Dangerous for Everybody And America is bankrolling that. And then there is the naked political reality that anything that benefits netanyahu in this period is not necessarily going to benefit Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are democrats in this period. You are talking about Vladimir Putin who wants Donald Trump to win. Benjamin netanyahu wants Donald Trump to win. The differences the biden administration is in many ways helping Benjamin Netanyahu providing him the impunity to do things that wind up with Killing Palestinians and lebanese and endangering israelis but also increase the possibility of Donald Trump pain president. Then there is just the whole human told. There is the expectation that there is going to be retaliation on the part of hezbollah and i wonder how you are girding yourself as we are in this strange interregnum period. I guess there could be more explosions tomorrow, but as we and global Community Sit and wait for retaliation from hezbollah for taxes real began. The biden administration has to use american leverage vis Vis Israel to get israel to recognize that its problem with hezbollah and with gaza is a diplomatic problem, and the way to get an end to the Rocket Fire from hezbollah is to get a ceasefire in gaza, a cease fire, by the way that many Israels Security chiefs wanted but netanyahu has torpedoed. We have a tremendous amount of leverage with israel. Its almost a year now into the war in gaza. When is this president going to use it . Asking big questions at this hour, thank you for your time. Thanks for coming on board. That is our show for tonight. Now, it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, alex. Here in the Washington Studio tonight we have the beginnings of a senate quorum. We have Senator Raphael Warnock joining us and senator Jon Tester. Enjoy that room, lawrence. Have a great show. All Abortion Bands are the same, but some Abortion Bands pretend to be different. Now, i believe in the exceptions for , Incest And Life of the mother. I believe strongly if the Trump Abortion Ban in your state includes exceptions for , incest in the life of the mother had you qualify for those exceptions . Each Abortion Ban includes strict legal rules for qualifying for the exceptions, rules that are designed to be impossible to comply with. How do you prove to the Abortion Ban authorities in your state that you were raped . How do you prove to the Abortion Ban authorities in your state that you work raped by your stepfather . I never slept a full night in my entire life. I was five years old when my stepfather of used me for the first time. I just felt like i was alone on the planet with a monster. I was 12 when he impregnated me. I just remember thinking, i have to get out of my skin. I cant be me right now, like this cant be it. I didnt know what to do. I was a child. I didnt know what it meant to be pregnant at all. But, i had options. Because Donald Trump overturned roe v. Wade, girls and women all over the country have lost the right to choose. Even for or Incest Rape or incest. Donald trump did this. He took away our freedom. Im Kamala Harris and i approve this message. She was five years old the first time her stepfather abused her. Five years old. 12 years old when she got pregnant. The Abortion Ban writers pretend that a 12yearolD Could look up the law in her state, find out if there is an exception to the Trump Abortion Ban for rape and for incest and then apply for her abortion. Apply where . How . What is she supposed to do, drive herself to the courthouse, convince a judge all by herself . How could she possibly do that . How could she convince anyone . Then she drives yourself at age 12 to the doctor with a Permission Slip to get an abortion and how does a mother who is dying in a Hospital Bed get to a courthouse to prove to a judge that she is dying so that a doctor can perform a routine D C after that woman has had a miscarriage . When youre writing an Abortion Ban with those socalled exceptions, you could leave the enforcement of those exceptions to doctors. What the doctors assess the patients and decide if they are telling the truth about being raped, being raped by a member of their family, let the doctor decide if the life of a modular is endangered by a pregnancy or miscarriage. The republican men who write Abortion Bands do not trust pregnant women and girls and they absolutely do not trust doctors about anything, and so they have come up with complex schemes that really mean there are no real exceptions, that the exceptions are just a rhetorical crutch for republican politicians like Donald Trump. Here is how much georgia republicans dont trust doctors. They actually hate doctors and they put it in writing. The penalty for a doctor who intervenes to save the life of a pregnant woman is 10 years in prison. And the loss of their medical license. The ultimate threat to any doctor is the loss of the doctors license. Thats enough. Thats enough of a threat to her doctor away from doing anything. That penalty, the loss of a medical license 10 years in prison shows you that georgia republicans are trying to terrify doctors and nurses into never trying to serve any kind of medical procedures under these socalled exceptions. The Way Georgia doctors and nurses read that law, they were compelled according to important reporting and propublica, to just watch as Amber Nicole thurmans infections spread after she took an Abortion Pill that induced a miscarriage. Those doctors felt legally compelled to just watch as her blood pressure drop. The doctors and nurses watched Amber Nicole thurman slipped toward death for 20 hours because they believed they were handcuffed by the republican men in Georgia Who, like Donald Trump, lie about their concern for