Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the home Bunker.
Speaker 1: The folks, it is official. Joe Biden has announced his
Speaker 1: re election campaign in a video that was reminiscent of
Speaker 1: the video that he launched four years ago when he
Speaker 1: talked about the soul of a nation. And you know,
Speaker 1: I know where the polls are, and you all know
Speaker 1: if you listen to the show regularly, how I feel
Speaker 1: about polls. They are akin to reading the tea leaves.
Speaker 1: They are not scientific. And I know where the big
Speaker 1: pushback against Joe Biden is. It isn't in his policy measures,
Speaker 1: it isn't in his tone. It's about his age. And yes,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is old as fuck. Joe Biden is going
Speaker 1: to be the oldest person to run for reelection, and
Speaker 1: if elected, he will be the oldest president that we have.
Speaker 1: I do not give a fuck, and let me tell
Speaker 1: you why. Four years ago I said on this very
Speaker 1: podcast that I could care less if Joe Biden was
Speaker 1: running for the presidency. He wasn't my first, second, third,
Speaker 1: or fifth choice to become president of the United States,
Speaker 1: and to face off against Donald Trump, However, over the
Speaker 1: course of his first term in office, being handed the
Speaker 1: shit sandwich that Donald Trump and his Sashist white supremacy
Speaker 1: administration left behind. I want you to take the time
Speaker 1: machine with me back to his election. I want you
Speaker 1: to take the time machine back to the twenty twenty election,
Speaker 1: which you know, Republicans haven't been able to let die.
Speaker 1: So it feels like we relived the twenty twenty election
Speaker 1: every fucking day. But for those of us on Earth one,
Speaker 1: I want you to remember where we were in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: that there were thousands of people dying every single day
Speaker 1: because of COVID, That we had a vaccine, but we
Speaker 1: did not have vaccine distribution. We had never this country
Speaker 1: had never in its history had to administer the amount
Speaker 1: of vaccines at the rate at which the Biden administration
Speaker 1: was able to do by June. By the summer, if
Speaker 1: you remember of twenty twenty one, when they took over, right,
Speaker 1: we were steal at the very heights of COVID. Millions
Speaker 1: of Americans had lost their job. The Biden administration was
Speaker 1: able to give stimulus checks checks to people who needed them.
Speaker 1: Not only did the Biden administration do that, they were
Speaker 1: able with a really aggressive cult, able to pass through
Speaker 1: the appointment of Katanji Brown Jackson as the Supreme Court justice,
Speaker 1: the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: They were able to lower prescription drugs, They were able
Speaker 1: to pass and infrastructure bill, and all while signaling that
Speaker 1: some semblance of normalcy was going to be returning to
Speaker 1: our body politic. Now, I think that over the course
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden's first term, what he has realized, which
Speaker 1: is what all of us have known, is that the
Speaker 1: Senate and the government body that he once presided over
Speaker 1: as Vice President, the people that he had worked with
Speaker 1: for decades in the Senate, were no longer the same
Speaker 1: Republican party. That was signaled in the speech that he
Speaker 1: gave in Pennsylvania where he referred to Maga extremism and
Speaker 1: said that this was what we were seeing was essentially
Speaker 1: fascism light right, and I use quotation marks. Over the
Speaker 1: course of this administration, I don't know how many times
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has had to go and speak with and
Speaker 1: talk to grieving families in the midst of mass shootings.
Speaker 1: He's called for a ban on assault rifles. He's done
Speaker 1: what he can do through executive orders to not only
Speaker 1: protect American children and people from being shot in their
Speaker 1: places of worship, in schools and movie theaters, in grocery stores,
Speaker 1: so on and so forth, he has also gone as
Speaker 1: far as he can go in order to protect LGBTQ
Speaker 1: Americans right by signing in a bill to protect marriages
Speaker 1: both of same sex people and of interracial marriages.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: That we're having to do that in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: was absolutely ridiculous, But here's where we are. Joe Biden
Speaker 1: has been able to get more judges write federal judges
Speaker 1: appointed than anyone else in their first term, including Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is doing the work right. He may not
Speaker 1: be standing up in front of a podium bringing America's
Speaker 1: attention to the Republican Party their rise in fascism and
Speaker 1: white supremacy, but he is absolutely doing the work to
Speaker 1: ensure that, at a time when fascism is on the
Speaker 1: rise and authoritarianism is on the rise in this country,
Speaker 1: that he is trying to keep the American public as
Speaker 1: safe as he possibly can and as rooted in our
Speaker 1: democratic values as he possibly can. So four years later,
Speaker 1: when it is now time for reelection, bid and people
Speaker 1: want to tell me, well, we need somebody else, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you we don't got nobody else,
Speaker 1: because we do not have the fucking time or the
Speaker 1: energy for infighting within the Democratic Party when we are
Speaker 1: facing an existential political fucking crisis. So for folks that
Speaker 1: want to tell me, oh, well, what about Warren, what
Speaker 1: about this person, what about that person, talk to me
Speaker 1: about that in twenty twenty eight, if this country makes
Speaker 1: it to twenty twenty eight, Because I want people to
Speaker 1: get it through your heads that he may not be perfect,
Speaker 1: but he is what the fuck we have. And he
Speaker 1: has been fighting for this country and fighting for our
Speaker 1: democracy up against people who he once called his friends.
