in the united states but last night voters cast their final ballots and said absolutely no more and tomorrow today we ar waking up in a state that has path forward but actually to become a legitimate functionin democracy. my eight-year-old daughter wil cast a ballot for president in 2032 will she sits on th wisconsin supreme s state cour and safeguard the promise that when voters choose their leaders those leaders stay chosen abortion rights, where they are the principal issue here abortion rights were th most powerful issue in thi race and we re link inextricably to those questions around democracy wisconsin has an abortion ban that was passed t 174 years ago. before a woman have the righ to before the germ theory o disease was widely accepted. it starts at zero weeks, has n exceptions for rape, incest, o the health of the mother dan kelly absolutely would hav affirmed that abortion ban i he were only some date supreme court. and it has been very clear, sh won t prejudge a case.
and then re-gerrymandering unlike anywhere else in th country, by the supreme court. even after we elected governor who ran on a promis of fair maps the supreme court just wen around voters and chose th most partisan gerrymandered on in the united states but last night voters cast their final ballots and said absolutely no more and tomorrow today we ar waking up in a state that has path forward but actually to become a legitimate functionin democracy. my eight-year-old daughter wil cast a ballot for president in 2032 will she sits on th wisconsin supreme s state cour and safeguard the promise that when voters choose their leaders those leaders stay chosen abortion rights, where they are the principal issue here abortion rights were th most powerful issue in thi race and we re link inextricably to those questions around democracy wisconsin has an abortion ban that was passed t 174 years ago. before a woman have the righ to before the germ theory o disease was widely accepted.
is the importance of persuasion and the importance o argumentation in democrati politics really what we do in democrati politics, if it s functionin in a liberal democracy, is argue with each other. and the public sees th argument as part of th argument, and we try to wrestl our way towards something true but other people think tha doesn t matter that it s ridiculous and indulgent that thinking that debate matters what do you think about that i ve had to wrestle wit this too on the age of trump, can you persuade people, are peopl open to fact in an age o alternative fact i think the answer is fewe than before. but still enough to make a difference i think the 2020 election, the 2018 midterms, we saw th democrats were able to pee away some people in the middle and make a difference in the ballot box and make a difference in terms of control of the senate et cetera, et cetera i believe in facts i believe an argument. i wouldn t rida i wouldn t ove in the book i didn t do the jo that we
critical thinkers at a tim when social media silos an bubbles have cut us up from on another. one group thinkers - polarizing a nation. and you just mentioned, iraq the 20th anniversary if the media had done a better job, if the american public di a better job of thinking through the arguments, o examining regularly what bush, blair, and others were sayin maybe would still be alive today that s an important point it s when i come back to it s something that i believ more and now than ever is the importance of persuasion and the importance o argumentation in democrati politics really what we do in democrati politics, if it s functionin in a liberal democracy, is argue with each other. and the public sees th argument as part of th argument, and we try to wrestl our way towards something true but other people think tha doesn t matter that it s ridiculous and indulgent that thinking that debate matters what do you think about that i ve had to wrestle wit this too on the age of trump,
at n.y.u. langone s transplant institute genetically modified a pig kidney to make it more compatible. the researchers connected the pig s kidney above the thigh of the recipient, outside the body, so they could see and test it. so you plug this all in, and what happened? the kidney turned a beautiful pink color. we were sort of taking in what we were looking at, which was incredible. it was a kidney that was immediately functionin. so we came up with this idea of testing it first. and someone who is recently deceased but is being maintained on a ventilator. reporter: the family consented and donated the body for this study. they felt really strongly that this would be something that she would want. reporter: before this first attempt, n.y.u. created a new board klting with religious and legal experts and with bioeththifts like dr. art caplan who head the medical center s ethics division. do you have any second thoughts whatsoever that this was the right thing to do ethically?