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- Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision protecting people's right to have an abortion in the United States, will be overturned within a year, says reproductive rights attorney Kathryn Kolbert. In this electrifying call to action, she breaks down the systematic attack against reproductive freedom in the US and envisions what a post-Roe world could look like. "First, we've got to build a badass social justice movement," she says. (This talk was recorded December 3, 2021)
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The fact that everything in her talk turned out to be right on the money and happened TODAY is astounding.
&Cause for Great Celebration :D
SECULAR PROLIFE.
Also, She LIES about abortions being so safe.
There's all kinds of complications involved, besides of course, The Violent Murder Of A New Human Life.
But who cares about the unborn anyway ???
@@nunyadambidniss Y'all say a fetus is alive from the moment of conception, or the moment there is a 'heartbeat' (which isnt even a heartbeat. As a medical student who studied what is and isnt a fetal heartbeat, those cells would pulse if laid out on a petri dish). That's not true. and y'all are the ones who would let a woman carry a corpse in her body despite the risk of disease or infection. Is that what 'living' is to you?
@@nunyadambidniss Also, how do you know the complications of abortions when you've never had one, hmm? Don't speak for other women (if you even are a woman) about the complications of an abortion.
Good.
Holy Crap, her outlining of which states would ban abortion is really accurate.
@@scottharrison699 Firstly, what laws in Europe are you referring to? Secondly, how would that make her dishonest or a grifter? She clearly knows what she's talking about. Abortion rights need to be reclaimed.
@@scottharrison699 give the facts please.. datapoints.
@@NaNa-lt1po sounds like you need to read up on it lol
@@zoyadulzura7490 spain bans abortion past the 14th week of the pregnancy, and that is considered one of Europe’s more lax laws.
@@scottharrison699 it is not dishonest but simply is not the point. She mentioned the cases (Mississippi n Texas) in order to talk about the consequences that they could bring if passed. Whether it is restrictive or not is irrelevant, what is relevant is how it will affect America's status quo regarding reproductive rights and other related issues
Normally you'd said "This aged well" as a joke.
This woman nailed it like jumping off a roof blindfolded and landing on the point of a pin. :P
_Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization_ , the pending court case that may overturn _Roe v. Wade_ , was argued at the Supreme Court on December 1, 2021, seven days before this TED Talk was taped. The lower U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled on this case back in 2018. The Fifth circuit ruled on December 2019. So anyone who has been following this case would be reading the writing on the wall.
She should land in front of a speeding truck
Abortion was never safe. PP lied and unsuspecting women died or were permanently maimed. I survived a 1st trimester no-anesthesia procedure that a druggie PP abortionist performed on what I realized too late was a 2nd trimester fetus. Four days later my husband was asked to sign my autopsy release form in advance as Piedmont Hospital couldn't break my 108° fever.
1986 pre Murphy Brown I stood up stood against coercionand CHOSE LIFE today I'm a grandma PRAISE GOD
Why would you use such a painful analogy? My whole body hurts from reading it. That said yes she knows what she's talking about
@@ladavidson9269 Abortion has only gotten increasingly safe, and God has nothing to do with this. There are many reasons for abortions other than unplanned pregnancies. You're just giving anecdotal evidence, which kind of makes your argument pointless.
Reversing Roe is a great Netflix Documentary with her in it. It was made in 2018.
You have an evil country that ignores, rejects and contrdicts God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
I might add that in Europe and nations in Europe, Japan, South Korea, they offer all kinds of programs to help and support families raise infants after birth, something unheard of in America.
Noticing that abortion is murder does not obligate anyone to take any other action or have any other opinion.
Single mothers in America can get lowered rent through section 8, free medical for herself and the baby, food stamps to pay for food and wic to reduce the price of food, and cash assistance. If a woman takes all the different kinds of welfare we have she makes 75k a year without having to work at all and she can get it until the kid turns 18.
john howard, You're right. That's why those countries are better to live in than the US. I lived in South Korea for three years and it's a much stronger republic than the US.
@@barrystamour7557 75k? Why do conservatives always have to lie?
@@micahgmiranda most of wokeoids' positions are built on lies. Case in point, abortion.
Lying abortionists want to convince people that children aren't children.
Who else is here after hearing the news? Looks like Mrs. Kolbert was right.
I’m just here to watch the fallout. I haven’t seen Democrats this upset about a Supreme Court ruling since Brown v Board.
Nothing has happened
@@kate60 they're already throwing Molotov cocktails and doxxing supreme Court justices. But yeah, sure, the abortionist asshats are all about "nothing to see here".
I dont watch the news, so not me
@Karthik Narasimhan yes but predicting it and actually happening are two different things.
Wow. She was so true. It happened exactly as she said today
Yes she was right
Good.
We could already see the writing on the wall. The pot had been boiling since the acceleration of Christian nationalism by Reagan in the 1980s + the rest of US history
She is also delusional, the Dems won't be winning elections any time soon.
AITC , I like your screen name.. Too bad that anything that is not 'the norm' is considered bad or evil. I'm a Blue dot on a VERY red Texas county and there are things I definitely keep to myself.
Wow. Would love to hear from her today. Wonder what she thinks now, when she was so right back when this was filmed. She needs to be on every talk show that exists.
Ftp
Oh yeah she's talking. Now.
@@scottharrison699 I don't know what you mean by that, but I've seen her lately on the news too, and she very much is pro choice. We need anybody here in the states to stand up for our rights. A governor just said explicitly that rape babies should be born. We need all the help we can get.
So sad you use talk shows as your standard for social discourse
_Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization_ , the pending court case that may overturn _Roe v. Wade_ , was argued at the Supreme Court on December 1, 2021, seven days before this TED Talk was taped. The lower U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled on this case back in 2018. The Fifth circuit ruled on December 2019. So anyone who has been following this case would be reading the writing on the wall.
She was right. Known in less than a year
Yep-by the time they make another vid about RvW-the Supreme Court will have gutted it
Yes. Scary but totally correct.
Good news
It seems pretty obvious now, doesn't it? The Democrats roll out the red carpet and spend term after term vacuuming, shampooing, and guarding it, and the Republicans eventually hop out of their limos and strut on down.
I think the reason the Democrats allowed the court to get stacked by Republicans when they did is that the progressive movement was starting to frighten their donors a little too much.
Don't forget, though: blame a Bernie Bro or a Sarandon Sis every time a friend has to travel out of state to get purged. It's their fault somehow.
@@mattatron3152 good. Then fewer babies will be killed.
The bounty situation in Texas is absolutely crazy.
I heard it's $10,000 right?
