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Speaker 1: fallout from yesterday's big news about roll the Wade. Don't
Speaker 1: Slone is also here with the lottery. Michael Costa is
Speaker 1: gonna find out if people read the news. And our
Speaker 1: guest is the President's and CEO of Planned Parents, And
Speaker 1: so let's do this people, Let's jump straight into the
Speaker 1: big news of the day, all right. With the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court now seemingly on the brink of striking down Roe v. Wade,
Speaker 1: many people are horrified, not that women in half the
Speaker 1: country would lose their rights over their own body, but
Speaker 1: rather that this information got leaked, which is weird. It's
Speaker 1: like running around the deck of the Titanic trying to
Speaker 1: find out who yelled we're sinking instead of focusing on
Speaker 1: the Iceberg. Now, Chief Justice John Roberts has announced an
Speaker 1: immediate investigation to identify the leaka the cable news doesn't
Speaker 1: have time to wait around, so everyone knows who really
Speaker 1: did it? Who did it? That's the question everyone is
Speaker 1: asking today. Who's behind the league? Was it a clerk?
Speaker 1: Was it somebody at the copy Miss Jean? Who done it?
Speaker 1: Some left wing law clerk angry at the direction the
Speaker 1: court is going. I think this was leaked by a
Speaker 1: liberal law clerk who is trying to change the outcome
Speaker 1: of the case. A lot of people are saying, this
Speaker 1: may have leaked from Justice out of my clerk. If
Speaker 1: it was a conservative, it might be someone who wants
Speaker 1: to keep all the five judges that are on the
Speaker 1: side of Aldo's opinion in their box. There. Yes, it
Speaker 1: was a left wing a tief a law clerk trying
Speaker 1: to sabotage the court. Or it was a right wing
Speaker 1: maga hare trying to lock the decision in place. Oh,
Speaker 1: maybe it was the butler. It's always the butler. But
Speaker 1: while everyone on regular cable channels was playing the least
Speaker 1: horny version of Knives Out, Newsmax had already cracked the case.
Speaker 1: It was the black woman. I found it suspect that
Speaker 1: the first leak coming out of the Supreme Court in
Speaker 1: history comes shortly after Judge Jackson is confirmed. She would
Speaker 1: be my first suspect when it comes to the league.
Speaker 1: And my first spread for asshole is you is you
Speaker 1: look at you? You think to tried and true investigative
Speaker 1: technique of the black person did it? And you know,
Speaker 1: everyone has theories. Everyone has theories. For all we know,
Speaker 1: it could have been an accident, right. There are many
Speaker 1: times that I've gotten drunk and sent something that it
Speaker 1: should have stayed in drafts. But I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense for the Supreme Court because I
Speaker 1: could have gotten drunk at the Supreme Court. You know,
Speaker 1: it's uh still light beer, my man. Look, whoever did it? Though?
Speaker 1: Whoever did it? Though I'm not surprised it happened. In fact,
Speaker 1: I can't believe that this didn't happen earlier. I mean,
Speaker 1: have you seen the security they have in the Supreme Court?
Speaker 1: It sucks. The god outside is literally wearing a blindfold.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna help anybody. And so I do get
Speaker 1: why they're trying to find the sleaka. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't want this to turn into a trend, all right.
Speaker 1: They leak now they're gonna in the future, it's leaks
Speaker 1: all the way going forward. I mean, look look at
Speaker 1: what happened in the world of comedy. One stand up
Speaker 1: gets slapped. Now Dave Chappelle is getting tackled on stage. Ship.
Speaker 1: I had to get a pair of nunchucks just in case.
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Speaker 1: what what knocked myself up before you get to me. Now.
Speaker 1: While the Supreme Court is trying to figure out who
Speaker 1: the snitches, the rest of the country is trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what women will be allowed to do with
Speaker 1: their own bodies. And while everyone knew that women in
Speaker 1: red states were in trouble, it turns out, thanks to
Speaker 1: some lazy lawmaking, there are also two blue states where
Speaker 1: women might lose the right to choose. If the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court does strike down Roe v. Wade later the spring,
Speaker 1: all lives in Wisconsin would then turn to a one
Speaker 1: seventy year old law that's still on the book. Wisconsin
Speaker 1: still has a band unabortion in place from eighteen forty nine.
