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And we must take over the US House and vote in at least 60 Democratic US Senators so we can pass Abortion rights, Voting rights, and put more JUSTICES on the SUPREME COURT!!
Ms. Sherman is absolutely correct, they will get around to coming for you eventually. Not gay or trans, no problem. Not Jewish, no problem. But we all have something about us, and they WILL get around to coming for you. PLEASE people, VOTE BLUE 🔵🔵🔵🔵
They've targeted a lot of minorities. As people feel threatened, they tend to retreat into their trusted groups and stay there. It's really hard to change that, but somehow we have to.
We need to restore voting rights on a national level. Since the gutting of the Voting Rights act in 2013 from the John Robert's Supreme Court,, American democracy has been on life support. Thank you Marc for all you do, America is lucky to have you in this fight.
@@imperialmotoring3789its not the DENIAL..... its the acts like taking voting machines from large black districts... Gerrymandering to stay in power... Passing laws to not give WATER TO VOTERS WHO HAS BEEN IN LINE FOR HOURS... i believe youre not dumb... It just doesnt affect you.
Im encouraging all women to practice abstinence by not dating or having sex with or getting married to Republicans or Christian's, libertarians, conservatives, proud boy's, oath keepers or any other right wing white surrpreamacist fascist Republicans and in the long term we can overcome their voter suppression laws and voter purges and gerrymandering districts and their illegitimate surpream court justices and their rulings by not letting Christian fascist Republicans procreate in large numbers diminishing their population and voting block and please help this post go viral
"Then pen is mightier than the sword." This is probably going to be long and horrible, but we need to keep organizing. It's true that we'll never convince some fraction of voters. That's not the problem. The problem is that we need to convince enough voters and get them to the polls.
I'm 67 ..and I support Abortion and women's rights. I am all over social media broadcasting and sharing my support!! Abortion is THE #1 issue for voters!! VOTE BLUE!! BIDEN-HARRIS 2024!!
Even though this issue no longer affects me physically, I believe the fights we have had through the generations to achieve the (limited) rights we have as women should not be reversed by a manic minority….or anyone else.
In Alabama we don’t have very many private voting booths. They make us vote at open lunchroom style tables. The number of men that come with their wives and sit right next to them where they’re able to see their ballot is enormous. Married women have no voting autonomy in Alabama. This is a huge source of voter suppression.
My husband had MS and we started mail in ballots when he couldn’t stand in line any longer… now I much prefer the privacy and time to investigate backgrounds especially on judges… before voting
@@wlf9108 I am so sorry… another reason to keep maga out of the political arena and secure safe voting for everyone as well as human rights they are trying to abolish…
This was BRILLIANT! I shared it with the founder of a new reproductive rights justice group here in Illinois, which is now the most abortion friendly state in the Midwest. Thank you, Mark Elias for the solid, well researched and groundbreaking work you do. As you & Renee point out, if they can come for you or her or him, they can come for ME, and they are!
Marc, I appreciate you so very much!! Thank you for fighting for the right to vote for ALL Americans. The right to vote has been a top priority to me for several years.
Excellent interview. I appreciated learning about We Testify. Renee is able to connect the dots on the intersectionality of the power struggles we find around us. Her description of the gerrymandering/abortion access issues offered clarity. I will think of voting rights differently now. It makes so much more sense after watching this interview. Thanks, Marc and Democracy Docket.
Having freedom of choice means that you can have the freedom to choose to not have an abortion but you do not have the freedom to make abortion unusually difficult. Your freedom of speech allows you the freedom to be offensive but not the freedom to obstruct. When making a divergent choice becomes unnecessarily difficult it impedes on our freedoms.
Excellent description of how abortion and voter suppression are linked. And as for a return to male dominated households, I had a relative who would tell his wife that since their votes would cancel each other out they should just stay home and not vote. Then he would sneak out and vote while his wife didn't. I think anytime one adult holds more authority than another it opens the door to power leading to corruption.
Yes, wealthy women will always have access to VIP doctors, planes, whatever is needed to get the care they need so it will fall on the maximum number of women.
We are 'capitalist' like we are 'democratic'. We don't have every citizen vote on every issue. Congress and the president decide things. A little bit republic and a little bit democracy, right? We have (weak) anti-trust laws, Medicare, and Social Security. That's a little bit of socialism. Canada has slightly more, but with way more transparency. They don't complain nearly as much about taxes.
Excellent discussion. I am old, but I have daughters and a grandchild and I have friends who are parents and aunts and uncles…these important topics impact all of us as fellow humans.
