Hello again, so it's kind of part two of
my videos for today. This is where I kind
of want to go more into my thought
process of kind of sharing with you
what's on my mind, what I've been looking
at in the news, what's been happening and
a little less structured a little less
of, like, here's my topic for today but
more just "hey here's what's going on let
me talk about it." So we've had all these
wonderful, amazing pro-life laws passed
by different states and some of them are
already being challenged in the courts
but others haven't yet or the challenges
are coming there's gonna be appeals
there's gonna be a whole process of
going through courts um there's gonna be
injunctions I mean all kinds of things
it's it's not over it's just getting
started but I want to talk about two of
my favorite recent pro-life bills and
one is in Missouri now I want to talk
about this one first
so Missouri's bill okay I want to make
something really clear I know there's
been controversy recently with their
last Missouri's last abortion facility
the Planned Parenthood in st. Louis it's
the only abortion facility currently in
Missouri and it should have been shut
down it was supposed to have been shut
down because it had violated regulations
for abortion facilities it had violated
health codes it had failed health
inspections they were supposed to be
shut down and they said they said please
please don't shut us down and the court
said okay fine our Department of Health
said fine you follow these three things
and we won't shut you down and one of
those three things has to do with
administering pelvic exams prior to an
abortion which the clinic claims is
unnecessary and unethical because it is
unnecessary and so that is a controversy
right now
I do want to clarify on that that the
the regulations that I found regarding
public exams and abortions say one
pelvic exam not two like some articles
some articles are claiming they have to
have two pelvic exams but the
regulations the actual text of the
regulations does not support that so I
don't know if somebody from the health
department in Missouri was misquoting
the regulation
or if it's being misunderstood but it
just it doesn't seem like that's
actually in there there is a requirement
for giving a pelvic exam prior to an
abortion but that I think that's
separate from the idea of oh you have to
have one and then another one
seventy-two hours later so that does not
seem to be supported by the regulations
but when I'm here to talk about today is
actually not that so that is a
regulation written a rule written by
the Missouri Department of Health
it is not a statewide law it is not a
statute so I'm talking about the law
that was passed in Missouri to ban
abortion now what I love about this law is
that it is designed to fail yes it's
designed to fail now that doesn't mean
it's designed to completely fall apart
but is designed that if one part of a
law is struck down the rest of the law
stays in effect so it's kind of like
compartmentalized if you almost think
about it like a a rocket going up into
space like a space shell going up you
have all these stages that are designed
to once when they're no longer needed
fall off fall parked and that's kind of
how this bill is designed is as this law
launches hope towards going into effect
and different you know and the courts
are picking at it and everybody's
picking at it if they manage to get one
piece off it doesn't ruin the whole
thing like it's designed to come apart
and so if so that the law actually
contains a total ban on abortion however
most people aren't talking about that
because it's kind of understood that
that will not go into effect until Roe v.
Wade is overturned and that's actually
how it's set up is it's a trigger ban
so if if and when Roe v Wade is
overturned Missouri will completely ban
abortion just like that now there are
others along the way there's there's the
heartbeat there's the you know there's
always different gestational limits in
this bill so that if one of them is
struck down then we go to the next one
up and the next one up which i think is
really awesome because it really helps
us protect as many babies as we can.
There's always this debate in the
pro-life movement about personhood bill
where we say the preborn child is a
person from conception
. can't don't you can't abort them
anytime for any reason
not not an issue you know it's just full
stop there a person that's it and a lot
of people in the pro-life movement love
this idea because that's what we want we
want all preborn children to be
protected however the chances of passing
a bill like that and enforcing it and
all of those things are very slim so
instead we have incremental legislation
and a lot of pro-life people get
frustrated with incremental legislation
because it doesn't protect every single
baby there are exceptions in incremental
legislation and those exceptions do not
mean that we think abortion is okay in
those situations what they mean is we
are currently under this current
Supreme Court precedent we are unable to
protect every single child so we're
gonna protect as many as we can and
that's what I love about the Missouri
bill is it really is designed that way
it's designed to protect as many
children as we can if we cannot protect
all of them then we're gonna at least
protect this many if we can't protect
this many then at least this many if not
this many than this may and it gets
smaller and so we're gonna protect the
maximum number that we can is the idea
and if that's all of them awesome if
it's not all of them well it's better
than none so I wanted to kind of
highlight Missouri's bill or Missouri's
law because it was passed into law I
were just waiting on courts and all
those kinds of things for it to go into
effect but once that goes into effect if
you know it will be challenged but if it
wasn't challenged if the courts let it
through then it would close that last
abortion facility for sure that is in
st. Louis so first for that oh you know
but we know it's going to go through the
courts but I think it is also designed
to withstand those court challenges the
other one that I wanted to talk about is
Georgia
I love Georgia! So Georgia was one of the
earlier heartbeat bills that we started
hearing about this year Ohio was earlier
obviously but but Georgia was kind of
part of this little trend of heartbeat
bills trying to pro-life laws and so I
wanted to talk about that really quickly
so what I love about the Georgia bill is
it answers one of the kind of age-old
challenges that the pro-choice movement
has made against pro lifers which is if
you ban abortion and you don't let the
woman you're not letting the woman
choose an abortion then the guy
shouldn't be able to get off the hook
either and the pro lifers have always
said sure that sounds great
georgia bill really you know catholic
cider you know exemplifies that that
attitude because it allows the pregnant
woman to sue for child support while she
is pregnant and to receive child support
to cover her medical to early cover
abortion and depends on you know there's
there's factors that determine how much
you can actually sue for but but the can
cover part of her health expenses making
the guy step up now because what we seem
since abortion was legalized and even
prior to that point what we see is guys
using abortion to get out of having to
pay child support or get out of having
to be involved in this child's life
they're kind of using it to get out of
that responsibility and so what this
does is it kind of gives them it gives
women another choice where it's not like
oh well if I have this baby then I got
out of chasing down child supports like
no I don't get child support from him
right now instead of him just paying for
the abortion and saying go deal with it
I can make him actually pay for the
medical expenses and actually support me
and this child while I'm pregnant even
if we're not together as a couple
anymore so I think that's awesome
and I think that really helps protect
women and hold men responsible for you
know their their actions and decisions
as well so those are the two ones I
really wanted to highlight and there's
going to be more news and more
legislation and I just wanted to kind of
bring those two bills to y'all's
attention and help you understand a
little bit better what they do the one
thing I want to really emphasize is that
every single bill that has been passed
recently in fact like all the heartbeat
bills that have passed
they all include an exception for when
the mother's life is in danger so if
you're talking to somebody and they're
saying women are gonna die know hey if a
woman's life is in danger
doctors are able to intervene now
abortion is not medically necessary to
save a woman's life pretty much ever
but whatever the doctors need to do in
order to save that woman's life they can
do under this law so that's kind of the
implication here so there's so there's
that and there's also the fact that none
of these laws would criminalize the
woman none of those laws would put the
woman in prison that's the other thing
to understand if somebody's telling you
that women are gonna go to jail for
miscarriages no like most of these bills
are only punishing the abortionist and
some of them are not even really
punishing the abortionist all that much
but none of them are punishing the woman
okay so I want that to be really clear
when you're talking to your friends and
family about these bills if these topics
do come up none of them punish the woman
and all of them include an exception for
when the mother's life is in danger so
thank you so much for tuning in for a
second time today
this is LifeTime with Katie and I'll
see you all next time whenever that may
be
