studios katherine schneider vice president of community engagement with the jewish federation of los angeles catherine thanks so much for coming on i do want to tell our viewers that we tried to get somebody in favor of the van the van to come on as well so you guys could have a little debate they never got back to us. so let's talk about this why do you think this issue came up now and why do you think it's caused such a stir i think it's caused a stir because you know this is a parental rights issue and in california in los angeles choices is very important and this is a diverse community many different faiths many different ethnicities and we recognize that parents get to make decisions for their children and that those rights could be taken away by a locality was a frightening thing not just for the jewish community but for the general community but what about this argument that a lot of people make that you know parents might make these decision for a baby it's not a life or death it's not even a health thing for some people in lives some people but it's a decision that even one

we're struggling with are dealt with and this is really a tremendous distraction and that was katherine schneider vice president of community engagement with the jewish federation of los angeles. all right so i got to bring something up because i've had sort of an unprecedented week for the first time in my two and a half years on twitter i am getting twitter hate mentions over a segment i did earlier this week about comic-con and i interviewed a woman who calls herself a costume enthusiastic and frequent comic con attendees and much of the anger is coming from a question that i asked her about why this convention draws so many people i think this year it was a hundred thousand people to san diego which by the way is my hometown so here's the question i asked her. we're in some really tough economic times i mean i know that right outside the convention center as we just saw in this story that we just showed homeless people goal or really really terrible rate of homelessness there and yet people as you say they're spending a thousand dollars why do you think they're not spending this money maybe e

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