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AP News Radio
Judge halts South Carolina’s new stricter abortion law until state Supreme Court review
"South Carolina's newly signed abortion law has been temporarily halted by a judge. Judge Clifton Newman's ruling sends the new law that bans most abortions in South Carolina around 6 weeks of pregnancy to be reviewed. Planned Parenthood sued almost immediately after the bill was signed, a judge Newman said it would end up before the state Supreme Court anyway. The law is similar to one in 2021 that was struck down after the justices ruled three to two that it violated the state constitution's right to privacy lawmakers say the new law includes technical tweaks meant to appeal to justice John few, who wrote in his previous opinion that legislators didn't show that they did any work to determine if 6 weeks was enough time for a woman to know she was pregnant. The halt means the state reverts to a restriction at around 20 weeks for now. Since that decision justice Kay Hearn retired, making the South Carolina high court the only one in the country without a woman on the bench. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
South Carolina poised to enact six-week abortion ban
"To the list of states with near total abortion bans as fights continuing courts and state houses around the country. Lawmakers in South Carolina passed a 6 week abortion ban North Carolina lawmakers overrode the democratic governor's veto of a 12 week ban. Nebraska also passed a 12 week ban am Montana judges weighing restrictions, 14 states currently a bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy. A federal court is deciding whether to uphold the judge's ruling, rescinding approval for the abortion pill mifepristone, which remains on the market for now. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood is laying off up to 15% of its national staff and sending more money to affiliates to focus on state politics, while anti abortion groups Susan B. Anthony is working to get more of their candidates elected
AP News Radio
South Carolina ready to renew abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy after Senate vote
"South Carolina's governor is promising to sign into law a ban on most abortions after around 6 weeks of pregnancy. The state Senate approved the bill Tuesday, and Republican governor Henry McMaster promised to sign it into law as soon as possible. The bill restores a 2021 ban that took effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned roe V wade last year, but the ban was overturned by South Carolina's highest court because it violated the state constitution's right to privacy. Republican state senator Richard cash. Certainly believed the majority of South Carolina's carolinians value life. Republican senator Katrina sheeley offered a 12 week compromise, saying 6 weeks doesn't give women enough time to make a decision. They've got their mindset what they want. They think they know what women want. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic says as soon as the governor signs the measure, it will file a request for a temporary restraining order. I'm Donna Warner
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak Shares His Thoughts on the Wide-Open Southern Border
"All through the weekend, we kept hearing news about the border. And I thought, on Monday morning, I've got to ask John about the border, I still don't particularly understand what exactly is happening. If anyone can say what exactly is happening. But what are your general thoughts? And then we can get into some particulars. Sure. The border is essentially open from the American point of view from the Mexican point of view it's controlled by the cartels, which are human traffickers and drug smugglers. We have ceded sovereignty of the U.S. border, not even to the Mexican government, but to Mexican criminal gangs. It's that simple. Okay, John. So when people say that, like, I know that's true. I know you're not making that up. But then the question becomes, how is that possible? How is it possible that you have a United States government that would allow anything even close to what you just said? How does that become possible? Well, first, I'll give you the legal loopholes through which it happens. Okay. The border is crawling with Soros Soros type attorneys, attorneys who are funded by nonprofits by organizations that make money from the U.S. government spending money on immigrants, legal and illegal. One of the worst is Catholic charities, which is neither Catholic nor a charity. It is about a Catholic Planned Parenthood. Catholic charities exist to suction to Hoover up federal money and give some of it to the bishops.
The Eric Metaxas Show
This Metric Determines the True Pro-Life Stance of GOP Candidates
"I'm talking to John's mirac. John. Again, you've written another article at stream dot org. This one is a little even more disturbing as far as I'm concerned. Let's talk about that one. Yeah, there's a heroic pro life activist named reverend James Harden. And he runs compass care, which is a chain of pregnancy centers that help women save their babies. He his center has been one of the ones most violently attacked by pro abortion activists by James revenge. He decided to do an objective metric to determine how pro life various Republican candidates are. Now that's interesting, right? There's an objective metric. It's not just a matter of arguments. We can actually do the numbers. How could you possibly do the numbers? Well, what Hardin did was he took the proposals, the pro life laws endorsed by various candidates who are running or probably running for president from Nikki Haley to Donald Trump to Ron DeSantis. And he determined how many abortions would be stopped if their laws passed. If they got everything they wanted in terms of federal legislation, what percentage of abortions that are currently perfectly legal would be prevented. And it's called the hardened abortion compromise scale. HARD EN abortion compromised scale. And my friend Jason Jones wrote about it at the stream. The title is, are GOP candidates pro life pro choice or pro grift. Now, by pro grift, we mean people who want to say their pro life, but in fact, what they mean is, I don't want abortions in my town. I don't want to abortion clinics in Texas. Let there be abortion clinics in the airports in California. Let the federal government send abortion pills through the mail to every state in the union, but I want to feel good about myself by saying we've closed a few planned parenthoods in my state.
POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
"planned parenthood" Discussed on POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
"Good morning. I'm playbook deputy editor Zack Stanton. It's Friday, may 5th. In Washington today, everyone is going to be talking about a few big legal developments that happened yesterday. Last night, The Washington Post had the latest in a cascade of scoops that have dropped in recent days about embattled Supreme Court Justice clarence Thomas. The post reports that just over a decade ago, longtime federalist society leader Leonard Leo arranged for clarence Thomas wife Ginny to be paid tens of thousands
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Bridget Ziegler: Getting Involved With Local School Boards
"You left the professional career, you became involved in the local school board race. Why would you be crazy enough to do that, Bridget, obviously, I'm joking. That's not crazy, but please tell us. Please tell or maybe it is. You tell us why. Why did you do it? No, I have three young daughters, and, you know, I got on the school board in 2014 when my oldest was only 8 months old. I have a background in risk consulting, as you mentioned. And I did that for over a decade. But as I've seen particularly in the last four years, really saw a progression of very radical left leaning agendas being pushed into our public education institutions. And it's being pushed through by special interest groups. I think it's a very important distinction for your listeners and everyone in the country to understand that a lot of times it's being misunderstood that it's teachers. There may be a handful of bad actors that are teachers, but that's not where this is coming from. It truly is coming from the top big money education industrial complex as I talk as I reference frequently. And it's special interest groups like the Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood. I mean, very extreme, less leaning organizations that are finding their way into that. So I'm concerned about the direction of our country and the future for our children. And so I went all in. I've learned a lot as a school board member. I've had a front row seat and my goal is to train tens of thousands of activists, candidates and get them to win so that we can redirect course.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Acquitted Pro-Life Activist Mark Houck Reveals Details of His Trial
"Mark, you talked about this harrowing raid by the FBI, you go to trial. Now, as I understand it, the essential absurdity of the whole situation is that the face act is about protecting women who are accessing, reproductive services, but am I right that this guy was not at the time escorting anyone per se. So no reproductive services were being interfered with by you or your son, talk about how the trial went to just give us a summary and talk about what you felt as you were going through this and what the jury decided in the end. Sure. So you're exactly right. There was no women involved or men at the time of the altercation. The motive was that the government was trying to prove was that beyond a reasonable doubt was that I was trying to stop this man from doing reproductive healthcare work. Now, the face act says that a volunteer escort per Ted Kennedy and when they institute this bill, is that it does not apply to escorts and even people on the sidewalk. It applies to people in the building. So they had to prove in the court to the jury of my peers that this was what my intention was in pushing him. Which was not, of course, because I was a father just protecting my son. So I looked at the trial and advanced the trial as a journey of the stations of the cross. And so when we got to the trial, we were at station ten and it was a strip Jesus was being stripped of his garments. And so I experienced the passion of Jesus very quickly in about four days at the trial. And it was very interesting. Jury selection, almost all the jury members were supportive of a Planned Parenthood when we were doing our pre screening of them. They all seem to support that. So it didn't really seem to be reflective of my peer group. But nonetheless, they were very objective. And they were honest. And they saw it for what it was, that this was just a shove. It happens every day, pretty much on the street of Philadelphia. And the trial was very interesting. We saw that Planned Parenthood destroyed evidence. We saw that the FBI's investigation was very tainted and skewed. And really biased. And so there was a lot of discrimination against me to put me in this situation.
AP News Radio
Health secretary slams abortion pill ruling as 'not America'
"The Health and Human Services secretary says nothing is off the table when it comes to making sure the leading abortion pill remains available, including recommending the FDA ignore a court order. Rallies and protests were held across the country this weekend. Meanwhile, president Joe Biden tells secretary Javier becerra told CNN State of the Union, they're doing everything to fight a Texas federal judge's ruling suspending the FDA's approval of mifepristone in use since 2000, the Justice Department already appealing, and there's also a competing ruling from a Washington state federal judge. Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson says mifepristone is safe and the Texas judge's ruling is wrong. He relied a lot on junk science. If I can even call it science, science that was put before him by anti abortion opponents. Mifepristone and misoprostol, another abortion drug remain available while the case works its way through the courts. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
Idaho governor signs 'abortion trafficking' bill into law
"Idaho's governor has signed into law a bill that makes it a crime to help a minor get an abortion without parental consent. The law signed by governor Brad little is the first of its kind in the U.S., and it makes it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion without the permission of the miners parent or guardian that includes obtaining abortion pills or taking the minor to another state for an abortion, any one breaking the law would face two to 5 years in prison, and could also be sued by the miners parent or guardian, parents who raped their child would not be able to sue, but the criminal penalties would remain in effect. Idaho's state director for Planned Parenthood alliance advocates west says on Twitter that the legislation is despicable and we're going to do everything in our power to stop it. I'm not a water
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Guns Don't Kill People, Planned Parenthood Kills People
"Go to your calls. First up, line one, from the city of brotherly love, fell from Philly. That's what that's what I was talking about. I'm telling you when you open up with president Trump, he went right for the juggler back in the good graces with my pizzeria employee at they said they said, Bill, we know what you're talking about now. He gave us the shot of tester oil that America needed on a big old tablespoon. We are like, we are Ratched up for this guy. A doctor G before I forget I'll let you go. A new T-shirt. Yeah. Guns don't tell people Planned Parenthood kills people. Oh, oh, we've got a new T-shirt coming up that's gun related later this today, but hang on. That's a really good one. Wow. Did you come up with that or did you steal that from somebody Phil? I saw that a month ago and I said, my God, that makes so much sense and it's just been in the back of my brain to tell you. That's bloody genius, all right?
