Fund. [applause] be a am so thrilled to comc with you for the day with my wonderful colleagues. Thank you. Hi, yall. Im the associate director of latino media and communications with planned parenthood. I would like to begin by giving a shout out to the Spanish Speaking members in the house, and those who are watching at e, and i just want to say [speaking spanish] king spanish]\ and im thinking ringer. Thank you. Thank you. Im the South Carolina director of Public Affairs for planned parenthood south atlantic. Thank you. Excited ill you how am to mc todays we decide or in right here in our home state. We will let everyone know what sexual and Reproductive Health voters expect of all these candidates. That is right. Here is why it matters. Millione of the 13 planned parenthood supporters showed up at the ballot polls. If we activated our network, we would be the difference in this election. The swing would go in our direction. Thats all it takes. All of us getting together, showing up and showing out at the polls. It is only june 2019, the planned Parenthood Action Fund is starting early because the states are still my too high not to. This year, we are seeing abortion ban after abortion ban with one goal in mind. To bring a direct challenge to roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court. They want to make abortion activism harder in this country. Right here in South Carolina, the legislature puts up personhood bills and restriction after restriction on abortion acted access to hurt women in the state and country. This is an attack on all of this and we are at a Pivotal Moment right here, right now in South Carolina and across the country. One thing we know for sure is that people want more access to health care, not less. Do you feel that . [applause] it is Crystal Clear that health care is on the ballot this year and that means is that access to legal abortion. Come on now. Because at the end of the day , abortion care is health care. As we all know, a record high number, 77 of americans say they do not want to see roe v. Wade overturned. There is no state in this country where abortion bans are popular. Thats right, thats why today is so important. We appreciate the fact that you are here ready to breathe life into our democracy and stand up for our freedom. I know many of you have traveled from very far away and we are excited that you bring our power, our dream and their aspirations into this event and into this moment. Thats right because we know for sure that we decide, you and me, the fate of our democracy. [applause] who decides . We decide. Who decides . We decide. Access to abortion and Reproductive Health care is at risk in South Carolina and across the country. Support for these rates are at an alltime high. Anyone who wants to lead the United States must address how they will respond and expand access to abortion and other Reproductive Health care. Alright. Lets ask you some questions. Who is ready to stand up and ready to fight for universal health care . [applause] who is here because you are ready to demand an expansion of medicaid so it doesnt matter how much money you have come you still get access to the care you deserve . Whos here to fight for real life, sciencebacked Sex Education in our schools . I want that and i want more. We decide its all about these these simple goals. We affect repetitive health care affects women and families. Do you realize that right here in South Carolina, women and people of color tipped the scales in the 2018 midterm elections . A whopping 70 of voters in the midterm elections were women and people of color. Thats right, that number is true. 70 . When we say we decide, we really mean it. And today we will hear from the 2020 president ial candidates themselves so whos ready to get started . [applause] to kick is off today and get us ready for the challenges of the day ahead, is columbias own mayor steve benjamin. [applause] he is the first black mayor in columbias history. He is the president of the united conference of mayors. He is a longtime champion of exclusive Health Care Policies and he is my friend. Join me in welcoming mayor steve benjamin. [applause] what a gentleman. Good morning, planned parenthood. Are we psyched . Are we so excited about being here to change the arc of this democracy . We live in the greatest democratic nation in the history of the world. Because of your freedoms. Some of you had a chance to be at the dinner last night. I had literally 90 seconds to speak. By think the biggest applause i got was simply that im a democrat because i believe a womans body is a womans body is a womans body. [applause] we are thrilled you are here in columbia, South Carolina today. This is the center of our state, the geographic and Cultural Center of education. I made columbia my home over three decades ago and i decided not very long ago to become mayor, to run for mayor, after our first daughter was born. Its amazing how it connects you with the place you decide will be your home. We have a home, not just colleges but we are home of hootie and the blowfish. We are home to citizens and residents of 194 nations, every subornation on the face of the world has residents here and 90 different linkages. Where home to fort jackson, we train a majority of the u. S. Women in the army right here. This is a place where the Majority Party in our legislature tries every single year to restrict reproductive rights, every single year. This is the place where you all are gathered to say no more no more, no more. Things are changing in South Carolina and changing for the better. You know our history. We were the first state to secede from the union. We are the place where the civil war began. Almost 60 of African Americans can trace their roots to the slave ships that enter the ports of charleston. This is home to j marion sims, the doctor who experimented on slave women without providing anesthesia or pain relief and will continue to fight to make sure the names who were the subjects. [applause] of his horrific experiments are honored and make sure his statue does not deserve a place of honor on our State Capitol grounds. [applause] we have come a long way in South Carolina. Your attendance here is proof of that. This amazing crowd is a demonstration of the fact that South Carolina, just like the rest of this country, believes that women should be in charge of your own bodies. Youre here to demand that our president ial candidates understand that and bow to protect your rights. I am all in for that. All in for that. [applause] before i make my introduction, i want to say a few words about planned parenthood. Its the nations leading provider of sexual and Reproductive Health care and education. As a National Healthcare organization with over 600 Health Centers and a presence in all 50 states, including here in columbia, planned parenthood provides Vital Community health to 2. 4 million women, men, and nonbinary people youth and families every single year. One in three women. [applause] one in three american women have been patients at planned parenthood. One in three. A crucial portion of our American Health care and infrastructure is what planned parenthood is. The planned Parenthood Action Fund exist to protect those Health Centers that care and those patients. One of the privileges of being mayor is i have the opportunity to introduce your fearless leader. Dr. Lena wen is the first physician to lead planned parenthood in nearly 50 years. She is an immigrant, a practicing er doctor, a Public Health leader, and a passion advocate for Reproductive Health and rights. Previously, she served as a Health Commissioner for the city of baltimore where she led the nations oldest continuously operating Health Department to fight the opioid epidemic, treat violence and racism as Public Health issues and improve maternal and child health. She is on the faculty of George WashingtonUniversity School of medicine and the Johns HopkinsBloomberg School of Public Health. When she is not working, she is spending time with the joy of her life, a 1. 