the merit test before they re admitted, who decides what s on the test? because we all know you can use a test to elevate or eliminate. exactly, and i think we all know from history, right, the paper bag test, the jelly bean test you would take to count how many jelly beans in the jim crow south. this reminds us of the poll tests that many americans used to have to take who weren t white, who weren t men in order to be able to vote. so for me, it doesn t sit like an open policy for immigration and let us really come to the table. again, it s donald trump and his ilk getting to decide who is welcome and who is not, who is a part of the american dream and the ambition of america and who is not. if that is going to be the same kind of white male panel that decided against abortion in the
abortion. and i am grateful and thankful she stood on her principles and beliefs and she decided to have the baby. and that baby brought great joy to many of us. and the one other thing that we can agree on, reverend sharpton, is that abortion is the intentional killing of an innocent human being. that s what it is at its core. and this is what the law in alabama, the new heartbeat bill that has been signed into law, that s that that is designed to stop. you and i may agree in some parts of on religion, but this is not a theocracy. we don t have the right to impose our religious beliefs as law. we re not talking about what we agree with in church. we re talking about law. if we set that up, somebody from another religion can come to power and impose that law on us. so how do we protect our freedom of religion if we re going to make religious the basis of law?
no. first of all, reverend sharpton, thanks for having me on today. thank you for coming? i don t think this is a political move at all. i think this is the appeasement great state of ohio speaking loud and clear that we value the sanctity of human life. i think this is what this is about. what about the value of women s rights to choose? what about the value of privacy? we all know that we re talking, really, about whether or not you end legal abortion, people that want to get an abortion are going to get them regardless, but it will go back to the track of dangerous abortions and abortions that can be done in ways that can both hurt the mother and potentially the child that they are potentially going to bear once it becomes a child, if it becomes a child, i should say.
welcome back to hardball. missouri became the latest state to passe restrictive antiabortion law. this afternoon the republican-led missouri house passed a bill banning abortion after just eight weeks that includes exceptions for medical emergencies and no exceptions for case of rain or incest. doctors face between five and 15 years in prison for violating the ban according to the law. mike parsons is likely to sign it into law two days after alabama passed a law banning all abortions last week. georgia passed a ban after just six weeks. a lot of people don t even know they are pregnant at that point. joining several other states this year. missouri s law would only go into effect if roe vs. wade is
current system, we re not able to give preference to a doctor, a researcher, a student who graduated number one in his class from the finest colleges in the world. we discriminate against genius. we discriminate against brilliance. we won t anymore once we get this passed. trump cast the measure as a consensus plan that would solve one of washington s most stubborn challenges but the plan faces an up hill battle, even among republicans. democrats are all but certain to oppose it calling the changes drastic and inhumane. it does not propose an illegal status for so called dreamers, young immigrants brought to the u.s. as children leaving that issue unresolved. lawmakers in the missouri house are expected to pass a bill banning abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy. the state senate approved