Speaker 1: Every single day since he got into office. He has
Speaker 1: made good on the promises that he made on the
Speaker 1: campaign trail. And it has been Republicans and the Trump
Speaker 1: appointees that are pushing back against the student relief that
Speaker 1: he wants to offer that has gone all the way
Speaker 1: up to the Supreme Court. Right, Joe Biden is making
Speaker 1: good on the promises to the people that put him
Speaker 1: in office, and it is the Republican Party that is
Speaker 1: standing in the way of progress. And not only are
Speaker 1: they standing in the way of progress, folks. But they
Speaker 1: are trying to pull us all the way back to
Speaker 1: the fucking eighteen hundreds. So if you want this country
Speaker 1: to look like the state of Florida, if you want
Speaker 1: this entire nation to look like the state of Texas,
Speaker 1: if you want this country to look like the body
Speaker 1: that is in Tennessee that had the audacity to expel
Speaker 1: to black voted elected members of their body for daring
Speaker 1: to stand with the people, then go ahead and keep
Speaker 1: complaining about who you would like to run instead, instead
Speaker 1: of putting in the energy, the fucking work, and the
Speaker 1: fucking money in order to make sure that our democracy
Speaker 1: stands strong for another four years. Because that's what we're
Speaker 1: working with, folks. We are working with incremental fucking change.
Speaker 1: Right now, the Republicans get into office, they get the
Speaker 1: executive branch, and I tell you that will be the
Speaker 1: last fucking presidential election we have in this country. They
Speaker 1: will gut every single fucking precedent, every single fucking law.
Speaker 1: They will operationalize the military against the people of this country.
Speaker 1: And if you do not believe me, then I tell
Speaker 1: you to go pull up Donald Trump's speech from Waco, Texas.
Speaker 1: His first presidential speech where he talks about operationalizing the military,
Speaker 1: where he talks about gutting those quote unquote unpatriotic people
Speaker 1: in our governmental agencies. If you were afraid of McCarthyism,
Speaker 1: what you learned about in the nineteen fifties, this is
Speaker 1: McCarthyism on steroids. Donald Trump said that I am your
Speaker 1: retribution for those that have done you wrong. He is
Speaker 1: going to come back and if he is allowed inside
Speaker 1: of that Oval office again, he will destroy He will
Speaker 1: finish the fucking job and destroy this country. He will
Speaker 1: imprison his political enemies. People like me will no longer
Speaker 1: have a microphone or a voice, or safety for that matter.
Speaker 1: So when we say that every election is consequential, I
Speaker 1: want you to understand that this is due or fucking
Speaker 1: die time. So we do not have time right to
Speaker 1: waste with our flights of fancy. Our president has announced
Speaker 1: that he is running for reelection, and I am ten
Speaker 1: fucking toes down for Joe Biden and his administration, because
Speaker 1: what I'm not about is a new apartheid in America.
