replace reproductive rights or health care, their family writes, their reproductive rights, when it comes to contraception, i met women who are concerned by other medical issues that they have that contraception and birth control pills help them with. there are already women coming up to the very first time. this is the first protests they ve been too. they ve been moved to share their stories because of this leaked opinion. they are trying to in some cases passed on a message to young generations. debra, who i met here, said for the first time, she came and shared a story with me about her back alley abortion when she was 13. i have never told anyone ever until right now. because i feel the strongly about it. i had a backstreet abortion when i was 13. and, of course, a rich person
abortion. this is about the end of safe abortion access. i ve had a woman earlier who said about a back alley abortion she had a 13. the traumatic memory of being operated on by someone she wasn t sure that this person was a qualified medical professional. she s now in her late 60s. she s not worried about having children in the future, but she has children and grandchildren, and she wants to make sure they have access to the same thing she had access to, but in a safe setting. that s a lot of the conversation today. it s about poor women. it s about women of color. and with the circumstances may look like in the future. i don t know if i m soon gonna forget that conversation you had the with the woman in the last hour. it was palpable which he was releasing for the first time to people, after decades of keeping that secret. it was frightening for her. a tough time. thank you for sharing that. and for this as well. as we go to nbc scott cohn,
no doubt. a very divisive country that continues right now. this is a president that vowed, that promised he would unite the country. in that speech, though, calling out the maga crowd and calling it the most extreme organization in u.s. history. does that help anything in this moment and does it show he is significantly changing his tune in wanting to unite the american people? i think what it shows and matt touched on this. there are extremist laws being passed across the country and here we saw for the first time in history this week with a constitutional right taken away from more than half the population. abortion now will be overturned in more than 20 states. to be clear the supreme court let s talk about that. we keep talking about the other things. we re not talking about the fundamental fact that women s s lives will be impacted and die from back alley abortion. i asked you a specific
following the texas model you just referred to, including oklahoma, where you limit abortions to be the first six weeks of pregnancy, for a foetal heartbeat can be detected. 18 states have trigger laws, that on the day that roe v wade is overturned, which we expect injuly, they immediately institute bans on abortion. that returns us to the situation before 1973, before roe v wade, where women quite often had to seek out a state where abortion was legal, and if they could not make thatjourney, or the did not have the funds to do so, that you had to carry the pregnancy to term or risk an illegal, what we called back alley abortion, quite often adverse to their lives. ls alley abortion, quite often adverse to their lives. to their lives. is there anything that president to their lives. is there anything that president biden to their lives. is there anything that president biden can - to their lives. is there anything that president biden can do i to their lives. is there anything tha
back alley abortion and it was because of her and her colleagues that they were able to save lives. for us in the household, i m also the son of the rabbi. reukt frommive health was not only a medical imperative, and a moral, religious imperative to protect the life, to protect the life of the woman before roe versus wade. i shudder to think that our three daughters and women across the country would have the constitutional right stripped away from them and that their lives are devalued and that s ultimately the agenda, nicole of what s going on here. to answer my question, president biden is going have to have you come out and start telling these stories. to cecile s point exactly. we re moving backward. that s the reality of what s happening and it s just remarkable. yamiche alcindor and cecile richards and i ll tell you what