The birth bill alone costs nearly a year in wages for average millennials and zoomers. See - most of us earn too much to get on medicaid, too little to afford health insurance. It's gross that the poverty cutoff is still where it was when i was a kid, yet the cost of everything has more than tripled since 2000 (when i became an adult). As it is - if my bc failed, I'd have to go begging to pay for an abortion... I'm barely intimate with my husband because i don't trust SCROTUS (Supreme Court Republicans) to not do a federal ban. Why would we trust them when they literally lied to the American people at their job interviews about Roe v Wade? My sister decided to not have a second child because of the abortion bans. She's older, so complications are a bigger risk. So even if they only banned late term abortion - she'd have made the same decision.
Renee! You explained in, BY FAR, the best way I've ever heard it put, and then ended with "does that make sense?" Unnecessary! Trust yourself. You've got it! Thank you! 🤩
They are proposing ways to monitor women's menstrual cycles. WTAF happened to our right to privacy?? RUFKM? Are we "Breeding Stock' that they get to dictate to? THIS is truly outrageous. DON'T THEY KNOW?? WE, who fought for this in the 60's, are STILL Alive, and we remember!!
At one point in Ohio, after Casey, the General Assembly passed a bill regulating the sizes of hallways and doorways similar to hospitals at abortion centers. They required the parents to bury or cremate the remains of their abortion. They required that abortion clinics have reciprocity agreements with a hospital to stay open. But they threatened the hospitals with loss of state funding if they agreed to a reciprocity. 😢
In response to your opening statement Marc..... There's more in the ballot than voting rights and abortion rights. That will become abundantly clear in the primaries.
Medicaid and Medicare have never covered “elective” surgery. In fact, very few insurers do. Even joint replacement surgeries aren’t covered until the degeneration has become so severe that the patient can no longer perform ADL’s. The fight should not be whether this or that insurer should cover things, but whether these things are elective or medically necessary. If you can win that fight, everything else falls in line.
I had an abortion in Maryland when I was in my mid twenties and putting myself through college. It was a bad experience for me. In order to get my abortion at Hopkins. I was required to go through an interrogation by a medical student or something. He was not a doctor. He wouldn’t let me fill out a form myself or provide me with a calendar to calculate how pregnant I was. It was performed in a room with other women and teenagers with their mothers. I was asked very personal questions about how I got pregnant and whether I was using birth control and what kind was I using, how I became pregnant and how I would prevent another pregnancy. I asked if we could speak privately in another room or could I fill out the form without assistance. He said no. When I said I would not answer any more questions and he told me then I couldn’t get an abortion there. I was so upset and embarrassed and felt emotionally abused by this system that I had been told was required procedure. I’m now 76 years old and I’m still distraught as I remember what happened while I’m writing this.
Ok, I am not a person of color and I have 2 granddaughters and a daughter in law that are childless by choice...we really need to protect the rights of women!!!
An Very Informative Conversation of You and Guess. Thanks Marc Elias for the fight to Rights, Freedoms, Defending the Constitution and Democracy 🗽 🇺🇲 🌠 💙 ✨
What an impressive young woman Renee is! It is hard to be depressed about what is happening when there are such impressive, 'can-do' people doing things which we're not aware of and yet who have 'can-do' to pass on to us. I am in Australia with relatives in the States. Of course we don't have the right wing crisis which is everywhere in the US here. We have universal healthcare - a bit compromised by US corporate private healthcare companies investing in our system in negative ways - and that's a problem we are undertaking to fix as best we can since we voted out the right wing conservatives 2 years ago in May. The influence of Trumpian-style conservatism is frighteningly real for other countries. But what I hear from family and friends in the US is truly scary, confronting on so many levels, and the threat to US democracy and world stability and peace is also a 'major thing' that all of us are in the fight to stop. I think the interview with Renee reminds all of us of all these things. Starting with our community is a fantastic step to take to build from the foundations up. Since women's rights are not critical here in Oz (but never forgotten), 40:06 my two chosen areas of work are indigenous rights and climate change. I choose who to support financially carefully, in the US via family recommendations, in Australia of course, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in both Ukraine and Gaza, plus Palestinian Red Crescent. Sometimes it's only money which can count when you are far away and I don't have a fortune to contribute unfortunately. I have recently withdrawn support from some left media in the US with the idea of sending funds elsewhere. I cannot make political donations as a non American citizen, so it's a careful targeting of issues I hope can be most helpful. Off to read Renee's piece and her resources! Democracy Docket is legendary! Always a huge thanks 🙏
Although I went to law school in the '80s, and learned about privacy rights being a penumbra gathered from the basis of a number of actually enumerated rights, I still need reminding how Dobbs opened a huge crack in privacy rights in many other arenas. It is worth talking about specifically which other privacy issues we take for granted are at jeopardy if the right to privacy is struck down in its entirety.
