The Fight over Abortion Rights Is a "Tipping Point for Our Democracy": Michele Goodwin
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Democrats have centered reproductive rights throughout the week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with speakers discussing their abortions, how new restrictions have put women's lives at risk and why bodily autonomy is nonnegotiable. Vice President Kamala Harris has promised to restore reproductive rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Law professor Michele Goodwin describes the fight for reproductive rights as "a tipping point for our democracy" and says Republicans cannot simply walk away from their record on the issue.
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Here in the UK I find it unbelievable that this abortion ban exists because it affects all healthcare for women not just abortions!!!
To make a criminal out of a woman or child who wants to abort a fetus conceived in violence by rape is like a dentist who tells their patients that the only legal treatment for an impacted molar is decapitation. Both scenarios are ridiculous.
Well that's kind of a weird analogy, maybe you could try again?
@@J.M.-nb4gw~ Why don’t YOU try?
You equate a defenseless baby getting killed to a tooth ache? Wow
@@hkdluis~ No, you ignoramos. I equate THE MENTALITY of the one with THE MENTALITY of the other.
@@hkdluis~ In the first place, it’s not a baby. Life doesn’t begin until the fetus takes its first breath. Check your scripture.
….and the incredibly stupid statement that….” if u don’t want to be pregnant your body will just naturally expel it.” Rape is brutal, no matter how it happens or who does it and to become pregnant from it…? I pray that nobody they love has to experience it.
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Michele Goodwin's makes an interesting point that access to abortion care is at the epicenter of our democracy. Authoritarian countries often seek ways to control women, because if women are oppressed, by extension, so are their families.
Michele Goodwin is an authority on this topic.
Michele Goodwin " Policing The Womb" Thank you !!!
This is not pro-family. It's a matter of control and cruelty.
Most immediate issue: Get money out of politics. That will solve a lot of problems.
Also need to End Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression.
@@deltablueprint3186 There's a long list of reforms neither party possesses the political will to enact.
And how does a campaign pay for advertising to speak to the majority of ppl who think about politics 3-5 minutes per week?
@@OurBlackUtopia Do you realize how much free advertising that candidates get on television, like Trump did when CNN showed his empty podium for 45 mins? Wall to wall coverage that was searching for ratings? There are also public funding options. Just not unlimited corporate cash.
So ironic that the ignorance of anti-abortion men led to policies that would stop families from being able to have children that they want to have. All these anti-abortion folks should be forced to do community service that supports struggling families.
Umm, most foster programs, adoption agencies, orphanages, and family shelters are run by conservatives and churches. You guys run free drug injection sites, abortion clinics, and not much else for the public... We are not the same.
And help the thousands of children in foster care!
I'm so proud of these brave women telling their sad stories to help other American women.
I would never live in a red state, especially if I want a family. You’ll get prayer and country bumpkin health care.
Keep your snatch closed or use one of the MANY Contraceptives available einstein.
When will they learn ??? DONT piss off the women . Now let's get this court straightened out.
excellent interview.
This was so powerful! Let women choose what is best for them!
Thank You, Democracy Now! 💙🇺🇸
Those poor women - this abortion ban is insanity- even MX has decriminalized abortion- I pray that women in America vote in force to overturn these crazy police’s!!!
98% of the world has restriction on abortion. You're the minority on the planet that is in a population control minded death cult.
There is no abortion ban. It's just back in the hands of the states.
Trump or anyone remotely like him should NEVER be in the highest American Office.
This is despicable to think that in this day and age this is happening to women and all because of one person. Wtf!!
It's not one person you absolute ignoramus
It's not because of one person. That's a very ignorant statement
Actually, it was - one person became the president and put things in place to overturn Roe - he brags about it
Thank you!
Great segment
How many husbands have to lose their wives before these laws are changed?
How many WOMEN have to lose their LIVES. A woman is not just a wife.
