcases in this country.but we don't worry too much because they always gravitate to the states
@@jennifercox225 I wonder how many want to go back to the UK though. I don't know a single person who wants to visit the U.S let alone move there.
It’s very America when abortion is a more urgent problem to deal with than sincerely needed gun control.
Also more concern for the unborn than the baby when it comes.
"A republican is basicly a person saying 'I'm pro life until it got born, grows up and sets foot on my lawn. Then I shoot it.'" Dieter Nuhr, a german comedian.
Technically abortion kills more then guns...
@@gamecoolguy619 BS. You could as well argue that more people die in traffic. So what, should we ban cars? No, but regulate them. O wait, we did that. You need a licence, your car has to be in shape and the're a lot of rules to follow. Let's do THAT with guns!!!
@@chenzen1578 you missed the fact OP said there are more urgent problem, and this particular case may be more important to some then others ime there is no objective answer on what is more important/urgent...not to mention those that state it is not are usually supporters or coiters of it hence a bias is introduced...
I say, can you even IMAGINE if women told men they MUST get vasectomies? Especially if they didn't want one? Or if we decided pierced penises looked amazing so we told you all you MUST do that? Hell, I could go on and on. If women got to tell men they MUST do anything, men would flip shit! 🙄🤨
"Women told men they MUST get vesectomies"
Happens far often then the opposite...
"pierced penises looked amazing"
How is this televam we already get most girls ears pierced due to popularity or culture...
True we would but how can we change that mindset
I wish I knew, I wish people who said they wanted equality Actually did. In my perfect world we would just compliment each other. Like, I'm short so my tall boyfriend gets things on high shelves for me and I'm really good with spelling which isn't his strongest suit so I help with that. Sadly, most feminists Say they want equality but they just want to flip the script. And too many men are so used to being in charge, they can't fathom any other way. To sum up, I really wish I knew, it falls down to individuals to change and I've no idea if they will. Sorry for being long winded lol.
bruh tell a man to cook & just watch lol
American lawmakers should start caring more about the lives already born than those which haven't...
This is the bit that I just can't get over - There's thousands of kids looking for homes being bounced around the care system and yet they care about the unborn.
It's almost like they don't actually care about the unborn. It's about control.
"If you're pre-birth, you're fine, if you're pre-school, you're fucked"
@@Hiforest I belive it isn't about the unborn at all it's about control. They just want to control women and taking our rights is a way to do that. It's disgusting.
@@9UWmember As mentioned elsewhere in this forum the long game by the elites is to ensure a steady supply of cheap, compliant, desperate and poorly paid menial labour to enhance their positions and reinforce the power of their privileged positions in a very class ridden society.
Thank you for highlighting the absolute craziness of these anti-abortion laws! I live in Maryland, a blue state with lots of protection for abortion, but I'm still terrified about where our country and Supreme Court are headed!
I completely agree.. we need much stricter gun laws. I'd be very happy to have restricted laws like the rest of the world
awww you have to take responsibility for your promiscuity, it's almost like that's why condoms and the pill were invented....
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo TROLL.
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo trying to be as funny as Russel Howard.....fail
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo listen d**khead, no contraception is a 100%, also rapists generally don't like wearing condoms, also it's none of your business what anyone does with their own body.
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo Get a vasectomy.... stop pregnancy at the source.
Bravo Russell, for speaking out on the issue of women's bodily autonomy!
Whot issues, that you allow life to die?
@@hyperbole6529 Please define your concept of life, and when it begins.
@@hyperbole6529 Embryos don't really deserve rights, they're just a few cells with no brain. If you care about the death of embryos you shouldn't be washing your hands, bacteria are about as sophisticated as an under-developed embryo and you kill billions of them when you wash your hands.
@@TheJMPD My concept of life? Lol The fertilized egg stays in the fallopian tube for about 3 to 4 days. But within 24 hours of being fertilized, it starts dividing fast into many cells. It keeps dividing as it moves slowly through the fallopian tube to the uterus. Its next job is to attach to the lining of uterus. This is called implantation. At that point i would say its life but even then you can say from fertiliser the egg.
@@hyperbole6529 Why does the fertilised egg deserve the right to life but sperm and unfertilised eggs don't?
In Italy and Poland they have similar laws. And pregnant women, who wanted actually the kids, but got complications during the pregnancy, were not helped. Actually died, because of the fetus died inside and this can kill the mother.
So this is dangerous even for women who were not planning any abortion
Abortion in Italy became legal in May 1978, when Italian women were allowed to terminate a pregnancy on request during the first 90 days.
@@theresacoe ok, I got it wrong, women do have the right, but very often they don't find a doctor who would help her.
@@theresacoe m.ruclips.net/video/QkzcRlh5BPk/видео.html
@@kackerlakensalat
Catholic hospitals do not allow doctors to commit terminations.
Abortion is considered a sin.
Yeah, Poland is a disgrace.
Every woman deserves the choice of an abortion. Her body, her rules. Why is that so hard for people to accept? What do these men (and let's face it a lot of women too) get out of women not aborting? I'm genuinely curious
A feeling of Moral superiority.
Basically for the "pro-life" crowd, abortion = murder.
Notably, this is not a point I agree with.
I think the argument would be is they save the lives of every life aborted?
@@simonteesdale9752 that’s true. People need to learn the limits.
It is absurd how these people sit on their high horses, believing they're in the right as in their eyes they've prevented a murder. But fail to see it from the perspective of the woman now forced to have and raise this child. If the baby was the result of an assault, she could end up hating the child and that is no environment to be raised in. Or what if in the worse case scenario the pregnancy causes health problems and causes the woman and unborn baby to both die.
Which is a tragedy I have personally experienced, my own mother died a week before she was due to give birth to my half-brother. The pregnancy was too much strain on her body and she had a fatal heart attack and they both died and I was left an orphan.