5yearold son, eli. You talk about him and she starts to glow. Please join me in welcoming dr. Lena nguyen from planned parenthood. [applause] good morning, planned parenthood. [applause] will you join me to give it up for our mayor in columbia, mayor benjamin. [applause] welcome, everyone to we decidem which is the first president ial forum in recent history exclusively focused on Reproductive Health and rights. [applause] we are here to say that anyone who wants to be president of our country wants to know that health care is a human right that must he guaranteed to all, not a privilege available only to some. [applause] there are some a people who have workday and night to make today possible so please stand up as i call you. Planned parenthood vote south atlantic, your chair kate torry, can you stand, please . [applause] planned parenthood southeast advocates and your ceo, stacy fox. [applause] national planned Parenthood Action Fund toward chair, kenny rosenthal. [applause] university of South Carolina and Alumni Center staff who are hosting us today. [applause] Democratic Party leadership who are here today, can you please stand . [applause] and now lets just give them all and all of our organizers and patient storytellers, reproductive partners and leaders a big round of applause. [applause] over 100 years ago, planned parenthood was founded on the simple idea that your body is your own. These rights and freedoms are under assault like never before. We have seen this even the last 48 hours when a court let the Trump Administration enforce its dangers, illegal and unethical gag rule. When the state of missouri weaponized the licensing process again to try to ban abortion in the entire state. Now these dangerous attacks will only work if we, the people, stay silent. Does anyone here think we will sit back and stay silent when they endanger our health and strip us of our bodily autonomy . Does anyone here think that we wont just stay silent and let them take away title x and leave 4 Million People without Birth Control and cancer screenings . In 2018, the planned Parenthood Action Fund painted the house pink and together we elected the most female, most diverse, most proReproductive Health majority ever in our history. [applause] and that is thanks to each and every one of you and planned parenthoods 13 million supporters because there can in can be no doubt that planned Parenthood Action Fund is a Political Force to be reckoned with. [applause] today, we are here to stand up and speak out because we have had enough of politicians who know nothing about our bodies but are making decisions about our future. [applause] we are here today to stand up and speak out because they dont get to call themselves prolife when they are taking Health Care Away from people and planned parenthoods Health Centers are performing lifesaving care every day. [applause] we are here today to stand up and speak out because we are the planned Parenthood Action Fund. We stand with all people in this country. We stand on the right side of history. We will not be silent. We will never back down and we know that america stands with planned parenthood. [applause] and so here is our expectation for every person who wants to be the next president of the United States. We say we decide. You need to call out these dangerous and unconscionable attacks and you need to always defend the right to save abortion care because you must fight to protect and expand aspects of sexual and Reproductive Health care and its health care because you must stand with planned parenthood because and here is what the planned Parenthood Action Fund will guarantee. If a politician tries to take away our health and our rights, we will take away their job because this is the fight of our lives , for our lives and we are going to win this fight. In 2020, the power of pink is coming to take back legislators, statehouses, and the big white house. [applause] because who decides . Put your hands together and make some noise for our mcs today. Our inspiring warriors and fearless fighters. [applause] all right. Ok, yall. Im ready to hear from some candidates. We have 20 candidates for president who will join us and talk about today. Each of the candidates will have a time to lay out their vision not only to protect, but to expand Reproductive Health care. Each candidate get a specific policy question from one of us. If there is time, we will ask a followup and then someone in the audience will share their story and ask the candidate the same question which is how will you ensure all people have access to sexual and Reproductive Health care including abortion care . These are all personal and powerful. We will thank them and move on to the next candidate. You know this day is jampacked. Its our job to keep things moving. We will hear from six candidates and we will take a break for lunch then we will come back in here from six more candidates and we will take a break and then we will hear from eight candidates. Weve got dj spinelli spinning the music. [applause] all right, this is our stage in our time and we want to lay out some Community Agreements before the candidates come on stage. We have a lot of candidates to hear from, a lot of people here today who work so hard to prepare for the questions. How about one diva, one mic. That means whoever has the mic is the person who can talk. This will allow us to support our brave storytellers in the audience who asked the questions and hear the answers from the candidates and keep us on time. Can i get a thumbs up . Great. Now for your second agreement, everything we say today is on the record. The news medias here covering this, so be ready for your closeup at any time. Lets be energetic and while we are doing this, lets thank the news media for defending the First Amendment every single day. [applause] andnowthis. Com is running this live every day so always have a smile on your face. Im ready for my closeup. We want you to bring those into the conversation who are not physically present. By that i mean, lets get loud on social media and share the Live Stream Link and make sure were on twitter and snapchat and facebook using wedecide. Please remember to be respectful to a candidate. Hear what they have to say. Thank them for coming here today and save your shade for the ballot box. Our fourth agreement, lets stay in the room. Day but these candidates have its going to be a long day, but these candidates have important things to say and we want you here to hear everything they have to say. Take care of yourself. There will be refreshments in the lobby, restrooms are right outside the ballroom, but come back and stay in your seat. And now, without further ado, lets meet our first candidate. [applause] the first is new york senator kiersten gillibrand. [applause] hello. Hi. She is popular already. Senator, we will jump right in. Several states have attempted to block access to medication abortion. A safe and effective nonsurgical option many people prefer. Would you support removing these barriers and how would you go about doing it . Sen. Gillibrand there has been an all out assault on our reproductive freedom by this president , by over 30 legislatures across the country who are trying to literally overturn roe v. Wade and turned back the clock on womens Reproductive Health. Make no mistake, if President Trump wants a war on americas women, its a war he will have and its a war he will lose. [applause] sen. Gillibrand as president , i will do four things. First, i will only appoint judges and justices that believe roe v. Wade is the precedent it is. Its been the law of the land for 40 years. I will codify roe, making it a law. Third, i will repeal the Hyde Amendment. [applause] sen. Gillibrand to make sure low income women have access to Abortion Services. And last, as president , i will guarantee that no matter where you live in the country, all 50 states, you will have access to legal state abortion procedures. [applause] senator, what would you say to those who claim that abortion is dangerous and has to be heavily regulated . Sen. Gillibrand lets not be fooled. There have been several attempts over the last few decades to unwind womens reproductive freedom. They first started with efforts to say there was medical issues. For example, theyd say you need to have admitting privileges, so they started to close down different facilities. Then they started to talk about religious freedoms and saying no federal money can go toward any Abortion Services. Thats how hyde got put in place. They tried pretty much every measure they can think of to make it harder for women to get access to medically necessary procedures, limiting title x for example, limiting the funding for planned parenthood. They have been trying everything. Now, under these 30 legislatures around the country, some of them are actually criminalizing access to care, criminalizing a woman seeking Abortion Services regardless of her circumstances, no exceptions for life or wellbeing of the mother, no exceptions for rape, no exceptions for incest. And criminalizing the doctors providing the care with 99 year sentences. Thats how serious whats happening in this country is today. Its upending our constitutional rights. Its saying that women dont deserve