I've been listening to DN! for nearly 30 years. Content matter most, but today I must compliment Amy Goodman for your radiant new look. Love the hairstyle and you have never looked so beautiful. 😊
Thank you for this segment! 😊
I learn something new from your videos every time
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ALL healthcare should be an issue for Dems; not just abortion!
Universal healthcare has always been on the Green Party platform. Vote for it
The Affordable Cre Act? The campaign for "Medicare for all?"
@@norcalben2001~ The single payer healthcare plan that Biden said he’d veto if it landed on his desk?
@@norcalben2001~ The single payer healthcare plan that Biden said he’d veto if it landed on his desk?
@@norcalben2001Medicare has deductibles.
Vote blue vote pro choice
Example of Medically necessary late term abortion: LAKELAND, Fla: At her 23-week appointment, it was confirmed her baby had “Potter Syndrome.” Dorbert’s pediatrician, Dr. David Berger explained to News Channel 8 that the fetus is not developing kidneys or making amniotic fluid. Without amniotic fluid, the baby’s lungs will not develop correctly. “I’m in a lot of pain and discomfort,” said Dorbert. Doctors do not expect babies with Potter syndrome to survive longer than a few hours after birth. The diagnosis led to a decision Dorbert, a mother of one, never thought she would make. She wanted to terminate the pregnancy. After consulting with her doctors, while supportive, they said they could not sign off on the procedure. Florida now bans abortions after 15 weeks. There is an exception for fatal fetal abnormalities, if the fetus "has not reached viability," according to the law. "In my week 23 ultrasound, in the report, it says the baby is viable," Dorbert said.
Let's enact legislation requiring all adolescent males have a vasectomy, until adulthood and, if they're heterosexual, their partner signs off on the reversal of the procedure. That is THE way to end unwanted pregnancies, so all abortions would only be for medical necessity. Let's see how THIS legislation flies with the men in our country...
I would like to know if anyone knows this Benjamin Crump have his own podcast or anything
Theres vastly more than just abortion rights we have to fight for now. Disability rights for benefits, retirement, healthcare, and the right to exist as a poor person in the US. These are all existential issues for a lot of us. Most of these things aren't even on the radar of Trxmp oelr Harris and even when they are neither one is capable of understanding the nuances. You can't fit the explanation onto a bumper sticker. There's symptomatic issues that grow in that shadow because we're electing leaders that are incapable of analyzing them comprehensively. For these old minds everything must have a slogan and it must fit on a bumper sticker. Thats why Harris will fall short as president. Please set your standards higher for Harris than just being "better than Trxmp." Thats too low a bar for any high office.
Are vasectomies in danger of being outlawed by right-wingers? If not, why not? 🤔
Only a mother can decide ! Mother Only .. . . 😊
& ya if u can , take care of the Living ..
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Middle path ! ❤❤❤
How stupid they played music through her talking
What are you talking about? She was speaking during the roll call. Music was playing during every States nomination.
Please also consider, no matter what the laws say, abortion is always possible
And how is that? Is it safe? We want SAFE and AFFORDABLE and LOCAL access to reproductive healthcare. How is it possible for a 10 year old to have access? People don't want back alley abortions or have to flee the state and pay thousands of dollars to get it.
@5:30 Not confirming whether or not someone is miscarrying seems like a "do no harm issue"....what about the Hippocratic Oath?
Abortion bans go against the Hippocratic Oath. You can't protect your patient if you're denying them emergency healthcare.
Doctors are scared. in texas doctors refuse to terminate ectopic pregnancies which only 2% of women survive. Fear voids " do no harm". This is terrible.
Nobody wants an abortion but making a law against it is not the answer. Making young people more responsible and convincing them to view sex as something more than just pleasure. Let's also raise income so people can afford to have children
The Green Party candidate Jill Stein will codify Roe and increase the minimum wage substantially. Vote for her!
@@Don.M.a vote for Jill is a vote for trump. ❤ sorry
@@Don.M.voting for a candidate who doesn't have a chance in hell to win the election is basically throwing your vote away. Why don't you just vote for Trump since that's essentially what you are doing anyway.
