to not just the republican base but more broadly to the country, look, this happened. we saw something that we all agree shouldn t be legal, this ability to turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon and reacted. case closed. it obviously doesn t get at a lot of other gun control questions that s out there, background checks at gun shows, private sales, many other things that are out there that gun control advocates would want. what it does do is allow them to say, the issue was raised, we addressed it we re move on. i remind people, the democrat party on gun control is not a unified whole. heidi heitcamp in north dakota. i still remember joe manchin shooting a target with a gun in
pill? i do not think it should be legal. i think that shouldn t be legal. that s no what we re talking about. no, but hold on, hold on. you re saying that the pill should not be legal. but you just said i just hold on, hold on, kristen, kristen, kristen, we can t talk at the same time. i just want clarity. i think that the pill and iud should be illegal, right? in my ideal world, yes. but i don t think that s something we re working towards in the pro-life movement. in the pro-life movement we re working towards abolishing abortion. that s why we want planned parenthood s money to go to health centers which do do contraception. we ve gotten some real clarity, i think the american people have gotten quite a bit of clarity on what your movement wants to do. i m just speaking for myself when i talk about contraception. there are a lot of and we ve gotten yours. thank you very much. jess will be back in our next
this country. as it is legal, fetal tissue donation is something we think should be legal or shouldn t be legal. if we re going to debate it, we ll debate it on those terms. instead, they flt their jobs would be put at risk if they didn t confront this head-on or it will would be worth it to fold that sector of their electorate back in. they didn t stop it. if they were willing to negotiate a full budget with democrats where they could horse trade at the margins over issues that include funding for women s health care. they might be even able to provide a minor victory for anti-abortion causes. instead what they re doing is demanding everything and saying we re going to fund the government at current levels and we want to do it with a rider that says no more funding for planned parenthood and that can t pass. if that s the only thing they re
donation is something we think should be legal or shouldn t be legal. if we re going to debate it, we ll debate it on those terms. instead, they felt their jobs would be put at risk if they didn t confront this head-on or it will would be worth it to fold that sector of their electorate back in. they didn t stop it. if they were willing to negotiate a full budget with democrats where they could horse trade at the margins over issues that include funding for women s health care. they might be even able to provide a minor victory for anti-abortion causes. instead what they re doing is demanding everything and saying we re going to fund the government at current levels and we want to do it with a rider that says no more funding for planned parenthood and that can t pass. if that s the only thing they re willing to offer, the only way this ends is with a government shutdown.
that and not expect a group of people who have been jonesing basically for the shutdown of planned parenthood to push it to its furthest limit which we ve seen time and time again is shutting down the government. when the video started coming out, you had conservative activists, pro life groups immediately spinning this into an idea that you had something ghoulish and awful happening and it was systemic and the only way to stop it was to shut down planned parenthood. at that point i feel the leaders of the republican party had a basic choice. they could either say no, that s not what s happening in these videos and as much as we don t like it, abortion is legal in this country. as it is legal, fetal tissue donation is something we think should be legal or shouldn t be