The Trish Regan Show
Rep. Brad Wenstrup and Trish Unpack Biden's Obscene Budget Proposal
"Want to get your thoughts on this rather ridiculous and obscene proposal that we saw from President Biden. I think it helps us understand where the left is really coming from. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, you're talking about his budget. Budget proposal. Yeah, fortunately, it's not law. It's a budget. It's even our budget. If when we produce it, sets our priorities. And I can tell you that our priorities are for us to become more fiscally responsible. We would like to not increase taxes. We would prefer to make it to the best you can to come to America. But you know, they have all these things in there for climate and they actually want to cut funding to the Department of Homeland Security. When we have this porous border that we were just basically talking about when we talk about the drug, the drug problem, their budget includes basically millions of dollars to help Planned Parenthood for abortion, you know, all these things as culture of death that they seem to be so in favor of, you know, that's really, you know, where they are. Well, I think they need to start praying and send the Pledge of Allegiance a little more. There's something to be said for patriotism for being proud of your country from being proud of all that we have accomplished as a nation. I'll tell you, you know what? The world would be a very different place if it was not for America. And people should never, ever, ever forget that. We have done so much to help so many countries. And if it weren't for us, and the risks that we were willing to take on, I guess for one thing, we'd probably all be speaking German. But
The Officer Tatum Show
The Process of Data Points
"All right, let's get back to the processing of particular statistical data points. You know, you can always talk about disparities. And it's funny because when the disparity is in favor of the minority, nobody thinks it's a problem at all. And it's not worth researching they're looking into. And I would argue that sports and entertainment disproportionately black people are dominating. But that's not a bad thing if minorities are a dominating disproportionately in certain fields. You know, and I would argue these left is that look at Planned Parenthood, why is it that more black people more black women have more abortions than anybody else? Per CAPiTA. Why? Disproportionately, black people are having more abortions. Disproportionately, black people commit more crime. Disproportionately, blacks kill whites versus whites killing blacks. Disproportionately black people representing represented in a criminal justice system and in the prison system. Can you explain that? that's what when you see those disproportionate numbers, people like to back off of it and go make excuses.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric Chats With 'The Invincible Family' Author, Kimberly Ells
"Back. I continue my conversation with Kimberly L's ELL S, the book is the invincible family why the global campaign to crush motherhood and fatherhood can't win. You're this week here with us in New York at the UN. And I've never been a big fan of the UN and whenever I talk to somebody like you about things like this, it gives me more and more evidence of why I shouldn't be a fan of the UN. They are promoting things that are abominable to me to almost all people of faith in the world and to most people in the world in general. But they are the cultural elites. They are all convinced that this is the right thing to partner with Planned Parenthood. But there's something deeply creepy when Planned Parenthood is partnering with the World Health Organization on and on. It goes and using the UN. It's kind of like this wink wink wink like we all know what's right and whom we're fighting. And whom they're fighting generally speaking is people with faith in the God of the Bible, the God of the Bible, the ideas that have been part of civilization from the beginning. And it's an extraordinary thing that they feel they can do this. But you're thesis in the book the invincible family is that they can't succeed. That's right. And that's the hopeful message and all of this. It seems quite daunting. We've got these global forces that are coalescing and they have billions of dollars in budget because the nations of the world are supporting this in various ways and Planned Parenthood is getting rich off of our children. But in the end, the answer to all this attack on the family, ironically, is the family itself. And it can't it can't be totally broken. It can be abandoned. We can leave our own marriages. We can not get married. We can not care for our own children and all these things. But the thing is, in most cases, when a man and woman come together and they create a life, they create a baby together. In most cases, they're going to love that baby. And that's going to Trump all else, and the love of a mother and a father for their baby is the motivating force behind almost everything they do.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Former Rep. Jason Lewis of Minnesota Shares His Story
"Bit about your background and then what, you know, what staircase you fell down to say, I need to run for Congress, you know? Well, you do, I was in the airport the other day and somebody came up to me, and said, I know you, didn't you used to fill in for Russia and you were in Congress for a while and I said, yep, that's me and they said, whatever happened to you anyway. We all get those. Well, look, I grew up in a small business family. My mom was from north Minneapolis. My dad was from Iowa. We settled in the Hawkeye state, but Minnesota was the second home. So when I fell into talk radio after graduate school, I opportunity to go home to Minneapolis and St. Paul, I did. And that was in the early 90s and raised my two daughters here for 30 years. Loved it. Got into radio. It was fortunate enough to hit the timing was good, telling them for rush and had my own syndicated show for a while. But at some point, Doug, you know what it's like, you could be a commentator so long, but after a while, you got to put your money where your mouth is and you want to get on the field and play. Because the only way to really change things is to vote for them. So I thought, and most, by the way, most commentators won't talk most talk show hosts don't do that because they can demagogue your previous comments like Supreme Court Justices from and I knew that would happen with me and it did with CNN and all the rest. But I really didn't care. I just said, look, I want to do something. And I was fortunate to come into Congress with a new president when we really had an opportunity to do things and we did. But it was really just more of an angst about, look, you can talk all day long, but at some point, get sued up, get in the game. And so I did do that and served. I thought in one of the more consequential terms of Congress, and then I ran for the U.S. Senate alongside the president, here in Minnesota, and two years ago, and October, we were neck and neck with Tina Smith, who was the Democrat, I would say from Minnesota, but really she represents Planned Parenthood. Her former employer. But I felt that we were going to win Minnesota. I really felt the president went. And we did great. I collected more votes than any other statewide cabinet in Minnesota history. We outperformed the top of the ticket by two points, but we had 1.9 million absentee ballots at 60% of the total Minnesota vote gained by mail.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Democrats Paraded Abortion Pins to the State of the Union Address