I had to borrow money from my sister to pay for the above abortion and I had to depend on her to drive me to the hospital for the procedure and wait for me to go back to her apartment afterward because the hospital was a long bus ride and walk from my apartment.
Ok, I get discussing all of this to bring it to the top so it is seen and understood. Understanding what the right has done and why is good too but instead of just trying to get back to where we were 50 to 60 years ago, we need to put ourselve into the rights shoes. We need to start thinking the way they do and have been thinking for the kast 50 to 60 years and start using their mindset to come up with ways to block them before they enact rules and laws to hurt us. We need to continue the defensive so we don't drown. But we also need to go on the offensive too. Make "Voting" a National Holiday! What is the plan to get there? The Supreme Court needs to be under the same rules as the lower courts. What is the plan to get there? We need to remove big money from politics. What is the plan to get there? We need to have a rule where all news is coming out as truth? What is the plan to get there? I am tired of watching us just being stuck in the mud, just spinning our wheels and not fixing problems. We need to fix the problems. We know what the problems are and all we do is spin and never get traction. Once we undo the problem, we have to make the fix permanent. Make it an Amendment to our Constitution. We also need to have a way to remove all polititions from office that are not going to do their job as good faith actors for improving the lives of all people. We need people like FDR. We have people like that now and we all know who they are but we need all of them to be good faith actors fighting to keep this great experiment moving in the right direction. I am tired of loosing ground. I want to see things happening moving America and Democracy in a positive direction and stop this movement that I see taking us back in time... We can fix this! Marc, you said that while you and your fellow students were in law school you were able to bring up inportant reasons to refute a position on Roe v Wade. But by not realizing that all of you were giving them the information that they needed to help them with their plan by incorporating it and figuring out how to get there. We can not trust the hearts of 98% of the republicans in power and none of the billionaires that fund them. How do we fix this?
Such a deep subject spoken about with such heartfelt compassion and from someone like me who understand the full impact on us all. Love this convversation.
💯 agree with the assessment on attacking from a position of religion. I remember claims that the woman in Roe v Wade changed never wanted to go to court, and riling people up about the pledge of allegiance and (only one kind of) prayer in school, and fooling people to think it was about (their one) God.
Wow that was intense. Thank you. We all need to hear this show. I always enjoy your shows but this brings it all together in a real scary way. I do not like to be controlled. This shows we all can be sheep.
I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you. I will also share my story. You would think that in this day and time people would be better educated on why an abortion is decided upon. It's a very difficult decision process - One a woman never forgets. It is a huge loss just like a miscarriage or a still birth. For individuals who are not physicians to impose their religious beliefs on others causing additional pain and even the possibility of a woman dying shows they do not care about human life instead, they simply enjoy being in a position of power.
Even though abortion is legal in Alaska, abortions have always been unavailable in my island community because the Catholic church administers our only hospital and doesn’t permit it. It requires a plane ticket to another location (Seattle or Juneau) to obtain an abortion here.
Thanks y’all for the important work you both do. Nashville was packed with Jim Cooper elected for Metro area. He’s retiring while they cracked it open into 3 divisions.
It does start in the home. I raised my son to understand the autonomy of a woman. That to carry a pregnancy and the implications and life outcomes that it entails, it is her choice. And they better clearly understand that before they choose to have sex!!!
You are extremely intelligent and you are right on point ! This is exactly what’s been going on, And I believe this is also a part of( Project 2025 ) That’s a part of the (heritage Society) And (The federalist Society) .
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One of your best shows ever!!!! I already was strongly in favor of bodily autonomy rights but making this connection to MAGA’s intensified efforts to suppress voting has been so enlightening! Thank you and please make sure this gets widely aired - send it to Medas Touch, the Lincoln Project & David Pakman.
Democracy is the best! It ain't easy but maybe that's part of the point. No surprise the easy-answers crowd are soured on it. But only because they've not been too many places, or talked to people from or read about nations where peace, security, the rule of law, and democracy have broken down, the war-lordy chaos &/or suppession of most rights for most folk that ensues, maybe for ever.
I love this young woman. I've been saying for years that roe was being threatened. I was told many times to relax It's never going to happen. I been waiting for the phone to ring, you were right, oops.
This explains a LOT! I've subscribed to Jessica Valenti's column, Abortion. Every. Day, which is very revealing about the anti-democracy stance of abortion/contraception foes, but somehow it didn't quite click until you brought the race angle into it. Not that Valenti hasn't been pounding on the table about it, but I just didn't get it.
