Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsa and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: it is apparent that the Republicans are not letting up
Speaker 1: on their war against women and people with uteruses. This week,
Speaker 1: Senator Lindsey Graham, as I mentioned earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: introduced an agregious, fucking national ban on abortion. Now. I
Speaker 1: know that the media loves to part and parcel things
Speaker 1: out and use Republican talking points as a way to
Speaker 1: frame the conversation around abortion, but let me be really
Speaker 1: clear so that you all understand the bullshit that you
Speaker 1: were hearing from mainstream media. What Lindsay Graham and Republicans
Speaker 1: in the Senate have done is introduced to bill that
Speaker 1: they are referred to as a quote unquote late term abortion,
Speaker 1: which is banning abortions after fifteen weeks. Right. And here's
Speaker 1: the whole point of this that clearly the media does
Speaker 1: not pick up on language actually fucking matters, and we
Speaker 1: know that a ban is a ban is a ban
Speaker 1: as a band. I don't care if it's a fucking
Speaker 1: heartbeat bill there, bullshit heartbeat bill. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's a fifteen week ban. Right. These Republicans since the
Speaker 1: beginning of time have loved to chant about states goddamn rights.
Speaker 1: States should have the rights to decide curriculum. States should
Speaker 1: have the rights to decide gun controls. States should have
Speaker 1: the rights to a press voters. States should have the
Speaker 1: rights to decide bodily who has bodily autonomy or not. Right. So,
Speaker 1: now that you are hearing stories like the horrific story
Speaker 1: we heard about the ten year world rape victim that
Speaker 1: had to flee her state in Ohio in order to
Speaker 1: go to Indiana because when doctors checked her out found
Speaker 1: that she was about six weeks and a few days
Speaker 1: into her pregnancy term. They realized that they couldn't perform
Speaker 1: an abortion for a ten year old rape victim. So
Speaker 1: then she goes to Indiana. And what do the good
Speaker 1: people in the state of Indiana do, or I should
Speaker 1: say their governor. They decide to pass a law that
Speaker 1: then bands abortion outright except for in places of incests
Speaker 1: and rape right, because God forbid, we create safe haven
Speaker 1: for women in this country. So now that we are
Speaker 1: hearing more and more stories about women having to drive
Speaker 1: four hundred miles in some cases to other states in
Speaker 1: order to receive abortion care. The Republicans have decided, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to leave things up to the states.
Speaker 1: We're going to implement a national band. Now we know
Speaker 1: that right now we have a super motherfucking slim majority
Speaker 1: in the Senate. Vice President Kamala Harris acts as that
Speaker 1: fifty first vote in order to get us over the
Speaker 1: threshold in most cases. So while this band will not
Speaker 1: pass in this current Congress, we know that midterms are
Speaker 1: but fifty five fucking days away, while the Senate is
Speaker 1: not in play because the Republican Senate fucking challengers that
Speaker 1: they have up there are of the likes of A
Speaker 1: Herschel Walker, my God, or Vance another Moron JD. Vance.
Speaker 1: Then you have doctor Oz and others that are, as
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell said, you know, not of the best quality.
Speaker 1: But we know that Republicans are unrelenting, and all they
Speaker 1: do is just wait to peel it away, peel it away,
Speaker 1: peel it away, and then when they finally do get
Speaker 1: the majority, we already know what is on the agenda.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing that Republicans are not paying attention to.
Speaker 1: They're not reading the motherfucking room from Kansas to South Carolina.
Speaker 1: We are seeing women register to vote in numbers that
Speaker 1: we have not seen before. We are seeing mid term voters,
Speaker 1: in primary voters say to their elected officials, hands off
Speaker 1: my god damn body. But the likes of Lindsey Graham
Speaker 1: and others are not paying attention because what they want, folks,
Speaker 1: is what we talk about on woke app all the time.