What bounty
@@pixiebabe9381 their new anti-abortion law makes it legal to treat a woman seeking an abortion like an escsoed convict. You can hunt her down and get money for it
In my opinion, leftists aborting is a good thing. Why would I as a conservative, want more of those people making kids, who will grow up to be like them?
Bounty hunters, how democratic, how krischun, how constitutional
"Let's vote them out!" Uh... we can't? Gerrymandering and presidents who are elected on minority vote giving us lifetime appointments... political activism is somewhat futile by just the rules.
And yet we must fight! We are about to live in a country that instead of gaining rights, we will be steadily losing them. You can thank our weak Democratic leaders, the lunatic fringe evangelical Christian Right and most of all Moscow Mitch McConnell. He has been planning this for 30 plus years. We have a Democratic Party that refuses to play dirty like the lunatic fringe. As long as Citizens United is allowed to stand, the citizens of this country will not have any say in our future. If you don’t know what Citizens United is, take the time to look it up. Every single American should clearly understand this Supreme Court ruling from 2010.
Gerrymandering is not exclusive to one party.
@@jonathandevereaux298 True, but the Republican party used it quite effectively in a decades long party plan to get judicial positions and increase their power. So I don't exactly blame people for noting them first when it comes up, because they have been quite aggressive with it for a while.
@@jonathandevereaux298 then you should be fine with doing away with all of it, right?
If its any consolation, I'm conservative and 100 percent for abortion. Why would I want any leftists out producing my side? If you're a leftist, please abort your kid. Please please please please please.
There are always smart people out there who see the writing on the wall before everyone else. She really called it here.
She did stutter! 🙌🏻
_Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization_ , the pending court case that may overturn _Roe v. Wade_ , was argued at the Supreme Court on December 1, 2021, seven days before this TED Talk was taped. The lower U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled on this case back in 2018. The Fifth circuit ruled on December 2019. So anyone who has been following this case would be reading the writing on the wall.
It's high time abortion was made illegal.
You have an evil country that ignores, rejects and contrdicts God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
I think we might have been warned with the foreshadowing of the Handmaiden's Tale
What do you do with an additional 1,000,000 unwanted persons in your society annually? Provide free health care, provide free college? Nah...just hire more police and build more jails.
No child should be "unwanted"
There will not be fewer abortions, just fewer safe abortions.
@@anetagaluszka4830 Congrats on not answering his question.
Uh what’s free college got to do with anything? My kids will work to pay for their colleges if they want to go!
@@valdavis7461 It was a facetious comment not a question. But nice try trolling… also we provide Obama care, I pay taxes for that… and check the boarders we already have people coming here, 13 soldiers died to save people from the Talib… 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️and nothing is free unless you build it yourself sooo no free college pay the bills like the rest of us or don’t go to college and become an electrician public school can educate you on so many things…even McDonalds offers tuition reimbursement…
I feel like this was recorded yesterday (June 24th). Crazy how she predicted it with certainty.
You have an evil country that ignores, rejects and contrdicts God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
Wow. This woman was spot on. Off I go to look up more of her work.
Everything except that the churches aren't doing anything to help infant mortality, like St. Judes and hundreds more. And that churches aren't doing anything to take care of kids after being born. Several churches where I live have adopted many kids that mothers wanted to, but failed to abort. Really convenient to leave out those doing good and highlight those that aren't, for what? To make herself feel better about a terrible moral decision labeled a reproductive right.
This woman hit it on the nail.
Birthing person. If you want to be a ally knock off your microagressions it hurts the most when it comes from someone who knows better.... at least I hope you know better.
As a college student I cd not have been able to have a child or even had a abortion unless it was free. I had student aid jobs that paid 2-dollars an hour. Somehow I got through college on this. I worry about young women like myself.
Well I'd take all that money that used to go to Baby Butchering &put it into Pregnacy Support Clinics :)
But Baby Butchers are currently destroying such centers...
2 bucks an hour is illegal and the state pays for contraception so stop spreading lies
@@nunyadambidniss What?
@@pegacorn13 leftist are burning down actual center that help vulnerable young women get on their feet when baby daddy leaves.
actual planned parenthood centers not the baby blender death centers that call themselves "planned parenthood"
It's free not to get pregnant, though. Just pass on any guy too cheap to buy the condoms.
This is our time as women to take a seat at the table. Update laws and move toward a more compassionate and caring society that treats women and children with love and dignity.
OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
Be willing to Open up the conversation to change laws for men & things will change as y’all see fit.
@@joewill9967 hello…the laws were written by men.
@@beantrader4723 thanks for judging me, it’s made me realize how free I really am!❤️😇
_So are you pro lifer or not ??_
“The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely - the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” -- 6/24/2022
She was unfortunately and terrifyingly right.
I hope it stays legal in most states. The constitution indeed makes no reference to abortion.
@@AtheismF7W ok, does it say an embryo has rights? In the constitution? Does the constitution say 16byr old s can go and get ak47/ar15 and kill as a sport? The it’s form under dependents, does not say….list all the embryos/or fetuses that you are supporting? So if the IRS does not consider embryos dependants
Interracial marriage was historically prohibited (no history or tradition) but overturned in 1967 in the Loving v. Virginia case citing the 14th Amendment--what say you Justice Thomas?
@@unnamed3932 Absolutely nothing will happen to "interracial" marraige in U.S.A.
@@Elena-rt9yu there were no ar15/ak47s 300 years ago. AK47 is a Russian firearm not American. You can still have abortons in America, so please feel free to abort any or all of your future fetuses.
Who is watching this after SCOTUS just overturned Roe vs. Wade tonight?
Welp. She called it gone within a year, and it's happening. May 2nd,2022 A draft from the supreme court has been released stating it will be over-ruled.
Good, it should be up to the states anyway
Did I just hear “accountability”? 😂
Whatever you think about abortion, it was never in the constitution.
Materialistic, soulless women have been shadow-banning our countries children for 50 years. Its time to make motherhood great again.
One small, good step.
Luckily, I live in a state, Connecticut, that will most likely never make abortion illegal, and they are passing laws that will prohibit other states from suing abortion providers. We will be one of the few states that allow full medical choices for women.
You're so lucky. I'm moving to Connecticut when I'm old enough.
May 5, 2022:
Connecticut Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday signed into law a bill designed to protect people who provide an abortion or receive support to obtain the procedure in Connecticut and are then sued in another state.
House Bill 5414, which was sponsored by state Democratic lawmakers and cleared the state Senate and House in recent weeks, enables a person or corporation who “has had a judgment entered” against them in another state for receiving, providing or helping a person obtain legal abortion services in Connecticut to sue for damages. The law is set to take effect on July 1.