protection of the life of mothers. As reported here last night, Amber Nicole thurman died on the Operating Table after spending those 20 hours worrying about what would happen to her sixyearold son as she felt herself dying, that Little Boy will someday know the full story of how his mother died and who is responsible, beginning with george w. Bush who appointed Samuel Alito and John Roberts to the Supreme Court and Donald Trump who appointed Neil Gorsuch in Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Donald trump forgot to tell his Supreme Court justices when he interviewed them for the job that he believes strongly in Abortion Ban exceptions for , incest and the life of the mother, because those judges forgot to put that in there supreme Court Decision that said Georgia Politicians and politicians in any state can do whatever they want to any woman, like Amber Nicole thurman, whatever they want. Republican men in State Legislatures and Governors Offices can put pregnant women or women trying to recover from a natural miscarriage through any torture they want. That is what the Supreme Court said they can do. The Supreme Court, thanks to george w. Bush and Donald Trump, so that little girls raped by their fathers other uncles or their babysitters or the stepfathers can be abused by republican men in the State Legislatures and republican governors because yes, it is indeeD Child abuse when republican men put up qualifying roadblocks that are impossible to get through for a 10yearold girl to have an abortion to relieve that girl of her to baby. No one in the republican party apologized to the 10yearold girl that had to leave ohio to get an abortion. There are republicans who want every Rape Baby to be born no matter what the victim of that rape wants or needs to survive. The exceptions are alive. The republican legislatures who write those exceptions in their Abortion Bands are lying in legislative language. They are abusers of rape victims second only to the rapist s themselves. They are abusers of victims and abusers of mothers who try to cling to life in Hospital Beds where republican politicians have removed the healing tools from the doctors hands. The only reason we know about Amber Thurman is because the Georgia Department of health automatically tracks maternal health through the georgia maternal mortality review committee. But every state automatically investigates maternal Death But Georgia does in that committee found that Amber Nicole thurman was killed by the law written by the republican men of the Georgia Legislature. The committee did not put it that way, of course. Not in those words, but the committee of doctors did say that she died because her treatment was delayed for 20 hours. It is the republican law that delayed her treatment. It was the republican law that killed her, the law that was possible only because george w. Bush and Donald Trump appointed men to the united states Supreme Court that allow that lot to go. Candy miller was 41 years old. She is a mother of three. By the time she was 40 when she had lupus, diabetes and hypertension. Pregnancy can post life threatening risks to lupus patients. Because Candy Miller was living under the georgia Abortion Ban she didnt even consult a doctor when she ordered Abortion Pills online from india to terminate her risky, unplanned pregnancy. After taking the Abortion Pill, which induced a miscarriage, Candy Miller was in intense pain for days, but she never contacted the doctor. Her son, christian, told propublica why. If you get caught trying to do anything to get rid of a baby you get jail time for that. The republican men in the Georgia Legislature wrote the fear of prison into their law, a fear shared by people who have not read the details of that law, who have not read what the exceptions might be that they might qualify for but they do correctly now that there is prison written into that law because that is how much the republican men of the Georgia Legislature want to police the bodies of women in Georgia And Police the conduct of doctors and nurses. In the days after her miscarriage, Candy Miller took painkillers to try to stop her excruciating pain. The maternal Death Rate for mothers with lupus is 20 times higher than mothers without lupus. 20 times higher was a chance she did not want to take, but that would not of qualified as an exception under georges fake life of the mother exception. Propublica Survey Dozens of doctors in nine states with Abortion Bands. None of their hospitals approve abortions for women with high risk complications like Lupus Or Diabetes unless the patient is already deteriorating on the issue is urgent. Candy miller died on november 12, 2022. Propublica writes, her husband found her unresponsive in bed. Her Threeyearold Daughter at her side. An autopsy found that the painkillers she took included sentinel. Her sister said quote, she was trying to terminate the pregnancy, not terminate herself. Propublica reports that the State Committee of experts in maternal health quote, decided it was preventable and blamed the states Abortion Ban, according to members who spoke to propublica on the condition of anonymity. Candy miller and Amber Thurman died in 2022. The investigations of their deaths were just completed. We are now two years later. That is how long it takes from the time of the death to release the information by the investigators about that death. That means there are likely many, many more women in Georgia Who have already died, already been killed by the republican men of the Georgia Legislature but have not yet been reported. The georgia Abortion Ban went into effect after the Supreme Court made that possible on july 20th, 2022 and women began dying immediately, according to these reports Coming Up