"This battle, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on, again, last night with, I think Sean Hannity, she pointed out how far left the Democrats have gone. They're so far left and so crazy, it's almost impossible to take it seriously anymore. The abortion debate is a serious one. In fact, the overturning of roe V wade costs the election. Had roe V wade not being overturned, we'd have a majority in the House and the Senate. There's no doubt in my mind. But it is what it is. Lives have been saved and babies are being born that wouldn't have been born if roe V wade hadn't been overturned. Thank God for the Supreme Court, too bad for the timing of it politically because I knew the day that it was announced. That was going to cost us dearly in the midterm election and it did because people are absolutely goofy. By worshiping at the altar of abortion. You don't believe me? Have you heard about the abortion pins? That a number of prominent Democrats were wearing and Biden State of the Union this week? Pins provided by Planned Parenthood? If I told you they were wearing pins that say essentially I love abortion, you'd think I need to be taken out of here in a butterfly net, right? There's no way you'd believe it. I shot it on social media. I thought there's not real. They're not wearing a pin that says I love abortion or abortion with a heart in it. There's no way. I mean, they're not that crazy. I know they're vicious in their occasionally evil. They're not that evil, are they? Oh, they are.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Pro-Lifer Mark Houck Committed No Crime
"I was fired up a couple months ago when the Biden department adjusted this decided to deploy a S.W.A.T. team to go after a pro life leader and that same DoJ told us they can't find the Supreme Court leaker, sorry, just not interested. Almost nobody arrested for my knowledge on federal hate crime charges for the firebombing or the arson of pro life clinics, but what they focused their attention on was going after a pro life dad who's a pro life activist, storming the home and trying to do a show trial to say that if you support pro life ideas, if you are a pro life activist, we are going to show the world that we're going to make you suffer. Well, Mark hauk was rated by the FBI indicted by the Department of Justice and has now been acquitted a federal jury rejected the government's intimidation against pro life people and Mark hawk joins us now. Mark, welcome to the program. Greetings, Charlie. Thanks for having me. Mark, tell us your story first, the situation that's in question, and then walk us through the day the FBI arrived. Sure. So all glory be to God for this opportunity and it all began on October 13th, 2021. Which was the day that my son and I and my 12 year old son at the time were coming into the city of Philadelphia for our normal prayer vigil, our weekly prayer vigil. We've been doing it for myself 20 years and my son for the last two years with me. And on this particular day, the fall afternoon after about 45 minutes of praying there was an altercation between myself and a Planned Parenthood escort. And that ensued to be, I guess, more problems with this man because that initial altercation where he was interfering with my First Amendment rights to give literature out to abortion minded men and women who come and go from the facility. Led him to further harass me and my son.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Details of Pro-Life Activist Mark Houck's "Crime"
"Want to talk about the case of pro life activist Mark hawk for the simple reason that if it can happen to Mark hawk, it can happen to anybody. We're not talking here about Trump. We're not talking here about even the people who on their own initiative went to Washington D.C. at January 6th. We talk about a guy who's involved in politics, but really not even so much at the ideological or partisan level, more at the ethical level. Mark hawk is a dad, he is a really nice guy, and he's a really dedicated guy. So here's a fellow who drove two hours each way, once a week. To do sidewalk counseling. And he would try to persuade women who were heading into having an abortion, but that's not a good idea. There are other options available to them. And he does this in a loving way and he does this in a way that is looking out for the welfare of these women and also of their unborn. Also of their unborn. Well, it turns out that on October 13th, 2021, Mark hawke, accompanied by his 12 year old son. And that in itself is interesting, he apparently was a dad who had a good relationship with his son, his son, too, was involved in pro life activism, the two of them go together. What happens is an escort at the Planned Parenthood facility starts harassing Mark hog's son, not Mark, but his son. And he starts making crude and antagonistic remarks and kind of going in the sun's face. And what does mark hog do? He pushes him away. He pushes him away. So the guy evidently claims that he quote fell back, but according to reports at the time, he didn't have any wounds. He didn't have any injuries. It's not like he fell on his head and cracked his head open. None of that.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Priest Faces Prison Time After Blocking Entrance to Abortion Clinic
"Let's talk about this priest, father Fidelis Mosin. Biden DoJ has gone after him for violating the face act. And the face act is you can obstruct an abortion clinic. Now let's remember that this space act, by the way, was passed when there was a constitutional right to abortion asserted by the court. Right. Now there's no such right, and yet what the Biden people are doing is they're pushing ahead with the face act. To go after a pro lifers. Now, this guy, look, I mean, at Hempstead, New York, July 7th, 2022, he apparently put multiple locks on the gate to the Planned Parenthood facility. Then the cops came in the fire department and they ended when they cut the locks, he physically lay down on the driveway blocking cars. So this guy is an activist. I mean, but I don't think, look, leftists do this all the time. They block access to Wall Street. You come and cut the locks, they put there. And what are the cops do they drag them off, and then business resumes? Apparently, yeah, and look at antifa, what they do, much worse. Much, much worse. How many people in antifa are serving 6 months in jail? Yeah, exactly. According to the defense in this case, the rescue resulted in a ten minute traffic obstruction. And so they're like, look, we're not saying he didn't do something, but it should be a misdemeanor. They should not be prosecuted as a felony. This guy doesn't need to go to federal prison. But unfortunately, this is the let me ask you a question. I mean, is there a way that the face act itself could be overturned?