Supporters of the law say it will protect women from other states who travel to Connecticut to receive abortions, as well as the physicians who provide them. The measure was prompted by a controversial Texas law that allows private citizens to take civil action to enforce its ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
Mitch mcconell said that a federal ban would be possible if they have the majority. So unfortunately you are not safe.
As someone else pointed out - a total Federal ban is on the agenda. If the GOP controls Congress & WH in 2025 there’ll be a total ban. After that, they want contraception & marriage equality struck down.
Will see!
Very few of us took this seriously. Now we are on the precipice of losing everything including our democracy. This is about so much more than Roe v. Wade!
So majority rules, no filibuster in the Senate = good. Majority rules in the Supreme Court = bad.
You just want your way, period. Mob rule. You have no concept of democracy, or the fact that we are a Republic with democratic principles.
@Winter The cowards will sure, the rest of us that believe in God are going to go out fighting, and we can't wait. Western Culture has lost the plot.
Your body, my choice. Get used to it ladies.
If the Supreme Court can overturn this case, it can overturn any other landmark case if there is a court challenge.
@@lok777 women's bodies, women's choices.
Americas system is terrible, in Ireland we got to vote on it. We got to decide for ourselves. I guess voting in America is also getting harder, since they're taking that away from many people also. It's almost like you aren't really free or democratic.
We live in a Corporate owned Facist Empire and our "VOTE" is highly controlled by the Electoral College of each state and the ongoing battles we have with those on the right who want to restrict certain citizens their access to and right to vote. We need to eliminate the Electoral College and have one person, on vote. Government by the people. Corporate donations to our State and Congressional Representatives must be eliminated and the notion and absurd ruling by SCOTUS that "corporations are people" must be overturned. The power must be in the hands of the people not the Representatives working for the Corporations. These private prison Corporations can't wait to build and house all the women convicted of abortion crimes and the doctors, staff and other folks who helped women. It's about male control over women and also others (LGBTQ, black , brown, red, Asian people and other progressive minded folks too as well as the poor and "under-educated who always vote against their own interests and for racism and religious control)
Lol
Yeah, roe versus wade was forced on the American people back in 1973. It would not have been forced on our society if it was voted on back then.
We are absolutely not at all a free democracy. Just look at how the "popular votes" do not supersede the "electoral votes." 1 person does not = 1 vote here.
We aren’t having our right to vote taken away here in the US, we are tightening up securities to prevent cheating. There was A LOT of cheating in some of our last elections and it isn’t fair to the electorate. If we aren’t strict with our elections, our vote REALLY won’t count. Needing to prove you are eligible to vote is not taking people’s rights away- just taking away their right to cheat 😆
Common sense to need to show your ID to vote.
She clearly understands the lagalities very well, but I think she is being unrealistic with regard to getting a constitutional amendment passed to protect abortion rights. Getting 2/3rd majorities to vote on anything these days is tough, but for abortion, Schumer can't even get 51 Senators to overcome the filibuster to vote for abortion rights.
Adding an amendment is as hard as adding an equal rights amendment - horrifically difficult but not actually unreachable. Access to an abortion affects men as well, without the negative aspects of competition. Given its support generally, it should be achievable and we all need to work to make it happen!!!
@@retadiekman818 no, abortion is murder. Only slimebags think we need to "make it happen".
@@retadiekman818 I honestly don't see the constitution ever being amended again. With the current polarization in congress, getting 2/3 of them to vote in favor of anything is virtually impossible.
I hate to be negative, but both parties have polar opposite ideas of how the country should be run.
@@retadiekman818 it's honestly irrelevant.
even if they could get the 2/3 majority they could not get 38 states to ratify it after it passed. 26 states have laws against abortion ready to go as soon as roe is overturned.
In 2017 when Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic Party should not focus on Roe, the first heartbeat legislation was introduced. Heartbeat legislation defines abortion of an embryo with electrical heart circuitry as ‘homicide’. In 2017 Nancy Pelosi also welcomed Joe Manchin’s input. Can we have a new political party please?
We need to vote against both existing parties and start a 3rd party
Can we have intelligent resolutions? The best shot we have right now is to vote blue and pray.
@@jancoo2029
Voting blue is the most viable option in my opinion...BUT...they have proven themselves to be corrupt losers over and over again. Their lies & empty promises don't really give others something to vote for.
@@jancoo2029 Voting blue and praying hasn't work out so well in the last... 30 years or so. Time for a new strategy.
@@ZodiacEntertainment2 Voting blue lately is a pretty hold-your-nose-and-get-it-over-with activity... but the Dems are just incompetent; the Reps actively cause harm when they win elections.
To those who say life doesn’t begin till the baby is born. Why is it that When pregnant woman gets killed. the killer is charged with double murder. ?
I left the Republican Party and I'm not looking back. I'm with you ladles. I personally would want to have the baby all things being equal. But I respect your individuality and your rights as a human being first and foremost. I'm a protector by nature, and helping to protect your rights is what I will do!
@Shibby__Laterrrr187🖕🏻 Killing the unborn is not really a medical necessity now, is it? To devalue life to such a degree that you make it seem like murder is acceptable is a proof that we have really become immoral.
Especially today when we have so many birth control methods, the fact that we are so obsessed with killing the unborn speaks volumes about the lack of accountability when it comes to adults.
You decided killing babies was better good for you
Thank you, Tony!
Melissa, just as many men as women, who are marching, should he marching with them. I was very impressed to see those 25+ corporations stand up to the Corrupt illegitimate Supreme Court, adding financial assistance to their benefits, for "Liiberty's" sake. The irony, "illegitimate" court. I'm a pro-life guy but I recognize and respect a human beings, GOD given, free will, right to choose foremost. It goes beyond any words written on a piece of paper that humans call the Constitution. It may as well have been written on used toilet paper with that ruling.
Tony, you don't get to support them; you don't have a uterus. You don't get an opinion, even when that baby is half yours. They don't want to hear from you - they want to regulate your penis. Don't be so quick to give up your man card to join their fight.
So abortion goes back to arresting a medical person who performs an abortion and the life of the woman attempting to obtain an abortion.
I'm beyond childbirth age, but I also believed the right to abortion was a forever right. It's horrifying to know that the govt can take away a right and I wonder about the rights that will be taken from us next.
@@Chad_Max I care not what's in or isn't in the Constitution. No State should have the right to oppose liberty, PERIOD.
The next current phase isn't about rescinding rights; it's about rendering them useless.
Imagine how those babies feel as their heads are crushed.
@@jasonx7501 if you don't care what's in the Constitution then you don't deserve to be able to talk about what's in the law.
