Hello. This is Rumble with Michael
Moore. I'm Michael Moore.
Thank you for tuning in here today.
I am going to turn today's podcast over to the people in
the town, small town where I live in northern Michigan.
It's called Traverse City, Michigan.
It's it's about 15,000 people in the town, when the edict from
the Supreme Court was issued on Friday morning.
People immediately began calling and texting each other.
It was decided that a 10 a.m. on Saturday.
The next day, We Gather in this park that sits on the bay part
of Lake Michigan. So, for those of you who don't
know, Traverse City, it's a it's in a county called Grand.
Traverse County that twice has voted for Trump.
The city itself has not voted for a republican for president
nearly 20 years. And so, I guess people think of
Michigan as a purple State because we have a lot of blue
areas, Traverse City, and flint, and obviously Detroit Ann Arbor
state that voted for Biden and Obama.
But in places, like, where we live here in northern Michigan.
We are surrounded by all these large red areas of very hateful
voters angry, angry white men. Not easy.
Maybe some of you live in areas like that then ten o'clock
yesterday, Saturday morning came around, it was looking like,
they're only going to be 20 or 30 people, there, holding signs,
but within minutes literally, within minutes, surge of people
came into the park and there were hundreds and hundreds, you
can see where the crowd ended, that's how many showed up so
hopeful and and so inspiring. And so my producer Angela Vargas
produces each of Of these episodes now and also as the
editor, she took a microphone. Thank you, Jeff for the
microphone and and went through the crowd during the rally to
talk to people to let them in their own voice.
Say how they felt about the Supreme Court ruling and it's so
amazing. When you hear this, it's
riveting. I guarantee you at the end of
this, you will be inspired. You will be hopeful and I'm not
going to say anymore. I'm just going to turn it over
to the people of Traverse City Michigan.
Place I call home with good people from the middle of this
country. The people you don't usually
hear from usually don't have a voice.
And I want to give them that platform that voice here today.
Let's listen, uranium, I just got here at the Traverse City
protest. We just lined up and cars are
honking. We are in Grandview Parkway.
There's probably about maybe 50 women here.
And I'm going to go talk to some women.
I'm 23. I'm Jesse, I'm 25.
Can I just ask why you're here today with everything that
happened yesterday? It was just pretty disturbing.
I was in shock that something like that could happen.
It's been a precedent for so long and I kind of feel like I
had taken it for granted, that it was like up on our country
and I was Shocked to see it change especially in 2022.
I think to like obviously things can snowball pretty easily and
just thinking about this changing, like she said, like
something that we had as a president for 50 years.
Something that we never really thought was going to change
seeing that change is just kind of scary to think about what
else could change. And I don't want to act
retroactively on things, like gay marriage.
I don't want to see that overturned interracial marriage.
Don't want to see that overturned being here.
And Coming together to advocate for something that we believe in
is the only way that we're going to make change in a country.
So why are you here? I'm here as their mother.
I stand Here. Conflicted in terms of abortion
in my feelings about life, but this is for my daughters and my
granddaughters and understanding that we cannot take a step
backwards as people. We have to be more loving and
accepting of individuals in their own choices.
And that's why we're here. Today is supporting all women,
but more than that race is gender, we all need to just love
each other. That's why we're here.
She's the speaker that I know. I support them.
I am pro-life but I'm here to support my daughters.
Podcast recording some voices from today's protest, an ice
cube just a couple questions. Of course, there's can you tell
me what my sign says someone you love?
Has had an abortion, protect women, and protect women's
rights. I remember exactly those
reasons, I think, people think that abortion are for certain
people, or they don't think it touches their lives.
And I just, I guarantee that if people were completely open and
honest and they could Speak that truth.
People would find that someone that say love and care about so
much has had to go through this. It's a medical procedure that
saves lives and this ruling is just heartbreaking because it
feels like as women we don't matter and we do And I wanted to
swear, but I won't, I'm so angry.
But I'm so it's a beautiful day and I'm so glad all these people
are out here and making our voices heard and just having a
little therapy through Collective anger.
I'm here with two of my best girlfriends and my husband
stayed home with the kid, you know?
He's like, he's like you have to do this, though, give them how
so my name is Claire. I'm a Traverse City resident and
I'm 41 years old, I'm Kate sturken and I am 41 years old
and here today because I'm So, frightened and discouraged.
The idea that government just making choices over people's
lives and life and death and juxtaposition with, we can't get
a gun safety law passed and make any meaningful change their.
You know, I saw a quote that says I guess now we know life
begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting and that's our
country. You know I've got two daughters
and a son that this just terrifies me For what the future
might hold for them. My name is Arianna, Corky.
I'm 22 years old. I'm a type 1 diabetic.
So I actually have a two-year-old son, and when I was
pregnant with him, I had to have an emergency C-section pretty
early on. It was really detrimental to my
health to his health. We almost both didn't make it
but the whole point of that is it was my choice to go through
that. I couldn't imagine someone else
that had to go through that that isn't gonna be able to have that
choice anymore. So the whole thing with my sign,
with the blood running down my legs, you know, that's my own
wings. Absolutely.
So my shorts, my white shorts are soaked in blood, you know,
from the waist down. I've got red handprints on my
arms, kind of representing the government, taking a, hold on,
our rights, the hangar, the red shorts is kind of representing
what used to happen, and what's going to be happening now that
our rights are taken away. So and what is your sign says,
we won't go back because I'm not going to go back.
This is ridiculous. Abortion is Healthcare.
It really is. There's there's nothing else to
it. There shouldn't be a voting
matter on this. How did you feel?
What was going through your head?
Yesterday, when I was at work, I was in shock.
I couldn't even fathom what I was reading or hearing and the
amount of people that I saw our have that felt the same way.