O'Bummer had majority house & filibuster proof senate but when it came to it he said Women's Rights wasn't a priority. How can they get 'em done with divided gov't
How exactly do you figure that? Democrats never held 60 seats in theSenate during Obama‘s term, even counting independents who voted with Democrats.
Miscarrying is an abortion?
YES A DNC
Miscarriages are literally called “spontaneous abolitions”.
No, miscarrying is not an abortion, but the procedure, called a D&C, which is really just abortion care for a nonviable fetus, is the same procedure for an elective abortion. If a woman has a miscarriage they will perform a D&C to remove any tissue left behind in the uterus that can cause a person to go septic.
@@michelebella677 yes happened to me. Not only is the miscarriage sad then you have people saying you don't get a dnc and might die....FUCK TRUMP
miscarrying is a form of abortion. it is called spontanious abortion. miscarriage is often treated with medical abortion pills or surgical abortion to ensure the mothers survival after spontaious abortion begins. Unfortunately many Doctors prefer to wait until mom is close to death in order to prove it is necessary. This is always what happens when abortion is made illegal. I wonder how many children will loose their mother because she attempted to give them a brother or sister. It seems immoral to conceive a second child and risk your 1st becoming motherless.
They sure didn't do sh!t to stop women from being stripped of their rights. Now they have something to focus their constituency at. Isn't that a nice turn for them?
This years is the second aniversary when Roe vs. Wade was overturned by the radical right-wing judges of the supreme court. The right to abortion was protected under the constitution. To pass a law in the senate you need 60 votes because of the filibuster. There are no 10 republiCON votes.
The same tactic every time. It seems to work like a charm too
How much more could “they” have done? Clearly they wanted Hillary to be elected & if so the supreme court issue wouldn’t have reared its head.
@@paullee7467 the "supreme court issue" happened on Obama's watch. They didn't do anything.
killing a baby is a sin
You can't be that stupid, can you? Did you even watch the video?
Yeah those are some powerful stories. Although I am pro life, I do agree that these extreme and very very rare cases are heart breaking, the by no means excuse the millions of children that are aborted by adults who have other non abortion options.
I think that if women are getting the choice after conception then men should also get choices as well. Optional child support.
Take care of the kids who already in foster care. Once that happens, you can encourage people to make other choices.
Talk is cheap.
The only way to stop all of these MALES from creating unwanted pregnancies is to enact legislation that requires all adolescent males have vasectomies. In adulthood, if they are heterosexual, men can have the procedure reversed if their partner signs off on it. Let's see how THAT legislation flies with the men of our country who think that pregnancy is something they have a right to have a say about...
No, men should choose to abstain or use a condom! How about some responsibility!
So why aren't you adopting kids in foster care if you want to save the children? Oh wait...its not your problem after you force a 10 year old to have her fathers child, right? What about all the severely disabled babies that will be born because of abortion bans? How about you adopt them too? Save the babies, right?
These cases are 1 in 50, and perhaps higher. Does that seem rare to you?
Theres way bigger issues than abortion
Trump is gonna lose.
Like the genocide in Gaza
This is a very important issue for CSA survivors and our health and freedoms. You can’t gaslight us into ignoring this issue.
@@piku5637 You are not being gaslit, you are being reminded that this is not the only issue, the Democratic party is a coallition party, and if you want to win reproductive freedoms for yourself and everyone, then you also have to acknowledge the important issues of the rest of the members of the coallition, which include arab Americans who demand an arms embargo on the zionist regime on Israel to stop the genocide in Palestine.
@@piku5637 Vote for Kamala..she wants to pass the US citizenship act which creates a pathway to residency for 10 million illegal immigrants...this country has unlimited $ and credit it's ok
whatever floats your boat
Women take care their children healthy deliver after 9 months. Abortion is danger to all women.
So where'd you get your MD? Can you link the original digital copy of each research paper that supports your claim that abortion is dangerous? They must be peer reviewed and respected in the medical community.
abortion pills are safer than tylenol abortion surgery is safer than carying to term. Get the facts, then form an opinion.
