you would never go on record talking about throwing people in jail for abortion. but this, this sounds too crazy for me to say it meter is recalibrated. that has changed, even just since 2010. jailing people for abortion is no longer a step over the line of wing nuttism, even for main stream republican retrism. main stream republican legislation. that same seen as koo koo has been happening in the great state of mississippi this year. in april, the republican governor of mississippi signed into law what is known as a trap law, t.r.a.p., in this case, stands for targeted regulation of abortion providers. and the acroinism is not an accident. new laws, new red tape and regulations that only apply to abortion providers.
we re going to try to end abortion in mississippi. we re going to try to work to end abortion in mississippi, and this is an historic day to begin that process. signing the state s new law was a step toward a campaign promise to end abortion in mississippi. the lieutenant that was the governor, the lieutenant governor was also open and excited about using the law in mississippi to ban abortion by shutting down that clinic. it s been seven years since we got good pro life legislation passed out of the mississippi legislature. that s a bill that gives us a great opportunity to accomp lli what our goal needs to be. our goal needs to be to end all abortions in mississippi. i believe the admitting privileges bill gives us the best chance to do that. the admitting privileges bill. the new t.r.a.p. law. republicans admit they think it s their best chance at banning abortion in an american state. we have literally stopped
actually what he said in his soft spoken way is this. i think this is outlandish. when he said it was outlandish, what he meant was no freaking way. in an unproductive flurry, they passed the flood bill and didn ç include the personhood thing with it. harry reid won on that. but even as republicans laser like focus on jobs, jobs, jobs, by which i mean abortion, has gone nowhere at the federal level. in the states they are on the verge of accomplishing a goal they dreamed up since roe versus wade. barring last-minute intervention from a federal court, republicans in mississippi are within hours of banning abortion in that state. by making their state the only state in the country that has no abortion clinic, not one. in april, new republican governor phil bryant signed a trap law, specifically targeted, specifically onerous regulations for the abortion clinics that other clinics in mississippi
barring last-minute intervention from a federal court, republicans in mississippi are within hours of banning abortion in that state. by making their state the only state in the country that has no abortion clinic, not one. in april, new republican governor phil bryant signed a trap law, specifically targeted, specifically owners regulations for the abortion clinics that other clinics in mississippi don t have to follow. republicans have proposed the trap laws in arizona, florida, indiana, north carolina, oklahoma, tennessee. in most cases, they argue the regulations are good for women, and if the new red tape shuts down the abortion providers, oops. mississippi is different, though. in mississippi, officials have been flat out admitting what they have been trying to do. they said they were doing this, passing this law specifically to try to shut down the last abortion clinic in the state. they want to end abortion in mississippi full stop.
restrictive ban on abortions in the country. because of the way the arizona law measures pregnancy, it bans abortion even earlier than the other seven state that is have enacted this time of late-term ban. arizona also added a new 24-hour waiting period to their state s forced ultrasound requirement. and it hits doctors who provide abortions with new specially targeted regulations just for them. a bill also landed on the governor s desk this week that will make it legal for doctors to lie to women about their pregnancies if the doctor thinks it will prevent that woman from seeking an abortion. and still in arizona, remember the tell your boss while you re on the pill bill? a version of that bill passed the arizona senate this week. it is not dead. in mississippi republican governor phil bryant, a guy who said we want mississippi to be abortion-free, he s well on the way to that. he will sign a new trap law, a new targeting the states only abortion clinic with new regulations sometime i