Jon Stewart on America's Decades-Long Battle for Reproductive Rights | The Daily Show

I will say it every time it comes up: virtually no one waits until the third trimester of pregnancy to make up their mind that they don't want to have the kid after all. Late-term abortions happen because of severe complications, danger to the mother's life, death or guaranteed death of the child, etc. They are not murders or callous acts of indifference. They are medical emergencies, tragic losses of children who were wanted, and deeply traumatic experiences for the parents. Let them have the medical care they need and let them grieve in peace.

It's always "every human life has value" until that human life is that of a foreign migrant or refugee in another country

"I don't think they have thought through the implications of abortion." Sir I don't think you have thought through the implications of an unwilling person being forced to raise a human being.

Huckabee saying the government doesn't have the right to own people then quoting the founding fathers who literally owned people is a strong line of argument. /s

Working as healthcare professional in an ER, I have a very different viewpoint I feel from most people who argue this. The rule is that if someone pregnant comes to us needing help, before 20 weeks, they stay at the ER, after 20 weeks, they go upstairs if they're having pregnancy related symptoms. And the reason for this is simple, because before 20 weeks there's nothing we can do except make certain the life of the mother is not under threat. We can make sure that they're not going to have an ectopic pregnancy, or bleed to death. Threatened miscarriages are such a routine part of life that people don't even think anymore of how many pregnancies result in a miscarriage before then. There's nothing that can be done. So seeing people criminalized or being told no, for something I see like 10+ women come in every day in our ER for just their body not letting carry to term? All the people who say abortion is immoral, and miscarriages are god's will? I can't reconcile that. The 'intentionally' doing something the body does every day to so many women as a natural process being disallowed, or even being criminalized is absurd. Post 20 weeks, the argument changes, because the thing is, it's so disingenuous to claim people just want to abort post 20 weeks...? They don't. Abortions post 20 weeks happen for saving the life of the mother, or cases of horrid abnormalities incompatible with life - or that they believe will cause untold suffering to the child. It's almost always a tragedy of someone who actually desired the child. But we see people sensationalizing the fringe cases where it's something else, that case that happens less than a decimal of a percentage point and using it to punish everyone else and claim 'No, this fringe case personally offends me, so I'm taking the option away from someone whose baby has developed without a brain.' Something's gotta change, we can't have an honest conversation when someone is arguing with the most out there cases without having any real exposure to what most women go through.

Takes decades to get rights, takes days to lose them.

Geroge Carlin said it best "They are all in favor of the unborn, they will do anything for the unborn, but once youre born youre on your own"

As a central European, the US discussions about abortion are completely nuts to experience.

Mike huckabees statement about 'owning a person' is hillarious given modern 'parental rights'

The awesome thing about Jon is that when he was toe to toe with Mike Huckabee he wasn't combative, but he was having a conversation where he was an active participant and didn't just let him get his talking points out. He challenged him on what he was saying in pointed and relevant ways instead of just parroting his own talking points. And this was on a comedy show! Modern "journalists" have no excuse to not at least meet the standards of a comedy show.