a right to privacy, number one. Number two, its saying we dont have basic human rights, autonomy over our bodies and that we have no agency, that we are not allowed to make the decisions that are fundamental to our lives. How many children we are having, under what circumstances we are having them. Those decisions are ours. And for many women, and look at our Maternal Mortality rate in this country, they are the highest of any industrialized country in the world. If you are a black woman, you are four times more likely to die in childbirth because of institutional racism in our Health Care System. When you are telling a woman that she does not get to make those decisions, its a life or death decision for her. It should be her human right. [applause] thank you, senator. I want to introduce a member of our audience. She is a reproductive activist, doula, writer and parent. She is part of the organization that provides direct funding and practical help for abortion funding. Lets hear from her. [applause] first, i want to thank you for all of your years of dedication to abortion access. I have met you like once before but kind of in passing at the capitol. Thats neither here nor there. Im just here to say that antichoice activists for years have told anyone who will listen that laws and abortion bans protect socalled womens health. Especially women like me. Poor women, marginalized women, black women, yes, im black, lightskinned but black they love to invoke that they are saving black women and babies from abortion. Im here to say that that is nonsense and it is a lie. When i was 19 years old and living in michigan city, indiana and as a separated mother of three who needed an abortion and when i went to planned parenthood in maryville, indiana and was turned away because i did not have enough money, i did not feel saved. And i did not feel rescued. I felt violated. I felt betrayed. And i felt scared and alone and desperate. I had a new baby at home already and having another child meant facing my third csection in four years and risk preeclampsia again. I was desperate not to have that experience, not any of that experience. So desperate that i tried to end my pregnancy by throwing myself down the stairs, by drinking until i threw up, by taking a hot bath. I even tried every ride at the county fair that said do not ride if you are pregnant and to be clear, that does not work. Thats not an abortion technique. Nothing ended my pregnancy, and i just had to deal. And i did and im glad that for me, i made peace with the fact that i had to carry my pregnancy to term and i have a beautiful child that i love and adore. But thats my story and i was able to come to peace with that and we have a great relationship that does not mean that i am grateful for the trauma i was put through by the fact that the Hyde Amendment exists. And no one should have been able to make that decision for me but i am devastated that in 2019, i am still getting calls from women in the mississippi delta, saying, please help me. Im going to drink bleach. To drink down me turpentine with sugar. Not in a state of emergency where we might go to a prewar existence. We are already in a preroe existence in the deep south. We are already in a crisis. We are not about to be in a crisis. The bands stopped all are now, we are in a crisis. What antichoice activists fail to understand is that while i adore my child, the only person who should have had the power to decide how to handle my pregnancy was me. The only person who should have had the power t to approve or deny my health care was me. To arove or deny my health care was me. Wille another and i never apologize for any of my childrens existence. But i do feel that by being robbed of the fullness of my human rights, i was robbed of something i i work hard to give my clients as a birth to love. That is doula. That is a healthy pregnancy as for straight at birth. How are you going to expand access to Sexual Reproductive Health care, including abortions, to ensure people like me and my clients have access to care no matter what. [applause] sen. Gillibrand thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for sharing your truth with all of us. Think your story is one shared by millions of people around this country. For poor women, black women, mark marginalized women, i think this attack on their undermines their toanity and their ability have that. That they haveg basic human rights and that they have a constitutional protection. In any one of these states, which are mostly men, men, mostly older they cannot know a minute of your experience. Not a minute of your experience as a mother, as someone who had to make that decision. Not a minute of experience that you are this close to putting your life in your own hands. Throwing yourself down the stairs could mean death. For all of those friends and patients of yours saying theyre going to drink turpentine, it could be death. Women are desperate. We deserve constitutional protection. It is why i will lead on repealing hide. Poor,why i will make sure marginalized and black women have the same reproductive freedom as any person. It is why i wont allow mail legislatures to make the life and death decisions for you. That why i will make sure i will guarantee reproductive freedom for every woman, every transgender woman, and every nonconforming individual who needs these basic human civil rights. Thank you senator. Thank you so much. Another rounder of applause and thank you lori for all that you do and for sharing your story with us. Thank you so much. Got bless you all. For all of you who care about land parenthood and for all of you who care about womens reproductive freedom, this primary is about you. Iron you to be heard. Do not sit it out. We are so good. We want lots of information. We are high information voters. No one is asking you to decide who to vote for today. What im asking you is to decide who you want on the debate stage. The truth is, if women and candidates of color are not included on the debate stage in september come october, november, your voice will not be heard. My ask of you is to pick your top five. Send them money. Make sure they make it to the debate stage. This is not a time to beside the silent. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. [applause] that was great. We arenow come out thrilled to bring to the stage our next candidate. California senator kamala harris. First, californias first black senator. Welcome senator harris. Come on over. Right here in the middle. Thankarris thank you for being here. [applause] im going to dive right in. My first question. Crisis Pregnancy Centers have opened up across the country. 150 are in california. Refused to clinics give complete information and provide contraception to patients. What would you do as president to ensure people are given Accurate Information when it comes to Abortion Services . Sen. Harris i was me to what i have done as attorney general of california when i ran the secondlargest department of justice in the United States. The first woman elected attorney general of california. Then was about legislation and using this very powerful thing called the microphone in a way that also informed everyone and women in particular about their rights and their right to have honest information with transparency, which is not being provided in those clinics. As the president of the United States, it would be the same thing. That is part of what is wrong with the current occupant of the white house. He doesnt fully understand the power of the microphone. To elevate Public Discourse and inform the public about their rights. Access to Reproductive Health care, we are talking about women who are in a state of real anxiety. Real vulnerability. In terms of meeting help. Needing advice and counsel. Needing support in nurturing. And nurturing. We inform them what is important is that we inform them every way possible that they are feedback, thenest feedback that is in their best interests, not in the interest of some agenda in some statehouse who wants to limit a womans ability to make decisions about her own body. Senator, federal money is going to Health Care Providers which refuses to offer contraception and forces misinformation about abortion to its patients. Would you still provide tax dollars to groups like this . Sen. Harris this is why i am opposed to the Hyde Amendment. We have to understand that poor women in particular, and that is just going there, it is women who otherwise dont have the means to go to a private health care provider. We have to make sure that we are a country that lives and works by our values. Part of it is that everyone is