@@jasonx7501 and it's not "liberty" to kill a child, it's murder. And its supporters are scum.
This AGED WELL
It was only 4 months ago.
Wow!! TH-cam algorithm is on point!! Surprised this hasn't received more views...
Check the crows again in a mth . TH-cam algorithm is on it now.
Our participatory form of government is a lot more than "I voted. I'm done". It's watching those representatives and putting pressure on them to vote in our best interests. How? Phone calls, emails, letters and protests. We need to remind them they can be voted out as much as they are voted in.
What about the Supreme Court? Those elected not by the people?
I thought this was recorded yesterday! But that fact that it was recorded last year and she is on point is amazing!
This is like Handmaids Tale with a twist !
Yes. Not being able to kill children means all women are going to wear funny hats!
i feel like that show becoming reality is just 1 well planned bombing away... like in the show
@@Anna-ny7ks Certainly! Because it would somehow be terrible if we couldn't slaughter kids still in their mother's wombs!
[Gasp] The horror!
Quite the warning indeed!
Anyone who compares not being able to murder your child to the Hand maids Tale is pure cringe.
@@Anna-ny7ks Every woman who has an abortion and doctor performing it.
Wow we should have her in all the mass media now then ever….. wow women like u give me hope ….. thank u so much ….
If you were still a tiny innocent baby girl in your mother's womb I wouldn't advise putting your hope in her
Share this on FB or whatever social media group you are on!
Getting rid of Roe v Wade is not a surprise. It was a badly implemented law that was unconstitutional, but overturning Roe doesn't mean it would BAN abortions.
Hope??
This woman faught for this right, but she had 3 children and gave all 3 up for adoption.
No wonder she wants it.
Instead she needed to learn how to stop taking loads
You have an evil country that ignores, rejects and contrdicts God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
Kathryn, you were so right. A part of me wishes I had seen this earlier, so I could have contributed somehow. But I know I likely would have thought, meh it'll all be fine. You were spot on. Its time to not only get back what we have lost, but to do better as you said!
You have lost nothing. Abortion is just population control. They are trying to cull the herd by making us feel like we can't afford a kid.
OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
@@beantrader4723 Murder is wrong but enough with the religious argument, it's ineffective.
You have your faith, that's great! But not everyone shares that and you can't expect them to follow that.
Instead argue from a place of morality. You do not need religion to have morality, I am a perfect example of that.
Argue that murder is wrong because you are forcing someone to end their life. Argue that the most evil murder you could do would be to an unborn baby that hasn't even got to fully experience life yet.
@@youtubesucks1821 to be honest you’re borrowing morality from Christian views. There’s nothing wrong with bringing faiths into the argument. But your right in saying that protecting life can be argued outside of Religious beliefs.
@@THEIANDO the main problem is that the faith argument only works on people with some degree of faith. on these murderous baby killers it won't work. any faith based argument will instantly get ignored. that's why you need to use an argument that they can't ignore, like calling them baby slaughtering psychopaths.
You know the crowd was thinking she was just a quack, and that could never happen. Welcome to 2022.
She is definitely optimistic but I do agree with her that this is something as important as free speech or the right to own a firearm and should be listed in the bill of rights.
@@thesneakysloth8481 and I one thousand percent agree. Shameful that a bunch of old men can even make the choice to overturn this. Kinda scary, like what other freedoms will they take away?!
@@thesneakysloth8481 you don't have the right to kill a child just because it's in its mother's womb.
Well Roe v. Wade is goin bye bye 😂😭
im sure the crowd was there cuz they knew her and what she'd say
Women wanted to have abortion as long they wanted to have children. Abortion will happen. The only question is, how many women will lose her life because cause of it.
@ABC123 it's a child, not a choice.
Abortion is murder. Abortionist supporters are scum.
@ABC123 Who do you think is funding it now?
How many unborn women have already lost their lives because of abortion?
Exactly
@@bwenluck9812 are you kidding? Tax payers, obviously. Which begs the question, why are none of our other "rights" funded by the government? Why aren't they buying every American a gun? Or funding my newpaper business (free speech)?
Quick question and if I’m crazy just let me know….. could you say it’s against a individuals religion for them to have and carry a child full term? First amendment? Religious freedom? Can these women, if Roe is overturn, potentially use this? Has this been used and brought up before?
You’d have to prove that the politicians, doctors, etc. were solely anti-abortion because of their religion, not just because of a personal moral compass. Proving a person's beliefs is incredibly difficult in court. Also, who exactly would you sue? Who would be the respondent? Politicians, SCOTUS Justices, anti-abortion fanatics? Who specifically that can you sue in a court of law to find guilty of forcing their religious views on others?
It’s a very tricky situation, not impossible to try, but incredibly difficult to prove anything and find the right person to blame. Plus, once you sue them, you’d have the same Supreme Court ruling on the final decision, and if they want they can overrule any positive decision made by the lower courts.
*an individual's
*overturned
@@lindenshepherd6085 Thank you for clearing that up for me. Very informative and I appreciate the fact that you put it in a general context.
@@BrianReplies Actually, religious freedom has been a lot more valued over freedom from religion as of late.
@@BrianReplies Unfortunately.
Amazingly I came across this video today and I feel slightly better after watching it. However, the reality is that this is the beginning of a tough road for us women. It seems like we are going back in time. Today is the worst day in the history of women in 50 years. I knew that behind closed doors they were "cooking' something during the Pandemic. For those who are not aware, the number of abortions has been low since 1973. As Ms. Kobert stated, this is not about abortion. It is a pretext to control women. What else are they "cooking?'
according to Clarence Thomas, they will be looking at contraception access and gay rights marriage
@@justme7255 This wouldn't surprise me at all.
@@justme7255 My thoughts exactly. First, abortion is banned. They'll be coming after contraception next.
It's about Good vs Evil. You have an evil country that ignores, rejects and contrdicts God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
It's about Good vs Evil. You have an evil country that ignores, rejects and contrdicts God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
she had predicted so correctly
We all knew it was coming as soon as they put religious zealots on the court. It’s infuriating.
@@TheCorrkyme no more murdering innocent babies. PRAISE YHWH
Would women not be allowed to go get abortions in states where it's legal? If not, just get all pro choice women to live in those states. Problem solved.
It was an easy prediction.
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The main mistake that those who are Pro-choice make is they do not seriously address the Pro-life position and the reason the movement exists in the first place. If I was Pro-choice, I would make only one argument: The fetus is not a human life. I wouldn't talk about anything else, especially red herrings such "controlling the bodies of women" arguments.