Speaker 1: It outlaws all abortions except for cases where a mother's
Speaker 1: life is at risk. In Michigan, the law is passed
Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty one, and the band's abortion unless done
Speaker 1: to save the life of the person who is pregnant,
Speaker 1: and contains no exception for rape or incest. The band
Speaker 1: never had to be repealed because Roe had made it obsolete,
Speaker 1: but it is still state laws still in the books.
Speaker 1: This is so ridiculous. If Roe v. Wade goes away
Speaker 1: Michigan and Wisconsin, we're going to start using laws from
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty one and eighteen forty nine. Do you understand
Speaker 1: how crazy I think about how many laws like from
Speaker 1: back then. How many laws are we using from back then?
Speaker 1: Think about the laws that we even around Half of
Speaker 1: them are about how much corn you can legally hide
Speaker 1: in your top hats. Those are the abortion laws that
Speaker 1: are about to come back into effects. Guys, Unused laws
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a thing that come back. It should be
Speaker 1: they should have like an expiration date, or at the
Speaker 1: very least, states should smell them every now and again
Speaker 1: to make sure that they haven't gone bad. Now you
Speaker 1: might be thinking, you might be thinking, well, aunt Michigan
Speaker 1: and Wisconsin pro choice. Yeah, they are big time. More
Speaker 1: than six Wisconsin votes and at least sevent in Michigan
Speaker 1: support legal abortion. But their state legislatures are controlled by Republicans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you best believe you're more likely to see Fashion
Speaker 1: Nova at the met Gala than these Republicans repeal those laws.
Speaker 1: And so once again, the job of protecting Americans false
Speaker 1: to the only people who actually care about them. Corporations.
Speaker 1: As women fight for abortion rights, Amazon says they'll help
Speaker 1: their employees access the health care they want. The company
Speaker 1: announced on Monday that it will pay for abortions for
Speaker 1: employees who need them. They'll give up to four thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year two workers who need to travel to
Speaker 1: other states to seek medical care. Other companies like Apple,
Speaker 1: City Group, Levis, and Yelp have made similar promises to employees. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a big deal. Yeah, companies like Apple, Citsey Group,
Speaker 1: and even Amazon are promising to help their employees travel
Speaker 1: to other states if they need to get abortions. Which
Speaker 1: is amazing. That's really amazing. Usually you only see that
Speaker 1: kind of offer when a member of Congress gets his
Speaker 1: mistress pregnant. Really powerful and considering the political climate right now,
Speaker 1: any company waiting into controversial culture war issues like they
Speaker 1: could face serious backlash. I mean, pro lifers could start
Speaker 1: a boycott against Amazon that could last minutes before they
Speaker 1: get tempted by a deal on a knockoff room BA.
Speaker 1: And you know, to be honest, I'm actually surprised that
Speaker 1: Amazon is doing this. Yeah, because it's wild. They'll let
Speaker 1: employees go to a blue state before they'll let them
Speaker 1: use the bathroom. I mean, that's pretty wild. But but
Speaker 1: they deserve the praise. In fact, I propose a toast.