I feel like these pro-lifers as well don't realise that their actions are only going to result in more deaths, from woman going to shady places to have abortions and dying from the procedure. It'll also increase the rates of newborns being abandoned as the mothers didn't want them but were forced to carry them.
What is so hard about birth control?
After your abortion you may want to plan to use contraception or what... more abortions?
DumbAF
As someone watching from the UK with many friends in the US, I honestly just want to cry for what America is becoming, thanks to the lunatics in Congress who have WAY too much power now. It is literally morphing into Gilead.
I’m from U.K. too. Unbelievable!!!
holding women accountable for their actions isn't some fascist move.
take the pill, use condoms, you stan murdering children, then you should have your womb removed.
The UK limits abortions to 24 weeks. That is still viewed as problematic and restrictive for American Progressives. They want Abortions allowed right up until a woman is dilating.
Soon the Us will be come the united state of Alabama
You're from the UK, and you're crying because the USA is bring its abortions laws to being more similar to the UK and Europe abortion laws?
This really just highlights how you Have done absolutely no research and are literally getting news froma comedian.
Does it come under "irony" when comedians speak more truth and honesty than politicians do? When it comes to abortion the conversation should be between the woman and her doctor. No one else.
Kings' fools? It has been a long tradition that the truth comes from the jokers.
nah mate. i don't stan child murder. so i'm glad those children have real men stanning their right to life.
you stan child murder, then you're a disgrace
Yes they should.
The male partner who is the sole reason she is pregnant and the law who stops women murdering babies.
Thank you SO much, Russell! We’re back to being chattels and other Mens property. We’re blessed to have someone like you in our defence.
@@30m3 Big incel energy detected. Know your place bigot.
Stop with the histrionics, Karen.
What about rights of the child? That's the whole argument.
@@jimwest7107 The foetus isn’t a child. They’re an insentient blob of cells, and as Russel says, not any more human than the sperm which men do casually kill in the millions.
Pretty much every European country and most other developed country globally has figured this out using science and reasoning, yet a small clique of male Christian republicans are forcing their religious views millions of women with no regard for their rights.
@@jimwest7107 it's not a child. A fantasy book written by a bronze age goat herder is not something a reasonable person bases their decisions on.
If you want to be a moron who never grew up and believes in supernatural bullshit, go for it. I don't give two shits about your infantile needs. But don't start pushing that crap on thinking people.
P.S. the Bible has instructions on how to perform an abortion. So you should actually read the book you are claiming says it's bad.
I’m grieving the loss of woman’s rights in America, (I’m not American) it’s heartbreaking to hear plus it’s scary to think of countries going backwards like this because you worry that it might tend in your own country.
Well said Russell. I am an American and I am ashamed at what my country is becoming.
Are you ashamed that children are now going to be protected from homicide at the hands of their own parents?
For a country who hates communism and dictatorship so much they sure do have laws that remind me of Romania back in spring of 1976
When people say, "I wanna go back to when i was little" this isn't want people meant. With multiple countries removing women's rights despite people fighting for decades to get them is disgusting and makes those sacrifices pointless.
women's rights are not being removed, the right to life is being given to all humans equally. Giving rights to minorities does not take away your rights.
@@neonwired4978 Wrong. People already born are not given the right to life. If they were, there'd be better gun laws, and the Republicans would support the live-saving help that would ensure that mothers and infants don't starve or die of disease. They're ensuring the right to be born. After that, they don't give a single crap about you. If they actually cared about life, they would have been enraged when a gunman mowed down f***ing KINDERGARTENERS. Instead, they bowed to their NRA masters and refused to do anything to prevent any more children from being shot to death in their schools.
Literally no right is being taken.
You don't have a right to abortion.
Living beings do have a right to life though. Which is precisely why you can't go around get rampant abortions.
Because you are a baby murderer if you do that.
@@neonwired4978 a fetus literally isn’t a conscious living being
A fetus isn't a "minority", either, lmao.
And yes, giving a clump of cells more right's than a full human being does take their rights away. The cellclmp is literally using another persons organs and blood system, and it doesn't have an inherit right to those. You and I don't have a right to other people's body's, either.
Absolutely bloody foul sodding mysoginistic bill.
Also, in other news, as a Scottish person I agree with you. I got married in a kilt over 30 years ago. It was blowing a gale. Fred Flintstone boxer shorts since you ask.
😂 noice!
Are you sure you're Scottish? Lol
@@Hiforest anyone that says bloody sodding or along those lines is probably British! Including me :P
@@ConfusedOxygen he said he's Scottish, I was joking (as he'll know, it's more common to go commando - however, I think anyone wearing boxers with a kilt in a gale on their wedding day is excused).
Defiantly not a true scot
Thank You Russell! Love everything you do! I have watched stuff from you, that is 5-6 years old, and it's still relevant today! Some even seem like they were made yesterday!:)
It's absolutely shameful. Didn't think they could sink lower than leaving their elderly exposed to a deadly virus for two years.
What are u talking about and the virus has a 99% survival rate
Same people who said old people should sacrifice their lives for the economy. Right to life, right? Also cried "my body, my choice" in response to mask mandates. Scum. Of. The. Earth.
@@luna-p yeah, it's unbelievable.
It’s crazy how a shotgun has more rights than a living, breathing woman. People are delusional.
Russell, your Mom and Dad must be so very proud of the man you are. Bravo!
I really respect Russell for such precision in these jokes about pro-lifers and abortion, which make us laugh whilst highlighting serious cultural issues. That material must have taken so long to write.
Maybe more effort is needed to understand pro-lifer concerns?
Not really probably just comes naturally to those who have common since and have a hell of a since of humor lmao 😜😂😂
It’s funny how you so called pro choice people refuse to be called pro abortion or worse still, pro death, despite that being exactly what you are.
pro-lifers ? what about the life of that innocent child you are aborting ? isn't that a life ? May be you measure the importance of life by inches & feet 🤔
@@jimwest7107 it's a politically motivated issue that tgey ran with 50yewrs ago and lost. There's nothing more to understand. This is what it looks like when politicians force extreme views on the public for votes.