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"planned parenthood" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"So if you're interested, I do talk about that over my channel. But there's a song by Mike Shinoda that he wrote on his post traumatic album after Chester, the lead singer lost his life to suicide. It's called over again. And it says sometimes you don't say goodbye once. You say goodbye over and over and over again. And the song just talks about, you know, nobody really knows when grief is going to hit or win when you're just going to be sitting there doing the dishes or something, you know, and all of a sudden you just get hit with that all over again and that can be a year or 5, ten, 20 years later, we never know. So when I found out I was in panic, just utter panic that's obviously a very common thing for people to go through. Yeah, was panic. I just remember thinking my visions blurring what's going on. There could be two lines right now. What are we doing? And I was just in this apartment and I felt so dissociated. I literally just felt like I was on a movie set and I thought I was dreaming. I'm sitting there going. I'm dreaming I'm hallucinating. This isn't happening. So it's very much in denial. And my partner was just so hot or cold. So hot or cold. And there was one part of him that's so much. And then a part of him, he literally told me the night before that I deserve to have panic attacks. And yeah, literally told me the night before I was about to go do this that I deserve to have panic attacks and I need to shut the left hand sleep. I will never forget that. And I believed it at the time. That's the worst part about it is I was just in such a state of shock and grief that I believed it. But I honestly, I think that my story is a little bit unique in the sense that well unique to me and unique in the narrative that shared a lot with the mainstream is that.
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"planned parenthood" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"So many people that are saying, I don't want to do this. I don't want to be here. I don't want to make this choice, but I feel like I have no other option. And to me, at that point, that's no better than the pro life side that's kind of trying to trap you into a trap you, but that they don't believe that you should be able to make the alternate choice that they want to put you in a position where you would have to have the baby. And I just, I think that there should be common sense restrictions, they think that they're very much should be regulations that the industry should be better regulated. I think that we should be listening when people are saying something's wrong with the way things are done with the practices. Here's something I noticed that I found very interesting, kind of comparing the two. With Planned Parenthood when there was a series of undercover videos that came out showing some Planned Parenthood workers speaking really, really poor decisions and accepting patients and clients who were being brought in by their pimps and things like that. But these were underage girls or girls that were in the sex industry. And you could very much tell that they were being coarse. And there were certain workers that were making poor decisions are going against protocol. Now Planned Parenthood's immediate reaction was to say, note that never happened, even though the full unedited videos of these interactions were online. So Planned Parenthood tried to say, oh, they were edited and everything. No, you could get, you could see the fool and it in videos online. Instead of taking this opportunity to say, you know what, we can improve our training. We can better screen our people, you know, we can better watch our people instead of taking this opportunity to improve their organization, they double down on note the pro life movements just lying and they're making this stuff up..
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"planned parenthood" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"Like two. You kind of have the two extreme perspectives. And so for you to be able to come together and be able to say like, okay, so this is what this is what I found through my journey and experience with this object matter. I think that's really really wonderful. Yeah, the interesting thing is, is I could absolutely argue both points. You know, I know the talking points of both sides so well. I was actually I would go speak at the capitol in Sacramento California on behalf of Planned Parenthood and speak to the news outlets and speak to the representatives and stuff there. And then later, I ended up being a kind of social media coordinator for Abby. So I was responding to people on her social media platforms and stuff. And helping her with her outreach, not because I was pro life or not because I was opposed to abortion. But I could very much respond as she would, because I knew exactly what the talking points and the important points were. And. Her stances and her things have very much changed over time. But at the time when I volunteered at Planned Parenthood, I am not gonna lie. I hated the pro life movement. I mean, vehemently hated the pro life movement, partially because Planned Parenthood kind of set that in my mind that these were the bad guys. These were the people trying to take our rights away, and they were trying to ruin my life and all this. So I had this very strong narrative in my mind of what these people were, but also because I had a personal experience. And this is something I haven't talked about publicly, but I had this personal experience where I found myself in an unplanned pregnancy shortly after my mom passed away. And I panicked and I didn't know what to do and I didn't want to have an abortion and I reached out to the pro life movement to the people that had been protesting at my clinic for all this time and saying, we love you and we care about you and will help you no matter what. And I reached out, and I said, look, this is a situation I'm in. And here I am, you know, playing Paradise court putting her tail between her legs, saying I need your help. And it seemed on the surface. It's okay, we're going to take you to the crisis pregnancy centers and we're going to help you, but it was really, we're going to give you diapers and formula and you can figure out the hell out on your own. And that was very disheartening because here I am a person that just lost her mom. I'm on my own. I have no money. I have nothing to speak up. I'm literally scraping by month month and they're going, well, we'll give you some diapers and formula. And I just had the worst taste in my mouth about the entire movement because I thought that that's what they were, you know, or these people that were love you and we're going to take you under our wing. Oh, no, you're too much trouble. You're too needy. You have too many needs. And Abby was the first person that I came across that wasn't like that that she very much when I end up getting pregnant with my son said, what
The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"planned parenthood" Discussed on The Manic Pixie Weirdo
"We are creating as a society, it's become very much an us versus them mentality. And when you're stuck in that, when you're stuck in these are my beliefs and no one and nothing could ever swing me from those beliefs, you missed a really amazing opportunity to learn and to grow. And for me, learning different things and learning different perspectives helped me step away from the narrative that I was being given by whatever people, you know, by the representatives, like my state representatives or Planned Parenthood themselves or fellow volunteers, I could step away and say, but that's not what I believe that's not what I agree with. Let me formulate my own feelings and opinions instead of just parroting what I'm told. And that nowadays, I think, is more useful than ever and more needed than ever because we're so afraid that if we listen to another person or give even thought to another person's experience or opinion, then we're in some way, betraying our own, and that's just simply not true. Yes, I completely agree. The other thing that I find sometimes hard to do, especially when talking about difficult subjects like this is I will open myself up to because I am pretty adamantly pro choice. As far as like my abortion stance is concerned, I have mixed feelings about Planned Parenthood, just in general. And I think that's probably true for a lot of people, just like the organization itself. As a stand-alone like organization, but I have found myself where I where I'm somebody who I want to understand both sides. I want to understand what are all the points.