Speaker 1: Let's all raise a Gatorade bottle of p in Amazon's honor. Heah, yeah,
Speaker 1: m ah, I thought it was pissed at Gatorade that
Speaker 1: mix it the wrong way. So those are the latest
Speaker 1: updates on the fallout of the rov Wade leak from
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. And while we don't know where this
Speaker 1: will end, we do know it's definitely reignited a conversation
Speaker 1: about how society treats women's reproductive rights. Because you know
Speaker 1: what I find interesting is if you go online or
Speaker 1: if you watch conservatives conservative news right, you buy your
Speaker 1: bound to find like tons of people saying that the
Speaker 1: reason they're against abortion. The reason is because they don't
Speaker 1: want to interfere with what God has decided. If you
Speaker 1: got pregnant, it's because God wanted you to be pregnant,
Speaker 1: and if you can't have kids, that's God's plan, to
Speaker 1: which I understand as an argument, I really do. However,
Speaker 1: I find it interesting that these same people never use
Speaker 1: that argument when it comes to men. Yeah, because if
Speaker 1: you watch if you watch Fox News or any of
Speaker 1: these channels, they've got ads for erectile dysfunction pills. All right, yeah,
Speaker 1: how come they never say, oh, you get it up, Well,
Speaker 1: that's God's will. I'm sorry your penis doesn't work anymore,
Speaker 1: That's what the Lord wanted. They never say that. They
Speaker 1: never said medicine is always encouraged to do whatever it
Speaker 1: can to augment men's sexual health. However it can and
Speaker 1: if you will. If you want to see, if you
Speaker 1: want to see just how far medicine is willing to
Speaker 1: go four men, look no further than the story from
Speaker 1: the UK where doctors helped a man grow a penis
Speaker 1: on his arm. A British man who lost his penis
Speaker 1: to an infection has finally had a new one surgically
Speaker 1: attached after six years of growing it on his arm.
Speaker 1: Doctors even designed a hand pump that can inflate the
Speaker 1: penis and produce an erection. Forty seven year old Malcolm
Speaker 1: McDonald is the subject of a new documentary called The
Speaker 1: Man with a Penis on his Arm. According to The
Speaker 1: Daily Mail, viewers were stunned watching the program last night,
Speaker 1: in which malc described the penis falling out of his
Speaker 1: sleeve or shopping, and even hitting his loved ones in
Speaker 1: the face when he helped them. Yeah, this man lost
Speaker 1: his penis and instead of accepting it, doctors figured out
Speaker 1: a way to grow him a new one on his arm.
Speaker 1: And as hard as it was for him to live
Speaker 1: like this, I'm glad that medicine has come so far
Speaker 1: that we're basically doing something that's from the future. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: we want women to live back in And by the way,
Speaker 1: can I also just say how much I appreciate the
Speaker 1: title of that documentary, The Man with the Penis on
Speaker 1: his Arm. No, it's simple, it's clear, it's direct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I see that scrolling on Netflix, I know exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm getting and exactly what it is. Unlike Tiger Kings,
Speaker 1: I thought it was the sequel to Lion Kings starting Tigers.
Speaker 1: It turns out the real Star Wars mess. But you see,
Speaker 1: there's a reason, and I'm bringing up the story today, right,
Speaker 1: And it's not just for the incredible dick jokes I
Speaker 1: could make. No like, obviously, getting an abortion and getting
Speaker 1: an ompenis on the same thing. But I do find
Speaker 1: it emblematic of how differently men and women's reproductive health
Speaker 1: is treated. Women across America will soon lose autonomy over
Speaker 1: their own bodies, and many people are fine with it.
Speaker 1: You even see people on TV downplaying the situation. So
Speaker 1: you'll have to carry a baby for nine months against
Speaker 1: your will and then let it destroy your body, and
Speaker 1: maybe you're not ready for this in life, and maybe
Speaker 1: you can't afford It's fine, you can just give it
Speaker 1: up for adoption after It's fine. Meanwhile, a guy loses
Speaker 1: his dick, and it's like Liam Neeson is on the case.
Speaker 1: I don't care how long it takes, I don't care
Speaker 1: what medical innovations we have to come up with. Where
Speaker 1: will get your penis back? Just think about that. All right,
Speaker 1: that's it for the headlines. Let's move on to something
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Speaker 1: when you first start working once somewhere, that's not when
Speaker 1: you steal. Otherwise I would have walked out of here
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Speaker 1: me to know the information. So if you don't read
Speaker 1: the emails, what do you read? Listen? If it's not
Speaker 1: on Instagram, I don't know what's happening. But if I
Speaker 1: told you the Latcher that I even told you about
Speaker 1: the news, I put the news in the email. Listen,
Speaker 1: I get on my news from this show, So I
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Speaker 1: doesn't this doesn't help us, Okay, let me. I'm I'm sorry. Um.