equal and should be treated that way. That is not the case for women. Is true in terms of we are not treating people equally and our Health Care System written large if they dont have money. Talking about are what we are talking about title x. Women that go to a place that is supplemented by federal dollars. We want to make sure that no woman is deprived of access to the same health care as anyone else. You can count on that. It is just about values and principles. Then we can get into the details. We have to talk about our values. We have to be able to understand the macro point here. That is that every day in america, women who do not have financial means are treated like secondclass citizens. That is intolerable. Thank you, senator. Senator harris, i would like to introduce you to a number of our audience. Charlene carruthers is a strategist, author and leading organizer in todays black liberation movement. She is the founder and former National Director of black Youth Project 100. She is the author of the estselling book unapologetic a black, queer and feminist mandate for radical movement. Lets hear from charlie now. Charlene now. Good to see you again. We all have our stories of when we met you. My name is Charlene Carruthers and im a black queer woman who wants to become a mom. While growing up on the south i remember myo, moments of learning about power in politics with my mother in the welfare office. We spent way too much time there. I remember going into this brown chairs, full of worn seated with brown and black moms. I remember talking to my mother and talking to the other women. In that building, motherhood was not celebrated. It was vilified. That building, women were shamed for having children. I remember my mother being talked to as if she wasnt raising three healthy, brilliant beautiful children. She was not being treated as a full human being. I am 33 now. Looking back at my younger years , as if its a thing. [laughter] i remember choosing not to become a mom. Every time i went to the local planned parenthood, i have access to Reproductive Health care. I chose, by knowing that i had access to Birth Control is a College Student. I chose after working with middle school students, and talking to them about their relationships and their bodies and realizing i was not quite ready. Was onlyat my choice real because i had access information. Access and information. That is not the reality for many people in this country. Many are fighting for things we shouldnt have to fight for. Our ancestors did that work already. We shouldnt have to continue to do that. We do because we must. Our movements are fighting so that everyone can actually have access to abortion care. I personally believe that abortions should be free, ondemand and accessible to all people at all times. Reply by talking about one of the mothers of the Reproductive Health movement that reproductive justice is about our ability to choose who to parent and not to parent. To be able to do so without being criminalized or punished or experiencing systemic violence or judge. I want that for all black people seeking parenthood. Know, as you mentioned, as in attorney a former attorney general, what is the role of folks in that system , specifically the criminal justice system, to not criminalize people . What will they do and how will you specifically work to expand reproductiveual or Justice Health care, including abortion for all. No conditions. To ensure that people like me have access to care no matter what . [applause] i want to thank you for your leadership, your courage and your voice. Have a similar experience growing up. , i dont talk about it walkingut i remember into a Department Store and people looking at my mother, assuming she couldnt by which you might be looking at. I remember getting stopped and my mother would brace every time that we were around law enforcement. Downember people looking at my mother, assuming she was somebodys housekeeper and treating her like she was a substandard person. Because of assumptions about who she is based on how she looked. She was a housekeeper. She kept our house and happened to be a Breast Cancer researcher. That was an assumption and woman had no power should be given no power. Child, up, as her eldest i watched that. The first child sees a lot. I watched and saw that. I realize now that i made a decision at a young age that im not going to let anybody do that to anybody else. I feel it deeply. When you are that child of that parent, you see it. You know that this person who you know to be strong and smart and powerful should never be treated that way. I understand exactly where you are coming from when you talk about it. Lets talk about getting to the answer to your question. Part of my plan was this. President , it is my intention on this issue of access to abortion care and Reproductive Health care to not only continue to do the work of working with planned parenthood and the leaders here around what we need to do to get resources and support to the women of our nation, starting with alabama and georgia and missouri and all of the work we have that is currently before us. And to do the work on the defense and to fight, but also my intention is to work on the offense. I will tell you what i will do. Issue, i ran a department of justice. Ton elected, i am going require that for any state that passes legislation on the issue of access to Reproductive Health , if they have a history of passing legislation that has interfered with or suppressed a womans access to womens Reproductive Health, that anything they propose and pass has to be reviewed by the toartment of justice determine whether it complies with the constitution of the United States and roe v. Wade. [applause] sen. Harris that is called preclearance. Pleaaw has to go through preclearance 30 department of justice. Through the department of justice. That law is determined to be in compliance with roe v. Wade and its progeny. Without it cant go into effect. There have to be checks and balances in the system. It cannot be incumbent on the leaders who are in the community and the organizations. Also have to they be responsible for the United States government to your point. And the Leaders Within your government, to take a stand and stand with women and stand with their constitutional rights. Power. T only about its also about the law. Its about the spirit and the behind thehe ideals writing of the constitution of the u. S. And its amendments. I grew up as a College Student at Howard University and i would often walk by the United StatesSupreme Court in all of it. Awe of this building with its inscribedd the words in that marble that read equal justice under law. Issuee talk about the that you are presenting with her question, this is as much as anything, its about equality. Its about equal rights. It is about a woman making a decision and having agency over her own body. Its not only about what is right. For what isfighting right under the constitution. What is right in terms of rule of law. President , that is one of the ways i intend to speak out on this issue. [applause] lets hear it one more time for senator kamala harris. Thank you so much. We will lead you off this way. Thank you so much. Thank you all for your leadership. [applause] a big hand of applause for charlene, our storyteller. Now, we are moving right along. We have colorado governor john hickenlooper. Hickenlooper let the city of denver on till he was sworn in as the 42nd governor of colorado. Lets give a warm welcome to governor hickenlooper. [applause] hi. Come on out. Thank you. Welcome. have a seat. Gov. Hickenlooper thank you. We will jump right in. As it stands, black women are three or four times more likely to die during childbirth than white women. As president , what concrete steps would you take to address the disparities in the health and Health Care Access and delivery for black women . Let me give aper little context. I grew up outside philadelphia. My mother was a child of the depression. She was widowed twice before she turned 40. She rates for kids. Matter how tight the finances, she had a couple of causes she always gave money to. One was planned parenthood. [applause] gov. Hickenlooper this is something the inalienable right of women to control their bodies has been something i grew up with. In colorado, as reproductive rights were under assault, we expanded access. Overt Foundation Grants the course of five years. And expandedccess access to reproductive rights to every woman in colorado. We expanded the number of clinics. Planned parenthood was a partner. ,e put billboards out advertising that women would have access. We provided