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"If that child's decides to have children of their own it does for the rest of your life. You are linked with that person forever forever forever until the day you die. You are linked with that person for good or bad or ugly year linked that person because you have a child with them and so an argument could be made that i didn't trap him for forever But i did trap him in the choice that i chose to make for selfish reasons i can see argument being made for that For selfish reasons and yes it was a selfish reason. It came out of a place of love and it came out of a place of fear as well. It came out of both. And i think that it can. I think that it can come out of both places The fear being that. I would trap this person for forever but also the fear of if i didn't make the decision myself than a choice was going to be made for me and i didn't like what those choices were because i knew i couldn't do them and out of a place of love because i did love that person enough to at least tell them what i was choosing to do and like i said i got really lucky. Because he was very supportive. Very very supportive of the choice that i made. I went by myself to get this done. But because i wasn't like super far along i was only about eight or nine weeks along. It was the pill. I took the pills kind of a thing which to be. Perfectly honest ended up being slightly more traumatic than i thought. Because is it triggered my addictive side. It triggered that addictive part in my brain and because i was a recovering addict From prescription pill medication it like really triggered that part of my addiction. Oddly enough i did not choose to go back to pills I chose to drink my pain away which didn't work because it never works on. It works for a little while but it eventually stops working so giant. Find the answers at the bottom of a bottle never works because the answers aren't at the bottom of the bottle unfortunately at least not for me but yeah so it was traumatic in a different way it was like it was almost like it was too easy like i felt like it was too easy like this like. I'm i should be punished for this. I need to be like this. This was supposed to be like just as traumatic as the as the miscarriage was supposed to be because for for a long time. I felt like i deserved that. Thought trauma from the miscarriage..
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"I had i. I feel like when the miscarriage situation happened when i was pregnant. The first time. I felt like those all of my options except for keeping the child had been taken away from me and so i got. I made a choice out of fear that those choice that if i told anybody that i was gonna get like if i got a second opinion kind of thing then those options were going to go away instantly again and so it was better for me if i just didn't tell anybody and made the choice on my own and i chose to have an abortion because again i looked around and i was like i work at like minimum. I have a good job. I do a good job That has really good benefits. But i barely make enough to support me and there's no way in hell that either one of us could support a child's because we both barely make enough to support each other plus. I got very very afraid that. If i chose to keep the child that the person that i was with he would feel like i had trapped him and that was not okay with me and i had a little bit more leeway because i was in a better place i had a little bit more leeway i feel to to figure out the like the moral and ethical implications of the choices that i was going to make and i felt like i had a little bit more leeway to explore those options now. I found out at eight weeks so i'm gonna let that sink in for a second. I found out at eight weeks that this was what was happening. And luckily i did have a doctor who is very supportive In whatever choices that i show. And whatever choice i chose to make definitely presented me with all of my options and was pretty much like you know. Just whatever you decide to do kind of thing. And i knew that i wasn't strong enough to have the child and give it up for adoption..
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"But i'm i'm getting better. I'm i'm i'm trying to get a lot better about like about all of those things especially since i think i've gotten a lot better from the like from that Like from that point in time But yeah so that. Was that now fast forward. A couple of years so i was twin four sisters rather recently within the last four or five years. Kind of thing again. I was on birth control. I was trying to do because that was because that was traumatic. For me i like. I didn't have sex for really long time Not with a man anyway. I didn't have sex with a man for a very long time. After that. And i so because i wasn't having sex with men i kind of like shied away a little bit from birth control Because i was like well. It's not even possible like can't happen if i'm like exclusively having sex with women but then You know things started to get a little bit more normalized in my life. Like things started to calm down and i moved to texas and You know i. I decided okay so i moved. I moved here like we're gonna we're gonna start over. We're going to kind of clean slate. Fresh start sort of thing. And so i made an appointment you know as you do for your annual exam and i decided that i wanted to get back on birth control but i knew i didn't want to do the pill because i had a very traumatic experience with with that And so i need. I wanted something a little bit more like reliable Now i knew people who had like got the thing and their arm So i was like looking into doing that And i was talking to my doctor about it and shoes go. Have you heard of an iud It lasts for like five years. We put it in your good for five years. Like it's good to go and i was like well because cashews lutheran your arm like it can have a lot of side effects including like you know weight gain and i know you said that that was sort of a thing she did say though that like it kinda didn't really matter what birth control i was on that was gonna be a side effect weight gain or weight. Loss was gonna be like it was going to affect my weight just because of the hormones and stuff and so but she. But the reason that i went with the iud was because the thing in your arm. I don't even remember what it's called but the thing in your arm only lasts for like three years. But the i you d was like she's like no less for five years and i was like well..