Speaker 1: What I'm not about is revisiting the Holocaust. What I'm
Speaker 1: not about is a nation of political prisoners. So join
Speaker 1: me right and those that care about democracy in doing
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck it is that you can with the
Speaker 1: power that you have. It is phone calls, it is funbraisy,
Speaker 1: it is get out the vote drives, It is doing
Speaker 1: every single thing that we can because it's going to
Speaker 1: take every single last one of us in order to
Speaker 1: fight back against what the Republican Party is dishing out.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, friends, my conversation with Andrea Miller, the
Speaker 1: president of NIRH, and we are going to be talking
Speaker 1: about the fight right against this abortion ban and the
Speaker 1: banning of mifipristone. Folks, I'm very happy to welcome back
Speaker 1: to WOKF Daily Andrea Miller, who is the president of NIRIH,
Speaker 1: the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Andrea, we never seem
Speaker 1: to talk under good circumstances these days to talk about
Speaker 1: any of the wins that the movement is happening. So
Speaker 1: I want to get your reactions to the latest stay
Speaker 1: of the decision to ban myth of pristone in Layman's terms,
Speaker 1: the abortion pill, and the fact that the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: has kicked the can down the road. By the time
Speaker 1: of this airing, we will know what that decision is,
Speaker 1: but can you talk to us about this decision and
Speaker 1: what effects it will have on reproductive health.
Speaker 2: Well, look, first of all, thank you, Daniel. It's really
Speaker 2: great to be back, and there is a lot happening.
Speaker 2: As you noted, we are in a really unprecedented moment
Speaker 2: as it pertains to access to abortion care in this country,
Speaker 2: and particularly this new cynical lawsuit that is an attempt
Speaker 2: to create a national ban on the most common method
Speaker 2: of abortion care, disregarding medical standards, disregarding scientific evidence, disregarding
Speaker 2: twenty plus years of use in the United States, and
Speaker 2: beyond the case that you are referencing. Is it's truly
Speaker 2: mind blowing in how unprecedented it really is. What it
Speaker 2: is doing is it's attempting to give to a single
Speaker 2: federal judge, in this instance, the Federal District Court judge
Speaker 2: in Amarillo, Texas, has taken upon himself, at the urging
Speaker 2: of several very extreme anti abortion groups, to say that
Speaker 2: the FDA approval of mifipristone, which is one of the
Speaker 2: two drugs that the FDA that is part of the
Speaker 2: most common method of medication abortion in this country, saying
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it's that approval is done just you know,
Speaker 2: full stop, yep, I'm going to reverse that approval with
Speaker 2: an incredibly cynical, incredibly I mean, his ruling was like
Speaker 2: all of the worst anti abortion misinformation, all of the
Speaker 2: extremist tropes, you name it, it was in there. I mean,
Speaker 2: this was basically an anti abortion screen beginning to end.
Speaker 2: And it's truly unprecedented, both because it would be so
Speaker 2: harmful in terms of access to this method of medication abortion,
Speaker 2: because it would essentially say, regardless of what your state
Speaker 2: law is, regardless of whether you're in one of the
Speaker 2: nearly twenty states that have safeguarded access to abortion care,
Speaker 2: in your state law, medication abortion, this mifipristone would be
Speaker 2: considered not possible, would effectively be banned. If this ruling
Speaker 2: work to take effect in every state in the country,
Speaker 2: and not only that, it would call into question pretty
Speaker 2: much everything the FDA has done right right right, So
Speaker 2: it would it would eliminate mifipristone presumably for everyone in
Speaker 2: the country. It would eliminated for abortion, it would also
Speaker 2: eliminated for other use in like miscarriage management as well
Speaker 2: as potentially Cushing syndrome and other things that it's utilized for.
Speaker 2: And it would really turn on its head. Who makes
Speaker 2: decisions in this country about the safety and efficacy of
Speaker 2: the drugs that are on the market. The FDA, it's
Speaker 2: that that's their job, and this would be saying, we're
Speaker 2: going to take that out of the hands of the
Speaker 2: FDA and allow courts to unilaterally because of political motivated
Speaker 2: you know, through political motivations and the desire to eliminate
Speaker 2: access to abortion, We're going to suddenly have everything the
Speaker 2: FDA does called into question.
Speaker 1: And the thing that I have been seeing too is
Speaker 1: that there is a group of anti abortion doctors who
Speaker 1: have also come together to write a letter requesting that
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court ban this drug based on what they
Speaker 1: have said are perceived future risks that mipipristone causes. This
Speaker 1: is a drug that has been on the market for
Speaker 1: over twenty years, that's right. So the standing here is
Speaker 1: just politically motivated. What do you believe? I mean, Look,
Speaker 1: we have a Supreme Court that is super stacked right
Speaker 1: with right wing judges who lied during their judiciary hearings
Speaker 1: Senate Judiciary hearings and said that precedent was precedent.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and some of them even said that Roe versus
Speaker 2: Wade was considered super precedent, and then they didn't think
Speaker 2: twice about overturning it at the first chance they got
Speaker 2: so at a.
