The Breakfast Club - Donkey of the Day: Alabama Abortion Ban

Episode Date: May 16, 2019

Donkey of the Day goes to the state of Alabama for their abortion ban. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I was born a donkey. or whenever you get your podcasts. Yes, donkey of the day for Thursday. Charlamagne the devil? Possibly. The Breakfast Club. Yes, donkey of the day for Thursday. What's today's date, guys? 16th. Oh, yes, May 16th. Goes to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey. Salute to everyone who listens to us on Magic 96.5 in Birmingham, Alabama, and Hot 105.7 in Montgomery, Alabama, respectively.

Drop on the clues bombs for Alabama. All right. You all are appreciated, but your governor is not because Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed into law an abortion bill that could possibly sentence doctors who perform abortions to life in prison. Now, Alabama is the first state that has a straight up outright ban on abortion. I don't know what is going on in America, but for some odd reason, old Caucasian colonizers have decided to enslave women's uteruses. All right. Women's uteruses are being put in chains and shackled. And these prehistoric pale faces are attempting to control women's bodies because Alabama is the seventh state this year to pass abortion restrictions.

OK, Utah, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio. If you're keeping score to others, they don't have an outright ban, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, if you're keeping score to others. They don't have an outright ban, though. Instead, they have passed the so-called heartbeat bill that prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy because that's when doctors can usually start detecting a fetal heartbeat. I have no idea why these old white men give a damn about what women do with their bodies. In fact, I will say that any man who doesn't want women to have abortions has never had an unwanted pregnancy.

But we'll get to that in a second. Let's go to CNN to get some more details on this bill. The nation's most restrictive abortion law. All those in favor, Republican men. The law effectively bans abortion by making it a felony punishable by up to 99 years or life in prison for performing the procedure. The law does include very limited exceptions such as serious health risks to the mother. Democrats attempted to add an amendment

to exempt victims of rape and incest but that failed. This fight now potentially setting up a Supreme Court showdown. Alabama is one of 16 states to introduce or pass restrictive abortion legislation sometimes called heartbeat bills, this year. Even though it was signed into law today, Wolf, it does not technically go into effect until six months from today. But the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have planned to challenge this in court. Chances that it goes into effect before it gets into court are slim to none. All right, you heard what she said.

Let the record show. According to Huffington Post, CNN, and other media outlets, every Senate vote for Alabama's abortion ban was from a Republican white man. 25 to 6 votes. And all 25 of those yes votes came from white male senators. 25 white men who will never be pregnant. 25 white men who will never be raped and impregnated. 25 white men who will never be raped by a family member and impregnated.

I have no idea, once again, why any man would care so much about what a woman is doing with their body. I am a man who has had women abort potential babies of ours, and not once did I get consulted on any of those decisions, and not once did I feel like I needed to be consulted, okay? Yes, it takes two people to make a baby, but if you're not married to a woman or that woman isn't your significant other, potential wife, you really don't have any say in the matter, okay? So I'm just confused to why these old white men act like they care so much about the lives of these unborn fetuses when they don't get that same energy to the black lives being gunned down at the

hands of the police okay rest in peace to pamela turner all right 44 year old woman killed monday at the hands of the police in texas shot five times schizophrenic woman who yelled at the officer and told him uh she was pregnant. I don't think that she was, but that is what she said. But if you care about life so much, how about, you know, create some type of bill that prohibits the killing of people like that, that prohibits the killing of unarmed people at the hands of the police? OK, if a person is unarmed, there is no need for a cop to ever draw their gun. All right. How about, you know, be as hard on them as you are being on women who

for whatever reason don't want to have their baby right now i am flabbergasted all right when you're talking to old white people you got to use words like that i am flabbergasted as to why this is such a pressing issue for these mayonnaise flavored mammals okay not to mention seeing 25 white men decide what a bunch of women can do with their bodies pisses me off the same way seeing a predominantly white cast in the gods of egypt back in 2015 date okay i'm serious all right one thing i can't stand is the lack of diversity i hate seeing a bunch of white people decide what a bunch of black people should be doing i hate seeing a bunch of men decide what a bunch of women should be doing i hate seeing a bunch of straight people decide what a bunch of gay people should be doing because if you don't

understand somebody's struggle you can't make a proper decision on what they should be doing because it's not coming from a place of proper understanding. OK, everyone here is only what they understand. That's why you don't hear these women telling you all these abortion bans are dead wrong because you don't understand them. And Lyndon B. Johnson, a white man, once said, if we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. Clearly, these old white men don't know anything about women because if they did, they would know better than to tell them what to do with their body. I propose that all these old white men who voted on this bill, the woman in their lives should have to deal with these fates. OK, they should have to face unwanted pregnancies, because why would any man support a bill that scripts away rights from their daughters, granddaughters, sisters. Aren't we supposed to be making the world a better place for them?

You're making it harder. Okay, why would you vote against the interests of women in your life that you love? So I think they should have to deal with unwanted pregnancies. And then you have to look the women in your life in the eyes and tell them, nope, you have to carry it. We all know everything changes when it's happening to somebody you love. Nobody cares about issues until they directly affect them. Okay, so i think that that is what should happen in this situation uh other than that i don't have any solutions for this problem because common sense says to me don't tell women what to do with their bodies it's not our business but as we have learned in America in 2019, common sense ain't so common.

So please give Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and those 25 Republican old white men. You know what? Let Kathy Griffin handle my white work. I mean, please give this giant jar of mail the biggest hee haw. It don't make sense to me. Yeah. All right. Had enough of this country ever dreamt about starting your own. Yeah, it don't make sense to me either. Yeah. All right. Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag.

This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that?

Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zaka-stan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-a-stan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes,

entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello? And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come

to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, my undeadly darlings.

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