look, abortion is unlike all the other social issues which appear to be headed left, gay rights, for example, gay marriage, marijuana, other intoxicants, where there has been kind of a reversal. it has not gone in the same way. it is clearly as a result of the technology. when you can visualize a fetus it has a different impact on you as when you are speaking of it as a kind of abstraction. and i do think on the issue of late-term abortion that is really where you could get a national consensus. you are never going to get consensus on early abortions, but i think there really have an issue if conservatives are serious about this and they really are, that, i think, is the tactical way to go about it and to try to get movement on this issue, which i think you can win on, which makes the wendy davis story so odd. because she was standing in favor of it, something which is not really that popular. quickly, george? it s difficult to doubt but difficult to demonstrate. that improved so
they can t find anyone to get married to because there are no women in their area. it s absurd. what s more, the authorities often do very little to enforce the law. a hidden camera sting operation featured on khan s show caught a slew of doctors allegedly providing illegal sonograms and sex select abortions. video evidence has been available for seven years but they said none of the doctors had been punished in court. so khan made a direct appeal to his audience.
sonograms, the idea of the fetus as a real person, the resistance. i think the trends are going in both directions. i wouldn t worry terribly much about the fate of the republic. all right, charles, as always we appreciate it. check out charles book, a huge best seller. factor tip of the day that will make your christmas much better. the tip, moments away.
debate is about the fetus, which is what this 20-week ban is the more the anti-abortion side wins. but the more it is about the woman and her access to abortion and her ability to make this decision herself, the more that the abortion rights advocates win. forced sonograms, 20-week termination i mean preventing abortions at 20 weeks when roe v. wade has 22 weeks. this has been the law of the land for decades. but to karen s point though, it is still i think about the fetus and viability. the argument that you re getting a lot of folks on the pro-life side making is, look, 22 weeks made sense in 1973. now we have incredible advancement in terms of our ability for premature babies to live outside the womb. but i think it is in the packaging and that s how you present the case. so i think where democrats were
became a sensation. the occupation section on her wikipedia page was changed to see she was the lebron james of filibustering. however, after 11 hours, at 10:00 p.m., davis was forced to stop speak after republicans claimed her mentioning sonograms violated the rules against going off topic on an abortion bill. with that the republican senators tried to push the bill through. with the help of her democratic colleagues and the increasingly vocal crowds in the gallery, wendy davis successfully ran down the clock on the vote and the bill died. last night on all in with chris hayes wendy davis reflected on her epic fill bust zblerp ultimately in that last 15 minutes of the evening, it became the people s filibuster and they were loud and they were heard and that s what democracy is about. yesterday that filibuster was about handing that microphone essentially to the people of the state of texas. however, this fight is not