must be done to any woman who seeks an abortion at that last clinic now. as that last clinic fights to stay in operation in that state. now, as i mentioned, already in missouri, there have been a whole series of laws designed to make it all but impossible to provide abortions in that state. they re down to their last clinic for a reason. targeted laws designed to shut down clinics to make it impossible to work as an abortion provider in missouri. penalties and obstacles that the state government has put in place to try to make it too hard and too expensive and just too awkward and difficult and uncomfortable for a woman to get an abortion if she wants one, despite her constitutional l right to do so. well, one of those provisions in missouri is a three-day waiting period. now, there s no medical reason for this at all, but the republican-ro republican-controlled legislature in missouri decided they would make you take three full days so you have to show up at the clinic and meet with t
a lot of people have been calling for missouri asking if we re still open open. if they have to be under 8 weeks to get the procedure. are they going to go to jail if they come over here to get the procedure? if they have to be an illinois resident. are people scared? they are very scared. what do you tell them? i tell them as of right now, illinois is a safe mace to haple a safe abortion and we re going to be open as long as we can. i ve had girls break down in tears when i told them they can still come over here. i mean, they are traveling quite a bit, but for the most part, it s relief. it s usually very relieving for them. when they find out that they can still get this access here. right now, more than half the patients that are coming through the hope clinic are coming from missouri. the hope clinic is not a clinic in missouri. i mean, that s with the last abortion provider in missouri still up and running for now. if republicans in the missouri state government s
don t need. thursday was the first day last visit, first day that we had to start doing mandatory pelvic exams. we re not satisfied with the fact that we do the pelvic exam when it s medically necessary. they want us to do the pelvic exam theree, four, five, six b, seven, days before they get the procedure. they want us to do pelvic exams on medication abortions. none of that is medically necessary. my doctors have spoken to that over and over again and will continue to speak to that, how that s not medically necessary. one doctor who works at that clinic tweeting this on monday of this week. today i was forced by the state of missouri to perform an unnecessary pelvic exam on a patient terminating her pregnancy for a fetal anomaly. she is heartbroken over her situation and i was forced to do an invasive, uncomfortable, exam. it broke me as a physician to do this to her. so they re basically daring the doctors at this clinic, oh, you don t want to do that to your patients? oh, you d
to the state government in missouri is that this is intolerable for these doctors, in addition to being intolerable for their patients. i mean, doctors having to do this, you heard the woman from the clinic there describe how the patients are apologizing to the doctors for the state making the doctors do this to them. i mean, this is intolerable for these doctors, for them to be forced to do unnecessary invasive vaginal exams on their patients who don t want them, don t need them, and the doctors don t want to do. so maybe the state is hoping that these doctors faced with this impossible imperative, maybe the state is hoping the benefit to the state here is that they re hoping that the doctors will give up and stop providing abortions all together, which, of course, would leave missouri with no providers since they re down to that one last clinic. well, that is not what s happening, for now, at least, the doctors in missouri are reluctantly and against their will complying with this ne
then have to go home or go to a hotel if you re far from home, and in you have to wait for thee or more days before you are allowed to then come back and actual get the procedure done. so you want an abortion, go sit in the penalty box for three days first, oh, do you have is to travel a long way to get to the clinic because there s only one in your entire state? is it difficult for you to take triple the time off work, double the drive, double the childcare to make this trip twice? good. good. that s the idea. that s part of the way we want to make you pay. so the waiting period already is a medically unnecessary obstacle designed to make it impossible for some women to access abortion in missouri and to punish all the rest of them. that was in effect in missouri already, but now here s something new. the republican-led state government in missouri has decided that as long as they ve got the state down to one last clinic and as long as they ve got the clinic on the ropes as they try t