Sooo... You can change a constitutional right if it involves women's bodies, but not when it involves guns. Gotcha.
Gun rights are in the constitution... Women's reproductive rights are not. That is regulated by the Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision. That is why we are in this mess now. The court is striking down Roe v Wade. To be clear, the gun laws CAN be changed as they are part of the Second Amendment... An amendment can always be amended or repealed, as with the amendment on alcohol prohibition... Hence why they are called Amendments. 😉
@@sophiedash4026 that was broadly the point
Precisely. Republicans claim to care about "babies"(in other words, a collection of cells in a woman's womb), but have no concern for children being murdered in school shootings at an ever increasing rate. They believe that protecting guns is MUCH more important than protecting a child's life once they've been born.
@@MrBawdry I was making an important distinction. Reproductive rights are NOT constitutional rights. But they could be. In the meantime, it is up to the Supreme Court.
@@sophiedash4026 could be argued under the 14th amendment but I don't know enough to be certain.
Interestingly the 21st amendment is a repeal of the 18th (prohibition) so all those who argue there is no possibility of the 2nd ever being changed are wrong.
As I say I'm a Brit who doesn't know enough to offer much of an opinion, but it is is interesting.
There's too many people that really don't understand how dangerous pregnancies can be for women. A small percentage end up with severe sickness and on IV drips like a close friend of mine, who lost about 2-3 stone from constant sickness and was in hospital for 2 months. Pregnancy aside, giving birth isn't always straightforward and can cause serious issues. The last point is simple, who are you to tell anyone else what they can or can't do with their body?
If a woman knows she is pregnant, but waits 7 months before demanding an elective abortion, I'm thinking "no way"
Woman's rights should go hand in hand with woman's responsibilities.
Getting an elective abortion in a timely manner being one of them.
@@JohnSmith-kf8mv as the final sentence of my original post reads: who are you to tell anyone else what they can or can't do with their own body? The USA is going backwards to the dark ages with this, probably to appease the various Christian groups in the country... a decision to appease people who been in fairytales and fables
Issues like that would be taken care of by nature if we didn't get involved.
@@keithgrainger8797 thankfully mankind has developed medical science to ensure my friend survived.
@@kentendo6453 yes ... ultimately that will be the demise of man kind and the planet if we are not careful. Remove emotions and personal experiences . It's quite simple to see the problem. Unfortunately it's not that easy . I'm glad your friend is ok. I wish you, her and the baby all the best.
What the ever loving heck, America! That's terrifying. That utter horror better not creep its self over to Canada...
Ugh I feel sorry for you being so close to those nutjobs.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 thank you T_T
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 I promise you more people wanna come to america than a backwad lake called uk or canada.
The second amendment was written when it took a good marksman 3 to 8 minutes to reload, tamp and prep the gun to shoot a second shot. Not when AK47s were sold without background check. It was also intended for organized militias, and not the average person. As to Abortion, when midwives were doing them and delivering babies, with a much lower rate of post partum infections and deaths, nobody was concerned.
And the muskets, blunderbusses and wheellock pistols that existed then were extremely inaccurate.
@@WedgePee Thanks, no gun expert here. Actually an expert on little or nothing...
The other thing that strikes me... They say the 2nd amendment can't be changed? Listen to yourselves, whoever you are who say this: the 2nd **amendment**. The law has been changed before, so it can be changed again. To paraphrase Russell: "Get the Tipex out, and start saving lives!"
You can't get an ak47 without a background check.
You can't buy a firearm without a background check.
You can't buy an ak47, without additional paperwork due to the hugh ammendments.
Please, shut the fuck up.
You clearly do know what you're talking about.
@@thomasfolio7931 the "current issue" is what is know as 80% builds.
These are unfinished firearms, that are to be finished at home. These circumvent the background check because you don't need a background to buy pieces of metal. Which is what a disassembled gun is.
Legal access to safe abortion literally saved my life. Trying to have a child nearly killed me. I will never stop defending my own life first and foremost.
How people judge without knowing our situations is truly unChristian, disgusting and shameful. The trauma that I've already dealt with from almost dying is enough, let alone the judgment of ignorant people who want to throw stones and demonize a very private situation involving my body parts and MY waking consciousness, trying to make me less than a dog to value what still could die even if I were to miraculously survive throwing up every 2 minutes and losing 20lbs a week with trips to the ER every day for dehydration and several IV bags, begging for my life.
Why is my right to life less than my child's because of some other persons emotional beliefs? The fact is, if I died, they would have died too. Is that a better option? Do you judgers feel good about making a person feel terrible for choosing to life through extreme trauma?
I will pray this disgusting insane judgement ends and all people with uteruses who are alive and breathing can make decisions for their own right to life BEFORE someone else who is not suffering what they are, and their life be truly valued for the individual they are and not just an oven for a potential life that some people's beliefs make them prioritize with sentimental emotional choices over facts.
If a heartbeat means something, then mine counts. Who is to say anyone else's life gets to be valued over and destroy my chance of already being alive here.
If that is true then we'd be the same as China, harvesting organs from those we disagree with. Child abusing republican like my abuser? Go to the education camp where your heart is less valued than mine so I can have it transplanted when I need it because my life is more important than yours and my life depends on your heart. Now sterilize your family for hearing your beliefs, they might pass it on. See how far this goes?
Only creates more trauma, abuse, suffering and death to force women to be used as birth slaves. Completely wrong and the opposite of what forced birth anti choice pro woman deathers want. Oh wait or is it, they want women to be left single burdened with children that they harm from being unwanted, Foster homes full to the brim, juvenile delinquency and absent fathers, suffering and dying mothers and children. That's where this unconstitutional ban and immoral whacky emotional hive mind is heading deeper into.
And I'm pretty fin sure none of you pro lifers gave a hoot about actual children who suffered like me. Just blame me and call me names for "acting up" while my father beat my mother in front of me.
