a landful of planned parenthood clinics in texas filed this brief with the fifth circuit u.s. court of appeals. the court that is currently considering whether or not to allow texas abortion ban to stay in effect while the u.s. justice department continues to challenge it in court. joining us now is dr. kumar. he provides abortion care at planned parenthood at houston, texas. he witnessed stories like this firsthand since this ban has been on and off in infect. i really appreciate you taking the time to be here tonight. thank you. thanks for having me. this is a 17-page brief filed with the federal appeals court in this case. i have to ask if any of this resonates with you if any of this tracks your stories in texas since the ban was allowed for the supreme court to go into place last month. yeah. what i would say, rachael, is
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parenthood clinics that are going to be shutting down or not give cancer screening, it s also a war on poor people. 75% of clinics planned parenthood clinics, 75% of the people who use the clinics are people who are either on the poverty line or below the poverty line. it comes back to our entire conversation. they want us to make it about identity. they want us to make it about feminism and scare away those voters. it s not about that. it s about poor people in this country many of them voting for donald trump voting against their best interests. britney, bring it all home for us. because as liz says, these are constitutional rights. they are gender issues. there is a feminist component and also the facts that this is an administration that over just the past few months as taken this rule which targets many people whom benefit from the services but disproportionately the poor. they re going after food assistance, after school lunches. we did a report on this show.
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there s a reticence there. this circumstance is different. the playbook has been laid out for senate dras. they ve gone through it one time. the affordable care act posited the same issues that are going to be presenting themselves. access to abortion, access to planned parenthood clinics, access to birth control. if you cared about them just in the context of health care, for the love of good, do you care about them whether they exist in perpetuity? this is a referendum on whether women can have access to reproductive health services. we re thinking about criminalizing women who are raped and seek access to abortion. women are thinking should i hoard birth control pills because i won t have access? when women starred marching january 21st this is what it was about. i think the game that is so different is going to be run by the people out there. and the votes in the senate are going to reflect that. that s an interesting point.
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they ve gone through it one time. the affordable care act posited the same issues that are going to be presenting themselves. access to abortion, access to planned parenthood clinics, access to birth control. if you cared about them just in the context of health care, for the love of good, do you care about them whether they exist in perpetuity? this is a referendum on whether women can have access to reproductive health services. we re thinking about criminalizing women who are raped and seek access to abortion. women are thinking should i hoard birth control pills because i won t have access? when women starred marching january 21st this is what it was about. i think the game that is so different is going to be run by the people out there. and the votes in the senate are going to reflect that. that s an interesting point. chaff share lynn is saying and we saw with the aca fight, the pressure was coming from outside in. obviously senate democrats in the aca fight hung together
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