Wasn’t hard to predict, the writing was on the wall. Now let’s just hope and pray they go through with it and overturn this demonic evil principality of molech … murdering babies
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You called it! Please make another video based on today's ruling.
Boy, she was spot on.
The best antidote for despair is action.
Thank you
Or in the case of women, the most horrific act of despair is the abortion of their unborn child.
@@brynnkohler4084 I understand where you are coming from. However, each individual case is so complex medically and in the area of mental health in the event of incest and rape, I hope there is some flexibility in the ruling. Total ban to me is the law trying to play God. The speaker is wrong about the number 5. There are more than 5 people who are concerned about the issue of abortion. Without addressing moral issues there is no social justice.
The best civilization is a civilized one.
@Future Deadguy then, you are playing God.
@@brynnkohler4084
You don't have to live other people's lives, so don't try to make decisions for them. You do what you want for your life and allow other's the same respect.
Very well said and thank you!
Who’s here after the overruling?🤚
Remember all of the medication barriers and restrictions don't exist in the EU, Japan etc, YK, the first world.
They have serious restrictions in all those countries. Only the US has places with 9 month abortions.
@@jonathandevereaux298 in Europe, just like in the States under Roe vs Wade, abortion is possible up to any date if it's for medical reasons (I.e. to save the mother's life). To suggest this was any different in the US under Roe vs Wade merely shows a lack of understanding what the Roe vs Wade ruling was.
@@jonathandevereaux298 A "9 month abortion" eh? (yep, Canuck here and a childbirth educator for years) - there is no such thing. It is called childbirth and only done to save the mother's life (yes, pregnancy is actually dangerous for women), the life of the fetus (NOT baby - until born) or if either are in extreme medical distress. Please use the correct terminology - otherwise you simply sound like a troll. Peace :)
@@jonathandevereaux298 Evil people will always find a million excuses to ignore, reject and contrdict God's Laws. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. God said that upon CONCEPTION HE breathes LIFE (places a soul) into the child & every baby is alive when God places it in the womb. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
@@canadakat5142 You're a LIAR. Evil people will always find a million excuses to ignore, reject and contrdict God's Laws. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. God said that upon CONCEPTION HE breathes LIFE (places a soul) into the child & every baby is alive when God places it in the womb. When GOD tells us not to murder only a fool would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands?
This is why we need diverse representation in government. We need more women, especially women of color, at all levels of government.
I agree with you 💯
Lol
Evil people will always find a million excuses to ignore, reject and contrdict God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
In my country, I observed a under three month pregnancy abortion, no restrictions. However after that period, you'll need a medical reason. I think that is fair, for both mother and the child.
You have an evil country that ignores, rejects and contrdicts God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
I am prolife. I can see the other side
Abort in 2nd and third trimester is gory and violent. Lil baby parts have to be removed
Keepin it in the first tri i thimk. Unfortunetaly may be a good way to go
First tri stil involves sucking up a life threw a tube or drugs allowing the fetus to stop living
I am adopted. Glad mom chose life.
I am willin to give up a lil ground in the name of compromise.
1st tri... i guess should be legal. Sorta. Still killing a living thing.
2nd tri. The gov absolutely has a rite to protect the unborn.
Compromise
Peace n love
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Why do you need to wait 3 months though to make that decision??? If you don't want it, make the decision ASAP there's no need to wait 3 months, that's a long freaking time!
I don't think there should be a time limit really.. it's good if it's done earlier but there is no reason to be a time limit.
If republicans were serious about birth control and were really pro-life they’d also ban vasectomies.
TheGholiday: The dems were maintaining abortion & the gop were maintaining guns. Both sides benefitted from the other, lots of dems want their guns, too. It seems it was the pushing of terminating healthy full-term babies that took the subject to this level, dems & gops most likely both majorities don't want that. I could be wrong on the timing, it does seem that way from our timeline perspective.
Lol vacetomies prevent pregnancy... abortions prevent birth.. difference...
I especially feel doomed because info like this was available 5 months ago and here we are, at the doorsteps of the decision and we are STILL IN FACT hitting our heads against the marble steps. And even as someone that is typically a diehard optimist, I hate to say that I see every scene of the Handmaid's Tails (from police killing protesters to preventing people from leaving the state) happening. 😔
When did the Supreme Court claim right to travel wasn't in the constitution? The point was always for states to be different and you travel to the one you want to participate in. People have lost sight of that. And in this internet video day and age even if you were blocked by an overzealous authority from moving , well , you'd be welcome to film it and file your case.
@@leadoff5411 if you can afford travel
@@jeremywilliams3465 and if you can't afford to travel then a life was saved. Now let's hear some baby-killer tears 🙀😿😆
@@jeremywilliams3465 personal responsibility goes a long way. There was a line of decisions that lead this person to become pregnant,not able to afford travel and living in a state that bans abortion but still wants one. At some point in their life this person needed to be responsible and accountable.
@@leadoff5411 so someone who became pregnant from rape should be accountable?? Accountable for what- being the victim of a violent crime?
I mean anybody could have seen this coming why you think they packed the court the way they did
Without abortion, my brothers and I would never have been born. My mom was able to terminate un unwanted pregnancy, and was then able to start a family at a time of her own choosing.
Your dead sibling doesn’t feel good about that.
@@andybaldman what a cowardly thing to say.
@@jlb7608 cowardly or appropriate?
. Its always people who have been born that support abortion.
@@danielh1830 Insanely inappropriate.
@@jlb7608 yet you chose to cite your lost sibling to make your abortion point, but one someone else does it, now you're offended? You need to rethink things. You don't have a right to do a wrong.
They did it today. Roe vs Wade is done
We should start building more orphanages cause they are going to start filling up.
I wish more people had listened to this, myself included!
Try to be more responsible and if you f up don't kill your baby.
@@SS-pq9ci Ah yes; so some states also banning birth control and the morning after pill because they consider them on the same footing as an abortion, this is okay with you?
@@Nopenopenope6969 No, there's nothing wrong with taking birth control. On the hand, there are few things worse than killing your own baby in the womb.
@@SS-pq9ci I'm not going to kill a baby....where did that come from? I just said I wish I had heard this earlier and other people had too lol
@@Anna-ny7ks ghoulish people love to pretend abortion is murder - some willl get very graphic. It is hypothesized that this behavior is the most widely-used cover for child abusers to hide that part of themselves
Here from actual end of roe v wade. Sad day.
Her words from last year are a chilling prophecy for this year.
Chills are legit running up my spine
I need her stock advice.
This woman is amazing. And she called it. Hit each nail on the head. Can she run for President??? ☺️🇺🇸
As a start, as of January 27 of this year the Equal Rights was ratified by the last state necessary for it to be the law of the land. The National Archivist must enter it into the Archives NOW.
