[dramatic music] our thanks. your rewards. [clock ticking] - today, i m going to talk about the path these leaders have chosen under this bill and the dark place that the bill will take us. - this bill was a four-pronged anti-abortion access bill. it bans abortion after 20 weeks, it restricts the prescription of medication abortions, it requires abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges at local hospitals, and it requires that abortion facilities meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers. it s a really intense set of regulations. - do you not see that this bill will provide the
safest care for a woman who decides to have an abortion? - though it was being argued that this bill would make women safer. in fact, it was designed specifically to remove a woman s access to her constitutionally protected right to abortion services. every member on this floor knows that the provisions of the ambulatory surgical center standards will immediately place 37 of the 42 abortion clinics in texas out of compliance. - the law requires that abortion facilities operate as ambulatory surgical centers, which means, you know, your typical abortion provider looks like your doctor s office. it s a clinic, it s small, there are little exam rooms. an ambulatory surgical center, however, feels like a hospital, right? it s got these really wide hallways,
[dramatic music] click, call or visit [clock ticking] - today, i m going to talk about the path these leaders have chosen under this bill and the dark place that the bill will take us. - this bill was a four-pronged anti-abortion access bill. it bans abortion after 20 weeks, it restricts the prescription of medication abortions, it requires abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges at local hospitals, and it requires that abortion facilities meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers. it s a really intense set of regulations. - do you not see that this bill will provide the
safest care for a woman who decides to have an abortion? - though it was being argued that this bill would make women safer. in fact, it was designed specifically to remove a woman s access to her constitutionally protected right to abortion services. every member on this floor knows that the provisions of the ambulatory surgical center standards will immediately place 37 of the 42 abortion clinics in texas out of compliance. - the law requires that abortion facilities operate as ambulatory surgical centers, which means, you know, your typical abortion provider looks like your doctor s office. it s a clinic, it s small, there are little exam rooms. an ambulatory surgical center, however, feels like a hospital, right? it s got these really wide hallways,
in the months since the supreme court overturned roe versus wade, in many instances, patients are finding just how much longer it can take to travel to an active these are the findings from a report from the jirchl of the american medical association about what has changed. what did they find? that s right, erica. this report puts in perspective the aftermath and realtime impact of the dobbs decision. in this report they looked specifically at the time on average that it takes for women to access abortion facilities, and how the time changed from before the dobbs decision to after the dobbs decision. here s what they found. average travel time to get an abortion more than tripled following dobbs. you see here, before dobbs it