Not all progressive activists support the “ right” to end the life of one’s baby (except for saving the life of the mother or other emergency situations). The phrase, “reproductive rights” is a misnomer. Reproduction has to do with having babies, not killing them. I am one of millions of liberal women (having been in the situation of being young, poor, pregnant, and scared) who oppose abortions. I love the Harris/Walz team, but both the abortion stance and support for the Gaza genocide are a huge problem for me.
Then don’t have an abortion if you oppose it. That’s the point - people deserve to have the right to decide for themselves if they will or will not have an abortion. The government should not be deciding FOR them. Everyone should have the choice to reproduce or not.
The only way to eliminate the need for non-medically necessary abortions is to enact legislation requiring all adolescent males have a vasectomy. If they are heterosexual, then in adulthood they can have the procedure reversed if their partner signs off on it. Let's see how these men who think they have some say in legislating this STRICTLY FEMALE MEDICAL PROCEDURE feel about THEIR role in unwanted pregnancies being legislated.
Nobody is killing babies. Babies are humans, they are born. Abortions are performed on fetuses.
I completely understand. The problem is that the human race has only found one way to reduce the number of abortions, and it was not making them illegal. Making them illegal has not worked in any country that has tried it. It failed every single time. It always ends up killing more people than it saves. It litters the world with tragedy. Why not go with the tried and true solution? Colorado reduced its number of abortions by 50% in one year. The most successful operation on the Earth. Give free birth control. Give free uber rides to get birth control.
How is it so hard to not unalive a kid? Just give the kid up for adoption, use birth control or abstinence. This is disturbing.
There are thousands of children in foster care, but I guess you’re one of those “out of sight out of mind” people.
The best way to encourage people to trust others enough to trust them with a baby, is to care for all of them that are already here.
If you’re not willing to do that, then please keep your opinions to yourself.
The decision is not yours to make.
They aren’t kids, they are zygotes and fetuses.
Do you have any idea how taxing this particular biological process is, or are you also living in LaLaLand where the woman just bakes a little cupcake in the oven and pops it out willy-nilly?
Please study the risks of pregnancy. It is safer for you to donate a lobe of your liver than to have a baby. Have you saved a life by donating a lobe of your liver? If not, how can you ask someone else to give birth?
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6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14
"32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8
repent my brothers and sisters, only JESUS CHRIST saves.
I VOTE for JILL STEIN 💚 2024 as President of America 💯. She is for free health care for all America Jill STEIN is for a higher 💲 minimum wage. Jill STEIN is Against Genocide Wars.
Jill Stein has absolutely no chance of winning! Just throw your vote away. Just because she’s for something she’s still got to get it through Congress, good luck on that.
Agreed!
Support her with your money, and yes, bring her name forward, but vote for VP Harris
Trump isn't in favor an abortion ban.
Yes he is
@@sarahmitchell4455 He is for a 20 week ban on it. Is that what you mean?
@@scotfarquharson6836 no government in the doctor's office FREEDOM
@@sarahmitchell4455 So up until birth?
They coupd have codified Roe years ago, but you wont hear DN say anything about that. Truth.
No one thought it was necessary to spend taxpayers' dollars codifying a 50 yo federal precedent.
@lynnmarble8456 in the media I watch, with the judges selected to the Supreme Court, they certainly did. Ample opportunity.
Flee your home?sounds like doctors made your decisions not trumps policies on abortion,hes always said if its to save the life of the woman.......this sounds like your states fault
You really don’t get it do you. Do more research before you comment.
Which is why overturning Roe was b.s. Medical procedures should not be legislated, at ANY governmental level.
I'm not allowed to comment and spill overwhelming sentiments and facts. There...is this better?
No one is having an abortion every few weeks 😂😂😂. Get out of here with that crazy notion! Plan B should be available for everyone, but Republicans are going after that now. They’ll also go after birth control just wait & see.
