just law last week or a couple weeks ago where we had fiv women in that state suin because their lives were place at risk. there are also concerned about their doctors, just as you mentioned, in the state of texas, and what will end u seeing in florida is that th risk will be really high i texas we have doctors who risk losing medical licenses to practice up to 99 year incarceration. and also $100,000 in fines and fees in florida, which had been a bit of a mecca for people wh were in abortion deserts meaning in states wher abortion has been totall banned, at least they coul come to florida. now that s off the table this is the map we should show this really is seismic for the entire south and the neighboring border states wher florida had had the 15-week ban, but a more permissive regime than what was in other places. that is now gone throughout th entire south i want to ask you abou something that i am findin particularly despicable in the discourse here, which is ver
we re really very swiftly moving toward these vast, vast abortion deserts. right now it is 13 states where abortion is banned or mostly banned. and you have people like the women that i met from mississippi, from louisiana, who are looking at 10 hour drives and just thinking to themselves there is no way. and i think one thing that really struck me is that, you know, these women are saying, well, you know, i guess i nights a we have the baby. they can t get the money together, they are not able to pay for a hotel and they are thinking, well, i guess he ll just go through with it. and that is of course exactly what abortion opponents wanted, right? they wanted to put up those barriers so that to protect they would say the life of the child. so many of the states though have the least amount of support for women and children through
many men and women across the country are wondering how to fight back. tuesday is the first test. meantime, reproductive rights areas living in abortion deserts are working hard to find alternative routes. among them 19-year-old olivia juliana of texas who called out none other than matt gaetz who is being investigated for alleged sex trafficking where she noted he made really gross comments about reproductive rights activists. gaetz who has arc published nothing in congress except becoming a well-known maga troll and being the best man of a man indicted on several counts of sex trafficking targeted olivia personally because he s not developed enough testosterone to become a grown man. olivia began a fund-raising campaign that raised $300,000 for abortion rights and wrote the congressman a quite classy
yeah. so military women and military members have to ask for leave typically when they re going to leave the area, the immediate area of their base for any extended period of time. and if a female service member is now stationed and women and service members don t get to pick where they re going to be stationed and they move frequently throughout their military careers, most of the major military bases that are in the united states are in what will be abortion deserts such as texas, such as georgia, such as alabama and mississippi. these active duty female service members who are the vast majority quite young, of reproductive age and greater rate of unintended pregnancies within the military, they are going to have to ask their commander s for leave who are not required t ed to give it to because there is no standardized pentagon policy and pay out of pocket and travel possibly very long distances to obtain a safe and lawful abortion. they might as well be stationed in ja bu di afr
decades, to make this work so difficult, so expensive, and so dangerous that no one would want to do it. and that is why oklahoma city was the largest city in the u. s. without an abortion provider. that is why there are growing abortion deserts across our country. and as you showed in that map, it will only get worse. can we keep that map up? because i think to your point, that if you are in oklahoma, and you cannot access an abortion in oklahoma, where are you going? many people are trying to go to kansas. there are several clinics in new mexico and colorado. many of them are on the farther side of the state. so, again, it is the people with means to travel, they ll be able to travel. and the people who can only get to a clinic in driving distance,