now. How many died in 2023 . We have no idea. It will probably be a larger number than in 2022. How many died in 2024 . We wont know probably until 2026. The martyrs persecuted to death by george w. Bush and Donald Trump in the Supreme Court and the republican legislators are dying in silence. Some of them will speak to us two years later from the grave about what happened to them because their deaths are being investigated, investigated very slowly. Those martyrs like martyrs before them throughout the ages can change the course of history. Hours is a fight for the future, and it is a fight for freedom, the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to live without fear of bigotry and hate, the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride and the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body. And not have her government telling her what to do. And understand on that last point, how we got here. Everyone here knows. Donald Trump Hand selected three members of the united states Supreme Court with the intention that they would do just what they did which is to overturn the protections of roe v. Wade and now in more than 20 states, we have a Trump Abortion Ban which criminalizes Healthcare Providers, and one state, providing prison for life. You guys may have heard the story about the most recent stories about what happened in georgia . Many of these Trump Abortion Bands that make no exception for rapist or incest, its immoral. Its immoral and today 40 of latinos in america live in a state with a Trump Abortion Ban, so imagine if she is a working woman, understand that the majority of women who seek Abortion Care are mothers. Understand what that means for her. So shes got to now travel to another state. God help her that she has some extra money to pay for that plane ticket. Shes got to figure out what to do with her kids. God help her if she has affordable childcare. Imagine what that means. She has to leave her home to go to an airport, stand in a Tsa Line. Think about this. You know, everybody here is policy leaders. I always say to my team, especially the young people a mentor, on any Public Policy you have to ask, how is this going to affect a real person. Go through the details. So shes got to stand in the Tsa Line to get on the plane sitting next to a perfect stranger going to a city where shes never been to go and receive a medical procedure. Shes going to have to get right back to the airport because she got to get back to those kids and its not like her best frienD Can go with her because the Best Friend is probably taking care of the kids. All because these people have decided they are in a better position to tell her what is in her best interest than she is to know. Its just simply wrong. That was the Vice President speaking today. Joining us now is democratic Senator Raphael Warnock of georgia. Thank you so much for being with us tonight. Georgia has now taken Center Stage in the Abortion Ban coverage thanks to this committee within the Georgia Department of public health that has a mandate to investigate maternal health outcomes, especially that end in fatalities. Without those investigations, we would know none of this. Thats right, and i have introduced legislation to bolster just this kind of investigation. Maternal mortality is a major problem in our country. We have the dubious distinction of having maternal mortality rates much higher than in any other wealthy nation in states like georgia are a terrible example of that. With Amber Thurman and other cases, what we are seeing is when men in the legislature try to write a law that will control womens bodies beginning with the subject of abortion, its impossible for them to stop there. These are not necessarily laws that are policing abortion. They are taking full control of every pregnancy in the state, and every outcome, including outcomes involving natural miscarriages where a woman might need a routine procedure after that, that is now a felony in georgia. Yes, and if Donald Trump has his way and he created the context for all of this, appointing these conservative judges, he knew exactly what they were going to do. He has been running around bragging about the fact that he overturned roe v. Wade. We are seeing the impact with ivf. We are seeing the tragic impact with these two black women now who have died in my Home State and so we are seeing this all across the country, but especially in a state like georgia, a state where there are almost no restrictions on guns and plenty of restrictions on womens bodies and as a result of that, you see young children, High School students dying in a classroom in winder, georgia and women bleeding out to death in Parking Lots because their hands are tied. Their doctors hands are tied, and so georgia once again is Center Stage and this whole drama is playing out in our state and the people of georgia have a serious decision to make. When you write a lot and put in a 10 year prison sentence, you are not saying to doctors, use your best medical judgment and save lives when you have to save lives. You are saying to doctors, you can go to prison for 10 years, never see your children again if you cross one of our lines. Right, and anybody who is looking at this honestly, that is the thing about this issue. No matter what your politics, folks have seen this. I certainly have seen this. The medicine is much more complicated than the politics, which is why you have to leave the politics out of a Patients Room. Ive often said that a Patients Room is too narrow anD Cramped the space for a woman, her doctor in the united states government. Thats too many people in the room. Thats too many men in the Room Making Decisions for a woman so this election is about freedom. Freedom of reproductiv