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Speaker 1: What's up.

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Speaker 2: It's way up with Angela Yee and I am so

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Speaker 2: glad you're here today. We have Alexis Miguel Johnson, the

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Speaker 2: president and CEO Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for joining me today. Thank you for having me Angela.

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Speaker 1: It's good to be here.

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Speaker 2: Man. When I tell you planned parenthood is under attack,

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Speaker 2: I mean there is just so much going on from

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Speaker 2: news even last week that broke so Alexis. I also

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Speaker 2: think it's important and I know we always talk about this,

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Speaker 2: but we just have to set the groundwork for planned

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Speaker 2: parenthood because I think people just equate like planned parenthood

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Speaker 2: is just where you go to get an abortion, and

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Speaker 2: that is definitely not all of the work that planned

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Speaker 2: Parenthood does. I know, you know personally as a person

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Speaker 2: who's been to Planned Parenthood when I was in college,

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Speaker 2: there's so many other services that you guys offer. So

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Speaker 2: can we just break that down for people listening?

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Speaker 3: First and foremost, absolutely, it is, and thank you for

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Speaker 3: starting with that question, because people do need to understand

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Speaker 3: what Planned parenthood health centers across this country deliver in

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Speaker 3: terms of care. You know, first off, we are a

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Speaker 3: critical part of the public health infrastructure. Planned parenthood. Health

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Speaker 3: centers do not turn away patients, right, not because of

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Speaker 3: their ability to pay, not because of race, not because

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Speaker 3: of their documentation status. But they're the nation's largest provider

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Speaker 3: of sexual reproductive health care. So that's everything from birth

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Speaker 3: controlled STI testing and treatment, you know HIV, you know

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Speaker 3: PEP and prep wellness exams, breast cancer screenings, you know

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Speaker 3: all of that. And yes, we do provide abortion where

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Speaker 3: it is legal, because abortion is part of sexual reproductive

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Speaker 3: health care, and we do it proudly because that is

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Speaker 3: about whether or not you people can make their own

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Speaker 3: decisions about if, when and how they become a parent.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: I just end cancer screenings plant parent had also does that,

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Speaker 2: you know, preventative care, education, all of those things that

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Speaker 2: are really important. And it's just interesting to me at

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Speaker 2: a time that the government has decided to defund planned

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Speaker 2: parenthood is also a time where healthcare in general is

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Speaker 2: under attack, those two things are aligning absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, we have been I started this job

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Speaker 3: just a few months before COVID. Okay, so I found

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Speaker 3: myself running a healthcare organization federation at the beginning of

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Speaker 3: one of the most major disruptions in our healthcare systems period.

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Speaker 3: And you know, and I think about you know, the

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Speaker 3: attacks that have come from all sides. You know, the

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Speaker 3: defund which we can talk about in a second, that

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Speaker 3: you know, the Trump administration coming after Title ten, which

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Speaker 3: is the nation's largest provider of resources for birth control

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Speaker 3: for low income communities. They have the Supreme Court has

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Speaker 3: been engaged in cases around blocking medicaid in states like

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Speaker 3: South Carolina, denying people the ability to choose their own

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Speaker 3: it is literally every single branch of government coming for

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Speaker 3: all across the country are just trying to open up

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Speaker 3: sometimes plan parenthood. Health centers are the first point of

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely, and like you said, affordable too, because you're

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Speaker 2: And we compare ourselves to other countries and how behind

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Speaker 3: That well, yeah, I mean, I think they're pro power.

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Speaker 3: What segregation. They did not want to integrate Liberty University.

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Speaker 3: of interest to you? When they started talking about abortion,

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Speaker 3: in some ways, we know these are also the same

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Speaker 2: And let's talk about why that is. Because people also

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Speaker 2: need to understand how important access is to healthcare and

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Speaker 2: to family planning. And so I just want you to

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Speaker 2: break down. Why is it that black women, brown women,

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I mean we live at the intersections of

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Speaker 3: We're marginalized in our education systems. We've been you know,

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Speaker 2: Black contented health care has been a huge issue that

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Speaker 2: I feel like people are shedding some light on now.

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Speaker 2: But then to say, oh, you can't choose your own doctor.

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Speaker 3: Then you take something like this defund bill. So so

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Speaker 1: In need.

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Speaker 3: Right, Medicaid is our largest you know, insurance provider for

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Speaker 3: low income folks. For planted parenthood, the defund was immediate.

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Speaker 3: So that means that you know, half of all of

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Speaker 3: could no longer come to a plant parenthood with their

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Speaker 3: could not get reimbursed for the services that we provide,

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Speaker 3: just like every other provider. So unlike the bigger Medicaid

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Speaker 3: after the midterms, our we had to sue to get

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Speaker 1: I remember you said, see you in court.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I'm always I'm always ready. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: just enough, we going to court. So we went to court.