Speaker 1: Did you say a man had a penis on your arm? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they grew a penis for him in his arm. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: but that's the penis he chose. Like if they give you,
Speaker 1: it's like if they've gonna grow you a new one
Speaker 1: on your forearm, shouldn't it be like down his fingertips.
Speaker 1: I think it's weird to be worried about the side.
Speaker 1: Like I think if you don't have a penis and
Speaker 1: then someone offers you a penis, I think you just
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Speaker 1: has also found out this is the circle of life.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the day show. Here at the show
Speaker 1: We pay a lot of attention to what's going on
Speaker 1: in the news, but how much other people outside our
Speaker 1: studio following along? Well, we sent Michael Costs to find
Speaker 1: out for another edition of Fill Me In. Welcome to
Speaker 1: fill me In, the game where we put their words
Speaker 1: into your mouth. Oh that sounded kind of gross, Okay,
Speaker 1: Welcome to fill me in. This is a game where
Speaker 1: you fill in the gaps. Gaps, give me another answer.
Speaker 1: A game where you fill in the answers another answer.
Speaker 1: A game where you fill in the missing links blanks.
Speaker 1: You fill in the blanks. Do we know who this is?
Speaker 1: All right? Republican? Duh? Who looks at this and says Democrat?
Speaker 1: Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorne, You probabs. You probably read his
Speaker 1: stuff on the blogs you read m Republican Congressman Madison
Speaker 1: Cawthorne recently said, quote, the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt
Speaker 1: and is incredibly evil and has been pushing blank false narrative. No,
Speaker 1: false narrative is what Russia has been pushing. And Madison
Speaker 1: Cawthorne here before you guess, it's not cocaine and orgies,
Speaker 1: but it is similar because it's also something he made
Speaker 1: up chicken. This is something that Madison and his fellow
Speaker 1: Republicans find terrifying, but Democrats describe as just being nice
Speaker 1: to people, getting some much some beat. You do know
Speaker 1: a lot about American stuff. It rhymes with broke, Michael,
Speaker 1: I'm not sleeping, I'm woken. Woke ideology. How do you
Speaker 1: know that? Do you believe that Ukraine is pushing this
Speaker 1: woke ideology? Not so much. They're pretty busy with the
Speaker 1: bull perfect, you know, woke ideology, like what the those
Speaker 1: leftists believe that Russia shouldn't be invading a sovereign country.
Speaker 1: So politically correct politicians for this next round, let's hear
Speaker 1: it from the real heroes. Movie stars. Reason Wetherspoon recently tweeted,
Speaker 1: are you curious about blank? Let's learn together the president?
Speaker 1: What's something that if I said it to you, you
Speaker 1: would go traveling the world? Travling the world is interesting?
Speaker 1: What's something you want to hear less about? Here's a hint.
Speaker 1: It's something that no one actually needs but everyone's talking about.
Speaker 1: And it's not TikTok critical race theory CRT. It's actually
Speaker 1: another acronyms. I'm at a party, I'm trying to like
Speaker 1: hit on you. I got a bunch of money and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, you should really be getting into money
Speaker 1: art art. Yes, it's the money what thing art like
Speaker 1: when it's like the digital digital money art thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: I am completely drawing of like name a letter. Let's see,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking n G O and I don't think that's
Speaker 1: it there. He kind of sounds like a K pop band.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm old. The answer is n f T S.
Speaker 1: It's too bad you didn't get that because the prize
Speaker 1: for getting it would have been an n f T
Speaker 1: of a monkey that would have had you set for life.
Speaker 1: We live in a very dumb, dumb dumb world. Um,
Speaker 1: no love for n f t s the beanie babies
Speaker 1: of the time to bring it home in our Burtis round.
Speaker 1: Guess the speaker who said, I don't think I'm qualified
Speaker 1: to answer this when then President Trump asked him what
Speaker 1: he should do about North Korea? Who said that, Mike Penn,
Speaker 1: Mike Pence, you are giving Donald Trump way too much
Speaker 1: respect to think that he would ask an actual politician
Speaker 1: a policy question. I think much less qualified can happen.
Speaker 1: He introduces himself like this, my name is blank blank RuPaul.