I don't think any anti choice judgers could man up and do the right thing, take responsibility and be a real parent, apologize for the damage you cause everyone including to your own children, stop throwing stones at people first, pointing fingers, and see how you're not helping this situation at all. Least of all with the compassion and understanding Jesus expects of you.
I'm not perfect so I'm going to admit it's hard to not be angry at people attacking me and all the others (at least 10% of pregnant people) for choosing not to die over the 2% chance that my child might live if I took birth defecting life damaging, possibly carcinogenic drugs to prevent my own death and theirs.
Yay we both live a few months longer to suffer and die together because the drug stopped working and now it's 8 weeks so it's too late to save my life! Pro life saved a life by killing two! /Sarcasm
Damn mans written a while essay
@@Walt305 thanks it's an autism "super power". Couldn't write less if I tried. Also can't tell if joking or not 😂
You are just as deserving of rights as any person, and your experiences are not to be dismissed nor your sacred being denigrated! You are not alone, not alone in being abused, in coping with abandonment, in being diminished by the hurtful treatment of ignorant “authorities”; not alone in experiencing harm and suffering. Not alone in being a complex and impressive survivor! 💛 I will fight for my autonomy also.
An abortion saved my life too. RESPECT ❤️
I wish I was a woman sometimes, but not in these days.
The states aren't outlawing medical abortions, this idea was caused by a misreading of legal documents. And medical science has more or less proved a foetus is a private individual, and legally speaking the states are trying to find a balance between two individual rights. That's why and how RvW was struck down, its own arguments were used against it.
Liked, commented and subscribed my friend. Thank you for speaking out against this radical bigotry, misogyny and oppression.
How some call it the greatest country in the world is absolutely boggling.
It's an embarrassment.
In education, in health care, in safety in almost every important aspect of a country.
It's the blight on the planet.
Thousands are applying to join the greatest country in the world, every single day.
Imagine that.
As a Canadian... I understand completely.
We love our friends and family down south.
We all sleep better because of the USA.
You can happily say that after watching the video?
If so, you should be ashamed of yourself.
@@ellecampbell3271 America has a great Public Relations team. I hear so many people come here then are shocked when they need healthcare. Even a few stories of immigrants who passed the US Citizenship tests and became citizens, only to up and move back to EU and Mexico...you heard that, Mexico... because of healthcare cost. Can't recall specifics but one got diabetes and just couldn't afford to live in the US anymore because over $1,000 a month for insulin.
Now imagine the over $10,000 cost of a hospital bill for having a baby you never wanted... google cost to give birth at a hosptial in the US then tell me "it's the greatest."
@@myTERAexperience
Nurses and doctors don’t work for free.
People are free to change their minds and their location. 2022.
@@ellecampbell3271 explain how free healthcare works in other places then....
I am a Texan and I live in this backward state and I am appalled. If I wasn’t at the back end of my life I would so be out of here. Pease don’t judge all of us. So sorry to the generations to come.
It appears that old women, men of all ages and some overly religious people are allowed to have more say in this debate than those on the frontline, metaphorically speaking. The one sector that should have most say are women aged 12 to 45 or so, women at risk of becoming pregnant. All other sectors should have less say in the final decision in this highly divisive matter.
Now they can be born
Nobody blames you. Hell I feel the same way Living in America these days. Mortified embarrassed and disgusted
I feel you. I live in a very conservative, right wing Canadian province (led by someone who got their start in politics blocking same sex partners from being at their dying loved ones’ sides as they were succumbing to AIDS, which he gleefully bragged about.).
Not every Texan is represented by their representatives.
@@joshualeonpearl3724 who? the babies that aren't wanted, the same babies that are born into poverty because the same states that won't allow abortion don't believe in helping the mother/father financially or have healthcare or a non traumatising childhood, yes they will be born and no one to help them, yeah that's fucking great.
Thank you so much Russell 💚
Speaking of returning to medieval times; I saw a woman holding a sign at a rally, that read " He who hath not a uterus should shuteth the fuck up"😀
Sad times. We'll get through it. Russell helps ❤🌈☀
Thanx Russell for bringing laughter during these horrific changes coming about in the U.S. I'm grateful, at least for now, that I live in California. Many other states are going back to the stone age 😡
Is it horrific for a mother to pay a doctor to intentionally kill her own child?
@@wordforever117 its not a child its a clump of cells that COULD become a child, but a womans life is more important than a non-living thing
@@wingedferret5713 What do you mean it's a "just a clump of cells"? That is just what people say in order to excuse their actions isn't it? Well, in reality we all know that it is obviously not "just a clump of cells" and we also know that it is *LIVING* - these are basic biological facts.
However to add something extra....it is a child. I use the word child in the relational sense, not age sense. I don't mean " a human from birth to age 18". I mean "the offspring human parents"
You may still say that a human child's life is less important than an adult human's life - this is philosophical and you are entitled to your opinion. However one person being less important than another person does not give the important person the right to kill the less important person.
That is obvious. You know all this is true.
@@wordforever117 wanna know another biological fact?
@@wingedferret5713 Nah I want you to answer the question.
Thanks for talking about this. It does affect the entire world.
Just wait til “they” see what this does to the (horribly overtaxed) foster care system in the US.
They don't care. The GOP tries to strip money out of WIC programs regularly.
So appreciate you covering this Russell, can’t quite believe we’re going backwards on abortion & that it’s men running it😥😡 Coming from Ireland & growing up in the 1970’s, I was so relieved to come to UK, free contraception & abortion if you needed it. Take it from me, getting an abortion for almost all women, is not an easy or “great” choice, it’s something thought about deeply & needing to do it for many reasons.
I didn't know Ireland had issues with abortion rights. I thought they were a rather liberal nation?
that's a sexist strawman, a bigger majority of women are anti-abortion than men
@@DanielAnderson-ce8in Liberal now. Back in the 1970s the Catholic Church had a lot of influence…
Not all women have to think deeply, don't forget about those who have sex willy nilly
@@HonestMan112 Read the room man.