Mentally ill comment
@@sarahmitchell4455 only mentally ill to those who will never know what it's like to be destroyed financially by someone who is coddled by society and is allowed to talk and say anything they want without any accountability.
@@lifeinlimbo2186 get a therapist don't put your shit on others
@@sarahmitchell4455 you mean,I should not spill facts. Ok
the fact that woman can be denied an abortion affects everyone in the USA. at 20 years old i had terminal cancer. some thyroid cancers ARE curable, but i had all 3 thyroid cancers complicated by GRAVES disease, one of those cancers is not incurable, as far as i know, i am still the ONLY long term survivor of that cancer, i am alive but with all cancers there is a lot of work and suffering to stay alive. with graves disease i was dying one of the most painful cancer like diseases ever known, my eyes were being pushed out of my skull with brain swelling, i had to tape my eyes at night because my eye lids would not always even be able to close over the eyes to hydrate them. my love and i were thrilled to discover i was pregnant, we were young and did not realize that in my stage of cancer i would not be able to survive a pregnancy. knowing i was dying i wanted to have a baby for some part of me left for my mom and loved one. but i was NOT pregnant, it was a 'molar' pregnancy, it tests positive for pregnancy but is a group of cells mocking a real pregnancy, mine was also cancerous, a group of cells, cancerous growing in my body, a second cancer caused by the multiple thyroid cancer. all my cancers were caused by radiation from nuclear plants but the government has never allowed me to sue these monsters, and worse they want to make more of these death machines! i had been exposed to radiator, has a child swimming down river from the Hanford nuclear site, from that time on i was dealing with cancer.the doctor called me at home and already scheduled the dnc, he stressed we had not one minute to lose sense i was already so ill [i weighed only 72 pounds!] in anguish, because i was dying this meant i would probably never never have the children i so longed for, but we talked i over and realized if there was ANY chance i could survive this was my best chance to live and have baby. we showed up very early at the clinic, we were meant by protesters calling me a baby killer, as i got out of our car they smashed a baby killer sign over my head, i went down in a pool of blood, my friend jumped out of the car fists flying, i was fighting blacking out as a large lady was screaming at me, 'she was forced to have 5 children and i should have to 'suffer' the way she had'! then a small hand took mine, her oldest son, he was crying begging her to stop, it was her son, my friend was also screaming at my attackers that i had cancer to stop! 'there was no baby, just cancer'the little boy was horrified. the little boy, around 11 years old, ha seen his mom attack a woman with cancer, i smiled at him, 'hey we don't always choose our family ' i joked, he looked at me in horror and asked if i was going to die, if his mom had killed me, blood was every where; but i had become who i really am and always will be, a mom, i comforted him, explained his mom had not given me cancer and i yet might somehow, live through all this, we smiled, 'what would you want if you could live?' he asked l laughed, i am laying on the ground bleeding, sirens are going off, people are screaming, paramedic are trying to get to me with a stretcher, i have terminal cancer, what would i want? and i saw such humor in this moment, 'well,i laughed, for me to be rich and have lots of money from my writing, to make a difference in the world through my work, for the good, but most of all to someday be a mom and raise a fine boy like him, he was still holding m hand, drenched now with his tears, i' wish' he said quietly 'you were my mom.' later i found out that he had been drug to anti abortion rallies all his life, that he and took care of his siblings and had been forced to wear signs at abortion clinics with 'this is who your are killing' around his neck, he had refused to let his folks do his to his little brothers and sisters. every child is our most precious gift, they should know only love and joy. when the monsters violation my life tried to make mom' into a 4 letter word and to say they could steal my intellectual property because i was a good mom, i said'go away and die poor!' and much more graphic things! to this day they torture me with the words of a hoe that had a kid and tortured him to death to show what a fool i was [she is dead!!] no law can make good moms, or loving folks, and being forced into it, has i saw that day, makes people often anger and bitter and their kids suffer. to us older woman, those young woman that seeks her own reproductive freedom our are precious daughters, making