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in missouri, new orders, you now have to start doing this pelvic exam, an extra one, an extra internal vaginal examination, mandatory, at least three days before the woman actually gets her abortion. so we covered that earlier this year. it s just astonishing. and there was a bunch of national attention to the issue. the clinic ultimately defied those orders from the state health department. and after that randall williams and the state government caved and they stopped forcing them to do that. but today this is just jaw dropping to me. today at the same hearing, the same hearing that s been happening this week where the state health director has now admitted he s got a computer spreadsheet tracking womens menstrual periods, today there was testimony from shannon who s been a guest on this show, she s the director of surgical services at that planned parenthood. she testified today in the state hearing about what it was like when randall williams sent his inspectors to the last abortio
missouri would henceforth under his orders undergo an extra unnecessary internal pelvic examination. doctors already give patients a pelvic exam before a surgical abortion. that is necessary thing. but starting this year randall williams and the state health department told the last clinic in missouri, new orders, you now have to start doing this pelvic exam, an extra one, an extra internal vaginal examination, mandatory, at least three days before the woman actually gets her abortion. so we covered that earlier this year. it s just astonishing. and there was a bunch of national attention to the issue. the clinic ultimately defied those orders from the state health department. and after that randall williams and the state government caved and they stopped forcing them to do that. but today this is just jaw dropping to me. today at the same hearing, the same hearing that s been happening this week where the state health director has now admitted he s got a computer
state health department in missouri took back its new rule that all women in missouri must get a second unnecessary pelvic exam before they re allowed to have an abortion three days in advance. they reversed course. they changed their mind. the health director in missouri, a man named randall williams, he, himself, is a doctor. he is actually an ob-gyn. oh. he is the one who decided that women had to get this second pelvic exam in the first place. on friday he talked to reporters about why he changed his mind. he said, in looking at what they re doing and the fact that they think it causes a burden for patients to do the pelvic exam twice, as a clinician who practiced for 30 years, i m sensitive to that. he s sensitive to that. it took state health director randall williams more than three weeks to develop a sensitivity to that. to doctors practically shouting themselves hoarse about how the new vaginal probe mandate might be hurting his patients.