Speaker 1: RuPaul actually is qualified to hit on North Korea. If
Speaker 1: you've seen drag rays, breaking up arguments, dealing with egos,
Speaker 1: disappointment success, think of the least qualified person that could
Speaker 1: answer a question about North Korea. A person who said
Speaker 1: to Trump, I'm not qualified to answer that. Kid Rock. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what it's kid Rock. My name is Kidball, chick
Speaker 1: ow maw, balls in your mouth, balls in your mouth,
Speaker 1: balls in your mouth. That's what I'm a song. I
Speaker 1: don't just scream that. When we come back. Alexius mcgilla Johnson,
Speaker 1: the presidents of Plant Parents wore just joining me on
Speaker 1: the show, so don't go away. Welcome back to The
Speaker 1: Daily Show. My guest tonight is the president and CEO
Speaker 1: of Planned Parents, Were He's here to talk about the
Speaker 1: fights for Rovie Wade and protecting women's rights to choose.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Alexis McGill Johnsonome, welcome, Welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me, What a time
Speaker 1: to have you on. Um. Everybody in the country has
Speaker 1: been shell shocked by what is not an official decision
Speaker 1: but unfortunately looks like a looming one. Nonetheless, as the
Speaker 1: president of planned parenthood. I know many people are turning
Speaker 1: to you to say, what does this mean? What does
Speaker 1: it actually mean on the ground. So right now it
Speaker 1: is still a draft opinion. On the ground, abortion is
Speaker 1: still legal, and I think that's really important because there
Speaker 1: are people waking up every day who are going to
Speaker 1: health centers to get access to care, and there are
Speaker 1: already enough restrictions out there. So we have to remember
Speaker 1: that this is a moment where the final decision isn't in.
Speaker 1: What we saw on the ground as well, yesterday was
Speaker 1: an intense set of demonstrations of the rage that people
Speaker 1: have been experiencing over and over again and the frustration
Speaker 1: with seeing their rights being chipped away. When you when
Speaker 1: you look at that and you look at that fight,
Speaker 1: do you do you ever think that we could do
Speaker 1: a better job of maintaining a consistency in these fights
Speaker 1: for people's liberties as opposed to having it be an
Speaker 1: on off switch, Because you know, I know people have
Speaker 1: made record donations and all the people are protesting, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But if you look at conservatives on their side, it
Speaker 1: seems like they've been slowly chipping away. They slowly chip away,
Speaker 1: They plan weigh in advance, they think of which judges
Speaker 1: to get into which positions, and now it looks like
Speaker 1: they're going to reap the fruits of their you know,
Speaker 1: you know, of their labor. I'd love to know what
Speaker 1: you think, like people who believe that women should have
Speaker 1: the right to choose what they do with their own bodies,
Speaker 1: what they should be doing constantly as opposed to intermittently. Well,
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right to locate it, like in
Speaker 1: in what the lawn game is right that the opposition
Speaker 1: has spent um fifty years fighting this, but the last
Speaker 1: twelve years in particular weaponizing jerrymandering UM in states, focusing
Speaker 1: on justices all the way up to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: and at every turn they have tried to essentially take
Speaker 1: more power in order to take more rights away. And
Speaker 1: it is not just access to abortion that they're coming for. Right,
Speaker 1: We've heard them openly talk about access to contraception, marriage, equality,
Speaker 1: interracial marriage, all the things of how we identify ourselves
Speaker 1: and our body is um is exactly what the long
Speaker 1: game and the strategy is. So our long game has
Speaker 1: to be just as relentless right, it has to be
Speaker 1: just as strategic. It is not just about being in
Speaker 1: the streets. It is about capturing that rage and turning
Speaker 1: it into uh, into the mid terms twenty two. We've
Speaker 1: got to make sure that we're turning people out. And
Speaker 1: we also have to think about, you know, the fact
Speaker 1: that they've kicked us out of the constitution. Right if
Speaker 1: if row we Wade is overturned, they're essentially saying you
Speaker 1: are not equal, you cannot control your body. And so
Speaker 1: if anybody kicks you out of the Constitution, you've got
Speaker 1: to think about how you're gonna get yourself back in there. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: And when you think about this fight, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the time people think about what they can
Speaker 1: do to stop the other side of what they can
Speaker 1: do to fight back at what's happening. I think there's
Speaker 1: one thing that I've found really interesting in particular between
Speaker 1: how many conservatives or Republicans think and then how many
Speaker 1: Democrats or liberals think, and that is Republicans hold their
Speaker 1: own accountable and an interesting way. You know, so they go,
Speaker 1: either you're doing this or you out of the party.