I'm kind of confused why we're trying to vote our rights away
or keep them or I don't know. It's just scary to live in a
country. Country.
That's taking your rights away as a human.
It's very dehumanizing as a woman and more than a slap in
the face. Yeah.
Supposedly land of the free but I'm not Feelin.
Real free right now, my body, my choice.
Nobody should be making decisions for my body.
Nobody should be making decisions for anybody's body.
It's your choice. I was mortified, completely
mortified, and that's why I'm here, and it's going to take
more than a protest to get this changed.
We've not quite the fight ahead of us and we are not going to
lay down as women. We are going to stand up and
take care of this. Thank you so much for.
I'm Angela 45. My name is Bronwyn Jones and
there's a car churning here. I'll just you saved my life.
My name is Bronwyn Jones and I'm 66 years old, I've lived long
enough to see, Roe v-- Wade, come as law and now to see it
fall is just terrific thing. We'd had a heads-up about this
but nonetheless, this terrible feeling of shock rage did
Despair fight. We've got a fight.
We need to get out the vote. We need to be voting in
supporting candidates that will continue a progressive way of
thinking, about rights for people.
And there are so many that are now threatened through this
decision. I mean, we're looking at a
terrible, terrible roll back, and it's a minority group and
it's a lying group of people and it's just terrific, what's
happening? My name is Hannah and I'm 18 and
my son, says, pro life is a lie. You don't care if women died.
I've heard so many stories, and I'm so glad it personally hasn't
affected me of people of their lives, getting saved by having
an abortion and their protection.
It provides for women all across the country and it's just so
sad. How many people are going to die
because they take what their personal values and beliefs are
and push it on us. I mean there's so many
instances, His of these politicians talking about how
it's against the Bible. But this is a separate, the
state is separate from religion, and that's how it should always
be. Not, everybody's Christian, we
have so much diversity in this country that there should never
be any religion pushed on other people.
It's just unacceptable. How does it feel?
Because you're 18, as you have some control, just because,
yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm not excited that
this is why. I want to vote, but I'll do what
I have to do to protect my sister, and my mom and everyone
I love and it affects more than just women to, because like,
there are people who are losing their loved ones to this.
It's it's insane. And these people don't care
about us. It's about money and it's about
power and it will never be about us.
I'm here to stand up for our rights.
I'm here to fight for us because they won't do it for us.
My name is Emma, I'm 25. I don't really have a sign, but
I have the queen on my shirt RBG rest in peace.
I literally texted everybody, I knew who had a uterus you have,
you know, a supply of Plan, B. Do you have emergency
contraception, like you have resources and Just making sure
everybody was okay because it was that horrifying, I was
fortunate. Fortunate enough to have a
hysterectomy at 22, so I don't have really a concern for my
safety, but definitely need to be here to support.
You know, the younger kids, who still have that worry and my
husband is here to do the same. Well I'm here today because I
find it disgusting that the Supreme Court doesn't respect
rights anymore and has gone to show that they're willing to
just over to turn them in a moment's notice and I feel like
everyone that is celebrating this as a wind should be alarmed
at this. Because what's next, at this
point? Are they going to decide that
black people have no rights? Are they going to decide that
gay people shouldn't exist anymore?
It's a fan that this Supreme Court that's been decided on is
going to do damage for a lifetime because that's how long
they're in. Did you already talk to you
soon? Okay what's your name?
My name is Emma. And I'm 19 I'm here today to
fight for everybody that I loved because I know my family
especially it doesn't support the right proportion and it's
really hard because I know that it would ruin my life and so
many other lives if they had a baby because nobody supports,
nobody gives any money to parents who, you know, have
children and they don't support you.
Laughter birthday. Just care about you having the
baby. It's forced birth.
Michigan is one of the states that has a lot of trigger laws
in place. And I know that temporarily
Whitmer blocked the one, but, you know, I'm scared that
eventually. I won't have the access to
abortion if I truly need it. And that's just a really scary
thought and I was disgusted. For all the women in America, my
name is Maddie and I'm seven. You can you tell me what's on
your sign? I have don't like abortions.
Just ignore them just like you ignore children in the foster
care system. I believe that abortion is a
health care. It's a right, and it's not.
So I'm really awkward about this, but I'm Emma, I'm 17.
Mine says, my body, my choice, my freedom, my voice.
Why are you here today? Because I think it's important
that we stand up for what we think is, right?
And I think abortions are a human, right?
It's the right time. Embodies and I think we should
have that choice. I'm curious because you guys are
you, you're not even voting age yet.
So how does that make you feel this?
And they just happen that you can't do something very, very,
very angry. We are the future and we are
what this is going to affect us. We need to fight back and I see
sir. My body, my choice.
And it is, and nobody else has a right over my body.
It's mine. And I'm really angry.
This is not fair to any women and it's just, I'm shaking.
I'm so mad. It's just, it's not fair.
I mean, I'm astonished because we're moving backward in time.
It's not, this is not the future.
This is moving in the past. And if this continues, we have
no future for ourselves. I took a step backward and how
many years we've spent fighting for the right to our own body is
gone and just over a few minutes and we need to fight back and I
need to stand up for love. Sure, I'm Riley.
Maya and I'm 41 years old. My sign says you're pro-life
until the baby is gay. Poor trans black Muslim,
disabled and immigrant or a woman.
And I think it just it exemplifies how the Republican
party is so hypocritical sometimes how they care about
Unborn Children, but they don't care about what happens after
it's born. So, and then, the other side
says, you might choose life every time, but it's still a
choice for me. Personally, I probably would
choose life over time, but I would never take away the right
of another woman to choose her choice.
You know, the battle is going to be at the, at the balance.
So we really need to get to the polls.
Everyone needs to turn up and vote midterm.