The USA, proudly marching back to the 18th century.
It was 1973 that Roe vs Wade was decided. That was the 20th century.
@@wordforever117 I think they mean when women had few rights
@@mental-pineapple4283 Ok so that is not what they are doing. Women have equal rights to men under the law currently. Roe vs Wade being overturned has no impact on that.
Thank you so much for making me laugh for the first time in weeks! 💝
Thank you, Russ. The leaked SCOTUS opinion this week has us terrified.
American woman here. Thanks for caring about us over here, it is actually a comforting feeling, 💛 Russell Howard! You make me laugh lots. :) Apoplectic as many of us are now it’s harder to find mirth.. 🥺
We have a higher likelihood of dying from pregnancy here as you may know, especially women of color and any who are socioeconomically disadvantaged (of whom there are tragically a massive number). All of our lives are threatened by the myriad harmful outcomes. Anyone who becomes a parent is then legally responsible to provide financial support, and care, and any people who are not in a position to afford this will be more at risk of being prosecuted and jailed. Here in America, the profiteers running our prison industrial system have no problem with jailing mothers for even very minor infractions and without competent legal representation; they are at the mercy of the backwards and often racist courts. Though it’s not discussed very much, men aren’t excepted in loss of choice and agency : paternal obligations & bills that are owed are also subject to our oppressive laws, pay-to-win courts, racist sentencing and excessive prison terms.
And our prisons are inhumane facilities in which no human being should be forced to subsist.
So, the heartbeats these draconian fascists “care” about are not those of anyone who has been born.
We are trapped in a usurious cycle of cruelty here. It is slavery being reinstated, and it’s a sickness we’ve never truly been cured of; this new assault on our people is truly a hate crime against the masses. The terror and exponential harm this is inflicting cannot be overstated.
We are not living in a free country. Never been free for all people and now it is Equally Unjust for All.
The wealthy and demented rulers have the upper hand as of today.
I am, we are, in desolation.
But we want to take our collective power back so... here’s hoping we can truly overcome. !!! 🤝
Appreciate any and all support from our progressive friends abroad.
💙
your humour continues to be both funny, and yet also remains a powerful rebuttal/antidote to the stupidity that has been part of the ethos of the country to the south of me for more than five years! I enjoy your capacity to pick out those moments that reveal the ridiculousness of folk "in power". So long as we are still able to laugh, there is hope for improvement, even though it might remain an election or two away, given the curiously complicated structure of elections in the USofA. There are days when I think the "A" stands for a part of the human anatomy, rather than a proud, strong and free nation.
If you weren't from the UK I would vote for you. You make more sense and know more about our laws than probably most of the politicians in our country.
Russell Howard is pure genius. You get the topics perfectly.
Wish we had a Russell in Canada. 🇨🇦
The guy that made that law should have been aborted. Bet he wouldn’t have done that if his wife got pregnant through rape. With insanely stupid laws like that, I don’t now how you can call yourself the land of the free when clearly that’s not the case.
you think his kids were HER decision? Not on her life.
What guy? What law?
What are you talking about 😂
The decision was made by group of people who are both men and women.
Jane roe, is a woman.
And the current issue isn't that a law is being made, quite the opposite a law is being lifted.
Nobody is taking any abortion away from anywhere. 😂
This whole issue is that states get to decide their own laws on abortion.
Like they do on basically every other law.
You people are so wildly under-edcuated and so reactionary. Its simply astounding.
I dont think America realises how poorly they are regarded by people in the Western World. Its bordering on contemptuous. Al Murray asked his audience to describe nationalities in two words - America was described as fat and stupid. No smoke without fire and they do have the highest levels of obesity in the World. Now look at what Texans are doing! Seems like, "I rest my case your Honour."
I’ve seen it even on Instagram people referring to pregnant women as a host. It’s sick.
Disgusting.
...which makes a foetus a parasite (as a biological relationship with a host)?
Also to be called a "host" the occupying entity is also a different species...
none of these men realise that, by their own definitions they would no longer be men, but simply "gamete donating nozzles" or something of the like. Which makes them even less important. didn't think ahead, did they -.-
The same country the raised the smoking and vaping age to 21, also has some states with laws that come out of a children’s book, or a cartoon.
But “forgot” to put a minimum age in their marriage legislation, and possibly will “forget” to exclude siblings as well just to appease their base.
Also freak out at the mention of sex between consenting adults but have no problem with overt violence and carrying a gun around the COSTCO.
@@useyournoodle100 And is also home to the most ‘Woke’ of people who have fits over whatever, like putting race or gender on things that shouldn’t be, like colours, shoes, hats, and (Not making this up btw) the entire English dictionary as a whole.
as a possible father to an unborn "child", I would like an imput to the possible future, but at the end of the day, its an opinion, not my body, not my bloody say! Always religious people, always men forcing their views of this on women who go through it! Disgusting.
Women support this too...so it's not just men.
I appreciate this video!!
Let's just agree that this is an issue that no man should be allowed to vote on.
No, let’s not.
Ignorant and bigoted anti-abortion arseholes should have their opinion changed through education and persuasion. Democracy is precious and throwing it out with the bathwater would be really, really dumb.
without men, child murder would continue to be stanned into next decade.
As a man, no thanks.
No, absolutely not.
You can't get pregnant without my semen.
I'm as inherently involved and have as much right as the women.
Women have no right to decide on another beings body, the baby.
You cannot sit here and demand women get the right to decide what happens to somebody else's body *and* claim they're immune from other people deciding what happened to their body.
That its peak hypocrisy.
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men do not get unlimited, irrational control of women's bodies. We are not fields for you to plough. We are not resources for promoting your dna. We are not heifers or incubators or any other vehicle for for your ego projections. You don't want a "child" of yours aborted? Be more careful who you poke and get and agreement in writing before you bump uglies. And if you've pleasured yourself how many "children" have you wiped out? Btw the bible does not consider an unborn child a life. It is part of a woman's body - like a limb. Read deuteronomy in the original hebrew. Your Christian translators took it out.
conservatives: what if sharia law comes to Wisconsin?? The president is a secret Muslim trying to bring their religious rule here! Wouldn't that kind of oppression be awful?!
