pete: he doesn t know what s going onment he s eating trash off the street because that s what pigs do. rachel: there s delicious mocktails that rob made for us and go to robfloydonent.com. he was a mixology featured on bar rescue and robfloydent.com like entertainment. we thank him for doing it and they re really good. rachel: this is volcanic black salt. rachel: right. will: it s great on a margarita. pete: i ve always mocked mocktails. why would i but i realize all i need is a drink in my hand. if i can drink this all morning and there s no alcohol in it, i m having a great time. will: he said two fascinating things, that will release serotoninnen in your brain, you re tricking your brain into thinking you re having a good time drink and second thing that stood out to me was human beings smile or laugh 17 times a day but if you re at a bar, you laugh or smile 17 times in an hour. pete: sounds right. if you want to be healthy, go to a bar. rachel: not exactly what it was
sarah and melissa, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i m going to let you just start, melissa. i want to talk about your stories but i can t ignore that sound byte that we just heard. howdies ingenuous is jerry nadler? i could use a whole lot more words to describe that but we continue to hear the same language during roe and after roe that born-alive legislation isn t needed and it is searching for a problem that doesn t exist but i can tell you as both an abortion survivor and someone that works with a population of abortion survivors, we have a problem in the united states that needs to be addressed, and this was a good first step in that direction. rachel: sarah, explain what happens when a child without this bill, what would happen to a child that survives an abortion? they d be left to die and up to the physician to decide on
his own what he was going to do as it was in my case. rachel: okay. so now tell me what happened in your case. how did you survive an abortion? absolutely. my birth mother was an immigrant from honduras and came to america as a teenager and got pregnant with me she had seven children at home. she was referred to a chief physician known as [inaudible] and he was infamous in new orleans for being a doctor for minorities and delivered me in an induction abortion at 26.5 weeks and advised my mother to let me die on the table because i wasn t breathing and said i d be a mental vegetable incapable of having a normal life. rachel: lie, lies lies and you re here and beautiful and alive and well. melissa, what happened to you? my story started 45 years ago, my birth mother as a 19-year-old college student was forced to have a saline-infused
because part of the problem in the u.s. is we don t have any reporting requirements federally and we don t have even just a handful of states that report out the number of abortion survivors. if you look through state reports in minnesota and texas, we have babies surviving boshes and it s being reported like it s supposed to be in the state but in those reports, they re still recording that those babies are being left to die. this is not acceptable and something has to change at the top to trickle down to the rest of the states and we know statistically we ll be putting out research of the abortion survivor s network based on canadian data and there are thousands of babies surviving abortions every year. we re hearing from women now who are having babies survive both chemical abortion pi pills and o we aren t even capturing those that survive in the first trimester. rachel: absolutely. 40% of abortions are chemical abortions done at home. sarah and melissa, thank you for
we ve had incredible amounts of rain and great news for the drought and bad news for the flooding and landslides and more of this coming but we see a change in the pattern and it s going to be very welcome out across parts of the west. all right, rachel back to you inside. rachel: thank you, rick. house democrats shamelessly opposing legislation that would require health providers to give immediate medical care to infants who survive an abortion procedure. the problem with this bill is not that it makes anything that it s not that it provides any new presbyterians from infant protections for infants and the problem is that it endangers some infants by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital. rachel: joining us now are two women that survivorred their mother s abortions and founder of the abortion survivors network, melissa and sarah.