a few votes that want to take the run and roe and the incremental questions that may be taking their side. you have states passing these restrictions. what do you view as the federal government s in terms of the legislating branches. what the federal government must do is to prevent all of these restrictions, not just the draconian and demagoguic laws, the fetal heartbeat laws of alabama and georgia and kentucky, but the restrictions in missouri, for example. on licensing requirements with the width of hallways in clinics and admitting prims. i introduced the women s health protection act in 2013 last week for the fourth time with strong support from the center for reproductive rights and planned parenthood who are part of a movement who is trying to stop the restrictions. democrats from generally not
federal government is asking that parents and children, innocent children, be locked up in facilities that have no requirements to meet under state regulations for detaining a child. that s what the government has asked for, for these families to be detained together moving forward and that they not have any licensing requirements, meet any standards, permits, nothing. just do it. one other thing i said to the judge is we need the government to submit a list of every parngt and child that s been separated and for the government to immediately within one week tell the parents how to contact their children. that s the most horrendous thing. the parents don t know where the children are. and you re asking a court to rule and make that requirement. we have to. because in the absence, the government is not doing it. absolutely. lee, natalia, thank you. lee was just a guest on our new podcast where we talk in depth about that aclu lawsuit on family separation policy. you can find
government to know that the federal government is asking that parents and children, innocent children, be locked up in facilities that have no requirements to meet under state regulations for detaining a child. that s what the government has asked for, for these families to be detained together moving forward and that they not have any licensing requirements, meet any standards, permits, nothing. just do it. one other thing i said to the judge is we need the government to submit a list of every parngt and child that s been separated and for the government to immediately within one week tell the parents how to contact their children. that s the most horrendous thing. the parents don t know where the children are. and you re asking a court to rule and make that requirement. we have to. because in the absence, the government is not doing it. absolutely. lee, natalia, thank you. lee was just a guest on our new podcast where we talk in depth about that aclu lawsuit on
assault weapons, much more stringent licensing requirements, buy back of guns and you can see what happened to the rate of gun deaths in australia. and by the way, there was no commensurate increase in deaths from other forms of killing. and within those charts, steve, you point out that the united states of america 4% of the world s population yet we own 42% of the world s guns. that is a correct fact. and again, though, i want to say, the dichotomy is as you said gun deaths have been going down. these high profile mass shootings have been going up. and i remember talking to your friend mayor bloomberg who actually said, banning assault-style weapons is not going to have a huge impact. he said this five, six years ago. not going to have a huge impact because it s relatively small percentage of the people who die
it reduces the number of people who can be in an occupation which drives up prices for consumers. the occupations want licensing to grow because they can make more money and limit the kind of people who can get into the occupation. which some say is one advantage of the licensing. those who do invest the money and time can see an increase in wages of between 10 and 18%. but when it comes to licensing requirements, the amount of training required can be inconsistent with from state to state and even job to job. the overarching goal of licensing is to protect public health and safety. and certainly you would expect an emt to be much more involved in protecting health and safety than a hair braider or a cosmetologist. this isn t a partisan issue. the institute of justice, a public interest law firm with libertarian leanings ranked states by how burdensome they