Speaker 1: What they want is full and complete control over every
Speaker 1: aspect of our society, including our bodies. There are, folks,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty seven million women in this country,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty seven million women. More than half
Speaker 1: of the population are women and people with uteruses. So
Speaker 1: what is the message that Republicans are sending and what
Speaker 1: is the message that every person should be listening to.
Speaker 1: They are coming for you. They go for the lowest
Speaker 1: hanging fruit. First, abortion rights have been the fucking cat
Speaker 1: nip for the white evangelical Christian set, the fundamentalist who
Speaker 1: want to impose their religiosity and their doctrine on the
Speaker 1: rest of us. That is not how a democracy operates.
Speaker 1: We carve out all of these religious exemptions for these people.
Speaker 1: You hear stories now of employees at CVS's and Walgreens
Speaker 1: and Duane Reads refusing to fill prescriptions because it goes
Speaker 1: against their religious beliefs. Well, then here's a news flash.
Speaker 1: Here's a tip. Don't go to that job. How About
Speaker 1: work in a fucking church. How about work in a
Speaker 1: religious institution, because if your religion is actually getting in
Speaker 1: the way of you providing a service to the majority
Speaker 1: of the population, then maybe that is not the right
Speaker 1: fucking job for you. The story is very simple, folks.
Speaker 1: Republicans want to set this country back, and if they
Speaker 1: have their way, by way of midterm elections and these polls,
Speaker 1: they will there are going to be in the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives more election deniers than not. While we can
Speaker 1: hold on to the White House right now and the Senate,
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives is a fucking toss up. What
Speaker 1: do you think is going to come out of Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy's House of Representatives. I'm sure bullshit taxpayer dollar wasted
Speaker 1: investigations into Hunter Biden, into the Biden administration. I'm sure frivolous,
Speaker 1: absolutely frivolous legislation that will be about attacking LGBTQ people,
Speaker 1: black people, brown people, and women and people with uterus is.
Speaker 1: They are not mincing words anymore, folks, about what their
Speaker 1: intentions are and who they are. And as doctor Maya
Speaker 1: Angelou has said, when people show you who they are,
Speaker 1: believe them the first time. How many decades do we
Speaker 1: have to go through to recognize that Republicans do not
Speaker 1: care about this country because if they did, then they
Speaker 1: would invest in clean energy, They would want innovation, they
Speaker 1: would want diversity, They would want America to be globally competitive.
Speaker 1: But how can that be if we are chaining half
Speaker 1: the population inside the house with children they can afford,
Speaker 1: nor do they want. How are we going to be
Speaker 1: competitive when we allow corporations to run rough shot over
Speaker 1: workers and workers are barely able to keep their head
Speaker 1: above water because their wages are not on par with inflation.
Speaker 1: They don't want America's success, and it's time that the
Speaker 1: American voters recognize that. With fifty some odd days to go, folks,
Speaker 1: Republicans continue to show us who the fuck they are
Speaker 1: and their vision for America is worse than the Handmaid's Tale.
Speaker 1: And we know that for women of color in this country,
Speaker 1: abortion rights had only been a paper right, and most
Speaker 1: of these red states to begin with. So it's time
Speaker 1: that white women who have aligned themselves with the power
Speaker 1: and privilege of white men, wake the fuck up and
Speaker 1: realize that your rights, your life, your economic stability is
Speaker 1: on the chopping block. Coming up next, dear friends, joining us,
Speaker 1: we have the President of Planned Parenthood for America, Alexis McGill.
Speaker 1: Johnson will be joining us to talk about what Planned
Speaker 1: Parenthood is doing in this time of great strife in
Speaker 1: this country and how you can get involved. Hey, I'm David.