I’ve never heard of the word uncomfort. I looked it up in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and they have the words “discomfort” and “uncomfortable” but no “uncomfort”. There was another word along the same meaning that I’d never heard before but I looked it up and it was in the dictionary. I’m 72 so I know I can be several years behind the times although I do read and listen to books online, I watch TV and the news but that still doesn’t insure I’m up to date on any new vocabulary that comes into vogue. I like trying to keep up with younger people and their new lingo. Keeps me young!! These people fighting for voting rights and abortion rights I admire them so much! Keep fighting!
Thank you for helping me understand the abortion issue. I need more understanding regarding the choices available for those who need guidance and support when undecided and perhaps wanting to honor their consciences
Here’s a little history lesson concerning abortion, rights; Before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, there were hospital wards that were reserved for girls who were sick and dying from botched illegal abortions.After Roe V. Wade became law, those hospital beds were no longer needed for that purpose. Abortions will continue, the question is do we want them to be safe or do we want our loved ones to be sick and dying?🗳️💙🇺🇸
There seems to me to be a similarity with the power over climate change choices. The subject has been so confused at every turn and we seem hopeless to achieve any goal. It feels as if the entire global population is being prevented from doing the right thing by the fossil fuel industry.
The Biden administration's most important climate action to date was signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022, the most comprehensive climate legislation the U.S. has even seen. The law invests hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy, electric vehicles, environmental justice and more
This was an excellent defending democracy episode, but incredibly complicated. If this could have been broken down and made into two episodes with detailed examples i think it would help people to understand it better. Thank you for all you do.
Marbury vs Madison... Now that SCOTUS is full of carpet baggers and sycophants, is it time to revisit how, exactly, the judicial branch became the hydra we see before us today??? (I'm not picky about this metaphor. Maybe it's more like Medusa's hair.)
In the 1970s, the Court shifted in a more conservative direction when President Richard Nixon appointed Chief Justice Warren Burger and strong conservative justices Lewis Powell, William Rehnquist, and Harry Blackmun, and more so when President Ronald Reagan elevated Rehnquist to chief justice. This too has been the Republicans agenda for decades And finalized via Mitch and Trump.
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And we must take over the US House and vote in at least 60 Democratic US Senators so we can pass Abortion rights, Voting rights, and put more JUSTICES on the SUPREME COURT!!
Nah. Let's deport every illegal (including the DACAs) and get America back on track and out of debt. Cut spending, no more money to foreign nations.
Folks got to participate in all elections; local, state and national. Government grows from the grassroots. 💪🏿✌🏽✊🏾
@@irishhi8333 Right on! Chicago here for TRUMP!!!
We must fight for our freedoms, if we wish to keep them🇺🇸👍
@@njosborne6152 Fight??? You mean you will insurrect?!!!
Ms. Sherman is absolutely correct, they will get around to coming for you eventually. Not gay or trans, no problem. Not Jewish, no problem. But we all have something about us, and they WILL get around to coming for you. PLEASE people, VOTE BLUE 🔵🔵🔵🔵
They've targeted a lot of minorities. As people feel threatened, they tend to retreat into their trusted groups and stay there. It's really hard to change that, but somehow we have to.
Marc is what mainstream media is supposed to be doing.
Exactly
We need to restore voting rights on a national level. Since the gutting of the Voting Rights act in 2013 from the John Robert's Supreme Court,, American democracy has been on life support. Thank you Marc for all you do, America is lucky to have you in this fight.
Uphill battle....
@@JeanGillespie-fp7rs Consider the alternative. Let's get to work.💪
Name ONE person denied the vote.
@@imperialmotoring3789its not the DENIAL..... its the acts like taking voting machines from large black districts... Gerrymandering to stay in power... Passing laws to not give WATER TO VOTERS WHO HAS BEEN IN LINE FOR HOURS... i believe youre not dumb... It just doesnt affect you.
Your TRUTH to fight on abortion rights will keep moving forward 💪 💯 2024
Im encouraging all women to practice abstinence by not dating or having sex with or getting married to Republicans or Christian's, libertarians, conservatives, proud boy's, oath keepers or any other right wing white surrpreamacist fascist Republicans and in the long term we can overcome their voter suppression laws and voter purges and gerrymandering districts and their illegitimate surpream court justices and their rulings by not letting Christian fascist Republicans procreate in large numbers diminishing their population and voting block and please help this post go viral
Some heroes fight for justice by punching and kicking. Democracy Docket fights for justice using their intelligence of history and law.
Unlike Magats!!!!