Speaker 1: And we've seen Trump do that, you know, without fail.
Speaker 1: Is this something that people could be doing to put
Speaker 1: pressure on the Democrats to say Hey, when we have
Speaker 1: voted you in, we need you to solidify what we
Speaker 1: voted you into. Do yes, absolutely, Look, there is a
Speaker 1: bill right now called the Women's Health Protection Act. UH
Speaker 1: Leader Schumer has will take it up next week again
Speaker 1: with the Senate to vote on. And what the Women's
Speaker 1: Health Protection Act does is it codifies ROW. It's the
Speaker 1: federal legislation that protects this right UH in into law.
Speaker 1: And you know, getting people on record, right, we don't have. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we need to perform the filibuster in order to get
Speaker 1: it past. But at the same time, we are going
Speaker 1: to be able to get people on record, hold them
Speaker 1: to account to your point, and that's our message. Right.
Speaker 1: The reason you can't have what you want, even though
Speaker 1: we have of people believe that ROSE should be the
Speaker 1: law of the land, the reason you can't have the
Speaker 1: things that you want is because you know, essentially these
Speaker 1: states have UM. You know, you have got a vocal
Speaker 1: minority of people who control the levers of power. And
Speaker 1: the only way to change that is through direct democracy.
Speaker 1: So we've got to fight to get ourselves back into democracy.
Speaker 1: We also have to fight to get ourselves back in
Speaker 1: the constitution, and this legislation can help us. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this legislation for a moment. You know, I always
Speaker 1: get frustrated and confused by why legislation in America has
Speaker 1: so many things added in. It's like a bundle, you know,
Speaker 1: because even this Women's Health Protection Act, you know, I
Speaker 1: love the idea of codifying Roe v. Wade to go like,
Speaker 1: let's get women their rights, but then it adds in
Speaker 1: a few other things that people can use as an
Speaker 1: excuse to fights against, you know, like it affects like
Speaker 1: waiting rooms and correct me anywhere I'm wrong. It's like
Speaker 1: it affects doctors in this way, and affects a little
Speaker 1: thing on this side and little thing on that side.
Speaker 1: Do you sometimes not worry that when you create, you know,
Speaker 1: a law, when you when you help lawmakers to try
Speaker 1: and think of these things, it gives people an out
Speaker 1: where they can say, oh, I didn't vote for that
Speaker 1: because of this, not because I want women to have
Speaker 1: a choice, but I didn't like what it did to
Speaker 1: doctors or their waiting rooms or all these other ancillary
Speaker 1: issues that are going to affect people. So here here's
Speaker 1: the data play right now, right we have row is
Speaker 1: the law of the land. Technically until the full decision
Speaker 1: comes down. And even with ROW being the law, land,
Speaker 1: even with it being enshrined in the constitution, states have
Speaker 1: put restrictions in over and over again. Right, We've got
Speaker 1: a six week ban in Texas that comes to the
Speaker 1: bounty hunter provision. We've got a fifteen week ban in
Speaker 1: Florida and Arizona. We've had laws about you know, whether
Speaker 1: or not someone will need to see the same doctor
Speaker 1: within a seventy two hour period. The laws are all
Speaker 1: about shaming people. They're about shaming providers, are about shaming
Speaker 1: the patients about the decisions that they want to make
Speaker 1: about their own bodies. What the Women's Health Protection Act
Speaker 1: does is actually says all of these laws that are
Speaker 1: getting in the way of people being able to access
Speaker 1: the right, their federal right is um. Those are laws
Speaker 1: that are that would be banned. And that's what's important, right,
Speaker 1: the fact that that even though we have the right
Speaker 1: right now, access itself is so limited. Um. And so
Speaker 1: that's why we're seeing the outrage right now because it
Speaker 1: has been not only this chipping away of rights, but
Speaker 1: also chipping away of access. Rome was just you know,
Speaker 1: the floor right is my reproductive justice colleagues would say,
Speaker 1: you know, when when you look at branding, you know,