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Speaker 1: McGill Johnson, who you have seen no doubt as Rovie
Speaker 1: Wade was overturned. She is the president of Planned Parenthood,
Speaker 1: which you no doubt know who Planned Parenthood is. If
Speaker 1: you went to college, if you have needed any type
Speaker 1: of repro healthcare, Planned Parenthood was always my first stop. Alexis,
Speaker 1: you came out of You were one of the many
Speaker 1: esteemed activists and organizers and leaders that were part of
Speaker 1: a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris where it was
Speaker 1: said that she reaffirmed the Biden administration's commitment to pushing
Speaker 1: back against the Republicans extreme agenda to ban abortion right
Speaker 1: to oppress women and people with uteruses, and so I
Speaker 1: wanted to get your initial reactions after having been in
Speaker 1: that meeting, how you're feeling right now, and and what
Speaker 1: you can share with us that came out of it. So, Danielle, first,
Speaker 1: let me start with the genesis of the meeting, right, Um,
Speaker 1: this is a meeting that came together because a group
Speaker 1: of reproductive rights, health and justice leaders, along with a
Speaker 1: group of largely legacy civil rights organizations, came together to
Speaker 1: really underscore the fact that that we know, reproductive freedom
Speaker 1: and reproductive justice is intimately tied with our voting rights
Speaker 1: and democracy, intimately tied with racial justice and standing together really,
Speaker 1: you know, for the first time, at least with this
Speaker 1: genesis of folks to come together to really talk about
Speaker 1: the intersection of issues as they relate to you know,
Speaker 1: all of our you know, all of our movements, and
Speaker 1: what we need to do moving forward. And I think
Speaker 1: the Vice president, I think, particularly someone who uniquely sits
Speaker 1: at the nexus of civil rights, of reproductive rights and
Speaker 1: justice and criminal justice, I think has been was very
Speaker 1: receptive to the notion that we had to come together
Speaker 1: and to really talk through, you know, what are our
Speaker 1: strategies moving forward, not just over the next fifty six
Speaker 1: days into the November election, but also what our long
Speaker 1: arc needs to be as we move towards justice. So
Speaker 1: talk to me about the fact because I think that
Speaker 1: it is I always appreciate when civil rights organizations come
Speaker 1: together with whether it is women's rights, lgbt Q rights organizations,
Speaker 1: but come together to understand that we have a shared
Speaker 1: desire for justice, right, that we have a shared desire
Speaker 1: for equity. Talk to me about the unique I guess
Speaker 1: position that black women and women of color are in
Speaker 1: right now since the overturning of Rov wade as at
Speaker 1: the close of the Supreme Courts session. And what are
Speaker 1: some of the experiences that you've been hearing about or
Speaker 1: that we're uplifted during that meeting. Yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: to be um on the on the kind of meta level,
Speaker 1: we know that these bands that we've seen over the years,
Speaker 1: abortion bands have disproportionately impacted Black women, in particular, people
Speaker 1: of color, people with low incomes, rural communities, and we
Speaker 1: are seeing many of these bands introduced in states with
Speaker 1: the highest maternal mortality rate, right, so also an issue
Speaker 1: that significantly disproportionately impacts black women. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I think we start there and just the nexus of
Speaker 1: how sexual and reproductive healthcare bands and restrictions impact our
Speaker 1: bodies and control over our bodies and our freedoms. Then
Speaker 1: you add a layer on to the criminalization and the
Speaker 1: surveillance that is increasing with respect to these bands. Some
Speaker 1: of them are being enforced by this you know, unique
Speaker 1: bounty hunter provision that was part of the civil right
Speaker 1: of action that came out of the Texas x SB
Speaker 1: eight UM van and fiasco last year. UM. And and
Speaker 1: now with row overturned. UM, we you know the we
Speaker 1: could see felony convictions right um from for providers up
Speaker 1: to ninety nine years UM. But you know also for
Speaker 1: people who support people who get access to care out
Speaker 1: of state. And you know, the opposition has introduced everything
Speaker 1: from uh you know, saying it it shouldn't be legal
Speaker 1: to cross state lines in order to get access to cares,
Speaker 1: literally holding people hostage in their state, UM, so that
Speaker 1: they are not able to get access to abortion care. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, people worried about the long drives they're taking.