What Equal Rights are you referring to?
@@ericapelz260 amendment
Something about Congress placed a time limit on the ratification process which expired I think in 1985 so Congress would need to remove that time limit. Just something I read the other day
@@nedbluestone Where did you read it? I'll follow up.
How pathetic that while equal rights are stipulated and guaranteed in constitutions of actual civilized democracies all over the world, in the land of so called “freedom” it’s still a debate🤦🏻♀️. Pathetic is an understatement
She was right and ahead of her time!!
Great talk. Great points made.
Really appreciated for her point of view
Education for all. It starts with this and the rights she speaks of. We needs to control the Government not them controlling us!!!!!
The purpose of government is to protect the natural rights of those within its borders. All humans have natural rights by virtue of their existence. Therefore, if an unborn person is indeed a human life, then the government is obligated to protect its natural right to life.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 Correct
@@TheNightWatcher1385 If an unborn were growing in some human-made machine, then nobody would have the right to terminate pregnancy. However, they are growing inside women's body. Even if you recognize a embryo as an independent life, you cannot force a woman to sacrifice her health and her freedom to guarantee the birth of the baby. If you do think the unborn's right to live is more important than the woman's right to decide what happens to her body, then you can force one person to donate blood in order to save another one's life. You can force one person to donate organ to save another one's life.
The Supreme Court is not The government. They are the holders of our truth of freedom. And that freedom does not include killing human children. Only immoral godless people kill their own children. And people and companys they do it for a a living, are satan's slaves
@@FF-qo6rb Sorry, I don’t buy that. The woman chose to engage in an act whose purpose is reproduction. Once a life is created, that’s a unique human life that has never existed nor will ever exist again.
Abortion done out of convenience is murder. A most disgusting type, too. The sacrifice of one’s own child for one’s own happiness. No regard for another human’s right to life.
Ending abortion is not equivalent to forcing an organ donation. The “donation” has already happened. Abortion is the equivalent of tearing out an organ you already donated from a recipient because you decided you wanted it back.
Thank you !
Here we are
Wow she predicted exactly how it would happen - and it happened yesterday!
Well, this aged well....🤷🏾♂️
TED wisdom
Did anyone else get this as a recommended video after what happened with the SCOTUS decision recently? How prophetic now!
She’s 50% correct. The 50% is yet to happen.
I am 5 days post op hysterectomy and I’d be lying if I said part of why I had this done was so that no one can ever tell me what to do with my body. No children, 35 years old. Truly sad what women still have to endure in this century.
Yes! Love u! I had to wait until my 40s to get my tubes tied! When i knew what i wanted since i was little. This is Bullsnot! CONGRATULATIONS!
thank you
And here we are
Watching this in May 2022. She was 100% right on every count.
I think it's time for us, as US citizens, to acknowledge that our vote is not reflected in the outcomes of elections. Either via gerrymandering, changing rules, restricting voting rights, closing down voting centers in the neighborhoods of people of color and the poor, only allowing politicians that satisfy corporate interests on the ballot, etc.
I think it's time for us to acknowledge that this will have to be accomplished in a different way. We will never achieve good when we're forced to choose the lesser of two evils at every point, we can only achieve more evil.
The founders knew this as well, and even the Supreme Court also affirmed previous rulings that the Second Amendment ensures our right as individuals to take part in the defending of their liberties by taking up arms in an organized militia.
I truly hope it doesn't have to come to that point, but the choice that only peaceful protest be necessary is not our own to make. As JFK said "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." and the longer things go on, the more I see that peaceful protest has been largely ineffective, be it our rights to our own bodies, fair treatment of POC, stopping the ever increasing wealth inequality, or the ever increasing threat of climate disaster.
It's tiring and unfair to live our lives (or die in poverty, forced birth, police murders, enslaved in for-profit prisons, etc) in fear of what they do to us, while they live in their spoiled, stolen riches, completely free of fear that anything will ever be done to them, thinking they will never be made to face the consequences of their actions.
Think it's time to for us to admit that abortion is murder.
I think it's time for us to admit that pro-abortionists are scum.
You are welcome to leave any time.
@@joshhoward1289 So the people who want a more equitable society should just leave? This country doesn't belong just to Trump supporters...
@@Paonporteur lying, baby killing idiots want to practice murder wherever they can.
They are the ones trying to play as many Americans as they can.
But we're not going to stand for it anymore. We got roe overturned and we're going to get our states to make abortion illegal.
@@joshhoward1289 bye
Exactly illustrated what’s happening now…
Let's just sit back and enjoy America's journey to Authoritarianism
Abortion was legal when the Constitution was written.
"Abortion was not just legal-it was a safe, condoned, and practiced procedure in colonial America and common enough to appear in the legal and medical records of the period. Official abortion laws did not appear on the books in the United States until 1821, and abortion before quickening did not become illegal until the 1860s. If a woman living in New England in the 17th or 18th centuries wanted an abortion, no legal, social, or religious force would have stopped her." -
Scarlet Letters: Getting the History of Abortion and Contraception Right
Abortion was only illegal for 115 years. Currently only 20 some third world countries have laws against abortion. Why would the USA join third world countries?
Outlawing abortions only leads to unsafe back alley abortions, unwanted children, filled orphanages, abused and neglected children, future citizens with mental health problems, and crime.
According to the Bible "Life begins at first breath."
Slavery was once legal too. It was safe, condoned, and practiced. Doesn’t mean it was right, does it.
@@ianalan4367 Forcing anyone to do something against their will is always wrong, including giving birth, forcing women to be baby factories.
Hello Kathy - Thank you for your reply. Forgive my questioning your reply but I’m not convinced your correct. Are we forcing a woman with laws that state she is not permitted to kill her newborn
it were against her will to let it live, or are we protecting the newborns right to life? It’s not a matter of semantics. Laws against abortion are not forcing a woman against her will they are intended to assure the right to life of her unborn child against those who would abuse that child’s rights.
@@ianalan4367 "If the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell, it is known as a zygote. The zygote divides and becomes a collection of cells known as a blastocyst.
In week #4 of pregnancy, the blastocyst implants in the wall of the uterus and develops into the placenta and embryo. The blastocyst is considered an embryo at the point when the amniotic sac develops (by about day 10 to 12 after fertilization, or at the start of week #5 of pregnancy).
An embryo represents the early stage of human development, roughly corresponding to the 5th-10th weeks of pregnancy.
What is a fetus?
After the embryonic period has ended at the end of the 10th week of pregnancy, the embryo is now considered a fetus. A fetus is a developing baby beginning in the 11th week of pregnancy."
