access to contraception, and we re not teaching them the basics about their bodies, we are in a collision course. for disaster. celeste, thank you for your wisdom and your experience, and we appreciate it. celeste furey is the founder and chair of the transforming alliance, and an lgbtq act educator, activists, and as you heard advocate. go anywhere, there is plenty more you need to know the saturday morning. straight ahead, the latest on bubba jenner six select committee learned from one of the most important witnesses to testify to date. someone not only in the room when it happened, but part of the conversation. another hour of velshi begins right now. o the conversation anothe good morning. i am velshi. this is continuing to weeks after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. now the nation s capital this morning, people are preparing to take part in a rally. it is a day of action being coordinated by the women s march. organizers say that the participants will march
case, dr. caitlin bernard, the indianapolis-based physician who took care of the young girl, she s been the target of threats and smears including from indiana s republican attorney general, who said he ll be investigating her. none of this is new to dr. bernard, or to many other abortion providers. they ve been the targets of threats for years, back in 2020, doctor bernard stopped offering her services to a clinic after the fbi alerted her employers that a kidnapping threat had been made against her daughter. there is in fact a long history of violence against abortion providers in this country. according to the national abortion federation, there have been 11 murders, nearly 500 assaults, 42 bombings, and 196 artisans directed at abortion clinics and at volunteers since 1977. the threat of violence has been increasing for years. last week, tammy coleman oscar, the director of north dakota s last remaining abortion clinic spoke of the threats that her clinics have recently e
last remaining abortion clinic spoke of the threats that her clinics have recently experienced. people are scared, our staff are concerned. escorting, we have amazing escorts, but we ve seen an uptick in protesting outside of red clinic. we had some people say that the escorts fingers should be cut off. we had a man sitting across the street in a truck for hours on end. the only way i can describe him is he looked like someone who participated in the january 6th insurrection. so, there s real fear there for our safety. and we re just being as careful as we can. beyond the threats from involving antiabortion activists, the supreme court s decision is affecting medical treatment. sometimes resulting in delayed care. according to the associated press, one abortion clinic in ohio, quote, received calls from two women with up topic pregnancies, who said their doctors wouldn t treat them.
we have determined that we need to refer them to the family planning clinic. we need to focus on providing abortions for patients who needed. people are scared. the staff is concerned. we have amazing escorts. we have seen an uptick in protesting outside of our clinic. we had some people say that the escorts fingers should be cut off. we had a man sitting across the street in a truck for hours on end. the only way i can describe him is by saying he looked like someone who participated in the january 6th insurrection. there is real fear there for our safety. we are just being as careful as we can. tammy, thank you again for joining us. tammy is the director of the redwood river women s clinic. it is fighting to stay in service and actively discussing move into minnesota. even before it announced its ground shifting decision on abortion rights, gun laws,