Elections are very important. You know, we can we can really
change this country by voting. My name is Kendall and I'm 19
I'm here mostly to expose kind of like the Republican Party
being hypocritical. They call themselves for life
but it they're really probe Earth because they were
pro-life. We would have access to Easter
contraceptives. We would have more baby formula
on our shelves, even have a better foster system, better
adoption care, that better process of everything, they
don't care about the child. After it's born, they just want
to control women's bodies. Some people with uterus, I just
felt empty. We really don't have a choice.
Even with the Supreme Court like We can't vote them in and it
just feels like what's next? It's devastating.
I really hope this next Generation can turn things
around and I know a lot of people think that right now
voting just isn't enough but it we have to try and even getting
out there and protesting is also so important to like, just use
those First Amendment rights. But it's also again, it's, it
may not feel like it's enough right now, but it's so important
to get out there, it could make a difference in this may be your
first time. Oh yeah.
Actually it is gonna be the first time.
It's so exciting. I can't wait to try and make a
difference. You know.
They like you have control as a little bit Tracy Jenkins 51.
I have respect female existence or expect their resistance and
then if you can't trust me with a choice, then how can you trust
me with the baby? We have three children.
And I can't believe that, you know, our lives are worth less
than my husband say. According to our government, my
grandmother, passed away had a vist carriage and it didn't
evacuate and so therefore it was considered an abortion and my
grandmother passed away when my dad was a teenager and and I
don't think the government are churches have anything to do
with Women's Health and I had to have a conversation with my 13
year old saying if you are raped, if you are they have sex,
you have to come to me and we'll have to To get you some
medication because I you can't get pregnant.
And our only option is a Plan B pill.
So that's it's a conversation did not want to hear with my
daughter. I have to because of what
happened and just tell her if you're raped, you can't be
ashamed and you have to come right to us and we have to take
medical care of you. My daughter is five and I'm
hoping that by the time she gets a little older that we fought
back and we've got enough to just codify this that I don't
have to have the discussion you had with your.
Yeah, I thought it was. Yeah yeah.
Greg Jenkins 52 as a lawyer. I find the opinion to be just
mind-numbingly, idiotic for lack of a better term.
Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I think row So with all his faults with solid law, the right
to privacy through the 14th, made a lot of sense to me,
shouldn't be the government's choice to be an individual's
choice and now I see our justices, talking about deeply
rooted traditions, and that's what our nation is.
Now, it has to be deeply rooted tradition, is that me where to
bring back things like slavery. Women aren't people at all,
their property. Is that what?
It's come down to Not only that, but to support people that
actually can have children. Again, there's just a thousand
reasons to be here and there. The crowd is growing.
Now there is a, probably a couple hundred people here since
I started talking to people. Yeah, lots of cars are honking
and support and can hear that in the background and let me get
back to talking to people. Molly, and I'm 24.
I was born with Reproductive Rights that just got taken away.
I feel like we're progressing and not gonna sit aside and let
it get worse. A lot of women died from unsafe.
Abortions. Yeah.
I was sitting around kind of Doom scrolling.
And then, I found some local protest to get out to just want
to get my voice heard and not sit around.
Yeah, feels good to be able to do something.
What do you advocate for people to do now?
Vote register to vote volunteer if you can donate.
To abortion funds and just keep tabs on the status of abortion
access in your state. Yeah,
I'm Mason and 24th. One side says, fuck the
government. The other side said, this will
not stop at abortions. Only the beginning to get angry.
I'm pissed off but taking away rights and it's A just not fair
at all. We got we need to do more than
just boat. We really need to protest,
petitions always work, but I think we just really need to
burn it down and start over yesterday.
I was completely nauseous and sick all day and and angry and
angry. And I, you know, this is
complete bullshit. Am I allowed to swear?
Yeah, but you know I'm here for the next Generation I'm Sadie.
And I'm 46. Yeah, so it's And I'm 22.
I find it absolutely despicable that you know, there's so much
hypocrisy in the current government right now, you look
at like covid vaccine mandates, then it's their body, their
choice. But now when it comes to women's
Choice, it's completely the opposite.
So I find it absolutely ridiculous.
I'm hearing and I'm 66, I'm happy and I'm 66 roster, eat it.
Yeah, I dream woman would one day have the same rights as
guys. Mine says, it's pro-life Intel
The children are born then. No money for Health Care food,
childcare education Hypocrites are concerned about the future
for women marginalized folks in this country and about our
rights, aren't they? All it should be a personal.
Thanks for everyone. So and our country is moving in
a direction that I could never patient.
Sure. You're registered to vote, make
sure you vote, make sure you find those organizations, it Be
able to assist women who are going to need assistance in
getting health care across this nation.
And there's a petition right now to reproductive freedom for all
that would put legislation on the ballot.
That would protect Healthcare abortion etcetera, in this state
Amanda, remember another petition for voting rights to
protect voting rights so that we can all vote and not worry that
our vote is going to be thrown out.
I'm Gwen and I'm 18. I'm joy and I'm 12, I'm Nora,
I'm 17, I've got Reproductive Rights are human rights.
My future, my choice, my body, my choice.
When we saw the Roe v-- Wade, being overturned, it's just
really hard to feel as a woman like, you have no control over
your own body and that just feels fundamentally wrong.
How are you feeling your, you can't vote yet?
What was going through your head?
I thought it was really messed up that the government can
choose. For us and we can't decide
anything. I was just really surprised I
thought, like, after 50 years, I didn't think we could go back
that far. Like, my mom told me on the
phone last night. Remember to set your clocks back
50 years with them, I was just really heartbroken and surprised
that like a bunch of people just wrapping choices removed from
them and they couldn't do anything about it.