It is NOT a child at this stage!
@@ianalan4367 Are you aware that not all fetuses that die in the womb leave on their own? Sometimes it requires an abortion so the woman doesn't die of sepsis.
Dynamic. She is Katie Porter without her whiteboard. I'd vote for her any day.
abortion is not about religion it is about moral and scientific base, many of what we know right now about when life begins is not now during the time of roe vs wade. we should include the latest scientific knowledge that we now right now and apply in to that abortion issue.
Moral??????
@@cathykrueger4899 moral base on science and reason
Here we are, Sept, 2022, and everything she predicted has come about. Now we just need to elect common sense leaders.
Common sense is knowing that abortion is murder.
Why I’m just coming along this video, she was spot on.
Soon I'm just going to start expecting that there will have been some TED talk warning of each major issue before it happened. First Bill Gates will climate change, now this lol
Wait till you hear about the TED talk trying to make pedophiles acceptable. Because that's eventually what's going to happen.
Bill gates with global pandemic too 😂
The climate hasn't changed significantly in your lifetime. Also gates didn't discover the concept of worldwide viruses, they've happened before and in other species.
Major issues exist. What specifically are you confused about?
@@rlud304 who are you talking to?
The word "all" in the constitution should be self-evident as fully inclusive. That is only going to be true if it is passed that it means inclusive of all human beings, without exception.
lol. you should examine the difference in the Constitution between "we the PEOPLE" and "persons". The Constitution is filled with exceptions.
@@bartwilson2513 The point is not how the current Constitution is written, but how it should be.
The issue begins when people have different definitions of "human being."
@@anneahlert2997 So you don't think a baby in the womb with his/her own DNA, own blood type, own gender, own fingers, and toes is a human being?
@@katbaker4862
I didn't say that at all. I merely observed that the debate begins when people try to DEFINE "human being." At what point does an embryo become a "baby"? People have been arguing about that for a long time. It's why we can't reach a consensus on abortion as an issue.
This was a war-room meeting held in public, yikes.
This topic should NEVER have been dumped on the Supreme Court. We the people need to hold elected officials (CONGRESS) accountable and prevent them from shirking responsibility so they can stay in office and become millionaires on $150k/yr salary. If people want abortion rights, get out and vote!!! Stop complaining about bad legal reviews in SCOTUS, they should never of had that power. Time to vote and vote big time, let the majority decide and kick out congress members who won’t act for and by the will of the people. End of story.
The only good post on this video.
@@krishnaveti Many thanks.
Not 'never of had that power '. Surely you mean 'never have had that power'.
@@nelled6240 thanks, it's just nice to be heard/read.
“For the Court to make its argument valid, it would have to add to its factual premise (the fact of fetal non-viability] the normative premise: whenever a human being cannot live on its own because it uniquely depends on another human being for its physical existence, it is permissible for the second human being to kill the first to rid the second of the burden.
The Court assumed that premise in both Roe and Casey. The Court has never argued for it.”
A baby still cannot live on its own after birth, as it still needs the breast milk from the mother. It's not just in the womb that the baby needs the mother.
Brian Scheidler I agree with you.
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WoW! I'd like to listen to her other predictions!!!
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A Constitutional Amendment:
The right to women to govern over our own body and decisions effecting our own body.
This needs to happen.
Your point would be stronger with correct spelling "affecting"
@@DK-ym8jr both points stand regardless of you trying to tear down an actual point, which your merrit falls into with pettiness.
@@tropicaltracerbirdie2241 I would support this Constitutional Amendment if it includes consent of the father in deciding the fate of child/fetus. It seems odd that fathers only become relevant when it comes to child support or alimony. But when it comes to the fate of the fetus it is solely a woman's right. What do you say to that?
@Tim Davies No
This amendment will never happen because it requires 2/3 of congress. It's too difficult to amend the constitution.
When the pill was made available to women in the mid-60s there was a substantial drop in crime 20 years later, do you think the opposite will happen, in 20 years we may see a spike in crime?
I think it's certainly possible. What we'll likely see is an increase in orphans and kids on the streets. When people are desperate to survive, they'll do anything. So yeah I think we might see a spike in theft and armed robbery over the next 20 years. Then that will be used by the GOP for their "law and order" message.
Roe v wade WAS overturned today and she was right... it's a sad day for women here
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@@morality2020 to you 🤮
But a happy day for babies. 💝
@@SemoneSimmons So “babies” are more important than women? 🤡
@@breckenmerrill3252 just as important. Speaker got it spot on with arguing against the religion and womens’ health uh…arguments. But she totally fluffed the foetal rights one. Just go watch it again and see how she side-steps it. When mother is healthy, baby no danger to her-that baby has a right to life too. If you argue it doesn’t it seems that there’s a difference in rights’ determination going on here. Tough argument I know-womens’ rights just as important, and long history of difference there too. So I get the anger.
I would have never believed this would have happened when this came out. I wish I would have been better informed. Thank you for trying to reach us, we hear you now.
Try reading the constitution first.
Evil people deafen their own ears & blind their own eyes to truth. Evil people will always find a million excuses to ignore, reject and contrdict God's Laws. OBEY GOD. He never gave anyone the right to murder. God said ALL children belong to Him not to humankind. When GOD tells us not to murder only a FOOL would actually believe that contradictory beliefs & rejection of His laws will overtake His commands? God will not be mocked & Judgment comes swiftly.
Levatino’s full testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice appears below:
Chairman Franks and distinguished members of the subcommittee, my name is Anthony Levatino. I am a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist. I received my medical degree from Albany Medical College in Albany, NY in 1976 and completed my OB-GYN residency training at Albany Medical Center in 1980.
In my 33-year career, I have been privileged to practice obstetrics and gynecology in both private and university settings. From June 1993 until September 2000, I was associate professor of OB-GYN at the Albany Medical College serving at different times as both medical student director and residency program director. I have also dedicated many years to private practice and currently operate a solo gynecology practice in Las Cruces, NM. I appreciate your kind invitation to address issues related to the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R.1797).
During my residency training and during my first five years of private practice, I performed both first and second trimester abortions. Duringmy residency in the late 1970s,second trimester abortions were typically performed using saline infusion or, occasionally, prostaglandin instillation techniques. These procedures were difficult, expensive and necessitated that patients go through labor to abort their pre-born children. By 1980, at the time I entered private practice first in Florida and then in upstate New York, those of us in the abortion industry were looking for a more efficient method of second trimester abortion.