Unfortunately intelligent arguments have little impact on the people who need to hear them.
Hey, y’all, If it’s Not for Personal Freedom
Then it’s Slavery from the State!
And but rule of law has no force!
"Then pen is mightier than the sword." This is probably going to be long and horrible, but we need to keep organizing. It's true that we'll never convince some fraction of voters. That's not the problem. The problem is that we need to convince enough voters and get them to the polls.
You are the BEST Marc!! Thank you for fighting for us.
I'm 67 ..and I support Abortion and women's rights. I am all over social media broadcasting and sharing my support!!
Abortion is THE #1 issue for voters!!
VOTE BLUE!! BIDEN-HARRIS 2024!!
100% agree!!
Even though this issue no longer affects me physically, I believe the fights we have had through the generations to achieve the (limited) rights we have as women should not be reversed by a manic minority….or anyone else.
Just because your eggs are all dried up you need to take it out on young attractive women?
I'm 70 and doing the same thing, but also making sure people understand that democracy is literally on the ballot. Democracy vs. fascism.
@@edransable I agree. Our Nation will crumble if Democrats win. Democrats are fascist.
Marc, we all owe such a debt of gratitude for all that you do to protect our democracy.
Keep up your hard work Mark! So glad everyday that you are on Team Democracy. 💙💙VOTE BLUE💙💙
In Alabama we don’t have very many private voting booths. They make us vote at open lunchroom style tables. The number of men that come with their wives and sit right next to them where they’re able to see their ballot is enormous. Married women have no voting autonomy in Alabama. This is a huge source of voter suppression.
We don't have voting booths at all in Shelby County Texas.
Aaugh!
My husband had MS and we started mail in ballots when he couldn’t stand in line any longer… now I much prefer the privacy and time to investigate backgrounds especially on judges… before voting
@@willow2333 we don’t have mail in. Sadly. They do whatever they can to restrict voting here.
@@wlf9108 I am so sorry… another reason to keep maga out of the political arena and secure safe voting for everyone as well as human rights they are trying to abolish…
This was BRILLIANT! I shared it with the founder of a new reproductive rights justice group here in Illinois, which is now the most abortion friendly state in the Midwest. Thank you, Mark Elias for the solid, well researched and groundbreaking work you do. As you & Renee point out, if they can come for you or her or him, they can come for ME, and they are!
This woman is the new SMART young generation. Thank god!!!!
Marc, I appreciate you so very much!! Thank you for fighting for the right to vote for ALL Americans. The right to vote has been a top priority to me for several years.
Excellent interview. I appreciated learning about We Testify. Renee is able to connect the dots on the intersectionality of the power struggles we find around us. Her description of the gerrymandering/abortion access issues offered clarity. I will think of voting rights differently now. It makes so much more sense after watching this interview. Thanks, Marc and Democracy Docket.
Having freedom of choice means that you can have the freedom to choose to not have an abortion but you do not have the freedom to make abortion unusually difficult. Your freedom of speech allows you the freedom to be offensive but not the freedom to obstruct. When making a divergent choice becomes unnecessarily difficult it impedes on our freedoms.
Thank you for the explanation of the connection between voting rights and abortion.
Excellent description of how abortion and voter suppression are linked.
And as for a return to male dominated households, I had a relative who would tell his wife that since their votes would cancel each other out they should just stay home and not vote.
Then he would sneak out and vote while his wife didn't.
I think anytime one adult holds more authority than another it opens the door to power leading to corruption.
Good point. In a capitalist society, your rights only exists if you can afford to exercise the right!!
Yes, wealthy women will always have access to VIP doctors, planes, whatever is needed to get the care they need so it will fall on the maximum number of women.
We are 'capitalist' like we are 'democratic'. We don't have every citizen vote on every issue. Congress and the president decide things. A little bit republic and a little bit democracy, right? We have (weak) anti-trust laws, Medicare, and Social Security. That's a little bit of socialism. Canada has slightly more, but with way more transparency. They don't complain nearly as much about taxes.
Excellent discussion. I am old, but I have daughters and a grandchild and I have friends who are parents and aunts and uncles…these important topics impact all of us as fellow humans.
The birth bill alone costs nearly a year in wages for average millennials and zoomers. See - most of us earn too much to get on medicaid, too little to afford health insurance. It's gross that the poverty cutoff is still where it was when i was a kid, yet the cost of everything has more than tripled since 2000 (when i became an adult).
As it is - if my bc failed, I'd have to go begging to pay for an abortion... I'm barely intimate with my husband because i don't trust SCROTUS (Supreme Court Republicans) to not do a federal ban. Why would we trust them when they literally lied to the American people at their job interviews about Roe v Wade?