So but now we can do something about it and we're doing
something about it and if like, women's rights being taken away,
then next, it's all the other movements we've made all the
Other progress. We've had like, they had a bunch
of stuff in the works about like taking away, gay marriage, and I
just wanted to have my voice heard.
If you could say something directly to the Supreme Court to
our lawmakers that are in charge right now that are making these
decisions for your future. What would you say?
I have so much to say to them I think I probably start with like
do you vote for the people? Do you actually represent the
people or do you just represent your own ideas?
Carry your pain, I'm 52 and My girls, I was panicked because my
daughter is going down to Missouri for college and I'm
afraid. What if something happened to
her? I've taken, I've made sure she's
taken care of her side, but if somebody attacked her, would she
be put in jail? I don't know.
I'm worried about my girls, not having choices.
I'll do whatever I can to protect my babies.
I'm Megan. I'm 18, I'm here today to
protest the overturning of rho V.
Wade, fear embarrassment. I was just angry.
I texted my mom and I was like, I don't know what's going on in
my mom and I just had this big long heart-to-heart and I ask
you one more question. Yes.
Absolutely. What makes you think you have
the right to choose what we do with our bodies?
You won't have to go through what we're going through.
Why do you get to decide? How we go through it.
What would you say? Fuck off.
It's, there's no other word. It's your coming for our
contraceptives for gay marriage, for our rights, as to our own
bodies, like it's insane and gun submarines and we do.
I, it's just how, how did we get here?
Yeah, I'm Avery. I'm 18.
Mine says in memory of all the women who have died from illegal
abortions, I'm just furious that we have to protest this anymore.
My bodily autonomy should not be up for debate.
Eight and safe and legal. Abortion should be a right for
all women. It's truly sickening and not
just for me, but for the millions of women who can't
afford to travel and to care for taking off of work and get child
care for their ready, kids are you going kids?
And so it's just frustrating that we have a whole new set of
boundaries and problems to solve.
And it's really freshens be here.
Now, I'm 11, I'm here with my mom because abortion is
Healthcare and if we don't do this, I'm Literally moving to
Canada. If you can say something to the
Supreme Court for the lawmakers right now that are basically
deciding your future and what you can do with your body.
What would you say? I hope they die.
You can't say that out of five days.
Okay. Well, that's your anger.
I mean, and I understanding its and let me let me think of
something. Sure, why don't I ask her mom,
Uncle questions. Is that okay?
And I'm Sarah, I'm 43. My sign says, Is no fuck.
No. Having a baby in America right
now is really difficult. There are a lot of things that
make it almost impossible from no Health Care to, no daycare to
no medical care to know, support to Rising prices and to force
women to carry the burden of that alone is to keep some women
in a position, a cage of poverty, no resources.
What were you thinking? Yesterday, when the decision
came down, it felt like we were Going back in time, it felt
really dark and and not for me and I really need to make that
clear. You know, my children and I my
daughter's, my three daughters will probably never be in a
position where we won't be able to navigate the system for
abortion and for the health care that we need, if we need to fly
somewhere, we'll fly somewhere. But for every person like me or
my daughter's, there's you know tens of thousands of women who
can't and they deserve the right to decide their future.
Future. I'd say that they can't control
us and our bodies and what we do with our life because they don't
have the choice to do that. I'm Carrie noga and I'm 52.
I brought my 13 year old daughter.
And if she met her friend, her 13, year old friend, and a
personal level for me, this won't affect me that much, but
for them, it absolutely will and it's stomach-churning to think
that they will grow up with fewer right.
Last bodily, autonomy, it's even more fundamental than right?
It's the bodily autonomy. We've had.
We've heard so much of that about wearing masks and I don't
want to wear a mask for a couple hours out in public.
And to think that they might be in a situation due to
circumstance environment, economy where they might be
forced to carry a child for nine months and then have it their
whole lives. It's just Some attorney, my name
is Audrey Naga and I'm 13. I would say it's, you should
make abortion legal because if you're not a woman that you
don't have a say and this affects every woman in the USA,
okay, I'm Pearl and I'm 13. So my mom told me about it and I
thought that it was good to speak up, it doesn't matter what
you think about abortions would, it shouldn't be a law because it
would Makes it unsafe for people who don't want to have a baby
like you should have the choice to do what you want.
My name is Elizabeth Del, I'm 54.
I have a pictures of Ruth, Bader Ginsburg, former Supreme Court
Justice, and it says I descent. And then on the other side, it
says, vote. Your life depends on it.
I'm here because I'm feeling devastated by this ruling and
the direction that our nation is heading in so many ways.
Ways we've got serious life-threatening problems like
climate change and gun violence. And now we live in a country
where gun owners have more rights than women, or people
with uteruses and it's appalling and we have to do something
Carrie. And I'm 66, it says reproductive
Justice which is what's missing in this country.
We're all out here, rallying to support the idea of reproductive
Justice, with the people who are really going to be impacted by
it. There's just no attention being
paid. So I just cried.
I this is from 1973, it says keep abortion safe and legal
it's about and I'm wearing This is been doing this too long.
Now, we're pitting people against each other in an attempt
to, you know, out people who are trying to take care of their own
lives, their own responsibilities, it's between a
woman and her own conscience and that's the bottom line.
My name is Dorothy I'm 65. You know it feels like the u.s.
is going to the dark side even when you knew it was coming.
It's just so painful and I'm you know that I get about which
laws, I need to break to help people get abortions.
At least Gretchen, Whitmer is trying hard to to get it
codified in Michigan. Yes.
So 1931 law that's kind of sitting over our heads and
that's have you come from that direction.
How much of a crowd? Okay, good good good.
How many people would you say are here right now?
Like I can't tell because I can't quite see that far.
Is it? Hundreds, awesome.
Great, great. My name is Lindsey Neal & 39.
Oh, my sign says, codify role in abort the GOP.
