MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski and NBC’s Seth Meyers joined forces on Thursday’s taping of Late Night to scare viewers into believing that the election is “a matter of life and death” for women.
Meyers began with an open-ended question, “And here you are in the final days. How are you processing it all?”
Brzezinski immediately launched into abortion activism, “I think women and the men who get it will be the beacon of hope this election. I think what I’m feeling is, I’m just working as hard as I can to tell the stories of what the consequences of a second Trump presidency would be and it comes down to women because women are already suffering. The Trump’s America that came out of his first presidency, the fall of Roe.”
She added, “He thought women should be punished, and let me tell you, they are being punished in the most dreadful, horrific ways. There are women who are going through unbelievable medical traumas because of reproductive emergencies, and also women with other health care issues that involve the reproductive organs who cannot get the health care, lifesaving health care that they need and they’re dying, or they’re having to prove they’re dying enough to get care, or they’re being forced to bring unviable pregnancies to term to have a baby that will suffer and die in their arms and then live with that.”
Brzezinski also claimed, “Trump’s abortion bans keep the hospitals from providing it [life-saving care]. That’s sick. That’s Trump’s America for women and it’s here and it’s a nightmare.
Meyers responded by declaring, “You framed it, quite accurately, may I say, as a matter of life and death.”
He then turned to the people who have correctly pointed out that nothing in pro-life laws prohibits life-saving care or miscarriage treatment or any of the other things pro-abortion people point to in order to justify themselves, “There are bad faith actors on the right, who I truly believe know better, who are accusing you of being hyperbolic, of overreacting, and yet it’s shocking to me that people who would claim to be pro-life are so willing to ignore the loss of life directly from, you know–”
Brzezinski finished Meyers’s sentence for him, “From these bans, there are women who are losing their lives.”
She then turned to men, “And I say the men who get it because there are a lot of men who love their wives, their girlfriends, their sisters, their moms, and they don’t want – they wouldn’t want to see this pain on anyone, let alone someone they love. But I also know that there’s a growing number of men who have been a part of these traumas.”
Brzezinski then previewed Friday’s Morning Joe, “I’m speaking to a woman from Atlanta tomorrow morning who was violently hemorrhaging and could not get the health care she needed in the middle of a miscarriage. But the point is that we are trying to show these stories, and one of them involved a husband who was weeping because the thought of his wife having a miscarriage was beyond brutal, but the thought of losing his wife when the health care was right there was causing him to weep.”
Brzezinski is referring to Avery Davis Bell, who claims that doctors delayed giving her miscarriage care due to Georgia’s pro-life law. Bell told USA Today that “Your baby is dead or dying inside you, you're just waiting to crash," but buried deep in that same article, USA Today notes, “Exceptions also exist for "removing a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) or removing an ectopic pregnancy."
Bell claims doctors hesitated because the baby still showed signs of cardiac activity, “but described it as a ‘slow end to the pregnancy’ that had ‘definitely ended.’” However, Georgia has “medically futile” and “medical emergency” exceptions.
Here is a transcript for the October 31-taped show:
NBC Late Night with Seth Meyers
11/1/2024
SETH MEYERS: And here you are in the final days. How are you processing it all?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I think women and the men who get it will be the beacon of hope this election. I think what I’m feeling is, I’m just working as hard as I can to tell the stories of what the consequences of a second Trump presidency would be and it comes down to women, because women are already suffering. The Trump’s America that came out of his first presidency, the fall of Roe.
MEYERS: Right, this is a thing he accomplished.
BRZEZINSKI: Yes.
MEYERS: It’s a thing he brags about.
BRZEZINSKI: A threat that he said that. He thought women should be punished, and let me tell you, they are being punished in the most dreadful, horrific ways. There are women who are going through unbelievable medical traumas because of reproductive emergencies, and also women with other health care issues that involve the reproductive organs who cannot get the health care, lifesaving health care that they need and they’re dying, or they’re having to prove they’re dying enough to get care, or they’re being forced to bring unviable pregnancies to term to have a baby that will suffer and die in their arms and then live with that.
And one woman I spoke to became suicide after this experience that was forced on her to carry an unviable pregnancy for over three months and then to have to give birth and watch her son die and this is because the medical care is available, but Trump’s abortion bans keep the hospitals from providing it. That’s sick. That’s Trump’s America for women and it’s here and it’s a nightmare.
MEYERS: You’ve been drawing a lot of attention to this, you’ve been doing panels with women who’ve been affected by this—
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
MEYERS: You framed it, quite accurately, may I say, as a matter of life and death.
BRZEZINSKI: Yes.
MEYERS: There are bad faith actors on the right, who I truly believe know better, who are accusing you of being hyperbolic, of overreacting —
BRZEZINSKI: Mental breakdown. Too emotional
MEYERS: -- And yet it’s shocking to me that people who would claim to be pro-life—
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
MEYERS: -- are so willing to ignore the loss of life—
BREZIZINSKI: Correct.
MEYERS: Directly from, you know, --
BRZEZINSKI: from these bans, there are women who are losing their lives and I say the men who get it because there are a lot of men who love their wives, their girlfriends, their sisters, their moms, and they don’t want – they wouldn’t want to see this pain on anyone, let alone someone they love. But I also know that there’s a growing number of men who have been a part of these traumas.
We have one—we’re working with the mediator and Cindi Leive and Cecile Richards and Abortion in America to bring in these stories and there’s – I’m speaking to a woman from Atlanta tomorrow morning who was violently hemorrhaging and could not get the health care she needed in the middle of a miscarriage. But the point is that we are trying to show these stories and one of them involved a husband who was weeping because the thought of his wife having a miscarriage was beyond brutal, but the thought of losing his wife when the health care was right there was causing him to weep. These men get it, men get it. This is an issue that impacts women and men and this is an issue we can make a choice on by voting in this election.