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"Same nurse that had you know asked me. Do i want to know what the sex of the child is and told me that everything was fine and that the heartbeat was strong and everything was good. I remember she came in and she was like you're miscarrying and it was like the look on her face like she like. She didn't understand because she was like. I just saw you like two hours ago and everything was fine. And now we're here and you're miscarrying and i don't remember like feeling that same kind of way with her. I remember just i. If i'm being perfectly honest. I remember like immense relief like immense immense relief because it was to me And i've said this many times before. I'm not religious. I'm not a religious person. I don't do organized religion. If i am anything it would be like spiritual. I guess if anything at all but i remember feeling like immense relief and being like the fucking university new man thank you universe. It was almost like i was absolved. I remember this feeling of like almost feeling like i was absolve of because i felt like i was absolved. Having to make those choices. Like i was very much absolve. Like i didn't like i didn't actually have to make any of the bad decisions because that choice was made for me and like just a wave of relief. Came over.
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"Real. it became real semi that moment Because before they had just done like a like a urine like a urine test. And then when i was like Now you're wrong They were like okay for sure. Were wrong so they did a blood test and that's when they were in and yeah they weren't wrong. I was wrong. And so i hadn't up to that point i hadn't like had anything you know Like i hadn't been able i know older sound no prenatal vitamins lee. Nothing and i remember hearing the heartbeat and i remember them asking like we can tell you with the socks of the baby is and i remember this very lake. It was very out of body for me like it. Didn't it was one of those times. Where i was like like i saw myself say the words and then like immediately after the words came out of my mouth i was like did i really say that out loud or like what's happening because what i said was no. Do not tell me. Because i think in my brain it was like if i knew like i'd already heard the heartbeat and they said that the heartbeat was good and it was strong and like everything was fine and it was okay But like did i wanna know and i remember being like no no. Do not tell me. And i think it kind of took the nurse back a little bit. I don't remember if. I said it like really forcefully if it was like no like no don't like a lot of fear in that voice I don't remember how. I said. I just remember saying like no. I don't want to know Because i think in my brain it was very like. If i know the sex of the baby i will become more attached and then this won't make everything even harder because like i said i only i had just found out like seven days beforehand that i was even pregnant so this was all very very fast Very very i was..
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"I was only with the knowledge that i pregnant for about a week before i miscarried and so i really only had the information for a very short period of time and i remember i start like when it began to like start happening. I was spotting. And i i remember like googling lick. Is this bad kind of thing like i had. I didn't know what did i know i knew nothing. I knew absolutely nothing I thought i knew everything i still think. I know everything. I don't i absolutely don't Like not even close. Like the more that i learn the more i'm like. Wow abigail your complete moron I feel stupid a lot like really dumb. Like all the time Because there's like. I'll get presented with information and i'm like well I never thought about it like that interesting. I now i feel like an idiot And i remember like googling is spotting bad and then i remember like like and this is kind of the problem with like googling stuff and sort of china's self-diagnose And i knew better a hundred percent. I knew better like i have so many people that i know that are in like the healthcare profession and like their number one gripe especially like in. The er is your. Google search does not equate to my medical degree and at one hundred percent doesn't like it a thousand percent does not and that's and i totally got. It makes complete sense to me like. Please stop like from the healthcare perspective. Please stop googling shut and just listen to us. Okay like we know what we're talking about like you have no idea and sort of my like like a lot of my proof in that is not just the fact that like i have had numerous people in the healthcare profession. Like tell me that this is like their number one like one of their main gripes but like personal experience like i googled is spotting like bad kind of thing. I don't know i didn't know as twenty. I was barely twenty years old. Like i found out i was pregnant like on my twentieth birthday like the day i turned twenty i found out i was pregnant Happy birthday to me like no. It was awful. But i just remember googling it and not getting a good answer like there were some websites that have found that were like no. It's normal it's completely vine And then other ones that relate no bad like red flags like this is not good. I ended and i ended up going to the hospital Because i was freaking out. Because i couldn't i had no idea i was like i don't know like is this good as bad. No one can tell me i. The internet can't help me here. Like feels like nobody's really knows so. I ended up going to the hospital. And they take you to the maternity ward blah blah blah. It was very dramatic..
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"And a side effect of sarah quill is that you will gain weight. And so i kind of chalked it up to like well you know. Maybe that's what it is. Eventually i stopped taking it because the weight gain became very very very triggering to me and So i just stopped taking it. Because i couldn't handle it just wasn't good for my mental health to have that sort of be A side effect of the medication that i was on because it really really affected my my ability to like focus on other things by so i found out and how i found out that i was pregnant was i ended up like i don't remember why i was at the hospital or doctor's office. Whatever it was. But i somehow i ended up like in a situation where i had to go to the doctor and that was when they were like. So you're pregnant and oh by the way you're like five months pregnant Like four to five months pregnant. And i was like oh.
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"State if you qualify as being a part of the upper middle class. At least what's left of it or a wealthy this does not affect you at all. You will still be able to get an abortion. And that's just a fact. There's people generally will go to states where it is legal to have an abortion after six weeks and or they'll go to other countries like canada or france Those are two really popular places. That people will go and get an abortion and you just kind of go away for a long weekend or a week and nobody really talks about it. That much So it doesn't really affect those with money as always It really affects people. Who would be considered inocencio economic class of poor or lower middle class again. What's left of the middle class Not much left That that divide is gaping as a gaping hole in it. But that's not. That's not what we're here to talk about right now That's a different episode that we will cover at some point. Do not fear it really. It really affects those those socioeconomic groups and minorities allot those are the chew food groups. I guess that it will affect the most and who hot button issues. yeah so i was. I was about twenty. When i found out that i was pregnant. And i didn't find out that i was pregnant until the second trimester now. This is not true for every woman that gets pregnant. This is just happened to be true for me When i was pregnant the first time. I didn't show very much. I didn't it just kind of looked like i was getting a little bit of weight but i wasn't showing like my belly. Wasn't you know huge. I wasn't. I was definitely like eating more and iras lake more hungry I don't remember having any like weird cravings or anything like that My weight has always been like a really big issue for me We'll talk about that on a future episode as well.