My sister decided to not have a second child because of the abortion bans. She's older, so complications are a bigger risk. So even if they only banned late term abortion - she'd have made the same decision.
It's all about control,
Powerful discussion!
Renee! You explained in, BY FAR, the best way I've ever heard it put, and then ended with "does that make sense?" Unnecessary! Trust yourself. You've got it! Thank you! 🤩
They are proposing ways to monitor women's menstrual cycles. WTAF happened to our right to privacy?? RUFKM? Are we "Breeding Stock' that they get to dictate to? THIS is truly outrageous. DON'T THEY KNOW?? WE, who fought for this in the 60's, are STILL Alive, and we remember!!
At one point in Ohio, after Casey, the General Assembly passed a bill regulating the sizes of hallways and doorways similar to hospitals at abortion centers. They required the parents to bury or cremate the remains of their abortion. They required that abortion clinics have reciprocity agreements with a hospital to stay open. But they threatened the hospitals with loss of state funding if they agreed to a reciprocity. 😢
I had no idea all these issues were interrelated!
There is a word for knowing and understanding all this. The word is WOKE! And, we know where Republicans stand on that.
God bless you Marc....you are awesome for fighting for justices for All! Vote 💙 stay true to Democracy!!
In response to your opening statement Marc.....
There's more in the ballot than voting rights and abortion rights.
That will become abundantly clear in the primaries.
Insightful and informative discussion! Thank you!
Medicaid and Medicare have never covered “elective” surgery. In fact, very few insurers do.
Even joint replacement surgeries aren’t covered until the degeneration has become so severe that the patient can no longer perform ADL’s.
The fight should not be whether this or that insurer should cover things, but whether these things are elective or medically necessary.
If you can win that fight, everything else falls in line.
Very informative. Thanks to you both.
I wish we would have the same voting rights that Australia has.
Very nice episode. Thank you!!
I had an abortion in Maryland when I was in my mid twenties and putting myself through college. It was a bad experience for me. In order to get my abortion at Hopkins. I was required to go through an interrogation by a medical student or something. He was not a doctor. He wouldn’t let me fill out a form myself or provide me with a calendar to calculate how pregnant I was. It was performed in a room with other women and teenagers with their mothers. I was asked very personal questions about how I got pregnant and whether I was using birth control and what kind was I using, how I became pregnant and how I would prevent another pregnancy. I asked if we could speak privately in another room or could I fill out the form without assistance. He said no. When I said I would not answer any more questions and he told me then I couldn’t get an abortion there. I was so upset and embarrassed and felt emotionally abused by this system that I had been told was required procedure. I’m now 76 years old and I’m still distraught as I remember what happened while I’m writing this.
Ok, I am not a person of color and I have 2 granddaughters and a daughter in law that are childless by choice...we really need to protect the rights of women!!!
Great episode. Thank you for highlighting this issue. ❤️
An Very Informative Conversation of You and Guess. Thanks Marc Elias for the fight to Rights, Freedoms, Defending the Constitution and Democracy 🗽 🇺🇲 🌠 💙 ✨
Thank you, Bracey, for this excellent tutorial. We need to vote blue up and down ballot, or we're finished.
Great show today 💙
Great episode. Thank you.
Excellent guest and discussion on this subject!!!
What an impressive young woman Renee is! It is hard to be depressed about what is happening when there are such impressive, 'can-do' people doing things which we're not aware of and yet who have 'can-do' to pass on to us. I am in Australia with relatives in the States. Of course we don't have the right wing crisis which is everywhere in the US here. We have universal healthcare - a bit compromised by US corporate private healthcare companies investing in our system in negative ways - and that's a problem we are undertaking to fix as best we can since we voted out the right wing conservatives 2 years ago in May. The influence of Trumpian-style conservatism is frighteningly real for other countries. But what I hear from family and friends in the US is truly scary, confronting on so many levels, and the threat to US democracy and world stability and peace is also a 'major thing' that all of us are in the fight to stop. I think the interview with Renee reminds all of us of all these things. Starting with our community is a fantastic step to take to build from the foundations up. Since women's rights are not critical here in Oz (but never forgotten), 40:06 my two chosen areas of work are indigenous rights and climate change. I choose who to support financially carefully, in the US via family recommendations, in Australia of course, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in both Ukraine and Gaza, plus Palestinian Red Crescent. Sometimes it's only money which can count when you are far away and I don't have a fortune to contribute unfortunately. I have recently withdrawn support from some left media in the US with the idea of sending funds elsewhere. I cannot make political donations as a non American citizen, so it's a careful targeting of issues I hope can be most helpful. Off to read Renee's piece and her resources! Democracy Docket is legendary! Always a huge thanks 🙏
Although I went to law school in the '80s, and learned about privacy rights being a penumbra gathered from the basis of a number of actually enumerated rights, I still need reminding how Dobbs opened a huge crack in privacy rights in many other arenas. It is worth talking about specifically which other privacy issues we take for granted are at jeopardy if the right to privacy is struck down in its entirety.