I'm a health teacher. I have a daughter.
So it's that we have to educate to win.
It's Lee. Stop educating and we stop
talking about it. Then there's no one left to do
the work when we're gone. And unfortunately, we have a lot
of work to do for a really long time and we have to fight like
hell to keep the progress of God and you can see what happens
when we get comfortable and Look Away.
What should people be doing right now?
Not voting for old white men period to be in charge of
making. Any laws for the country.
Their time is done. They need to step aside, we need
to empower support protect black women and get them into places
of power positions of power. That's reparations Analyse.
And I'm 30, I'm Mary, and I'm 62.
I'm her mom. My sign says guns have more
rights than my body, and the other side says Banning
abortion. Just means no safe abortion.
That's not pro-life. Why are you guys here today?
How could you not be? Yeah, we're here because women's
have have the right to choose what happens to their bodies.
Nobody likes to make those hard decisions, but we have the right
to make them. And when it comes down to it,
we're talking about care for humans that are alive and on
this planet. And if we can't care for them,
if they're getting shot down in schools, why would we bring
more? Or into this world.
If we could have that choice, just couldn't believe that we've
gotten to this point. It's 2022.
How we gone. So fac words in time to me, it's
like the white male power system is wanting to replay, press
everyone, in the people who especially suffer are poor,
women of color, and that's really hard because they don't
have as much as voice as many of the rest of us, do.
This court, the court to court. I'm pretty certain Michael
Morris podcast. I was just wondering if I'm
recording some voices from the protest.
Okay. I just ask you a couple of
questions. Sure, can you tell me what you
were just shouting into them? Aboard the court.
And why were you shouting now? Because I don't think the
Supreme Court has the right to tell me what I can do with my
body. It's my body.
Do we want to tell men what they can do?
Do it there, buddy. I would love to tell men what
they could do with their body and I've written to my
legislators and it goes nowhere. So we're going to have to vote
them out, and that's another thing that I've been shouting,
it's about them out. I'm very pleased to see the
turnout. When we first arrived, there
were only like 20 people here and I was nervous that but I'm
glad to see the turnout. Yeah.
How many would you guess are here right now?
I can't see down there so I have no idea.
So Danny that we can't. Yeah.
This gentleman showed up with a megaphone so he brought it over
to me and I just started Shouting into it.
So, and why are you here right now?
What made you come with your megaphone support, my wife,
support, my sister support, my mom support everyone here.
A couple of times. Oh yes.
But all right. How many people are okay?
Oh here. Because older and they have no,
right. Stop people how to live their
lives. I've had multiple miscarriages
and had to have treatments to save my life.
That are no Elite. My father's a fucking tree.
Hi, I'm being choked. Yeah, my choice idea that I know
how to sing grasses are. People is all about it.
You can't ask me to sacrifice their likes and tell them their
life isn't worth as much as anyone else.
My name is Debbie and I'm 66 years old mine.
Mine says you don't have the right to my choices.
Mine says, what's next? My right to vote.
This is just the beginning. Yeah, it's the first time that
the Supreme Court has actually taken away a right?
And this is just the first one. What were you guys thinking of
sort of going backwards? We're going backwards.
Just anger. Well, my son's ones 29 in the
other ones. 32 both of them called me.
And Said Mom, how are you doing? Yeah.
Same with my daughters. They're also 27 and 31.
And, you know, this is this is this is not progress for them.
This is not progress. I meant for girls Mage to see
this, and I just want to operate that.
It's just so hard for game, but my grandma was producing for
this and if I could, I'm still having here, prove them.
I'm a human being and I deserve. All autonomy is just
heartbreaking. All the people that will be
affected by this working moms. Dads, who can't afford to pay
child support. But already overrun, Foster
system that can't afford Force, birth, and hundreds of thousands
of kids be forced into it. And so hypocritical, because if
they really cared about the pro-life, Children.
I would be more emphasis on Health Care, Marketplace on
getting kids out of foster care after education and not school.
Shootings have to be here and to have to fight for my rights.
I thought that we were past this point and then the read the memo
when Judge Thomas was, like, based on this logic that we can
look at, like everything has to do with the braids to marry
someone and have contraceptives, which is the first rating
because you don't want abortions.
Maybe increase could contraceptives, I want to be a
lawyer and to be the Supreme Court, was one of my dreams
growing up and it's so frustrating.
Rushing to see this become an embarrassment.
It's yeah. Yeah.
So does this change the course of his take, you want to work
harder to be a lawyer. What is this?
What is so much harder? It's because women who can't
afford to take time off when you can't afford a child support or
to paint to pay to go get an abortion and travel miles.
It's require now, it's so frustrating and shouldn't have
to do that. It's Healthcare and women who
have like subject, uteruses rap topic pregnancies.
And they work will die without an abortion.
It's insane. It's not up for It's not for the
baits, not controversy, it's Healthcare, and so it makes me
want to fight that much harder. It's ridiculous that we have to
think about this stuff. Well, I hope that you end up on
the Supreme Court because I think we need more people like
you. Thank you so much Avery.
Thank you. Thanks for stopping.
Yeah, I'm Lauren and I'm 18. It says against abortion.
Ignore them. Like you ignore school
shootings. I am very passionate about gun
control and I just think that it's so messed up that people I
think a fetus is more important than children actually in
school. I'm 13 and I'm protesting my
rides. I don't think that should be
happening. It makes me feel so angry.
I found out about it like right before I went into work and then
I got into work and I just started crying.
And I went to my friends who work in the store right next to
me and they're like, yeah, we've also been crying all morning.
Like they took me behind the counter and they're like, our
boss is in the back crying right now.
It's just it's so horrible. I would say, keep your religious
ideals off of our body. So what I I'm Dario.
I'm 49, my sign says blow pians 514 and it says he who hath not
a uterus should shut the fuck it up.