additional hours in clinics and hospitals across the state. Years, weast eight reduced teenage pregnancy by 54 in colorado. [applause] reducedkenlooper we teenage abortions by 64 in colorado. Program actually, we have about 28 billion the first five years. Taxpayers 70 million. There is no question that there is no possible excuse not to expand rights, especially for people that are concerned about abortions. We dramatically reduced abortions and save money. Why arent we providing those reproductive rights to all women . As president , i would go to title x with 700 billion. We could make sure that any woman from any background, whatever her circumstances, would have full access to full productive rights. We appreciate that. When other actions would you do to help improve health care for people of color . Gov. Hickenlooper one of the things, back when i was in college, we had a friend start a Community Health center. Centers go into neighborhoods where often times, private hospitals and services are reluctant to go. That is the bottom line. How do you find those opportunities to provide medical access. In colorado, we got to almost universal health care, we didnt quite get there. Especially in certain rural and urban neighborhoods, we are having the same difficult problems of access. Its usually a function of figuring out how you get Community Health to places where it is most needed. The organization i helped a , at trinity in 1970 Health Center in connecticut now has 200 locations, making sure that every person, women, women of color, have access to make sure they have reproductive rights. Thank you. I want to introduce a number member of our audience. She is a social worker with the Nebraska Department of corrections. She is advocating for vulnerable incarcerated populations. She works as a Mental Health provider at an abortion click. She provides emotional support for patients as well as Trinity Resources for the mastic and sexual violence. Lets hear from her. Thank you. Is only the salisbury. I live in omaha, nebraska. I just moved to North Carolina a new was 19 and started semester at college when i found out i was pregnant. There was no doubt in my mind i would have an abortion. I scheduled an appointment at the only comic in town. Because of North Carolina state law, i did jump through numerous hoops to have access to a safe, legal, medical procedure that is my constitutional rights. I went to my first appointment alone, and when i walked in the clinic, there was a sign on the wall that said it is not too late for adoption. My heart sank. I had to sit across from my doctor and listen to her tell me statemandated false information about abortion, including the native link between abortion and Breast Cancer that was intended to shame and stigmatize me into changing my mind. State law required me to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound, a medically unnecessary and invasive procedure i laid on the table and felt vulnerable and scared and alone. State law required that listen to a heartbeat. When i reaffirmed that yes, i have made my decision to have an state law mandated i went home and waited 72 hours before coming back for my appointment, just in case i changed my mind. I did not change my mind. I returned to the insider two days later and was escorted by a volunteer wearing a bulletproof vest. I do not regret my decision. Im not sad about it. I am sad i was forced to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound. Im sad legislators in North Carolina to not trust me to know what was best for my own body. Havesad that other people to go through the same thing, many with less access to resources than i had. Lasting trauma from this experience is not from the abortion itself, but from the attempts by North Carolina law to intimidate and coerce me into changing my mind. Today, i work as a Mental Health commission at the marshall the Abortion Clinic in my house, providing emotional support ok for all people deserve during tough times in their lives. [applause] i also volunteer at as a clinic escort, because i want patients to know that someone sees them and their humanity. Someone to know that believes them and supports them and thinks they are making the right choice. I want them to be able to see past the antichoice protesters that scream and yell at them on their way into the clinic. Passion, care and apathy are what we need from leaders when it comes to health care, especially abortions. Governor hickenlooper, how will you expand access to sexual in thank you so much for sharing your story. Its a terrific. That you would go through that sequence of events designed by a that is using your own tax dollars. Clearly to cause you torment. It is essential that everyone has access to all facets of health care, but especially Reproductive Health care. That wealienable right have as human beings to health care should not be twisted by a set of rules and regulations that actually are intended to deify the delivery of that right. If i were president , we would use every available resource where women are given false information. And warned of dire consequences that are not based in any kind of reality. Need to push back and make sure that information is clear and based on science. How about we try science for a . Ittle bit of a change [applause] i think i am the only geologist elected a governor in the United States. It is called facts. Is an essential responsibility that some of us who end up in government take on. I started out as a geologist. I got laid off and i ended up opening a restaurant. And then i ran for mayor. Of the reason iran for mayor was the elected officials were not using fax or using decisions that respected the needs of the people who elected them to serve. Those years in the restaurant business, you learn a bunch of things. It is about service. When iran for mayor, i was determined. Clinic intended to provide medical care and psychiatric care. The psychological support. Government, for a very narrow selfinterest, changes that entire equation. So the facts dont matter. Psychologicalns and medical needs are ignored. We are going through such a assault on womens rights that to only way to address it is speak up. I salute you for your courage. For sharing this with us. If i am president , you will see a magnificent expansion of title 10. Can we hear it one more time for the governor . And thank you so much to our storyteller. Our next candidate is senator elizabeth warren. She founded the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau and in 2016. Ed give her a warm welcome. [applause] this is what i like. A roomful of women ready to take on a fight. Thank you so much for being here. I want to jump in. You have spent time on the campaign talking about criminal justice reform. How do you plan to expand access to Reproductive Health to people who are incarcerated or detained. This is serious. We have to think about health care for everyone. Trans. Ans men, women, it means everyone. And we have to think about it not only for people who have the opportunity to go to a clinic, but for people who are incarcerated. There are hard choices within families. About whether or not they can talk with their children. Way this links together is i introduced this bill. We knew Mitch Mcconnell was back on to give us a vote on a bill like this. But there is a point to getting in the fight. And that is what we did. We stood up, we put the bill together, we introduce the bill in the senate. We did a lot of press around it. Within a few weeks, the resin to some made adjustments. Saying, itby way of starts with your commitment. My commitment is health care, Reproductive Health care, health care for every single human being, whether they are incarcerated or not. To get in willingness that fight and make it happen. That is my promise, all the way down the line. If elected, would you change the Administration Policy . Yes. [applause] you support a very ambitious plan to support abortion access. How would you go about implementing that . Heres how i think of this. 447 years, since roe versus wade, we have decided, to rely on the courts. To protectare going us. We have to worry about the Supreme Court. We have been on defense for 47 years. And it is not working. Heres how i see this. Three out of every four people in this country want to see the rule of roe v. Wade upheld. [applause] this is a democracy. In a democracy, the laws should reflect the values of the people. I say it is time to go on offense with roe v. Wade. It is not enough to say we are going to rely on the courts. Pass a federal law to make roe v. Wade the role of the land. [applause] that when we do