>>> THERE WAS MISSOURI AND DAYS
BEFORE THAT ALABAMA AND A WEEK
BEFORE THAT, GEORGIA.
AS THE WEEKS GO ON, A HAND FULL
OF RED STATES ARE PASSING
EXTREMELY NARROW ABORTION LAWS.
LAWS THAT VARY BY STATE BUT
BASICALLY SAY, THAT WOMEN CAN’T
HAVE ABORTIONS ONCE A FETAL
HEARTBEAT IS DETECTED OR AFTER
THE 6 TO 8 WEEK PREGNANCY MARK.
REGARDLESS OF RAPE OR INCEST.
THESE LAWS ARE BEING HEAVILY
CONTESTED BY PRO-ABORTION
ACTIVISTS GROUPS AS THEY ARE
LIKELY TO END UP ON THE BOK ETDO
OF THE SUPREME COURT.
WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SEVERAL RED
STATES THAT ARE NOW COMING ON
AND SOME OF THEM REALLY
DRACONIAN LAWS, WHAT DO YOU AND
PLANNED
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEEL WE ARE
LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF THIS ALL
OF A SUDDEN RUSH BY STATE
LEGISLATURES IN RED STATES TO
COME WITH THESE REAL HARSH LAWS
ON ABORTION?
>> REVEREND, THANK YOU FOR
HIGHLIGHTING JUST HOW EXTREME
THESE BANS ARE.
THE LAW IN ALABAMA THAT WAS JUST
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR LAST WEEK
WOULD BAN ABORTION AT ANY TIME
IN PREGNANCY.
IT’S THE MOST RESTRICTED SINCE
ROE VERSUS WADE WAS PASSED.
IT WOULD CRIMINALIZE DOCTORS FOR
UP TO 99 YEARS IN JAIL.
NO EXCEPTION FOR RACE OR INCEST
AND PUT THE DOCTOR THAT’S
PERFORMING ABORTION CARE, WHICH
IS HEALTH CARE IN FOR JAIL
LONGER THAN THE RAPIST.
MAKE NO MISTAKE THAT THIS IS
PART OF A KOORDS NATE COORDINATE
HAVE ONE OBJECTIVE WHICH IS TO
BAN ALL SAFE, LEGAL ABORTION AND
THE CONSEQUENCE IS WOMEN’S
HEALTH.
ALABAMA, MISSOURI, GEORGIA HAVE
SOME OF THE WORTH HEALTH OUT
COMES FOR WOMEN ALREADY IN THE
COUNTRY.
ALABAMA, HIGHEST RATE OF
CERVICAL CANCER.
MISSOURI, A THOUSANDS PERCENT
INCREASE IN SYPHILIS.
THESE POLITICIANS SHOULD NOT BE
CALLING THEMSELVES PRO-LIFE WHEN
THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY
CAN TO TAKE AWAY ACCESS TO
HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN AND
FAMILIES IN THEIR OWN STATES.
WE’LL GET INTO WHETHER OR NOT
THAT IS INTENTION TO GET TO THE
SUPREME COURT TO UNDERMINE THAT.
WE’RE TALKING ABOUT REALLY
STOPPING LEGAL ABORTIONS AND
FORCING WOMEN TO GO AS THEY HAD
TO GO WHEN I WAS A KID TO
ILLEGAL MEANS WHICH IS A THREAT
TO THEIR HEALTH AND LEADS TO ALL
KINDS OF NEW AND DISTASTEFUL AND
UGLY CONSEQUENCES.
>> BANNING SAFE, LEGAL ABORTIONS
IS NOT GOING TO STOP ABORTIONS.
IT WILL STOP SAFE, LEGAL
ABORTIONS.
BEFORE ROE VERSUS WADE THOUSANDS
OF WOMEN DIED EVERY YEAR IN THE
UNITED STATES.
WE HAVE TO LOOK NO FURTHER THAN
THE REST OF THE WORLD WHERE
30,000 WOMEN DIE EVERY YEAR
AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE THEY
DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO SAFE LEGAL
ABORTION.
AS A DOCTOR, I JUST CANNOT STAND
FOR THAT.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD WILL NOT
STAND FOR THIS.
WE WILL BE FILING LAWSUITS
TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS TO
MAKE SURE THAT THESE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND HARMFUL
LAWS NEVER GO INTO EFFECT AND WE
KNOW THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
ARE WITH US.
7 IN 10 PEOPLE SUPPORT ROE
VERSUS WADE AND THEY UNDERSTAND
THE CONSEQUENCE IS TO WOMEN’S
HEALTH.
THAT’S WHY WOMEN ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND TOGETHER WITH MEN
AND ALL PEOPLE WILL BE RISING UP
AND ON TUESDAY WE HAVE A DAY OF
ACTION.
A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO STOP
THE BANS IN COMMUNITIES AROUND
THE COUNTRY AND WE HOPE THAT
EVERY ONE JOINS US.
>> THIS IS THIS COMING TUESDAY
AS IN THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
NATIONWIDE.
LET ME SHOW YOU THIS.
PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETED TODAY
ABOUT THE SUBJECT SAYING QUOTE,
I’M STRONGLY PRO-LIFE WITH THE
EXCEPTIONS OF RAPE, INSIST AND
PROTECTING THE LIFE OF THE
MOTHER.
THE SAME POSITION TAKEN BY
RONALD REAGAN.
FIRST OF ALL, THAT WOULD MEAN HE
COULDN’T SUPPORT THE ALABAMA LAW
BECAUSE THEY DON’T RULE ANY OF
THAT AS A REASON TO JUSTIFY
ABORTION.
YOU HAVE A PRO-LIFE PRESIDENT
WHOSE APPOINTED TWO MEMBERS TO
THE SUPREME COURT.
IS IT YOUR FEAR THAT THE
STRATEGY IS TO PUSH THIS TO THE
SUPREME COURT AND ULTIMATELY
RESCIND OR ALTER ROE VERSUS
WADE.
>> THAT’S WHAT THE POLITICIANS
HAVE SAID THEMSELVES.
THEY SAID THEMSELVES THAT THEIR
GOAL IS TO HAVE THESE LAWS MAKE
IT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SUPREME
COURT SO ROE COULD BE OVER
TURNED.
IF IT IS OVER TURNED THEN ONE IN
THREE WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE
WHICH IS 25 MILLION WOMEN WOULD
BE LIVING IN STATES WHERE
ABORTION IS BANNED AND
CRITICALIZED.
I WANT TO SAY TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
TOO, IF THAT’S REALLY WHAT YOU
THINK, FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD
REJECT THE NOTION THAT YOU ARE
SOMEHOW PRO-LIFE WHEN SO MANY OF
THE POLICIES THAT YOU HAVE
ADVOCATED FOR TAKE AWAY PEOPLE’S
LIFE AND LIBERTY AND FREEDOM BUT
IF THAT’S REALLY WHAT YOU
BELIEVE THEN WHERE WERE YOU?
WERE YOU CALLING THE GOVERNOR OF
ALABAMA?
WERE YOU CALLING THE LEGISLATURE
LEGISLATURES IN MISSOURI WHO
JUST VOTED TO RESTRICT ABORTION
WITH NO EXCEPTIONS EVEN FOR RAPE
OR INCEST?
WOMEN WILL DIE ON YOUR WATCH
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
>> THAT IS A QUESTION THAT
CLEARLY IF HE TWEETS THAT, DID
HE CALL THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR
OF ALABAMA OR MISSOURI AND THE
OTHER QUESTION COMES TO MIND,
YOU EVEN HAVE REVEREND PAT
ROBERTSON WHO IS TO THE RIGHT OF
SAYING ALABAMA WENT TOO FAR.
I DON’T KNOW THAT PEOPLE
UNDERSTAND, WHICH IS WHY
TUESDAY’S MARCH IS PART OF
RAISING CONTINUING PUBLIC
AWARENESS.
IS THE REAL DRACONIAN, DRASTIC
THINGS THAT THIS LEGISLATION IS
SAYING IN ALABAMA IN MISSOURI?
>> WHAT ALL THESE BANS HAVE IN
COMMON OTHER THAN THEM PROMPTING
A CHALLENGE TO ROE WHICH WILL
COST WOMEN’S LIVES IS THAT
THEY’RE ABOUT CONTROL.
THEY’RE ABOUT POWER.
THAT’S WHY WOMEN IN THE COUNTRY
ARE PAYING ATTENTION.
WOMEN ARE OUTRAGED.
WE KNOW WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE,
THESE POLITICIANS WHO THINK THEY
CAN MAKE BETTER DECISIONS FOR US
ABOUT OUR HEALTH AND OUR BODIES
THAN WE CAN.
WE HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHO
THEY ARE AND WE WILL BE FIGHTING
THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
STARTS NOW AND ON TUESDAY WOMEN
AND OUR ALLIES ALL ACROSS THIS
COUNTRY, ANYONE WHO BELIEVES IN
HEALTH CARE, ANYONE WHO BELIEVES
OUR CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE MORE
RIGHTS AND NOW FEWER RIGHTS.
WE WILL BE RISING UP ALL AROUND
THE COUNTRY AND HOLDING TO TASK,
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ALL HIS
ALLIES WHO OPPOSE WOMEN’S HEALTH
AND RIGHTS.
>> DO YOU EXPECT EVEN SOME
REPUBLICAN WOMEN, INDEPENDENT
WOMEN WHO MAY HAVE VOTED FOR
PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BE PART OF
THIS PUSH BACK ON THE STATE
LEGISLATION AND THE MOVE TOWARD
THE SUPREME COURT TO REALLY
REVERSE ROE VERSUS WADE?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
52% OF REPUBLICAN SUPPORT ROE
VERSUS WADE AS THE LAW OF THE
LAND.
ACTUALLY, WHAT WE STAND FOR ARE
CORE AMERICAN VALUES.
IT MEANS WE’RE PRO-CHILD,
PRO-FAMILY, PRO-CHOICE,
PROFREEDOM.
>> I THINK THAT PEOPLE DO NOT
UNDERSTAND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT
PEOPLE’S LIVES.
THE MOTHER’S, THE WOMEN THAT WE
ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE.
PEOPLE WERE GETTING UNSAFE