Speaker 1: We are seeing people drive an average four hundred miles
Speaker 1: outside of their state to get access and lonely right
Speaker 1: because they are afraid to tell anyone what is going on,
Speaker 1: because they don't want to you know, um, implicate anyone
Speaker 1: else in their decision if it if it may cause
Speaker 1: them harm. UM. And we also recognize the fact that
Speaker 1: if criminal prosecutions move forward, as you know what one
Speaker 1: would have to right, if they're going to actually enforce
Speaker 1: these laws, you know, that could also impact and create
Speaker 1: voter disenfranchisement. Right, it could impact you know, one's ability
Speaker 1: to get access to housing, access to medicaid, and so
Speaker 1: the ripple effect into public policy from from the kind
Speaker 1: of healthcare harms that people are experiencing, I think is
Speaker 1: just really great. Um. And you know, a significant challenge
Speaker 1: for us to be thinking about. And because of that,
Speaker 1: I think that's why these communities coming together made such
Speaker 1: a powerful statement. Last I would just add that, you know,
Speaker 1: so many reproductive rights organizations, including mine, you know, we
Speaker 1: are now being led by by black women or women
Speaker 1: of color, and so the opportunity to really sit at
Speaker 1: the center kind of of who we are along with
Speaker 1: the Vice president I was just an incredibly powerful moment.
Speaker 1: You know, there's been a lot of critique about the
Speaker 1: Biden administration and they're handling of this issue. There had
Speaker 1: been pushed back from abortion activists about the fact that
Speaker 1: the president and hadn't uttered the word abortion. Um. There
Speaker 1: has been pushed back in general about Democrats and their
Speaker 1: inability to wrap their arms fully around this issue. It
Speaker 1: was always you know, abortion should be you know, safe
Speaker 1: and rare, right. Um. And you know, we have moved
Speaker 1: to a place where we understand that abortion is just
Speaker 1: a necessary part of care. We're hearing terrible stories about
Speaker 1: partially formed fetuses that are being left inside of of
Speaker 1: of of a uterus because they can't be aborted. Right. Um.
Speaker 1: Do you think that this administration, when we knew, when
Speaker 1: we thought that the built with that the that the
Speaker 1: decision was a draft, that they took enough proactive action. Um.
Speaker 1: And do you think that they have arrived at this
Speaker 1: place and recognizing that Republicans are not going to let
Speaker 1: this issue sit. Yes. And look, I think like, uh,
Speaker 1: like the party's entire evolution on this issue, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: we still have people in the party that are you know,
Speaker 1: do not support access to to abortion, and I think
Speaker 1: that is you know, something that we have to grapple with.
Speaker 1: But I think this administration, it has been very very
Speaker 1: thoughtful in terms of thinking as a what I would
Speaker 1: say a whole of government response to the crisis and
Speaker 1: making sure that the actions they are taking, whether it's
Speaker 1: litigation or UM, you know, identifying various UM you know,
Speaker 1: policies or executive orders that they are very patient and
Speaker 1: provider focused UM and intended to do. They ken to
Speaker 1: help people mitigate the concerns while we fight back. UM.
