1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,840 A lot of people ask me my stance on pro-life 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:02,480 pro choice. 3 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:04,560 And look, of course I support a woman's right over 4 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:05,040 her own body. 5 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,240 It would be pretty weird for me to run as 6 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,600 a Democrat if I didn't. 7 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:09,040 But I refuse to lie to you. 8 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:10,800 I refuse to say that somehow, if you're gonna vote 9 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,880 for me, the magically I'm gonna give you all of 10 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,640 your rights back over your own body. 11 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:16,960 Um look, I want to be realistic with you as 12 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:18,960 much as you don't want to hear it, but right 13 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:21,120 now in Texas we don't got the votes for that. 14 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,440 And if anything, we just need to be very careful 15 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,160 with our messaging because Republicans have a great messaging system 16 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:28,320 where if they ask you how many weeks in do 17 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,040 you uh support uh an abortion, then no matter what 18 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,480 number you say, they're gonna call you a baby killer. 19 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:36,320 What I want to do is I want to hit 20 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:37,120 the political stage. 21 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:38,320 I want to be in a debate, and what I 22 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,160 wanted to say is, hey, look, this is Texas. 23 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:40,800 Roe v. 24 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,480 Wade is dead, and if a little girl is raped, 25 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,920 if a pedophile rapes a little girl and impregnates her, 26 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,600 this state, this government state will force that little girl 27 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,520 to carry that pregnancy to term. 28 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,640 There's no exceptions for incest, no exceptions for rape, no 29 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,320 exceptions for child incest, no exceptions for child rape. 30 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,560 As the Democratic Party, this is what we have to 31 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,640 run on right now at this current time. 32 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,280 At this current time, because we're not going to be 33 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,000 able to advocate for women's rights over their own bodies 34 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,240 until we flip more seats blue. 35 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,640 Because Republicans just dominate both the state house and the 36 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:15,120 Senate. 37 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,960 Alright, so I I know that you want to hear 38 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,920 more from me, but if I was to be more 39 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,440 animate about this, if I was to be more progressive, 40 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,680 it will just fuel the fire for the Republican side 41 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:28,160 of the aisle. 42 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,880 Say that Dilfrey's a baby killer and it will get 43 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:32,240 more votes on their side. 44 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,280 I want to focus on the concept where there's no 45 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:36,560 exception for rape. 46 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,120 Because every time I bring this up with family members 47 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,840 of mine who are Republicans, they get uncomfortable. 48 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:42,640 And you know what? 49 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:43,760 That's a good thing. 50 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,920 I want to force that discomfort in. 51 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:47,600 I want to be on a political debate stage, and 52 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,600 I want to bring this up every single time. 53 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,400 The fact that we have OBGYNs fleeing the state of 54 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,520 Texas because they're afraid of what the laws might do 55 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:56,080 to them. 56 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,440 OBGYNs, by the way, we're losing them in droves, and 57 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,680 this affects women who are simply trying to have their 58 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,000 uh their their pregnancy. 59 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,120 This is insane. 60 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,520 We have women who are having to wait until they 61 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,120 get into sepsis before they get abortion care. 62 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,800 The radical right has gone off the extreme spectrum with 63 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:18,120 this. 64 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,280 And we in the Democratic side of the aisle, rather 65 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,480 than saying what we want, we need to highlight the 66 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:28,200 insane and crazy right-wing nutcases out there, like the ones 67 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,400 who want to literally ban in vitro fertilization. 68 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,320 We need to highlight that. 69 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,120 We need to make them feel uncomfortable because that's the 70 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,840 only way we're going to flip more seats blue, and 71 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,440 only then can we finally get women's uh women's rights 72 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,200 over over their own bodies back.