Thank you Renee for opening up our eyes on reproduction rights. Great ideas to get involved and to communicate with family members.
Thank you for what you do. It's so important to keep us informed.
I had to borrow money from my sister to pay for the above abortion and I had to depend on her to drive me to the hospital for the procedure and wait for me to go back to her apartment afterward because the hospital was a long bus ride and walk from my apartment.
Ok, I get discussing all of this to bring it to the top so it is seen and understood. Understanding what the right has done and why is good too but instead of just trying to get back to where we were 50 to 60 years ago, we need to put ourselve into the rights shoes. We need to start thinking the way they do and have been thinking for the kast 50 to 60 years and start using their mindset to come up with ways to block them before they enact rules and laws to hurt us.
We need to continue the defensive so we don't drown. But we also need to go on the offensive too.
Make "Voting" a National Holiday!
What is the plan to get there?
The Supreme Court needs to be under the same rules as the
lower courts. What is the plan to get there?
We need to remove big money from politics.
What is the plan to get there?
We need to have a rule where all news is coming out as truth?
What is the plan to get there?
I am tired of watching us just being stuck in the mud, just spinning our wheels and not fixing problems. We need to fix the problems. We know what the problems are and all we do is spin and never get traction. Once we undo the problem, we have to make the fix permanent. Make it an Amendment to our Constitution.
We also need to have a way to remove all polititions from office that are not going to do their job as good faith actors for improving the lives of all people. We need people like FDR. We have people like that now and we all know who they are but we need all of them to be good faith actors fighting to keep this great experiment moving in the right direction. I am tired of loosing ground. I want to see things happening moving America and Democracy in a positive direction and stop this movement that I see taking us back in time...
We can fix this!
Marc, you said that while you and your fellow students were in law school you were able to bring up inportant reasons to refute a position on Roe v Wade. But by not realizing that all of you were giving them the information that they needed to help them with their plan by incorporating it and figuring out how to get there.
We can not trust the hearts of 98% of the republicans in power and none of the billionaires that fund them.
How do we fix this?
Love this show with Renee. So genuine.
Such a deep subject spoken about with such heartfelt compassion and from someone like me who understand the full impact on us all. Love this convversation.
💯 agree with the assessment on attacking from a position of religion. I remember claims that the woman in Roe v Wade changed never wanted to go to court, and riling people up about the pledge of allegiance and (only one kind of) prayer in school, and fooling people to think it was about (their one) God.
Wow that was intense. Thank you. We all need to hear this show. I always enjoy your shows but this brings it all together in a real scary way. I do not like to be controlled. This shows we all can be sheep.
Excellent discussion!!! very informative. thank you!
Great show, very informative, thank you two.
I share this with 30, other people😊❤
I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you. I will also share my story. You would think that in this day and time people would be better educated on why an abortion is decided upon. It's a very difficult decision process - One a woman never forgets. It is a huge loss just like a miscarriage or a still birth. For individuals who are not physicians to impose their religious beliefs on others causing additional pain and even the possibility of a woman dying shows they do not care about human life instead, they simply enjoy being in a position of power.
Mark, thank you for a superlative show with revealing information.
Even though abortion is legal in Alaska, abortions have always been unavailable in my island community because the Catholic church administers our only hospital and doesn’t permit it. It requires a plane ticket to another location (Seattle or Juneau) to obtain an abortion here.
Truly a fantastic episode. Thank you!
Thanks y’all for the important work you both do. Nashville was packed with Jim Cooper elected for Metro area. He’s retiring while they cracked it open into 3 divisions.
It does start in the home. I raised my son to understand the autonomy of a woman. That to carry a pregnancy and the implications and life outcomes that it entails, it is her choice. And they better clearly understand that before they choose to have sex!!!
Why has someone not sued for some of outrageous type of restrictions, like preventing, elderly from having water
Fabulous discussion. Very illuminating.
You are extremely intelligent and you are right on point ! This is exactly what’s been going on, And I believe this is also a part of( Project 2025 ) That’s a part of the (heritage Society) And (The federalist Society) .
I am going to share this now. Great information.
Thank you both!