Speaker 1: So you know, a good example, as you just mentioned
Speaker 1: the the emergency medical UM you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: UM support in the danger of the parents life. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean that am tala guidance from HHS is very important,
Speaker 1: and we've seen how you know, the Republicans have responded
Speaker 1: to that. You know, Attorney General Paxton of Texas said
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to follow that guidance or recommend that
Speaker 1: guidance in the state because they didn't think that the
Speaker 1: federal federal government had the ability to do that. So
Speaker 1: you know, we should and we should come back to
Speaker 1: that when we talk about Lindsay Graham. UM. But but
Speaker 1: they have done actually some very important things. Right. We've
Speaker 1: seen the executive order urging medicaid to support travel right, which,
Speaker 1: as I said, people need. They're traveling up upwards of
Speaker 1: four hundred miles. We've seen them open up Supplemental Title
Speaker 1: ten funds to get access to family planning, making some
Speaker 1: abortion care available through the VA right. That's a big
Speaker 1: deal to have a you know, the agency lead at
Speaker 1: the Veteran Affairs you know, support the you know, the
Speaker 1: men and women of our you know of our service
Speaker 1: people are are desperate for accurate information. As we know
Speaker 1: they're is so much misinformation rife in this in this
Speaker 1: space that is, you know, information that you see online
Speaker 1: and then gets codified into crisis pregnancy centers. And the
Speaker 1: administration has responded by launching Reproductive Rights dot gov and
Speaker 1: and you know, I have to lift up. And I
Speaker 1: think this is one of the reasons why we were
Speaker 1: particularly keen on um, you know, seeing the Vice President yesterday,
Speaker 1: is that she personally has been traveling across the country
Speaker 1: this summer around abortion access. She has met with over
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty legislatures in seventeen states, leaders in
Speaker 1: higher ed healthcare providers, con law experts, attorneys, general, disability advocates,
Speaker 1: faith leaders like she's leaving no stone unturned to really
Speaker 1: inform the kind of response from the administration. So is
Speaker 1: there a silver bullet that the administration could you know,
Speaker 1: provide for us. No, because it's so much more complicated,
Speaker 1: you know, with this ruling. But I think in terms
Speaker 1: of mitigating the harm and the impact on people, that
Speaker 1: is where they are focused, and we need to get
Speaker 1: back and quite frankly, deliver a different system instructure for
Speaker 1: them to operate in in order to get some real,
Speaker 1: meaningful policies set into laws. So you brought up Lindsey Graham,
Speaker 1: who many know who listened to me know that that
Speaker 1: is my least favorite senator. And you know, Lindsey Graham
Speaker 1: did something this week where he offered from the Republican
Speaker 1: Party a national ban on abortion. Now he is referred
Speaker 1: to it as a late term abortion, which the media,
Speaker 1: mainstream media has turned around and is using Republican talking
Speaker 1: points when reporting on what is inside of this legislation.
Speaker 1: I want to get your reaction first to one, this
Speaker 1: party that has made it their mantra States rights has
Speaker 1: now turned into oh no, no, no, because the States
Speaker 1: are not doing what we want. Now we want a
Speaker 1: national ban one and then two, how the mainstream media
Speaker 1: has been dealing with this issue and particular in discussing
Speaker 1: this quote unquote late term, which we know is BS
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. So look, I think on them on
Speaker 1: the offering, we should not be surprised, right, um. And
Speaker 1: you know they talk about states rights, and I think
Speaker 1: there is an element related to states rights that that
Speaker 1: the opposition and the Republican Party in particular, you know, um,
Speaker 1: white supremacists are very keen on um, kind of doubling
Speaker 1: down on with respect to um, you know, uh, enforcing
Speaker 1: and codifying power in each state. Um. And you know,
Speaker 1: we could only look to the to the opposition, which
Speaker 1: is you know, said they would like a nationwide six
Speaker 1: week ban, which is looking to for the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: to take up a constitutional personhood and admit so they've
Speaker 1: never really meant states rights only in certain circumstances is
Speaker 1: maybe code words for some groups, but what they really
Speaker 1: want to get to is abolition right, a complete inability
Speaker 1: for us to access abortion and control our bodies with
Speaker 1: respect to you know, a fifteen week ban and calling
Speaker 1: it a late timor version that is just you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a complete misnomer. First of all, a ban
Speaker 1: as a ban as a ban as a ban, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: pregnancy is unique, Each circumstance is unique, That's why we
Speaker 1: would rather have providers and patients making their own personal
Speaker 1: medical decisions and not creating these one size fits all laws.