Speaker 1: Time when we again Republicans began with the lie that
Speaker 1: states should be able to make the decision. Right, So
Speaker 1: that's again how we all started. States were going to
Speaker 1: make the decision. Once Dobbs was overturned, then all of
Speaker 1: these states decided they had their trigger laws in place.
Speaker 1: But now this judge in Texas has the ability not
Speaker 1: to rule for Texas, but to rule for the nation.
Speaker 2: Well, that's certainly what he thinks. And the hope is that,
Speaker 2: I mean, look, you just named it. This Supreme Court
Speaker 2: is not a court I put a lot of faith
Speaker 2: in in terms of following the law safeguarding the health
Speaker 2: and well being of millions of people in this country.
Speaker 2: It's hard to imagine appealing to better angels there, given
Speaker 2: that we have not seen them prevail before. But this
Speaker 2: is so outside the bounds, it is so egregious that
Speaker 2: the hope would be that they would see maybe be
Speaker 2: able to see past their animus against those who need
Speaker 2: abortion care and could see the harm that this would
Speaker 2: do to the nation. Writ large by allowing a single
Speaker 2: judge to determine what the FDA can and can't do.
Speaker 2: I think your point, though, I just think I want
Speaker 2: to underscore something you said, which is, you know they
Speaker 2: are chock full of the big lies, right, They have
Speaker 2: like a whole panoply of big lies. This lawsuit is
Speaker 2: predicated on a whole host of big lies. Claims about
Speaker 2: harm that mefipristone has already caused that are so overblown
Speaker 2: and off the charts, a whole bunch of anti abortion
Speaker 2: rhetoric that's just rife there. And your point about they said, oh,
Speaker 2: we want to get rid of Roe versus wait, because
Speaker 2: we want this to go back to the states. Now,
Speaker 2: let's take a moment and say guess what. Guess what
Speaker 2: happened there? Yes, there are a bunch of states that
Speaker 2: had trigger laws, and we've got fourteen states right now
Speaker 2: that are effectively banned abortion. Well, that means that there
Speaker 2: are thirty six states that haven't yet. And by the way,
Speaker 2: since the decision came down or seeing more and more
Speaker 2: states also pass protective laws. Colorado just did it last week,
Speaker 2: Michigan did it in the elections, and we saw conservative
Speaker 2: states where you send it back to the people, and
Speaker 2: the people are like, uh uh, we don't want this. Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, right,
Speaker 2: And so I think again, it's so important to remember
Speaker 2: and you noted this at the beginning. The good news
Speaker 2: here is that they are coming for they're not satisfied
Speaker 2: with overturning Row, in part because their ultimate goal is
Speaker 2: to ban all abortions full stop. And their problem is
Speaker 2: that is so I mean to say it's unpopular is
Speaker 2: an understatement by magnitudes and the response by the vast
Speaker 2: vasque majority in this country. There's more support for access
Speaker 2: to abortion care than ever before in this nation's history.
Speaker 2: There's more activity to try to address the harm that
Speaker 2: these bans are causing then there's ever been before, even
Speaker 2: though we've had many, many restrictions over decades, even since
Speaker 2: real that have caused harm. And you are seeing this
Speaker 2: become a really powerful political moment and a political issue
Speaker 2: that is salient and motivating predominantly among those who believe
Speaker 2: in reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. And so they're having
Speaker 2: to come at this trying to take advantage of this
Speaker 2: twist in where you can file a case in I'm maillo,
Speaker 2: and you know you get this judge, and this guy
Speaker 2: was put there for this purpose. His history is he
Speaker 2: used to work for these anti abortion legal groups that
Speaker 2: are exactly the ones who brought this case. Right, So
Speaker 2: they have to go to those extremes because they keep
Speaker 2: getting blocked at every turn. Otherwise they have to use
Speaker 2: those parts of our government that they have taken over
Speaker 2: in undemocratic ways, same as the states that have banned
Speaker 2: abortion and doing all these other things. It's about gerrymandering,
Speaker 2: it's about voter suppression, and they are trying to leverage
Speaker 2: what little bit of power they can hold onto because
Speaker 2: when this goes to people, and when it goes to
Speaker 2: governments that actually represent the people, they lose.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, this is no longer
Speaker 1: a states rights issue. Right. What has become really clear
Speaker 1: with the red states that have damn near banded abortion.