that, we can add and say, no. Ore of this semirepeal take another bite out of it. Make it the law. Lets make up the raw for real again. And expand access across the board. She is a productive rights powerhouse. Shehas been a driving force is a member of the state and a basin campaign. And she is my partner in legislature at the statehouse. Hello senator warren. I am from columbia South Carolina. I want to welcome you to our state. I want to give you some background. I am a proud south carolinian and i have been working in sexual and Reproductive Health for almost a decade. This is a battleground state. I want to did he background of what its like to access care here. 11 of our 46 counties have no ob gyn provider. Not a single one. Were consistently being attacked for our providers of choice through executive orders, medicaid waivers, and constant cuts to our state budget. As you may imagine here in South Carolina, politicians introduce legislation year after year to chip away access to abortion. One of those policies is fetal personhood and they have been doing that for over 20 years here in our state. Every year they get closer and closer to passing it. We have also joined in on the weight of the sixweek abortion ban. Our ban has passed our house and because we run on twoyear legislative cycles, it is still looming over our heads in the senate. On a better note, i am 22 weeks pregnant. [applause] a lot of my friends are in the room and they didnt know yet. Now they know. Surprise. Its not yours. [laughter] i am extremely grateful for my access to Birth Control and abortion shout out to the columbia Health Center for giving me that access. [applause] and without it, i would not be in this place where i am excited to become a parent. Without that access, i would not have been financially ready, i would not have had my educational goals, professional goals, and i dont think i would have been in a mental place to start this exciting journey. Like you, i am a fighter. I want to wake up every day continuing to fight in the state. I am increasingly worried that our fight is getting harder and harder and i worry not only for myself, but for my future daughter. [applause] with that, i would like to know what are you going to do to expand access to sexual and Reproductive Health care including abortion so that people like me and my sisters in the room have access to care no matter what . Sen. Warren we can always do a checklist. Lets repeal the Hyde Amendment. Lets put some teeth into title x and get rid of the gag rule. We should make sure planned parenthood stays fully funded. [applause] we also defend basic health care for everyone. For me, that means medicare for all for all of our people. Access for everyone. I want to make a point around this because you have highlighted it so well. With your story. That is to talk about what it means to try to chip away at abortion rights. Lets talk for a minute about South Carolina doing everything it can to make the abortion unavailable here. Understand the implications of that. It doesnt mean that women wont get abortions. It just means poor women wont get abortions. It just means young women wont get abortions. It just means women who have three kids and cant afford to take off three days from work to travel to another state wont get abortions. Heres the problem with what is going on in this country right now. The attack is not just an attack on women. It is an attack on women who have fewer resources. It is a class attack on women. It is a race attack on women. [applause] sen. Warren it falls on us to make this fundamental decision. That is, will make it in the fight, who exactly are we fighting for . Are we fighting just for ourselves or are we fighting for all of our sisters, all of our brothers, all of our fellow human beings. Thats who we are in this fight for. I am in all the way. [applause] can you expand on the work you have been doing to protect reproductive access in the senate . Sen. Warren part of it is going to the senate floor until you just think really . Guys, come on, it is not 1952. [applause] youre not going to walk women back in the kitchen. Youre not going to tell us what to do. [laughter] in america, where everybody is supposed to have a chance to participate, everybody and part of that participation is access to full Reproductive Health services. [applause] that doesnt just mean access for the welltodo. Access for those who can travel to another state. Access for those who have a private physician. It means making sure that planned parenthood, the community Health Centers are everywhere and available to everyone. Thank you so much senator for being with us today. [applause] [applause] our next candidate is mayor pete buttigieg. He is the mayor of south bend, indiana, and was the youngest mayor ever elected to a u. S. City with more than 100,000 residents. He is also our nations first openly gay president ial candidate. Please welcome mayor pete. Lets jump in. [applause] welcome. You propose policies to restore legitimacy to the federal judiciary like judicial term limits and even potentially adding seats to the Supreme Court and we are heartened to see you centering the courts in your platform. How would you use the power to appoint judges to protect the right to preserve rights to abortion and Reproductive Health care . Mayor buttigieg thank you for the work you are doing and thank you for including me. It makes such a difference especially in a place like indiana where women sometimes feel isolated and of course, there is an attack on womens freedoms around the country. In so many different parts of the country, we feel it differently. I know the planned parenthood is a real beacon to a lot of people in my state. [applause] there is shortterm and longterm. At both of them have to do with the idea of freedom. I am sick of conservatives speaking as though freedom is a property. Then when it comes to freedom as intimate i think about it a lot because an important freedom in my life is the right to marry the person i chose. But also a freedom as intimate is Reproductive Health. It shows you there is not quite as much commitment to freedom as we think. What you can count on, is that when i am appointing justices and judges, i will appoint those who understand that freedom includes access to Reproductive Health and reproductive rights for women in this country. [applause] that is the beginning. As we talked about, we also need to reform is going on before the Supreme Court is viewed to be a political institution. That trajectory has been accelerated. They have changed the structure of the court several times in the United States i would argue that the republicans changed it to eight just a few years ago then they changed it to nine. We should be willing to entertain sensible constitutional reforms that would make sure that the judiciary really is there to protect all americans. Absolutely. [applause] mayor, your home state of indiana is also the home to many medically unnecessary abortion restrictions. Most put in place by your former governor, mike pence. Mayor buttigieg please dont judge my state by our former governor. As you can imagine i have some feelings about that. Women have to receive state directed counseling with information designed to discourage her from having an abortion. They wait 18 hours before the procedure is provided. What is the impact you have seen these restrictions have on your state and city . Mayor buttigieg these restrictions are really a backdoor way to get around what is a legally protected right. They come at it anyway they can. They also shroud these restrictions in the name of health. That has nothing to do with health. The clinic is in the process of opening and south bend. We dont have one there. It would be the only one for a radius of several counties. They always make it sound reasonable, what 18 hours . If you are low income and dont have a vehicle and you have to go somewhere twice and its 50 miles away, that is not a small thing. That is a restriction on your rights. They do it in so many ways and that is why we need federal action to establish that states cannot pass these backdoor restrictions intended to erode access. [applause] im excited to introduce a member of our audience. She is an immigrant from mexico and raised in charleston, South Carolina. She is a student at washington trinity university. She has never had access to affordable Attainable Health care. Because of her immigrant status. She and her family lived in fear of going to a hospital or clinic because of ice. In her community, she hopes to inspire others to continue fighting to make sure that Congress PassesPermanent Solutions