Also conservatives: Everyone should have to live by our religion or else!!
I thought 'the Handmaid's tale' was fiction.
But it turns out it may just be a documetary from a near future.
Is it morally wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings?
@@wordforever117 Depends how you look at it. There are way too many people on this rock already. So the right move would probably be, to stop making so many as we do.
@@maxmoller Ah so you agree with China's one-child policy? It is two-child policy now. But sounds like your kind of thing! One question though....how do we stop making new humans by crushing the skulls and ripping off the limbs of humans that have already been made?
@@maxmoller The idea that the planet is overpopulated is a long standing myth. It is easy for us to share our opinions but probably more useful for us to check the facts.... I will send a doc below but it might get deleted. It is from the UN Population Division and it states that population is slowing down and pretty much max out by 2030 and begin to fall in most parts of the world.
@@maxmoller Page 15 is where the data is presented: www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/wpp2022_summary_of_results.pdf
Here's some info for non-us people.
In the U.S., the average cost of a vaginal birth is $13,024, including standard predelivery and postdelivery expenses such as facility fees and doctor fees. A cesarean section (C-section) is much more expensive, costing an average of $22,646 including standard predelivery and postdelivery expenses. As of Feb 28, 2022.
Now imagine having to have a kid you didnt want because of these laws. Now what if you are living pay check to pay check. That's over a $10,000 dollar bill. What could you do?
I think these laws will cause a lot of people to self harm. 😔
Imagine having to pay that to have a rapist's child 😱
@@MKR5210 yep. It's insane how rapists get to "pick the mother of their child."
@@myTERAexperience That is an excellent point. Do you mind if I quote you? I will give you the credit, of course.
@@GoodJuju.8D Quote away and i don't need credit. I'm not prideful.
Nice one bruvva! Spot on. It's awesome that you do great funny comedy and tackle other social and political issues too.
The fact that the "host body" has to "have a certain amount of rights" has nothing to do with the "host body" herself, it's entirely due to the life that she is "hosting".
"America has real problems with guns, drugs, crime, and a thousand other thins, but let's distract people be dehumanising and degrading women - even more than we have already"
I thought slavery had been abolished in the USA. As long as women are not free to make informed decisions about their own bodies, they are not free. They are owned by whoever feels that they have the right to make decisions for their property.
He'll yeah Russell. Tell it like it is!! The voice of reason.
1 of 2 British comedians that are generally funny Russell Howard and Peter Kay it comes naturally. . . But when it comes to your political views you absolutely nail it spot on ..
I live in MD which is a very blue state thank god and even though our Governor is republican he would never 👎 approve of this insanity. These ppl think they have Trump power
So..they appear to be forcing women to carry full term, then bill them 10 or more thousand dollars for medical and hospital fees??? Really?
As far as the school shorts rule goes, it's always easier to make the victim change something rather than the perpetrator. Take bullying in schools, most often any action taken to try to stop the bullying focuses on the victims. For example, the victim is most often the one who has to change school start/finish times, stay inside at breaks or even change school.
Castrate perps. Problem solved. 🤷♀️ it can't be that difficult can it?
Rather, it's pretty much impossible to make perpetrators change their ways without catching them. Personally, I don't think it should be a rule, but simply everyone should just choose what they want to wear. while attempting to look up skirts is not acceptable and must be prevented where possible, it is ultimately a risk those who wear skirts choose to take (unless it's a school uniform, which is a silly and outdated concept anyway)
I think uniforms are ok, but when it gets to your hair must be no longer than x cm, no shorter than y cm it’s a little much
Yeah there was a kid in my school who was forced to move classes when he was bullied, they knew exactly who the bully was, they moved the kid away from his friends and the bully wasn't punished
The more we talk about it, the more they have to listen to the American people. It's OUR RIGHT FOR FREEDOM Of CHOICE!!!!!
Choose to use birth control.
Be smarter.
@@ellecampbell3271 nexplanon. It works just fine. I'm not fighting for just me. Also good luck with that argument when they ban that too, they're working on it.
@@ellecampbell3271 choose not to be raped? What an ignorant argument
@@ellecampbell3271 Yeah, it's not like birth control ever fails. And it's free so no one ever has problems affording it. No woman ever gets pregnant from a rape. Incest never happens. No one ever tampers with their partner's birth control to baby trap them. No underage person is ever coerced to have sex before they've gone to a doctor and started a proper birth control regimen. No partner ever turns abusive once pregnancy occurs. No one lives in an area where a pharmacist can refuse to fill birth control scripts because it's against their beliefs. Yep, we live in a nice, safe world where nothing bad ever happens.
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Rape is the exception to the typical consumer of termination services.
Not a secret.
Less than 1% are a result of SA or crime.
Convenience is typically the reason for termination of babies in the mother’s womb.
Ah life’s very easy for comedians just now - but Russell, you’re so deeply appreciated nonetheless ☺️👍🏻😆💕
As usual-right on point! You’re awesome 👏🏻
..at first i watched you because of your humor but now i watch and listen because of your intelligence...
Thank you for your outspoken insight🎉 👏
I'm glad I'm Canadian 🇨🇦 I'm also glad I get to listen to Russell Howard!
Russell Howard for prime minister!!! He’ll change the country in days!
Prime minister would only change the country. It's the world that needs changing.
When humour stops being funny and takes a line that the rest of the media seem to want to down play “ in the interests of balance “ etc. this is the end of the enlightenment as we go backwards in outlook and become slaves. Got to keep fighting this shit and calling it out all the time. Nice one Russell
russell is literally a shill mate.
he's on the same side as the establishment numbnuts
Russell you are not just incredibly funny but a great political commenator. Luvyaloads
Thanks Russell, please keep talking about these situations- it helps enormously.
