That people want more access to health care, not less. Do you feel that . [applause] healthrystal clear that care is on the ballot this year and that means is that access to legal abortion. Come on now. The dayat the end of come abortion cares is health care. 77 of americans say they do not want to see roe v. Wade overturned. There is no state in this country where abortion bans are popular. Thats right, thats why today is so important. We appreciate the fact that you are here ready to breathe life into our democracy and stand up for our freedom. I know many of you have traveled there from very far away and we are excited that you bring our power, our dream and their aspirations into this event and into this moment. Thats right because we know for sure that we decide, you and me, the fate of our democracy. [applause] who decides . We decide. Who decides . We decide. Access to abortion and Reproductive Health care is at risk in South Carolina and across the country. I mean anyone who wa
Thank you. I am the associate director of latino media and communications for the planned Parenthood Action Fund. I want to give a shout out to the spanishspeaking numbers in the house. Those who are watching at home. I want to say [speaking spanish]. King spanish]\ [applause] thank you. Im the South Carolina director of Public Affairs for planned parenthood south atlantic. Thank you. Excited ill you how am to mc todays we decide or in right here in our home state. We will let everyone know what sexual and Reproductive Health voters expect of all these candidates. That is right. Here is why it matters. Millione of the 13 planned parenthood supporters showed up at the ballot polls. If we activated our network, we would be the difference in this election. The swing would go in our direction. Thats all it takes. All of us getting together, showing up and showing out at the polls. It is only june 2019, the planned Parenthood Action Fund is starting early because the states are still my too
Fund. [applause] be a am so thrilled to comc with you for the day with my wonderful colleagues. Thank you. Hi, yall. Im the associate director of latino media and communications with planned parenthood. I would like to begin by giving a shout out to the Spanish Speaking members in the house, and those who are watching at e, and i just want to say [speaking spanish] king spanish]\ and im thinking ringer. Thank you. Thank you. Im the South Carolina director of Public Affairs for planned parenthood south atlantic. Thank you. Excited ill you how am to mc todays we decide or in right here in our home state. We will let everyone know what sexual and Reproductive Health voters expect of all these candidates. That is right. Here is why it matters. Millione of the 13 planned parenthood supporters showed up at the ballot polls. If we activated our network, we would be the difference in this election. The swing would go in our direction. Thats all it takes. All of us getting together, showing up
Tv friendly people, we represent them and we need to make sure that we fight for them at the state legislative level, at the federal level and making sure that we continue to bring people forward and we have to continue to do so. [ applause ] you asked really vital questions, and i dont know what the answer is. I look at the Lgbtq Community itself. We ask for people outside of our community to be our allies, but we are not good at being allies within our community. It infewer i dont remembur yoi members saying we should drop the t. It infuriates me when were fighting for the same end result, we want equality, and yet there are organizations that fight each other. I dont know how we bring in the voiceless the people without a voice out in the community, the hidden people, when we as the people who are speaking up, when we cant even get our act together and Work Together for those things that really matter instead of letting our egos get in the way. I wish i had an answer for that becaus
Lgbt health forum. This is actually a very, very special one for us. And were doing a number of wonderful things, celebrating our fifth year of our program, and ill tell you about the program in a moment. But not the least of which is this incredibly Powerhouse Panel we put together, and on a topic thats fairly urgent right now. If youre not familiar with our forum, this is our Public Outreach mechanism. We do this every year with the start of our annual summer residency, which begins our program. During the residency, all of our students who are in the new cohort are in town from all over the country and many times all over the world. And this is our way of sort of reaching out to the public, letting you know who we are and what we do. Our program is a graduate certificate program, and our mission is to train medical and Mental Health professionals, Health Professionals in the broader sense, to improve the quality of care for lgbt people. Thats our mission. We started this around 2011