Speaker 1: there's no denying that any political messaging, any any messaging
Speaker 1: that's trying to mobilize society has to think about how
Speaker 1: it's branded. When you look at how people approve of
Speaker 1: or what you know the polling suggests about people's support
Speaker 1: of abortion throughout the United States. I have noticed an
Speaker 1: interesting trend, and that is it dramatically changes depending on
Speaker 1: how the question is asked, and it changes depending on
Speaker 1: where you say the abortion happens or how so I think,
Speaker 1: you know, the overwhelming majority of people will say they
Speaker 1: are pro a woman having the right to choose, but
Speaker 1: in the first trimester, and then second trimester almost becomes
Speaker 1: even maybe flips the other way, and then you know,
Speaker 1: third trimesterate completely flips. Do you do you ever worry
Speaker 1: that maybe Planned Parenthood and and organizations like yours that
Speaker 1: are fighting for women's rights to choose. Do you do
Speaker 1: you ever worry that you may be losing the entire
Speaker 1: war because you're not willing to concede on some of
Speaker 1: the battles or do you feel like you have to
Speaker 1: go for all of them at once, even if you
Speaker 1: risk losing everything. You know, Look, Trevor, no pregnancy, no too.
Speaker 1: Pregnancies end in the same way, right. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is the reality that people will make decisions about their
Speaker 1: their pregnancies, whether or not to continue them or determinate them,
Speaker 1: based on the circumstances in their own lives. And that
Speaker 1: is the thing that that we really need to understand here,
Speaker 1: you know, getting parsing out weeks in gestation. That is
Speaker 1: what the opposition has done. They try to to create
Speaker 1: these wedges around understanding what most people want is to
Speaker 1: not have a politician in their in their decision right
Speaker 1: as a you know, right, you don't want them. You
Speaker 1: don't want them in your exam room, you don't want
Speaker 1: them in the conversation with you and your doctor, you
Speaker 1: don't want them the conversation with you and your partner,
Speaker 1: with your pastor. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like that to me is the most important, you know,
Speaker 1: message that we need to be sending to people. The
Speaker 1: reason why it also needs to be a private decision
Speaker 1: is because it's only your business and so right, which
Speaker 1: who from here? So again, we are will be standing
Speaker 1: with the Senate next week when they take up this
Speaker 1: vote to support all of those folks who who support
Speaker 1: access to abortion. Codifying ROW, we will be channeling all
Speaker 1: of the rage through two and then, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a long game that we need
Speaker 1: to play around what it really means to UH to
Speaker 1: have you know, this federal protection um enshrined in the Constitution.
Speaker 1: And I think that's really important because I think a
Speaker 1: lot about the fact that you know what it means
Speaker 1: to be a leader at the time, you know, at
Speaker 1: the end of ROW, as a leader of a reproductive
Speaker 1: rights organization. And I think the question we have to
Speaker 1: ask ourselves now is who are we going to be
Speaker 1: when we are no longer defending ROW. How are we
Speaker 1: going to reimagine and create an affirmative vision right without stigma,
Speaker 1: the kind of provision that everyone should be able to
Speaker 1: have the kind of health care they need to have
Speaker 1: in their own state, not getting in a car driving
Speaker 1: a thousand miles, putting your kids in the car and
Speaker 1: just to get you know, access to basic healthcare you
Speaker 1: deserve it in the state that you live, regardless of
Speaker 1: your race, class, your ability to pay. All of those
Speaker 1: things are really important. And that's what Plant parents had
Speaker 1: stands for. That's what all the leaders in the movement
Speaker 1: stand for and we'll be offering that a firm mintivision
Speaker 1: as well. Thank you so much for joining us from
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Speaker 1: quick break, will be right back after this. Well that's
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