Thank you, Russell. This is brilliant and prescient and tragic (with humor, of course). The US has such potential, but sadly continues to be dragged back into the past by the white conservative minority. Of course, when we look at our history - the repression of native peoples and the enslavement/repression of African Americans - it's easy to see why conservatives want to ban books that actually educate and illustrate our racist history. Maybe, just maybe the current supreme court's ignorance and arrogance will be the kick in the ass and the slap in the face that we need to stop being so complacent and to stop the destruction of our precious democracy.
Sadly, it's not even ignorance. This is 100% their intention to cause as much harm as possible. They know they're rich rough to be able to get contraceptives and abortions regardless of what the law states. Suffering for everyone else is, yet again, the end goal.
Russell has better views than the supreme court.
I guess rusty coat hangers and stairs come into fashion again after all.
Utterly disgusting.
This is the thing about these kind of laws. The same with drugs. It will always happen. The government can only regulate how, not whether it happens.
Depends how much they interfere with postal and courier services.
@@MsPeabody1231 No government can ban falling down concrete steps.
@@MsPeabody1231 There will always be private couriers. The state can get taxes or not. That is what they can decide on.
now this is how you educate people , WITH HUMOUR
your a good bloke! Honest! funny! and out there, keep on going!
You are so on the point. Brilliant!
I'm waiting for Russell to tell jokes about a US Supreme Court justice citing, very specifically, a British judge from centuries ago who spent his time burning innocent old women for not having husbands ... err, I mean, being witches.
Which case?
@@retched The recently leaked opinion overturning Roe vs Wade and thus allowing abortion to be completely banned.
"If only America had a morning-after pill for the election"...If only the U.K. had a morning-after pill for Brexit...🤭
Hell, yeah! I miss being in Europe 😢
@@asseyez-vous6492 We’ll always be in Europe, just unfortunately not in the EU (for now). Young people still support the EU, so in a decade or so we might be able to rejoin.
@@ninja-gaming8988 I don't think so. Britain proved to be an unreliable partnership. I can't see why the EU would want them back. While they were in, Britain made it all about Britain. And they haven't stopped since they left.
Sad for the decent people in the UK. You can thank your conservative inbreds for burning those bridges.
Most people voted to leave, get over it please.
@@jayc342009 Yeah, 52% of the 80% who bothered to vote, and many voted the way they did because of the lies Boris and his gang told
Totally agree with you on this!! Grateful I'm Canadian everyday.
How can you be pro-life and pro-gun at the same time?
A *gun* with a bullet in it, can take a *life*
🤔🤔🤔
murdering a child isn't the same as taking your life because you tried to take mine.
plubb.
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo You need to read some legal terms god boy.
@@sandersson2813 on what precisely.
He's totally correct by legal standards. Lethal self-defence is completely legal. Your abortions aren't so legal any more. Baby killer
@@NoNoNoNopeNopeNopeNo Two weeks later here. 19 elementary school kids (and 2 teachers) have been slaughtered in Texas by a teenager with an AR-15. What were you saying about murdering children? Whose life were those kids trying to take? They weren't killed by abortions, they were killed by bullets.
Some of these US senators saw The Handmaid's Tale and thought: 'Yes this is exactly what we're going for!'
As a woman if I lived the united states I would be getting a hysterectomy right now, before they make that illegal or before they start forcing women to become handmaids.
Problem is that you wouldn't be able to. I'm a trans guy who never plans to carry, and would probably kill myself if I was forced. I've been dealing with debilitating cramping for years (bad enough that my legs up and give out-collapsing is not fun), and terrifying amounts of bleeding (filling, overflowing, then leaking through a large menstrual cup in less than 3 hours, or completely soaking through a super tampon in less than one hour). The bleeding has stopped, but the cramping has gotten a lot more frequent since I've started testosterone.
For years and years I've been telling Drs that I am in excruciating pain, and the response has always ranged from "you're young, it's normal" to "well, you aren't over 30, you don't have kids, and you don't have a husband to consent, so the best we can do is prescribe extra strength ibuprofen".
So my quality of life, my ability to sleep, work, even something as simple as walking/standing is completely being shat on because of this pain, and it has been for a decade, but because I am afab, they will not help.
It took a decade to finally convince a Dr to send me in for an ultrasound to see if there was anything to see, and even then I haven't been able to get ahold of anyone to go over my results with me (this was probably 6 months ago, so I've just kind of given up on calling them after so many times of the lines being too busy or just having no one answer, and am waiting for a scheduled visit with my gp that has already been pushed back twice because of scheduling errors on their part to ask her).
So, no, even the "options" that could be potential solutions aren't really ever available.
Anyone who claims the US has a good healthcare system is lying because they've been indoctrinated, or they've never experienced the bullshit because they are a middle to upperclass, cis/het, white, able bodied, man (and you can guess which category the majority of our lawmakers tend to fall under).
Elective hysterectomies aren’t really a thing in the US unless you are over 40, have 2+ kids, and are married to a man who will give his “approval”
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Beyond elective, to be frank. You can be dealing with problems and pain that literally keep you from functioning in day to day life, and Drs won't do more than prescribe pain relief medications that don't work.
Seriously? You can't have a hysterectomy without the consent of a husband? What if you're not married? Here in the UK, you can have one any age on the NHS (free at popint of use) without anyone else saying it's ok provided it's for medical reasons. If it isn't, you'd have to pay for it privately. I have seceral friends who had early hysterectomies, one was only 15 years old, because of endometriosis. If all other treatment has failed then it's offered. When my Mum had endometriosis, that was the first & only choice, but that was 50 years ago. Now there are lots of treatments that might help (not cure, there is NO cure), & hysterectomies are usually the last choice made, simpkly because they're final. But you can have one, you don't have to argue or plead. Youir medical care trumps anything anyone else says. I have another friend, a transman, who had one at 19 years of age as part of her gender reassignment surgery. If you're married, even if your husband doesn't want you to have it, the doctor will not listen to him but only to you. In many places, the husband is not allowed into medical consultations, unless you specifically request he be there. It's been like that with my GP for about 18 years.