The Suction D&E procedure offered clear advantages over older installation methods. The procedure was much quicker and never ran the risk of a live birth. Understand that my partner and I were not running an abortion clinic. We practiced general obstetrics and gynecology but abortion was definitely part of that practice. Relatively few gynecologists in upstate NY would perform such a procedure and we saw an opportunity to expand our abortion practice.
I performed first trimester suction D&C abortions in my office up to 10 weeks from last menstrual period and later procedures in an outpatient hospital setting. From 1981 through February 1985, I performed approximately 1200 abortions. Over 100 of them were second trimester Suction D&E procedures up to 24 weeks gestation.
Imagine if you can that you are a pro-choice obstetrician/gynecologist like I once was. Your patient today is 24 weeks pregnant. At twenty-four weeks from last menstrual period, her uterus is two finger-breadths above the umbilicus.
If you could see her baby, which is quite easy on an ultrasound, she would be as long as your hand plus a half from the top of her head to the bottom of her rump not counting the legs. Your patient has been feeling her baby kick for the last 2 months or more but now she is asleep on an operating room table and you are there to help her with her problem pregnancy.
The first task is remove the laminaria that had earlier been placed in the cervix to dilate it sufficiently to allow the procedure you are about to perform. With that accomplished, direct your attention to the surgical instruments arranged on a small table to your right. The first instrument you reach for is a 14-French suction catheter. It is clear plastic and about nine inches long. It has a bore through the center approximately ¾ of an inch in diameter.Picture yourself introducing this catheter through the cervix and instructing the circulating nurse to turn on the suction machine which is connected through clear plastic tubing to the catheter. What you will see is a pale yellow fluid that looks a lot like urine coming through the catheter into a glass bottle on the suction machine. This is the amniotic fluid that surrounded the baby to protect her.
With suction complete, look for your Sopher clamp. This instrument is about thirteen inches long and made of stainless steel. At the end are located jaws about 2 ½ inches long and about ¾ of an inch wide with rows of sharp ridges or teeth. This instrument is for grasping and crushing tissue. When it gets hold of something, it does not let go. A second trimester D&E abortion is a blind procedure. The baby can be in any orientation or position inside the uterus. Picture yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp and grasping anything you can.
At twenty-four weeks gestation, the uterus is thin and soft so be careful not to perforate or puncture the walls. Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard-really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about six inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs.
The toughest part of a D&E abortion is extracting the baby’s head. The head of a baby that age is about the size of a large plum and is now free floating inside the uterine cavity. You can be pretty sure you have hold of it if the Sopher clamp is spread about as far as your fingers will allow. You will know you have it right when you crush d own on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix. That was the baby’s brains. You can then extract the skull pieces. Many times a little face will come out and stare back at you.
Congratulations! You have just successfully performed a second trimester Suction D&E abortion. You just affirmed her right to choose.
If you refuse to believe that this procedure inflicts severe pain on that unborn child, please think again.
Before I close, I want to make a comment on the necessity and usefulness of utilizing second and third trimester abortion to save women’s lives. I often hear the argument that we must keep abortion legal in order to save women’s lives in cases of life threatening conditions that can and do arise in pregnancy.
Albany Medical Center where I worked for over seven years is a tertiary referral center that accepts patients with life threatening conditions related to or caused by pregnancy. I personally treated hundreds of women with such conditions in my tenure there. There are several conditions that can arise or worsen typically during the late second or third trimester of pregnancy that require immediate care. In many of those cases, ending or “terminating” the pregnancy, if you prefer, can be life saving. But is abortion a viable treatment option in this setting? I maintain that it usually, if not always, is not.
Before a Suction D&E procedure can be performed, the cervix must first be sufficiently dilated. In my practice, this was accomplished with serial placement of laminaria. Laminaria is a type of sterilized seaweed that absorbs water over several hours and swells to several times its original diameter. Multiple placements of several laminaria at a time are absolutely required prior to attempting a suction D&E.
In the mid second trimester, this requires approximately 36 hours to accomplish. When utilizing the D&X abortion procedure, popularly known as Partial-Birth Abortion, this process requires three days as explained by Dr. Martin Haskell in his 1992 paper that first described this type of abortion.
In cases where a mother’s life is seriously threatened by her pregnancy, a doctor more often than not doesn’t have 36 hours, much less 72 hours, to resolve the problem. Let me illustrate with a real -life case that I managed while at the Albany Medical Center. A patient arrived one night at 28 weeks gestation with severe pre-eclampsia or toxemia.
Her blood pressure on admission was 220/160. As you are probably aware, a normal blood pressure is approximately 120/80. This patient’s pregnancy was a threat to her life and the life of her unborn child. She could very well be minutes or hours away from a major stroke. This case was managed successfully by rapidly stabilizing the patient’s blood pressure and “terminating” her pregnancy by Cesarean section. She and her baby did well. This is a typical case in the world of high-risk obstetrics. In most such cases, any attempt to perform an abortion “to save the mother’s life” would entail undue and dangerous delay in providing appropriate, truly life-saving care.
During my time at Albany Medical Center I managed hundreds of such cases by “terminating”pregnancies to save mother’s lives. In all those hundreds of cases, the number of unborn children that I had to deliberately kill was zero.
I can't believe that people let this happen
Blame Mitch Mcconnell. He blocked Merrick Garland from joining the Supreme Court in 2016. Had Garland been given a fair hearing, Gorsuch or Kavanaugh would never been on the court.
@Kendall Ferguson Hahaha! That's absurd. Legal experts all agreed that Garland was eminently qualified. Just admit that you're an indoctrinated right winger.
@Kendall Ferguson Wrong. Look up Gardland's educational background and experience on the circuit court. There's no way one can claim that he's less qualified than Kavanaugh, ACB, Thomas, or Gorsuch. Give me ONE example of him being a lunatic.
It's a right, that's why!
I can't believe people let children get murdered at a rate of 600,000 a year.
Abortion is murder.
I support the basis that the government has no business watching you so closely that it would notice if you were pregnant or if you had an abortion.
But if it can. Well we were protecting each other's freedom up until we weren't.
Abortion is murder no matter what lousy excuses you want to try to come up with.
so you do not want any governmental protection of your life? How do you have any social freedoms with that reasoning?
@@mowgli2071 You still have poor reasoning skills, no matter what excuse you come up with.
@@mowgli2071 there are condidtions where the birth kills the mother and the baby. there is also rape cases so hypotheticall scenario a rape victim is carring one of those babies. is it murder? mostly courious
@@ScootZMedia these scenarios are not happening 600,000 times a year in the US.
You want to pull a tiny minority and have that as an excuse for the rest of these.
These are children being murdered plain and simple and you on the pro-abortion side want to lie and pretend that they're not.
Count me in 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Well said
Here we are.