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"Is gaping as a gaping hole in it. But that's not. That's not what we're here to talk about right now That's a different episode that we will cover at some point. Do not fear it really. It really affects those those socioeconomic groups and minorities allot those are the chew food groups. I guess that it will affect the most and who hot button issues. yeah so i was. I was about twenty. When i found out that i was pregnant. And i didn't find out that i was pregnant until the second trimester now. This is not true for every woman that gets pregnant. This is just happened to be true for me When i was pregnant the first time. I didn't show very much. I didn't it just kind of looked like i was getting a little bit of weight but i wasn't showing like my belly. Wasn't you know huge. I wasn't. I was definitely like eating more and iras lake more hungry I don't remember having any like weird cravings or anything like that My weight has always been like a really big issue for me We'll talk about that on a future episode as well but it never like it. Wasn't plainly obvious that i was pregnant. it definitely just looked like i had been you know gaining some weight which was normal. I later found out which is normal for For me my mom when she was pregnant with me Because i'm the oldest. She found out she notoriously has said that people asked her you know. Are you sure you're pregnant. Because she wasn't showing she just wasn't showing and i have met many many many other women who have had that same experience where you know your pants just kind of fit a little bit tighter and you feel like you're just kinda gaining weight. You're not you don't really know like unless you have a reason to now Or to suspect that that could be the case that you could be pregnant. You don't it's just not like plainly obvious. Let's just not something that you do and i especially. It didn't really occur to me to think that i was pregnant. Because i was on birth control I was taking the pill at the time. Ever this view. The don't know about the pill. I am not a huge advocate for the pill just because of my own personal experience of the pill You have to take it like every single day like at the same time every single day. And it kind of renders the birth control useless. If you like skip a day or you like don't take it at the same time and i was.
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"Is gaping as a gaping hole in it. But that's not. That's not what we're here to talk about right now That's a different episode that we will cover at some point. Do not fear it really. It really affects those those socioeconomic groups and minorities allot those are the chew food groups. I guess that it will affect the most and who hot button issues. yeah so i was. I was about twenty. When i found out that i was pregnant. And i didn't find out that i was pregnant until the second trimester now. This is not true for every woman that gets pregnant. This is just happened to be true for me When i was pregnant the first time. I didn't show very much. I didn't it just kind of looked like i was getting a little bit of weight but i wasn't showing like my belly. Wasn't you know huge. I wasn't. I was definitely like eating more and iras lake more hungry I don't remember having any like weird cravings or anything like that My weight has always been like a really big issue for me We'll talk about that on a future episode as well but it never like it. Wasn't plainly obvious that i was pregnant. it definitely just looked like i had been you know gaining some weight which was normal. I later found out which is normal for For me my mom when she was pregnant with me Because i'm the oldest. She found out she notoriously has said that people asked her you know. Are you sure you're pregnant. Because she wasn't showing she just wasn't showing and i have met many many many other women who have had that same experience where you know your pants just kind of fit a little bit tighter and you feel like you're just kinda gaining weight. You're not you don't really know like unless you have a reason to now Or to suspect that that could be the case that you could be pregnant. You don't it's just not like plainly obvious. Let's just not something that you do and i especially. It didn't really occur to me to think that i was pregnant. Because i was on birth control I was taking the pill at the time. Ever this view. The don't know about the pill. I am not a huge advocate for the pill just because of my own personal experience of the pill You have to take it like every single day like at the same time every single day. And it kind of renders the birth control useless. If you like skip a day or you like don't take it at the same time and i was.
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"God hotcakes on sports. He is but he's done he's not you pardoned him. He's coming back. He wants to drew. Brees i to throw him in prison and deep dives into the paranormal. The loveland fragment at approximately three thirty. Am and unnamed. Businessman are the most credible witness. Maybe you just doing business. When i saw a join us every monday. And let's talk most available on apple podcasts. Spotify and all your favorite podcasting apps what is up weirdos. You're listening to the manic pixie weirdo. I'm abigail your host and this is the podcast where we talk about all the different kinds of relationships that we have in our lives so this week. We're talking about my personal relationship with abortion and planned parenthood. you couldn't tell by the title This is the hot button issue. Especially right now. I did not plan this but it just sort of like happened this way that this was coming out right around the same time. Thoughts Texas reliably texas's abortion law. Passed So i wanted to go ahead and put a big trigger warning all. Put it in the description and everything too but a big trigger warning four miscarriages trauma and abortion. Because i will be talking about like my personal experience with those those topics so i just wanted to go ahead and put a bigger warning if those are very sensitive topics for you. Please don't hesitate to turn off the podcast or just not listen to it. Skip it altogether Because it is such a hot button issue and it you know it can hit a lot of nerves with people so I just wanted to go ahead and put that big trigger warning up here at the top of the episode Just for everybody so that you can protect yourself skies protect yourselves. Yeah and don't feel bad if this is an episode that you feel ready to listen to or even want to listen to you. It's completely fine. it's not for everybody. Then that's totally without being said though. I do want to go ahead and just get right into it so okay like i said this is a big hot button issue especially right now and i did not plan this. It just happened to work out this way. that right. Around the time that the oppression. Bill passed in texas and several other states south alabama. Chew believe in a couple of others. Y- just happened that way it just. It really just happened that way. So let's get right into it. So i have.