Speaker 1: They just don't work and they create harm right to
Speaker 1: your to your earlier point, you know, seeing patients that
Speaker 1: are in second second try who don't have the ability
Speaker 1: to get the abortion care that they need even when
Speaker 1: their pregnancy is no longer viable, waiting for steps is
Speaker 1: to set in, you know, which could you know, obviously
Speaker 1: create so much harm. There's so much bias obviously in
Speaker 1: in care, particularly related as it relates to black maternal care,
Speaker 1: and that you know, it just it's it's it's incredibly
Speaker 1: harmful and offensive right that that this is the piece
Speaker 1: with respect to the media, you know, I think that
Speaker 1: the media has actually been a big challenge all along,
Speaker 1: not just with respect to just picking up as a
Speaker 1: late term. We know that upwards of eighty percent of
Speaker 1: Americans believe that rose should be the law of land,
Speaker 1: the energy um. And I think the resistance to so
Speaker 1: many of these increasing extreme restrictions is so palpable, it's
Speaker 1: so clear they're you know, no state, very few states
Speaker 1: where um you know where it's it's even kind of middling,
Speaker 1: and so I think that part of the challenge what
Speaker 1: we see the media is that they have actually also
Speaker 1: created a false equivalence around people who support acts and
Speaker 1: apportion that people who who oppose it. And so at
Speaker 1: every turn, you know, here we are with a majority
Speaker 1: public opinion support, and we're positioning this as both sides,
Speaker 1: and that just that false equivalentally doesn't work. So then
Speaker 1: you layer onto that, you know, late term, it's really
Speaker 1: a way to set up you know why people who
Speaker 1: support access to abortion are not going to be reasonable
Speaker 1: or compromise, and you know what I mean, I would
Speaker 1: have to say, like, we are not going to compromise
Speaker 1: by you know, having a one size fits all approach
Speaker 1: when we know full well that each pregnancy and circumstances
Speaker 1: unique and providers are the best people to make those decisions,
Speaker 1: not politicians. I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you make your own choices, you make your own decisions,
Speaker 1: but politicians don't need to be in the middle of that, right,
Speaker 1: We would rather have our medical providers in the middle
Speaker 1: of those conversations, you know, Alexis With fifty six days
Speaker 1: until mid terms, we have seen some pushback, We've had
Speaker 1: some good news like in Kansas, where we have seen
Speaker 1: the people push back and say no. We have seen
Speaker 1: and heard that more women are registered in registering to vote.
Speaker 1: We saw an initiative fail in this state legislature in
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Now is a really hard time, though, to
Speaker 1: be hopeful. Right everywhere that you look, there is just
Speaker 1: really bad news like this, Graham Bill, And I'm wondering,
Speaker 1: how are you and all of the people that work
Speaker 1: at Planned Parenthood across the country, how are you maintaining
Speaker 1: a sense of hopefulness. You know, I honestly, I think
Speaker 1: it has been those little, not a little big victories,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, state by state victories. It has
Speaker 1: been you know, holding out hope that we could pull
Speaker 1: through in Kansas, even when you know the data pointed
Speaker 1: to it being a quite um an even match early on.
Speaker 1: It is seeing that kind of courage become contagious in
Speaker 1: a state like Nebraska, where they literally couldn't find the
Speaker 1: next you know, the legislators that would would make the difference. UM.
Speaker 1: It is holding the line because every time we're able
Speaker 1: to delay a ban or delay some of these harsh restrictions,
Speaker 1: we're actually able to provide service to people. UM I am.
Speaker 1: I am incredibly hopeful deriving hope from you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: the patient and provider stories I hear every day, and
Speaker 1: make no mistake that these are people that are despairing.
Speaker 1: They are They are despairing as they can't provide the
Speaker 1: care that they need. They are despairing because they have
Speaker 1: to embark on a you know, a long and arduous
Speaker 1: and lonely abortion journey, and that is you know, that
Speaker 1: is difficult to bear. But the reason they do that
Speaker 1: is because they have hope on the other side, right,
Speaker 1: they have hope on the other side that being able
Speaker 1: to get access is going to help them make the
Speaker 1: best decisions for themselves and for their families. And you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we trust folks to
Speaker 1: make decisions about their bodies. We trust them to, you know,
Speaker 1: UM figure out how they need to to live their
Speaker 1: own best lives. And I think every time every time
Speaker 1: we see that UM, which is in stark contrast to
Speaker 1: the way politicians like Lindsay Graham are inserting themselves as
Speaker 1: if they are the trusted UM, you know, gatekeepers to
Speaker 1: our own body of the autonomy, I think it just
Speaker 1: highlights how important UM this right is and has been.