I'm here today because my whole life, I've realized that I've
felt that this is a very important issue when I was in
high school in 1989, I wrote my senior research paper on why
abortion needed to remain legal. Never once imagining that, this
is the route things were going to take and so I'm frustrated
and I'm in real. Age.
And I am here hopefully as an ally because I realized that not
having access to reproductive health and abortion is
detrimental to people in our most marginalized communities
and we all need to be speaking up for that.
It is a human, right? To be able to control your own
body and no politician or Supreme Court.
Justices should be taking that away from us.
I would advocate for people right now to get in the It's in
March and two and then start to donate to organizations that
support reproductive Justice. Particularly for those in
marginalized communities and you can just Google that and find,
lots and lots of lists of nonprofits.
And then I would long-term really want us to get to the
polls in November. It's really important that were
registered to vote that we're registering others to vote.
And that we're supporting candidates who support the
rights of all my sign, says, 424,000 kids already in foster
care any given day. That's how many Kids are already
in foster care. My name is Ace Vallencourt, and
I'm currently 23 instead of putting kids in the system.
You can just not have the child if you can't support the child
and nobody cares about the child after they're born.
And so, the child just goes into foster care adding to the
number. And that's just ridiculous,
especially as someone who cannot have children, who does not want
children. I should have access to an
abortion. My sister who cannot Have
children who had one should still have access to an abortion
if she chooses to. It's ridiculous.
It drives me insane. Give us back our land and our
bodies. I was at work and it just I
wanted to cry honestly because because I know it starts with
abortions. Then it goes to birth control
General Healthcare, the rights of lgbtq+ people.
And as a trans person myself, as well as someone who needs birth
control, it's going to hit me like a fucking brick wall when
it comes. And I'm not prepared for that at
all. I'm hoping people will at least
realize a the problem here is that they're controlling
people's bodies. He's and it's not just going to
be women's bodies, it's going to be, everyone's bodies at some
point, and I just hope that we could all come to.
The conclusion of, there is a deep problem in this country.
We need to work together to fix it.
Whether that be voting, I don't want to say rioting, but
anything to get our voices heard and to get our demands through
is what needs to happen and whether it has to be violence.
I sure hope not, but if it has to be, then, so be it.
Where is that line? Where is the line?
We're about to find out. Unfortunately says, give me more
rights than a clump of cells. I was just upset and angry
because if I recall correctly, the worded chose the like the
documents that they did put it through.
It basically is treating children like well, like the
adoption agency as an industry and that's just not right.
I'm not some kind of broodmother, I'm not just an
oven to make children for for people to exploit and like the
foster care and adoption industry is my name is Summer
and I am 29 in August Dawn, 72, I guess.
I've been fighting for women's rights all my life and it was a
really fun Roe v-- Wade, past and women had the right to
choose for their own body. And We're going to keep fighting
until that's recognized again, in spite of the obnoxious
Supreme Court which is a do-nothing cord Peter
sullenberger and 75 science says defend abortion rights which is
The Cutting Edge issue. Well, I was young when Roe
versus Wade came through. It made a huge difference in the
lives of people, I knew and having it go.
The other way is not something that I can tolerate.
My name is Ray. I'm 18 years old.
Sold eight, turned 18, 14 days ago.
And my sign says, you're pro-life until they are born
transporting black gay brown or disabled.
I'm here today because right now, the supreme court views me
as less than an assault rifle. Considering an assault rifle has
more rights than my body. At this moment, I am excited to
be able to vote but I'm not looking forward to the results
of the elections and what Voting for because I know my vote
counts and that's why I'm going to vote but not everyone wants
to vote for human rights and it's just scary that this is
where we're at in the year of 2022.
I want to know why they think they get to choose how I'm
supposed to live, why they think they get to control my life when
I barely get to control it myself.
I'm Jules. I'm 16.
I'm Eve, I'm 16. My sign says, keep your laws off
our bodies. Mine says pro-life would be
regulating guns. Not my body.
I'd really don't want to lose my rights as a woman and I want to
keep right safe for all women everywhere.
As a queer person of color with a uterus.
Roe v-- Wade being overturned affects a lot more than just my
right to abortion. I feel About coming out here and
doing this definitely does give me power and I and I do, I do
have a voice and it's being heard in spaces like these.
It is frustrating that I'm not a voting age and that I don't get
a say in things like that. But being here gives me a voice
and makes me feel good. Yeah, basically the same thing
being out here. It does.
It's a little empowering but also Also, the fact that I can't
really change anything because I'm not a voting age is very
frustrating, and it does definitely hurt a lot.
Excuse my language, but they should all go fuck themselves.
Yeah. I Your white men.
It's not your body. You don't experience this.
Excuse my language. Pardon my French go.
Fuck yourself. Tara.
John I'm 42 and he told me what's on your sign?
That says sovereignty includes my body as a native anishinabe
woman, who is indigenous to this area.
We advocate for our women's rights all the time
historically. It is traditional, we have given
our women medicines to to either Foster a pregnancy or to stop
one, and we have always had that sovereignty.
I'm here to advocate for such and hopefully provide those
things for my community. If the larger hole does not
provide, what were you thinking? Yesterday when the decision came
down, I got text from a friend of mine, that it happened that
the decision came. Through.
I had to pull my car over and I cried with my son, my 21 year
old son. We we cried in the car about the
fact that Colonial laws think that they can govern bodies that
obviously, do not belong to them and never have.
What would you Advocate people do right now.
Make your voice be heard, the younger generation.
Tell tell us what you need. Tell us what you want.
I we are listening. We are listening please.
I will, I will Advocate and I will push.
I'm here with my kid and and her friend, I will show me the way
and I will help you. Yes II can't, I can't do this
anymore, but there are women that need to be taken care of in
my community that I will absolutely advocate.