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Speaker 3: We got a preliminary injunction and you know, in the

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Speaker 3: You know, we sued and we sued based on you know,

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Speaker 3: essentially our First Amendment rights, right like they came after

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Speaker 3: that you know, people's bodies should be their own right,

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Speaker 3: that that case. So as of last week, Plant parenthoods

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Speaker 3: But also, you know, it's a it's a we know

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Speaker 2: So now what happens, right Let's say somebody comes in

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Speaker 1: What happens to a patient?

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Speaker 3: So there are a number of states across the country

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Speaker 3: right So states like New York, states like California have

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Speaker 3: what every single member affiliate is doing on the ground.

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Speaker 3: And we're also going to fight like hellically to make

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Speaker 2: Right because Planned Parenthood also was getting funding from the

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Speaker 3: Correct reimbursements like sine items. It's not like a Planned

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Speaker 2: And so also Planned parent had started off with you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So what planned Parenthood is is run on the ground.

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Speaker 3: We have forty seven members that forty seven member affiliates

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Speaker 3: The only national medical service you know, provider across all

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Speaker 3: members have had to make choices to close some to

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Speaker 3: And so what that means is that they're still able

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Speaker 3: We're definitely going to see that when the Medicaid cuts

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Speaker 3: Medication abortion has actually allowed people to get access to

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Speaker 3: The position is wily right. They're going to come after

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna You're not going to step people from

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Speaker 3: I say, you, you have a right to believe your

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Speaker 2: Why is this such a big deal for them? That's

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Speaker 3: Because it's not about healthcare, it's not about saving women.

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely, When I tell you, I think about, like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's so many things that could have And

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Speaker 3: we need to be in the next fifteen years, what

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Speaker 3: states do we need to continue to have these ballad

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Speaker 3: initiatives that allow us to you know, codify our rights

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Speaker 3: back into state by state until we can get back

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Speaker 3: to a federal right.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen a lot of people stepping up now

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Speaker 2: because Plant parents as they're you know, medicaid not accepting

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Speaker 2: their medicaid is not allowed to you can't get reimbursed

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Speaker 2: from medicaid anymore. Have you seen a lot of people

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Speaker 2: stepping up just to donate now? Because people can do

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Speaker 2: that too, right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean supporting Planned Parents, supporting your local affiliate

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Speaker 3: member is so important to ensure that you're continuing they're

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Speaker 3: staying open in your state. You know, supporting the fight

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Speaker 3: is so important right now and ensuring that people are

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Speaker 3: able to get access to care. There are lots of

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Speaker 3: people who are stepping in, you know, and I, you

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Speaker 3: know say attack to a lot of different kind of constituencies.

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Speaker 3: You know, I would say, I was just speaking with

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Speaker 3: a group of corporate women, you know, all T suite

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Speaker 3: executives last week, you know, and my message to them is, like,

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Speaker 3: you know, you would not be in this room but

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Speaker 3: for someone actually fighting for your access to birth control,

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Speaker 3: fighting for access for abortion, because your ability to move

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Speaker 3: through your career, to go to graduate school, to take

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Speaker 3: the promotion to like you know, fight for where you

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Speaker 3: want it to be, depends on your ability to control

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Speaker 3: your production.

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Speaker 1: Like that's just it.

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Speaker 3: That is about your bodily autonomy, is your self determination.

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Speaker 3: And so we are not really instilling that and the

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Speaker 3: people who can afford to give the most, then we're

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Speaker 3: not actually doing our job.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, I love that. Well, thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for coming up here. We had really been like

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes, like what about this date? What about

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Speaker 2: this date? So glad that we were able to make

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Speaker 2: this happen at a really critical time, like you said,

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Speaker 2: the news broke on September eleventh about the first circuit

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Speaker 2: jeopardizing care for one point one million Planned parenthood patients

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Speaker 2: that defunding has gone into effect. Yes, and so it

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Speaker 2: is a really really critical time. And I feel like

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Speaker 2: sometimes things do slip under the radar because every day

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Speaker 2: there's like a million different things happening.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's like a strategy and like the chaos and

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Speaker 3: confusion and flood the zone. But I really appreciate you

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Speaker 3: lifting this up because it's going to impact people right

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Speaker 3: now and they need to understand what's the stake.

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Speaker 2: Listen, how many people have been to a planned parenthood

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Speaker 2: at some point in their life? Right If you think

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Speaker 2: about those numbers, I feel like for women it's like,

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Speaker 2: what's the numbers?

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Speaker 3: One out of three?

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Speaker 1: One of three has been three and men too, Like

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Speaker 1: you said, yes so as well.

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Speaker 2: So just know that this is like very critical, very important,

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Speaker 2: very necessary for us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Angela for covering it as well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Alexis Migiel Johnson. She is the president and

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Speaker 2: CEO of Planned Parenthood. Love that you came up here.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Flash