Speaker 1: You just had Florida past this six week that's right
Speaker 1: abortion ban and Ron Descent has signed it. You have
Speaker 1: them creating policies that are about criminalizing absolutely women and
Speaker 1: people with uteruses. So can you speak to that that
Speaker 1: it isn't okay I live in Texas, Texas says I
Speaker 1: can't have an abortion now Texas is saying I can't
Speaker 1: travel now, Tesics is saying that if I do travel
Speaker 1: that then I need to come back and say that
Speaker 1: I didn't travel for these So they are using these
Speaker 1: states as a petri dish for fascism. But can you
Speaker 1: talk about how this fight has grown from no, you
Speaker 1: have states rights and we don't want abortion, to now
Speaker 1: I can control your movement and I can criminalize you thereafter.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the bottom line, danielis this has always
Speaker 2: been about control. It is from day one, this has
Speaker 2: been about who gets to make the decision about your
Speaker 2: life and your future. Is it you, the person who
Speaker 2: might be able to become pregnant, and from whom this
Speaker 2: is going to, you know, affect your health, your well being,
Speaker 2: your family, your future, the trajectory of your life. Or
Speaker 2: is it going to be a small, unrepresentative extremist viewpoint
Speaker 2: on who you are supposed to quote unquote supposed to
Speaker 2: be and how you are supposed to operate. And so,
Speaker 2: of course, if they can't, if banning abortion in a
Speaker 2: given state does and meet that objective doesn't create absolute control,
Speaker 2: they're looking for what else do we need to do
Speaker 2: to create absolute control? Right? And so like you said,
Speaker 2: it's about trying to It's all about control and punishment,
Speaker 2: punishment of those who do not follow the you know,
Speaker 2: toe the line. And that's why they and don't fit
Speaker 2: within a certain mold and don't live their lives the
Speaker 2: way a certain extremist group believe they should be, which
Speaker 2: is why it's the same people who are trying to
Speaker 2: prevent especially black and brown folks from voting. It's the
Speaker 2: same people who are you know, who're banning abortion, are
Speaker 2: the same people who are attacking gender affirming care and
Speaker 2: trans kits. Right, it's all about control. So states' rights
Speaker 2: was a kind of a red herring right. It was
Speaker 2: like something they can say because what it did is
Speaker 2: it took it out of anything that was really about
Speaker 2: emotion and it put it in this like legal framework.
Speaker 2: The like people like, you know, does the states have
Speaker 2: the rights or does a federal government have the rights? Right?
Speaker 2: That's not really what people get like all up in
Speaker 2: arms about right or not in arms hopefully, But you know,
Speaker 2: we can't we can't even say that.
Speaker 3: And I know, I mean they do so right, it's true,
Speaker 3: so you know, and again the same speaking that you know,
Speaker 3: it's the same people who are preventing gun safety measures
Speaker 3: that are so essential.
Speaker 2: Right, It's because all of this is about control, punishment,
Speaker 2: and fear, and and it's cutting across all of these issues,
Speaker 2: and they're trying to create more fear among those who
Speaker 2: need abortion care and those who support them in getting
Speaker 2: that care, and those who provide that care. You know,
Speaker 2: there has been terrorism in this country aimed at those
Speaker 2: who provide abortion care since the beginning, and that continues,
Speaker 2: and now they're you know, they're expanding their reach into
Speaker 2: trying to terrorize and punish and create fear among those
Speaker 2: who need abortions and who are supporting those who need,
Speaker 2: whether they need to travel, whether they self managing. You
Speaker 2: know that they're trying to create a fear because fear
Speaker 2: allows for control.
Speaker 1: You know. Nirih is about reproductive health. And a story
Speaker 1: that again has caught my eye, you know, and you
Speaker 1: touched upon it is the recent decision in Kentucky to
Speaker 1: disallow sex education and the mention, the very mention of
Speaker 1: the word puberty. Right, And so I want you to
Speaker 1: be able to speak to again these attacks that we're
Speaker 1: seeing in K through twelve schools, which we know are
Speaker 1: largely directed at LGBTQ population, but specifically trans kids. But overall,
Speaker 1: how it is going to how the denial of sex
Speaker 1: education right is going to harm everyone absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean, the reality is that you know, comprehensive age
Speaker 2: appropriate sexuality education and health education is something that's essential
Speaker 2: for anyone to keep themselves safe and healthy, and it
Speaker 2: is important for you at the age you're getting it,
Speaker 2: and frankly, it sets you up for the future, right.
