shut down, in some cases, doctors stopped performing what had been routine medical care out of fear of litigation or imprisonment, leaving some women with life altering conditions and scarring, both physical and emotional. on the broad end, more than 25 million women of child bearing age from 14 to 44 live in states where it is hard or impossible to get full reproductive care. millions more say those restrictions and bans go too far. by more than a two to one ratio, voters say abortion access across the country has become too difficult, rather than too easy. when put directly to the people, abortion access has largely been a winning issue. we ve seen it time and time again. but when left to state lawmakers, buffeted by the safety of their gerrymandered districts, that access has been rolled back systematically. do those truths hold? how long will abortion be a motivating issue. and are those districts really all that safe when the vast majority of women and most men say lawma
committee? reporter: oh, right, the ethics committee known for not being very fast and not very transparent, appears to be breaking with usual expectation and being kind of both. the ethics committee put out a statement yesterday around the same time we were finding out about santos bond guarantors, saying they have done 30 different subpoenas, they have expanded the scope of their investigation to include these claims of unemployment insurance fraud, which are of course part of the criminal case against george santos which have not originally been part of the ethics committee case, and unlike usually what ethics committee does business, they re not going to stand down while the doj conducts their own investigation. they re going to continue concurrently. pretty unusually robust, and aggressive posture from the ethics committee, which is of course divided evenly between the parties. more often than not leads to a slap on the wrist, here, i think, takes on extra importance given that