For my name is Maddie. And I'm 28, you know, I
personally know, a lot of people who have been affected, I lived
in Texas for a few years and lived in Louisiana for a few
years. And it's just heartbreaking,
honestly to see what's happening in the country.
Beyond the Heartbreak is just pure outrage, especially, when
you see all the people here today and all the people driving
by with horns and, you know, feeling the same way that we're
feeling and the government that we've, you know, put into power
but are being basically held hostage by this point are just
doing exactly the opposite of what we the people want them to
do and want to see the direction of the country go.
Times change and it's unfortunate that.
Yeah, I read the whole. Yeah, I haven't 230 some pages
and it's just line after line after line and scolding the
night. You know, the 1900s the eighteen
hundreds of it was against the law of N and like, sure, maybe.
But what we know has changed in medical, you know, research has
changed and it's unfortunate to see, you know, the Supreme Court
putting the states in power when the dates didn't go to medical
school and they shouldn't have control of our over our bodies.
What should people be doing right now?
Anything, they can donating standing out here.
I mean we're just standing on the side of the street.
We made signs on the back of hellofresh boxes this morning
because just, you know, show that we we don't believe what is
happening and it's wrong and we need to stand up for the people
who can't stand up for themselves Danny and I'm 32 it
says abortion is healthcare because abortion is Healthcare.
And you know, I'm 32 I unfortunately cannot have
children doesn't impact me personally but I would like to
be able to make that choice one way or the other.
And for all of us who are in danger of ectopic pregnancies or
you know we're going to be seeing women being considered
there to be prosecuted investigated for murder for
spontaneous abortion, which is just what they call
miscarriages. So you would like to stop that
if at all possible, my name is Judy and Oh, I'm 72 and Sciences
I descent and signed Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
But she wanted to sent it and I'm kind of protesting for the
rights for my granddaughter. I am Mary Caruso.
I am 67 years old. I have a pink hanger, with a
black hanger going across it to symbolize.
No. Not going back to the days when
women had to resort to up on six mathematics.
This has been 50 years. Now, 50 years ago, I was doing
this. I never thought Doing this
again, 50 years later. Yeah.
How do they feel yesterday when black and white in the
headlines? Well, you know, even though we
kind of knew it was coming and we're still just dumb a shock,
it was still the shock that it actually did happen and that
illegitimately imposed on justices mostly men could make
this decision for women. It is just sickening sickening
sickening. What would you tell people that
they should be? Doing right now, Vogue at the
local and state level. I know.
Greta, Whitmer is doing all she could do to make sure that
abortion stay safe and legal in Michigan, and that's pretty much
what we got to do right now. Vote vote, vote, vote, vote.
My name is Serenity Scribner and I'm 19, if I wanted the
government in my room, I'd fuck a senator.
If abortion is murder than a blow job as cannibalism, and
that is true. Yeah.
Because we went so far just to get our rights as women as
people a female at Birth and now they're taking that away
suddenly and I don't think the majority of the country wants
that I think that a few people high up in the government were
like I'm going to choose for you and it's really just unfair and
the majority of them were men. It's, it's really distressing.
It's very Stressing and I want to fight for it.
I don't want to stand by while it all goes back to how it was
long before and now that they're questioning all these other
rights because of its I am losing my mind a little, it's
hard to live in this world when they try to do these things I
would imagine it's just hard being where it's like they're
trying to be my parents or Like, some God, it's like, they're
acting like they are the all-knowing.
God, it's not really a democracy anymore.
They don't let us decide. They don't care about what we
think, and it's just unfair. I was born into this country and
so I should get a choice. If you could say something to
the Supreme Court, I would give them a big middle finger.
I'm not very good with my words and all these situations, but I
wouldn't be very kind, I'm done being kind to this their
government. They are nice to us.
I won't be nice back anymore. I'm Tegan.
I am 19. Yesterday was really rough
caring about it on my work and my boss.
And I and I come over other co-workers, just kind of start
breaking down. And so we felt like we had to do
something and we heard about the protest and so we decided to
close early all of us and ran straight here.
Susan finished getting a no and Voting for whatever's coming up
voting to get our rights back home and just getting out
protesting spread the word, even if it's as simple as like an
Instagram post or something, just like putting a voice out,
there is what matters the most right now.
And it's what we really need right now to know that.
We're not like alone. Let's try it.
So Henry nice everything back to how it was.
Originally, my name is Ella and I'm 14 years old.
I'm here with my mom. Awesome.
It says, abortion will never end only safe.
Well, and what made you make that sign and come out here
today? Just that I want to be able to
control my own body and everyone should be able to choose what
they want to do with their own bodies.
And that everyone should just have their own rights really.
And it does it make you feel empowered to come out and do
something. Yeah, I'm glad I can, I can't
vote. So this is the one thing that I
can do in my control. So I just love coming out here.
This is the first protest, I've done so So I just I'm having a
great time so far. My name is Dawn and I'm 49 but
that we had almost 50 years of the ability to choose and make
our own decisions. What's based on what's best for
us? In our whatever situation and
now we're going backwards? Like Ray Rice everything for the
a race, every cry. All the progress we've made in
the last 49 years. It's unbelievable II.
Feel like I've stepped back in the stone.
Age's, what do you think people should be doing right now?
Getting out. Out.
Voicing their opinions signing petitions voting, anything, and
everything that it all helps at all.
It's unfortunate. We're back to doing this, but we
need to do what we got to do democracy.
Not theocracy, and what made you make that sign?
I think that it's concerning when you have a small minority
of people, the the religious radicals.
Making decisions for our country.
Then there's a majority of us that support women's rights to
abortions and health care. And so I think we had to stand
up and take notice. I'm just really angry, I just I
feel like I can't breathe because I'm just so upset, I
can't believe that it's the year 2022.