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Just as a warning, this gets particularly ranty. I am incredibly angry while writing this, but it is entirely directed at the US healthcare.
It's not written in the law (yet), but it is a very common practice. I have been dealing with pain severe enough to make me collapse, pain worse than a broken bone, pain that hasn't been limited by prescription pain meds, on a monthly (and more recently daily) basis for a decade.
To spell out exactly what I have been dealing with:
For hours to days at a time, multiple days a week, every week, for the last year and a half I have been dealing with excruciating pain that prevents me from sleeping and walking. Before that it was closer to a straight week of the pain every month. It is worse than a broken bone. It is worse than major surgery (the one I can compare it to is a double incision mastectomy).
When I was still bleeding each month, I would completely soak through the largest overnight pads in less than 4 hours, I would fill, overflow, and create enough pressure to leak through a 25ml menstrual cup in 3 hours, through the largest tampon on in less than one hour. While still dealing with the same excruciating pain.
I have talked to at least 6 different doctors about it. I've been prescribed numerous medications to help (none of which have actually been effective). After a full decade of complaints, I finally managed to convince my newest doctor to send me in for an ultrasound to see if they could find anything, and after 6 months I still can't get ahold of anyone to go over my results with me, and have resigned myself to waiting for my next scheduled wellness visit with my general doctor, an appointment that I can't get any sooner, and in fact have had pushed back twice now due to scheduling errors on their part.
I was told outright by the Dr that sent me in for the ultrasound that no one in our area would perform a hysterectomy on me because of my age, lack of spouse, and lack of children. The best she could do was prescribe stronger ibuprofen, and later muscle relaxers, neither of which help.
I have contacted places that do hysterectomies, and they aren't responding.
My insurance is not going to cover it if I do manage, especially because I'm almost certainly going to have to travel several states away to find someone to do anything.
I am tired, and in pain, and no one will help me.
I am transgender and never want to be pregnant. Ever. (And this also means I'm going to have an even more difficult time finding a doctor, because I have to travel an hour and a half away just for my hormones, because despite having endocrinologists near me, none of them treat trans folks, and you can imagine how they react to surgery).
I am just tired. And I'm not alone. There are other trans and cis folks out there trying to get the same help as me. And they aren't getting it either because the system is rigged against us.
I just want the pain to stop.
Omg I'm really shocked about girls being told to wear shorts underneath their school skirts,
When I was at school,we were banned from wearing cycling shorts underneath our skirts for health reasons- we actually laughed at this😂 but it can actually cause thrush 😮
Nothing should surprise any of us in 2022.......Society has changed so much in the last two years and very little of it for the better unfortunately 🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@johnmccann5104 I totally agree with you.but it is ridiculous
@@nikkibyrne4241 I agree Nikki......it's got to the point where (because of the duplicitous liars we have in government) nobody really knows what to believe......Every truth they speak is 80% lie unfortunately....... Definitely strange times at present and in the foreseeable future. We all need to say strong 💪👌🇬🇧
@@johnmccann5104 unfortunately that is what we all believe,our government are just a bunch of liars they always have been. Even myself who doesn't do politics in any way,Shape or form..but I can still notice a lie lol.
They want us to live in a better world,but it's them that are doing all the damage.
@@nikkibyrne4241 I never really followed politics until covid hit......Then through doing my own research and avoiding MSM I realised things weren't as they first appeared.... Follow the science one minute ,ignore it the next....ppe contracts given to friends, family and Tory donors with no experience and at extortionate prices....Then it was party gate and the list just goes on....Lie after lie,cover up after cover up....it is amazing so many of us are still sane.
Luckily we can all still have a laugh on RUclips with the likes of Russel Howard and Johnathon Pie (definitely worth a look if you haven't heard of him) he is hysterical 👌🤣x
How America dares to call itself the 'Land of the Free' after removing the abortion constitution is beyond me. It is absolutely disgusting that a country would strip away the right to choice for women.
Can someone explain how a fetuses has the right to live? When as a child they Don't have the right to vote or buy there own things. As a child your are told what to do by your mum and dad until 18 years old. Also I have read a lot of comments about people blaming those unprotected sex for having abortions. You mean the 5 year old girl raped by you dad? No? Oh you mean the woman who was on birthcontrol while there partner was fixed? No not them either? Huh do you mean the couple who have unprotected sex because they wanted a child only to then find that the female has a serious illness that would kill her and the baby if she continued to have the baby until its full term preventing her from having adopting a child who are abandoned by mothers who couldn't get abortions due to men deciding they know more about a fanny then those who have one. No? not those either, huh... wait do you mean those who have unprotected sex cause they want a baby and can carry them to full term? Yes! Oh phew, glad we got there but wait if they are having unprotected sex cause they want a baby why would they need an abortion? Because they decided they didn't want one anymore? But that is probably like 1% out of the 99% who are getting abortions. You don't agree? Could you explain your reasoning without using the fetuses as a valid point as it doesn't have an legs to stand on. No one likes it but it should be an option for those in need.
Abortion should be allowed always but at the VERY LEAST women should be allowed to have one in a case of rape like cmon
And medical emergencies
@@gremlininblue2601 Which medical emergencies require an abortion? If you are going to use this argument, you'd better be able to back it up.
It's just men with nothing better to do trying to police the bodies of other people. Why don't they just mind their own business?
What like has been happening with the vaccine for the past 2 years? Thought it is my body my choice
Because they care about defenseless babies
It's not just men supporting this, stop being such a man-hater.
@@joshualeonpearl3724 They don't care about "defenceless babies". If they cared, they'd work just as hard to protect life outside the womb, but they don't, so it's just a bunch of weirdos obsessing over the sex life of other people. We used to call people who did that perverts.