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Speaker 1: Hey, this Sanny, Hey and Samantha, and welcome to stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I've never told your protection of I heart radio.

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Speaker 1: So how how are you doing today, Samantha? I think

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Speaker 1: I'm doing a little better today. Yesterday was rough. Uh

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Speaker 1: yesterday we had our little state governor uh do a conference,

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Speaker 1: and then some things fell apart that I had planned

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Speaker 1: for our show, and um, I started reading all the

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Speaker 1: sad story. So I put myself in a bit of

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Speaker 1: a hole, I think. But today is much better. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think you know every day is different, yes, and

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Speaker 1: taking it one day at a time. What about you?

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Speaker 1: What's going on with you? How are you? I? I

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Speaker 1: will say, I feel like, um, I'm doing much better

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Speaker 1: this week that I was doing last week. Um. And

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Speaker 1: that's mostly because I've tried to be more conscientious and

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Speaker 1: um why I'm doing the things I'm doing and trying

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Speaker 1: amazing hanging out virtually with friends. Uh. So I feel

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Speaker 1: like I have five good days and two bad days,

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Speaker 1: which is better than what it used to be, which

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Speaker 1: is four good days and three bad days. So hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the odds are getting better. That's right, That's right. Um,

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Speaker 1: But for today, we are talking about one that is

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Speaker 1: not as happy a topic. It was something we do

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Speaker 1: need to talk about, um, and that is abortion and

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Speaker 1: what's going on with abortion in the United States during

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and all of these pandemic measures that are

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Speaker 1: being taken because we are seeing a lot of legislatures

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Speaker 1: using COVID nineteen to restrict access even further to abortion. So,

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Speaker 1: for example, Texas has deemed abortion non essential and that

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Speaker 1: they should be halted during the pandemic, and the band

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Speaker 1: was upheld by the U. S. Court of Appeals for

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Speaker 1: the Fifth Circuit, and within a day several were shuttered.

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Speaker 1: Several of these clinics where that provided abortions. Planned Parenthood

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Speaker 1: along with a few other organizations and lawyers have promised

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Speaker 1: to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: Federal courts have blocked a handful of bands, but more

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Speaker 1: and more just keep making their way to the federal courts. UM,

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Speaker 1: and just just think about it for a minute, for

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Speaker 1: me going out of state is not accessible and not

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen with all the medical appointments that that entails.

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Speaker 1: And the longer you delay abortion access because even in

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Speaker 1: other conversation that needs to be had. And with that,

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Speaker 1: get like a big hoop skirt thing. Oh. I have

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say not um though. So even though it's

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Speaker 1: look it up. Planned Parentshood now offers telemedicine in all

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Speaker 1: like Nobody's business Right now though, I'm about to be

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Speaker 1: going into my rabbit hole of pride and prejudice Colin

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Speaker 1: Firth as well as Anna green Gables old school and

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