And we are back here again. It's just it's wrong.
My name is Robin and I am 63 years old.
I'm candy. I'm 37.
It says my body, my choice. I'm a grown woman.
I believe that I should have a say over what happens to my body
over, what happens to my family. And I think that abortion is
Health Care in many circumstances.
Unfortunately, abortion is necessary to save a woman's life
and women are worth being saved. Okay, their protest is starting
to die down now. A lot of people have left but
there still, is there still a strong?
Core of like probably these 60 people, maybe that are here.
See if there's anybody that I I'm 15 I'm 16 and can you read
me, what's on your assigned today?
So my sign is, you're not saving babies, you're killing woman.
Mine says why make me have a kid.
You can't insure his Alive by recess and what made you guys
come out and make these signs to if you get sexually assaulted or
Or raped by someone. You don't want to have that baby
because that's going to be there and it's just hard on you,
especially if you're young. So I feel that we should have a
choice and it shouldn't be decided by government along the
same lines. I don't like children bearing
children. It just, it seems very dangerous
to me. And I want to have my rights not
taken away by a bunch of old white men in this building that
they don't really come out of ever.
So you're not a voting age yet, right?
But these laws are being made that are going to affect you and
what you guys can do with your own bodies.
I could say something to the Supreme Court right now, or
these lawmakers that are making passing these laws of.
What would you guys say? I would ask them how a lot of
them are member. I would ask them how they would
feel if they were forced to have a vasectomy or things like that,
because I feel that they're not seeing the bigger point of view,
like they're saving babies. But right now, our population is
already so overcrowded and it's only stopped stopping safe.
Abortions, people are still gonna do unsafe things and it's
going to hurt. Hurt more people, I would say to
reconsider for your daughter's, for your wife, or your grandkids
for everyone around you that it doesn't hurt you personally.
Like, you think it would be usually a lot of abortions that
happened. They aren't even not a fetus
yet. So the people that is hurting is
way, older, way more, like pay for the kids that are being born
in the foster care and like for Planned, Parenthood and Wick,
make sure that they can actually live because you're not pro-life
or just prober, little honking there.
My name is Kristen and I'm 47. My sign says Back to me is
prevent abortions. I made the sign because I feel
like maybe men need to realize that, you know, the government
at this point is regulating a woman's body and mandating what
I can and cannot do and when I cannot do it.
So my thought is not that making vasectomies mandatory is
necessarily the correct thing. It's more to invoke a thought.
Like if you're going to regulate my body, then maybe you need to
think about how you'd feel. If it was regulating your body.
Say, every male, once they go through puberty, their physician
is required. To give them a vasectomy and
then you Only Get It reversed when you're married.
That's kind of how it feels to me that they're doing.
So my sinus provoke thought make, you think and realize your
repercussions of what you're making laws for.
We are weak. But did you feel something
different seeing it actually? I did physically.
It made me nauseous and it just it doesn't seem right.
That after 50 years Were Somehow saying that these laws are
wrong. Be can't just flip flop all the
time and I'm actually Not necessarily pro pro abortion.
I'm actually writing a very Christian background and I am
Pro birth. I Am pro Wick.
I Am pro giving formula and supporting foster care and
supporting adoption, but my belief is not everybody's belief
and I don't feel. It's my choice with my religion
to tell you what you can do with your body and what's your
religion? That's not American to me, I
believe this country was founded on freedom of religion and
you're mixing Religion and government.
And I it's not right. It's not right.
It's not. It's not my choice.
What my daughter decides to do with her body.
When she's 18, my name is Gina Manville and I'm 57.
I notice you're sure the front and the back.
What is it? Says demand Justice on the front
which is a judicial activist group, it says expand the port
on the back. I was in DC this week working
with them on court expansion. I actually had a meeting with
Debbie stabenow, some staff. Ran into Gary Peters.
We're trying to get people to co-sign on court expansion while
the Judiciary Act actually has several parts, there's Court
expansion, there's accountability entertaining term
limits for the Supreme Court so it's all good stuff.
And I I actually thought I would be in DC when the decision came
down, but the cowards waited until Friday so they could get
out of town. Forced bird is enslavement.
I came down here today because I am absolutely outraged.
I cannot believe that six retrogrades on the court are
making decisions for millions and millions and millions of
women based on English philosopher's from the 16th
century and the 17th century. I just, you know, I've been
upset and says, 45 was elected. I knew this day was coming.
I've been afraid of role being overturned for well over 10
years with the assault of the GOP, and the Christian.
Right, has put upon the political system.
So, you know, I was afraid to not show up.
A picture of your sign. Well, there you go.
My thanks to my producer and editor, Angela, vargo's for
conducting those interviews, in the Park yesterday, please share
this with others. Let them hear these voices.
I'm so proud to live amongst this group of people.
So many profound words were spoken just now.
And like I said at the beginning, sad and angry as we
are right now this game Be some hope.
Let's keep moving forward. I'll be presenting more things
this week both on my podcast and my sub stack.
And I'd love to hear from you and anything.
You have to say, you can do that by going to the link on my
podcast site here to leave me. A one-minute voicemail, and I
may use it on upcoming episode. So let's all hang in there.
Let's band together. We are the majority we outnumber
them by millions. This is no time to be feeling
like we've been defeated the Supreme Court.
This ruling this will not stand. This will not stand.
They've made a huge mistake. And we are going to toss as many
Republicans out of office this November as we can.
There's going to be a mass mass movement.
Now, it already has happened within hours of their edict.
So everybody just paying in there.
We've got a lot of work to do. Thanks Angela.
Thanks, Jeff. Thanks.
Everybody else. Who helps you with this podcast.
This is Michael Moore. I'm working.