so that every immigrant can get the care that they need without the fear of being deported or detained. Lets hear from her. Hello, mayor pete. My name is dulce lopez. I am undocumented and unafraid. [applause] i am a woman, working class and a student. I say that because in this country, the identities i hold are powerful. They also mean i am unable to access affordable, culturally competent and Quality Health care. I support access to health care and reproductive rights for immigrants including undocumented women like myself. At 23 years old, i was only able to obtain Health Insurance through my University Last year. Even then, it is essentially noncomprehensive care. Undocumented people like my 60yearold and mother or my 13yearold cousin have extremely limited or no access to health care and must resort to local religious clinics for general checkups. Not only are people of color and low socioeconomic status impacted the most, immigrant communities there is always a fear that if we access a service and hospitals even if we pay outofpocket, there is a fear that we will be detained by immigration and deported. As was the case of the 10yearold immigrant child that was detained after surgery. My story echoes that of 11 Million Immigrants undocumented in the United States. We deserve access to care matter what. We deserve to live a life with dignity. I am here today as a young person and a leader in the immigrant Rights Movement to ask you, how are you going to expand access to sexual and Reproductive Health including abortion to ensure immigrants like me have care no matter our immigration status . [applause] mayor buttigieg first of all, i want to thank you for having the courage to speak out about your experience and who you are. It is harder to lie to someone about their own life and it is harder to hate up close and i think that if this country hears more stories, whether it is stories of the undocumented or stories of women who have had abortions and face some of these choices that others talk about like it is just a theory, it will open hearts and change our ability to get this done. Thank you for that courage. When it comes to your question, no one should ever fear seeking medical treatment. No one should ever believe that when they go to get the treatment they need that that could lead to deportation. Never. And, access to Quality Health care should be universal and universal means everyone. [applause] when we talk about a medicare for all environment, i believe Anyone Running for office who uses words like that has a responsibility to describe the pathway there. The pathway there should in our view be one where we do medicare for all who want it. Anyone can participate. I believe it will be more effective and efficient and comprehensive than any of the Corporate Options out there. That means that people will participate in it more and more until it becomes the glide path to universal health care. That also needs to be available to everyone. There needs to be a way for people of any immigration status to participate. Thats the first thing. [applause] the second thing of course is that we need comprehensive Immigration Reform that includes a pathway to citizenship. Americans want it. Congress has failed to deliver. I will make sure that it gets done. Thank you, dulce. Mayor pete, can you expand a little bit on your plan for comprehensive Immigration Reform . Mayor buttigieg here is the frustrating thing. There are a lot of divisive issues and american politics that people cant agree on. There is a strong american majority to do the right thing. We know that we need to protect dreamers who are every bit as american as i am but dont have the paperwork to show it. And for all undocumented immigrants, we need a pathway to citizenship. [applause] we need to improve the lawful immigration system, like how my father came to this country. That includes having the resources to adjudicate asylum claims. It does not make america safer to divide families nor is it unlawful to come to this country seeking asylum. [applause] mayor buttigieg in all of these things, in addition to what is appropriate as part of a bipartisan compromise when it comes to Border Security can be done. The American People want this. Heres the problem, if the administration led the charge you could easily get a type partisan coalition around this. They have an achievement they could take credit for. This is more useful to this white house is a crisis to divide us than it would be as an achievement they could take credit for. It is a leadership problem. Not an American People problem it is a washington problem. It is why we need different leadership in washington right away. [applause] lets hear it one more time for our great storyteller and thank mayor pete one more time. Thank you. [applause] are ready for more . [yes ] [horn] [laughter] now i would like to introduce our next candidate. Mayor bill de blasio has been the mayor of new york city for five years. He previously served as your citys public advocate. Give a warm welcome to the mayor of new york city bill de blasio. Getting in the mood with this music already. Please have a seat. Thank you for being with us today. Mayor deblasio what a pleasure. Im going to dive right in. There has been a lot of misinformation surrounding your home states Reproductive Health act which the governor signed into law earlier this year. Can you explain how donald trump is lying about the new york bill . Mayor deblasio oh yes. [laughter] he is lying. Lets get that out of the way first. [laughter] [applause] as i answer the question, i want to Say Something personal. I honor the plea the work of planned parenthood. I support it in my city every day but i want to tell you the personal side is my mom, a child of seven italian immigrants brought up in the catholic church, started to ask questions as a young woman and decided at a certain point when she was in her 20s that she needed to go someplace where she could have an honest conversation. She was a young woman in new york city and she made a decision to go to the Margaret Sanger clinic. [applause] it helped her get the support she needed. My mom was an early feminist in all she did. Our belief in our family and planned parenthood is deep. We are proud to new york to be the birthplace of planned parenthood. [applause] and the feminist that i married, my partner in all things, makes sure every day that we continue that tradition in our home and in our city. Thank you to our first lady. [applause] the state of new york did the right thing. And said we are going to protect Reproductive Health across the board and we are going to codify it. The rightwing machine and the Trump Administration tried to stereotype that and warp it and tell people that the government is invading their lives. It is the other way around. We are protecting the lives of women. Period. I am going to nobly steal a line. Someone said a womans body is a womans body is a womans body. Our laws simply codifies that whatever else is happening federally, whatever fights we have to fight, that the right to choose is a womans right across the board in the state of new york. We will defend it with whatever we have. In new york city we are going are there. We know there is an economic reality and thats why we are the first city and state in the nation to directly fund for women who need that economic help who cannot get abortions because of economic reality. Who dont really have the right to Reproductive Services because there is an economic barrier. We are directly funding support for women who need the economic help to really have choice. [applause] can we just be clear that if you are a democrat, you are against Hyde Amendment . Period. No choice, you are against the Hyde Amendment. If youre not going to provide the economic support for real choice, if you think the choice is a matter of how much money you have been you are really prochoice. We have to get real. [applause] given the polarization of this issue, is it better to leave it to the states or do you think this policy should be implement it on the federal level . Mayor deblasio it has to be done federally. This is a right of the majority of the American People. Lets be clear. Speaking for the minority, what has gone wrong in our National Discourse . We are talking about the majority of the American People who are women who deserve codified rights. We need to codify roe v. Wade into federal law once and for all. [applause] we have to not only get rid of the Hyde Amendment but to get universal health care so there is not an economic barrier to choice. Until we have universal health care, we are not fulfilling the majority