the best decisions for themselves that they can! if you allow people to decide when to have a child you can also take that child away, if you take away abortion then you can also force people to get pregnant and have kids, those you don't approve of , will be forced to HAVE abortions, Hitler did both! i heard now for many long years 'poverty is for a mother' and that i was somehow wrong to put my children before my life, NO!! my kids did not make me poor, stealing my work, injustice, hypocrisy, hate crimes, violence and violation made me poor! it took millions of dollars to make me poor, but it is not going to work! they put me to death 3 times on drugs i was allergic too and still later hired a man to beat me to death with a base ball when i did shows i wrote, with songs i wrote! PEOPLE! we must have CHOICE! my choice was not to be publicly raped to make others money, to not be plagiarized, to have my right to income for my own work, not see it ruined and fund horrible killing and rape and torture! i created that work after suffering cancer, the empathy and wisdom i had learned was taken from it!! my CHOICE WAS TO HAVE A PRIVATE LIFE WITH MY KIDS! MY FAMILY! i have had terminal cancer twice, i am a 5 time cancer survivor, but violation of privacy, being tortured to steal my intellectual property and the terror and horror these thugs have done to my life often while i was deathly sick or in pain is something we can and must STOP NOW! or no worker, no woman, no man no child will ever be safe from exploitation, or no laws against rape and child molestation will work,.it will not work nor will we have a free country, when they see how Epstein, Wienstein, and so many others, some still doing this to me, have profited from this evil, when they read books or hear songs plagiarized from my work, and ruined, they are being groomed to hate woman, hate themselves and loss all HOPE! NO! the truth is i was a good mom, but being forced to starve in ditches, to keep my kids alive, with no anti cancer drugs, was just has bad as any dictatorship the world has ever known! NO MORE! we have a right to our lives, i have aright to profit from my GOOD, ethical work! the bond of mother and child is the strongest bond in the universe,but the thugs using me want to destroy it to control you, but all love, all caring is destroyed with violation and exploitation, for those that do it or allow it! they could not have me raise my own kids, or have my own intellectual property while they wanted to install a new tech-no slavery for their elites benefit! NO! we are not buying it! it will destroy ALL we have of any value! we must WALK the TALK! to survive we must now have truth! i wrote the paper and invented the phrase 'Global Warming[ 1973] it is here now, and proven! i can not still publish my work on safe, cheap, renewable energy! to survive and have anything of any value in YOUR life, not just the thugs torturing me, but the entire world the way they used me was public, and not having my work on energy affects us all! freedom, privacy, restitution, pay me my work, pay me my royalties, to Roberta May Hope Caster, and my kids, Hope under torture, be active for what is good, we do not need you out there partying and laughing, we need you out there telling TRUTH and changing the world for the good of the survival of the world before it is too late, be none violent, HOPE
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Amy not asking the only question that’s relevant: why should anyone believe democrats will actually do anything about abortion (as Biden and Obama both promised to do by enshrining it in law) instead of simply fund raising off from it for another 10 years?
That’s the Democratic M.O. just use the obvious issues as campaign material instead of doing the obvious: CODIFYING OUR RIGHTS.
They continue to fool people with this tactic
@@Noodles1771 actually they signed into law that a woman can travel to get one. If you want to see their accomplishments just go to the white house website. It's easy
It was the law until last year! What makes you think they're not working to get it back in law? They can't do it alone we first had to get them back in office, then replace maga, then most of SCOTUS. Are you going to vote to make that happen rather than complain?
You need to review your civics classes to learn how laws are made, what congress does, and what at executive order is
@@K.L.M.Online None of that is relevant to the fight that was never waged when democrats had two supermajorities in the past 10yrs - an event that only happens 2-3x every 100yrs and typically not for the same party. The issue here is voters like you that would rather offer excuses and apologia instead of holding a this corporate party to account for failed action. This is Democracy Now go to MSNBC if you need thoughtless cows that moo at what they’re told.