Speaker 2: And the fact is that they're attacking that again because
Speaker 2: they want to create fear and shame around sex and
Speaker 2: sexuality and abortion is obviously related to that right, as
Speaker 2: is gender affirming care, as is the decision to determine
Speaker 2: your own gender identity right. All of this is a
Speaker 2: part of the same effort to deny the information, the
Speaker 2: healthcare services, the support services, and to turn this into
Speaker 2: a crime, as opposed to saying our responsibility in the
Speaker 2: society should be to make sure that every person, whatever
Speaker 2: their gender identity, whatever their sexual orientation, whatever their decision
Speaker 2: may be about having a family, starting a family with
Speaker 2: whom when whether that should be supported, it should be embraced,
Speaker 2: and the diversity of that that we have in this
Speaker 2: country should be seen as a strength and should be
Speaker 2: something that we should be investing in. And they want
Speaker 2: to say, no, we have a very narrow vision yep,
Speaker 2: that is based on, frankly, a time that probably never
Speaker 2: really existed, but somehow they've got in their head that
Speaker 2: there was a time. It was magical and only the
Speaker 2: people who did the things that they thought were appropriate
Speaker 2: in terms of their sexuality, in terms of their reproductive lives,
Speaker 2: in terms of you know, whether they worked or not.
Speaker 2: You think about it, this all goes back to a
Speaker 2: very patriarchal, parochial, misogynistic, racist set of assumptions, right about
Speaker 2: what's your proper role in this society and if you
Speaker 2: step out of that role, we're going to do everything
Speaker 2: we can to shut you down. Yeah, that's what this
Speaker 2: is about.
Speaker 1: Andrea, last question for you, how is Nirih pushing back
Speaker 1: against this vision that the Republican Party stopey and vision
Speaker 1: of America that they have.
Speaker 2: Well, first and foremost, Daniel, I am thrilled and grateful
Speaker 2: that the vast majority in this country absolutely disagrees with this,
Speaker 2: and so we are seeing so much energy. All of
Speaker 2: our focus is at the state and local level across
Speaker 2: the country, and I can tell you that since the
Speaker 2: DABS decision, the efforts by state and local government, and
Speaker 2: by advocates and by people in communities to address this issue,
Speaker 2: to push forward, to find pathways that expand access to care,
Speaker 2: that make things more just and equitable, that address the
Speaker 2: harms that we're seeing and really mitigate that pain and
Speaker 2: suffering and the health consequences. It's happened exponentially. In the
Speaker 2: three months after Dobbs, we had seventeen states and twenty
Speaker 2: three cities or counties move forward on affirmative policies that
Speaker 2: expanded access to abortion care. And yes, most of those,
Speaker 2: and many of those were states and cities you would
Speaker 2: probably be able to name pretty easily, but it also
Speaker 2: meant that local government in places like Austin, Texas, in Atlanta, Georgia,
Speaker 2: and Columbus, Ohio, and Saint Louis, Missouri, and Nashville, Tennessee,
Speaker 2: and the list goes on, we're saying we are going
Speaker 2: to do everything we can as city government to support
Speaker 2: people who need to travel to support to say that
Speaker 2: we're not going to be complicit with prosecutions, to say
Speaker 2: that we're going to fund abortion care for those who
Speaker 2: can afford it. They have been stepping up. And that's
Speaker 2: the work that we do at the National Institute for
Speaker 2: Reproductive Health is we work with advocates on the ground,
Speaker 2: with elected officials, with candidates, with other types of policymakers
Speaker 2: to say, what's a path forward that's going to expand
Speaker 2: just an equitable access, and we work with you to
Speaker 2: figure out those creative solutions because some places they're obvious
Speaker 2: and some places they're not, but everywhere there's opportunity. And
Speaker 2: that's really what I want people to remember is, yes,
Speaker 2: they keep coming, and they're going to keep coming, and
Speaker 2: this attack on medication abortion is just one more part
Speaker 2: of They're going to keep coming, and they're going to
Speaker 2: keep coming up with things that are gonna blow our minds.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna have to keep saying we're going to
Speaker 2: find a pathway forward because that's what the vast majority
Speaker 2: in this country believe in. It's what they need, and
Speaker 2: it's what we all deserve.
Speaker 1: Andrea Mela, thank you so much for the work that
Speaker 1: you're doing and for making the time to join WOKA app.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Danielle appreciate you too.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the opportunity that is it for me today,
Speaker 1: dear friends on Woka app. As always, Power to the
Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and
Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.