view in this country that a woman gets to make her own choice. We have to make sure that choice is never blocked on economic grounds. I will try you something we are doing in new york. Not only the direct funding i mentioned but we are doing something powerful. I got sick on waiting for the federal government on many levels. I have a feeling you have all gotten sick as well. For the rest of us, working everyday people what we are doing is guaranteeing health care to all new yorkers who dont have insurance across the board. Guaranteeing it. This is so important for women. We have so many people without insurance or who cant get insurance. We are cutting out the middle person. We are giving them a Health Care Card called n. Y. C. Care. Were giving everyone specifically a primary care doctor in our Public Hospitals and clinics. We are saying you should not have to wonder where your care is coming from. Here is your doctors name. If you get sick, go in and pay what you can pay and no more. Dont get your health care where millions of americans turn. The only Family Doctor for millions of americans is the emergency room. Thats right. And thatlasio doesnt work. We are just saying lets show america how its done. Right now, we are guaranteeing health care for everyone in new york city. Thank you, mayor. We have a member of our audience who has a question for you. She is with planned parenthood of new york city. She was first inspired to share her story and advocate for planned parenthood during 2017s fight for Successful Health care. She volunteers with planned parenthood to advocate in a great capacity. Thank you. I am a new yorker and you are my mayor. [applause] i am here today because i am a fashion designer, entrepreneur, and black woman. The care planned parenthood provides has been a lifeline for me. What i suspected i was pregnant i went to planned parenthood for a pregnancy test. They counseled me and cared for me as a whole person. A whole person with a future. When i called to schedule my abortion, i was able to meet with a social worker to discuss my options and really and truly anything. I felt supported again as a whole person. The decision was personal and difficult. I was afforded a safe space to process my emotions, discuss my reasons for wanting an abortion, and i was able to find the space i needed to make the right decision for me. On the day of my abortion, the same social worker was there. She offered me a list of therapists and support groups to help me cope after the abortion. I was given choices for Birth Control and three weeks later i went back and got a prescription for the Birth Control of my choice. Planned parenthood was critical for finding a care giver who was covered by my insurance. All of these situations are personal, unique, and valid. It is important that you are allowed to explore those without judgment and afforded the opportunity for care and a matter what. Being a woman in this world is complicated. If i get pregnant, my partner can walk away but i cannot. That is the power of the uterus. [laughter] i have had two abortions and both allowed me to continue to choose myself and create the future that i want. It is a human right to have good access to Good Health Care and legal and safe abortions. If men could have babies this would not even be a discussion. [laughter] [applause] i am forever grateful that i have the right to legal and safe abortions, thank you, new york. As a woman of color, i believe in fighting for my communitys right to thrive and training a better world for the generations to come. I access to safe and legal abortion is critical in creating Economic Opportunities for myself in a way that i chose. I choose for myself. I am grateful that right has been protected. How are you going to expand access to sexual and Reproductive Health care including abortion to ensure that people like me have access to care to matter what . [applause] mayor deblasio thank you so much. That is such a powerful statement and it is something i think more people need to hear. The human story of choice. Choice, freedom to choose in so many matters, the respect for the individual is an american value. Somehow the right wing which will be the first to talk about how people should get to choose their own destiny and other wonderful things they have put out there. Theyd say that about everything but a womans body. We have an american majority for a womans right to choose. We need to be proud of that fact. We see more and more people, women and men, recognizing that this right has to be protected. Your story is the story people need to hear. They need to hear the human reality and what it meant respected, heard, to know what was right for you. That is what everyone should desire for all of us. You said it beautifully and powerfully. I will talk about where i think we have to go. Everything i have to tell you i believe is obtainable. For five and a half years, i have been the chief executive of the nations biggest city. It is a big tough place. It is the most diverse place in this country and nothing comes easy. I have seen how quickly change can be made. I told you about guaranteeing health care for all. We have done a host of things. I want to credit someone who has made sure we get Mental Health care without judgement, without stigma. We have made big changes and they can happen but you need to be bold. You have to let people know that big change can happen and people want it. They have been used to washington being a place that has not changed for decades on many issues but we do have to make this a change moment. This is unprecedented. The 2020 election will be the biggest turnout of our lifetimes. So many people participate who have so far thought it best elections were not for them. The way we will move them is if we are bold and clear and sharp. For all of those women out there who are not sure if democrats are really on their side, we have to be 100 clear. If we are talking about the Hyde Amendment, women will stay home. Were going to protect womens rights to choose and we will make sure there is no economic discrimination against women. Codify roe v. Wade into federal law. Provide universal health care because so many people who have insurance are not able to use it because of the deductibles and the premiums and the copays and outofpocket expenses. If we want women to thrive, to be healthy, we have to have universal health care to protect their rights across the board. When you think about the things we can do, all of them are available to us. Get rid of the gag rule. Get rid of the conscience rule which has nothing to do with conscience. It is unamerican to say people can be deprived of their right just because you feel like it. Didnt we fight that battle and South Carolina at lunch counters and in the street . [applause] you dont get to turn someone away just because you feel like it in america. [applause] we have an american majority. Lets mobilize that. Defend the rights of women once and for all and it can be done. This is our best chance in our lifetimes to do it. Right here, right now. If im your candidate for president , i am going to be bold just like i have been in new york. Im going to say now this country is on the side of women. No compromises, no backsliding, we are on the side of women, we defend the rights of women and we pay real money to make sure women can get the support and services they deserve. We defend planned parenthood as we have done in new york, and we fund it. Fund it. Put your money where your mouth is. [applause] you will know all of the candidates by their deeds, not their words. Look at everyone and with the power they each have, what have they done with that power . I submit to you that we in new york have shown there is a better way. We have shown that if you actually stand up for women, and inspires people and encourages them. Actually stand up for women, and inspires people and encourages them. Stories like hers become possible in every part of this country. Were not going to let a right wing minority tell us that women dont have rights. Were going to make it every part of this country is a place where women gets to choose. [applause] [applause] we appreciate you being here. Lets hear it one more time for mayor deblasio and thank you to claire for sharing her story. It is lunch time. Everybody gets a quick break. I think you have already grabbed your lunch. If not, there are a few outside. We will ask people to stay in her seat to the extent that you can. You have 35 minutes to eat, break, stretch and dance to our dj music. Hey, hey, welcome back my friends. Is everyone having fun . I love that music. Of hugging and fun going