• 9 months ago
Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America. | dG1fUFRHU3BJU2EtbG8
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00:00 It is a very scary time in the United States right now for a woman to become pregnant.
00:11 Every aspect is now being subject to state punishment, control and surveillance.
00:17 There's three officers.
00:19 They wanted to know if I had an unlawful miscarriage.
00:22 He's getting out in the handcuffs.
00:26 You have a warrant for your arrest.
00:30 She was still bleeding from having the baby.
00:35 We have to say that life begins at conception.
00:39 Who speaks for the baby?
00:41 We've been passing laws in state after state and they think they're going to waltz in and
00:45 just repeal them?
00:48 It's not going to happen.
00:50 The anti-choice movements, they have moved into positions of power.
00:55 We did not see the onslaught that was coming.
00:57 The last time this country dealt with an issue of this dynamic, we shot each other to doll
01:03 rags on the Civil War battlefield.
01:06 A law had passed.
01:10 It would be illegal to induce my pregnancy.
01:13 I could have lost my love of my life.
01:18 It was 10 days of torture.
01:20 She didn't sign anything.
01:21 What's going on here?
01:22 How can they just be rolling her down the hallway into the operating room?
01:29 The state has the right to intervene in a woman's life from the second she becomes pregnant.
01:36 That's an intrusion in the life of an individual that should shock every true conservative
01:42 in this country.
01:43 Two to three women will die every day in the United States from pregnancy-related complications.
01:48 In some states, it's safer for a woman to go and give birth in a developing country.
01:52 I didn't want to have any more children.
01:54 I had asked my doctor, "Can we go ahead and get my tubes tied?"
01:58 I was told no.
02:00 There's a lot of people who just simply have no idea how horrific it has been.
02:06 If we don't step in, all of these dominoes are going to come down together.
02:12 [Explosion]
02:14 [Music]
02:16 (whooshing)
02:19 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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