National ballot access standards? Kyrsten Sinema says no.
Great interview ❗❗❗🌼
Great conversation!
I used to always vote in person because I was nervous about my mail in sig not matching - I had no idea what they would be trying to match against.
Great episode 👍
Such great information ❤ ty
Excellent episode thank you! Great into to Renee, all her work, podcasts etc!
The link to premium membership did not work for me but after some rummaging around the website, I believe I found the premium membership price to be $10 dollars per month.
One of your best shows ever!!!! I already was strongly in favor of bodily autonomy rights but making this connection to MAGA’s intensified efforts to suppress voting has been so enlightening! Thank you and please make sure this gets widely aired - send it to Medas Touch, the Lincoln Project & David Pakman.
Excellent guest and podcast
Just shared 🌠🌌
Democracy is the best! It ain't easy but maybe that's part of the point. No surprise the easy-answers crowd are soured on it. But only because they've not been too many places, or talked to people from or read about nations where peace, security, the rule of law, and democracy have broken down, the war-lordy chaos &/or suppession of most rights for most folk that ensues, maybe for ever.
I appreciate your shows, Mark! Thanks for fighting for democracy and keeping us informed in a straightforward way ❤
And they're trying to criminalize mis carriage aka spontaneous abortion.
Great talk. Really makes you think.
love this conversation. I learned a lot.
Adore you ✊✊✊‼️
I love this young woman. I've been saying for years that roe was being threatened. I was told many times to relax It's never going to happen. I been waiting for the phone to ring, you were right, oops.
Great talk.
This explains a LOT! I've subscribed to Jessica Valenti's column, Abortion. Every. Day, which is very revealing about the anti-democracy stance of abortion/contraception foes, but somehow it didn't quite click until you brought the race angle into it. Not that Valenti hasn't been pounding on the table about it, but I just didn't get it.
We can't get all voting done in one day. Thats why they have mail in voting.
Gosh, What a Great Video. So informative and True! We need we need to Pay Attention and Get out and Give Our Voteq💙💙🌊🌊💙💙🗳️🗳️
Thank you!
I’ve never heard of the word uncomfort. I looked it up in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and they have the words “discomfort” and “uncomfortable” but no “uncomfort”. There was another word along the same meaning that I’d never heard before but I looked it up and it was in the dictionary. I’m 72 so I know I can be several years behind the times although I do read and listen to books online, I watch TV and the news but that still doesn’t insure I’m up to date on any new vocabulary that comes into vogue. I like trying to keep up with younger people and their new lingo. Keeps me young!!
These people fighting for voting rights and abortion rights I admire them so much! Keep fighting!
Fantastic
Thank you for all your hard work. Amazing!
Thank you for helping me understand the abortion issue. I need more understanding regarding the choices available for those who need guidance and support when undecided and perhaps wanting to honor their consciences
Here’s a little history lesson concerning abortion, rights; Before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, there were hospital wards that were reserved for girls who were sick and dying from botched illegal abortions.After Roe V. Wade became law, those hospital beds were no longer needed for that purpose. Abortions will continue, the question is do we want them to be safe or do we want our loved ones to be sick and dying?🗳️💙🇺🇸
There seems to me to be a similarity with the power over climate change choices. The subject has been so confused at every turn and we seem hopeless to achieve any goal. It feels as if the entire global population is being prevented from doing the right thing by the fossil fuel industry.
The Biden administration's most important climate action to date was signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022, the most comprehensive climate legislation the U.S. has even seen. The law invests hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy, electric vehicles, environmental justice and more
This was an excellent defending democracy episode, but incredibly complicated. If this could have been broken down and made into two episodes with detailed examples i think it would help people to understand it better. Thank you for all you do.
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Marbury vs Madison... Now that SCOTUS is full of carpet baggers and sycophants, is it time to revisit how, exactly, the judicial branch became the hydra we see before us today??? (I'm not picky about this metaphor. Maybe it's more like Medusa's hair.)
In the 1970s, the Court shifted in a more conservative direction when President Richard Nixon appointed Chief Justice Warren Burger and strong conservative justices Lewis Powell, William Rehnquist, and Harry Blackmun, and more so when President Ronald Reagan elevated Rehnquist to chief justice. This too has been the Republicans agenda for decades
And finalized via Mitch and Trump.
Can you please tell me if you share my fear that the next thing the courts and extremists will take away is the right of women to vote. Thank you.
It will be no birth control, less health care, yes. Magas and Supreme Court would take our right away to vote as soon as they can.
All my Zygotes, now conferred with personhood, want to vote Biden. So i unplugged their freezer, in accord with scotus guidance. 🎉