Juno News - May 17, 2022


How will Roe v Wade affect Canada?


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

178.43011

Word Count

466

Sentence Count

32

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 What's your take on Roe and the leak?
00:00:01.980 And then maybe you can comment about why you think this issue is spilling into the conversation here in Canada.
00:00:07.700 Man, yeah, there's so much to say about that.
00:00:09.880 So one is, you know, the so-called pro-choice movement talks about being pro-choice, but clearly they're not really pro-choice.
00:00:16.940 I would say even in the very issue of killing a baby, killing a pre-born baby.
00:00:22.780 But beyond that, politically, they're not pro-choice.
00:00:25.200 Because if they were really pro-choice and they would want people to be able to vote on the issue, they would want California to make their choice on the issue.
00:00:32.440 And they would want Texas or Ohio or Mississippi, Alabama to make their choice on the issue.
00:00:38.120 But that's not what they want.
00:00:39.480 In the same way, they don't really want a woman to have a real choice.
00:00:43.560 People just want the rights to kill a baby.
00:00:46.640 And it's sad.
00:00:47.300 That's often because sometimes they believe they don't have any alternative, which, of course, is not true.
00:00:53.840 That's a real choice, right?
00:00:55.200 There is a choice where people can choose to protect their babies, either by giving up for adoption or by believing that they can persevere, that they are strong enough to take care of their own babies.
00:01:06.820 As my mother did when my father left my family before I was born, when my mom was pregnant with me in Ghana.
00:01:15.740 And look, being a single mother is hard anywhere.
00:01:18.860 But being a single mother in West Africa, especially at the time in the late 80s, is very, very difficult.
00:01:23.840 So anyway, so I think this goes to show that, you know, people, a lot of people in the U.S. just do not want states to have the choice, women, men, to be able to have a choice to vote on this issue.
00:01:36.420 And I think the reason why it's also spilling into Canada is because, of course, our nations are very connected in so many ways.
00:01:44.100 And oftentimes the political issues in the U.S. are or become political issues also in Canada.
00:01:49.940 As we've seen already that politicians have had to answer on what they think about Roe v. Wade already, especially the conservative leadership race.
00:02:00.680 And also because abortion is an issue here, too.
00:02:05.420 There are people here who, like me, do not like abortion because we don't like, again, innocent children, innocent children to be killed or any children to be killed.
00:02:15.360 But also it's because we don't have a law here in Canada.
00:02:20.180 We don't have a single law protecting pre-born babies in this country.
00:02:24.240 And I think that's one of the reasons why it's spilling into our country.
00:02:27.820 And I think that's why it's spilling into the country.
00:02:34.700 Thank you.