Speaker 1: It highlights how important our democracy is and our voting
Speaker 1: you know, capacity and rights are. UM. It highlights all
Speaker 1: of the work that we need to do together as
Speaker 1: a as a collaborative of communities, which is really um.
Speaker 1: You know what what gave me hope yesterday in the
Speaker 1: conversation with the Vice President and my colleagues who you know, um, Danielle,
Speaker 1: We've known for for many years in different positions, but
Speaker 1: to feel like we are standing strong because we have
Speaker 1: intersected in so many different ways on so many different issues.
Speaker 1: We see this at the core is being about freedom, right.
Speaker 1: We see this at our four being about freedom and justice.
Speaker 1: And that is why I have hope because you know
Speaker 1: that has always carried us through. You know. Last question
Speaker 1: for you is that there are so many people, so
Speaker 1: many people that listen to my show, so many people
Speaker 1: that are glued to cable news and want to figure
Speaker 1: out what they can do to how how they can
Speaker 1: be of service outside of obviously voting in the midterm elections.
Speaker 1: Tell people how they can be supportive to Planned parenthood,
Speaker 1: to this movement, to this moment right now. You know,
Speaker 1: so of course, supporting Planned Parenthood affiliates is incredibly important
Speaker 1: in this moment because many patients are making their way
Speaker 1: to various affiliates across the country, and wherever you are,
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity to support and connect to patients who
Speaker 1: are both traveling out or helping us meet the surge
Speaker 1: of operations in that place. Supporting independent providers at keep
Speaker 1: our the Nix dot org, who we're also carrying a
Speaker 1: huge burden of um of providing abortion care, supporting abortion
Speaker 1: funds abortion funds dot org our ways to give direct
Speaker 1: support to patients who are traveling and need all of
Speaker 1: the logistics and support there. Um, if you want to
Speaker 1: get engaged, you know politically, UM, I would say go
Speaker 1: to take control twenty twenty two dot org. That will
Speaker 1: get you all involved in your electoral game, mobilizing, um,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think that's really where we need
Speaker 1: to be focused over the next fifty seven days. UM.
Speaker 1: And then we're going to be back with the long
Speaker 1: game conversation, right and yell, like the long game around
Speaker 1: now that Row is gone. You know, who who are
Speaker 1: we going to be now that we're not defending Row?
Speaker 1: And how are we going to reimagine the right? And
Speaker 1: I think that's where you know, um, you know another
Speaker 1: place where where we can be hopeful together, we can
Speaker 1: be imaginated together, and that's really what the work is
Speaker 1: going to be moving forward. Well, Alexis, I will tell
Speaker 1: you that there's no that a person than you to
Speaker 1: be at the helm of planned parenthood. Right now. I
Speaker 1: feel like the organization and the movement is in good hands,
Speaker 1: particularly with the list of esteemed people that I have
Speaker 1: known for many, many years that were in that room
Speaker 1: with the Vice president. You know, I hope that you
Speaker 1: will come back and join us and continue to tell
Speaker 1: people how they can get involved, what they can do,
Speaker 1: and remind us that you know, we have been in
Speaker 1: these places before, we have seen these dark days before,
Speaker 1: and that it doesn't end here, that this is this
Speaker 1: is a new beginning and like you said, a reimagining
Speaker 1: Alexis Migill Johnson, we appreciate you so much. Thank you
Speaker 1: for making the time for us today. Thank you, Danielle.
Speaker 1: It was so lovely to see you and talk with you.
Speaker 1: This gave me hope. That is it for me today.
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