records. and they made it for women getting an abortion or potentially facility treatment or any kind of reproductive care potentially contraceptive. and yes potentially gender affirming care of any kind. they claim the right to go take your private medical records to see what you re up to with that kind of care. no matter where you have gone to get. how can you get away from something like this? i mean if this is what they say they want to do and it is hard to get away from? the reason they ve written to the biden administration saying that they claim this right is because the biden administration said they should not have the right to do this. the biden administration is trying to assert federally that attorneys generals from states where abortions are banned can t follow the residents to other states to see if they re getting band care from someplace where it s illegal. we re on those efforts to protect this at the federal
abortion ban in tennessee. so you can t get on in tennessee anymore. you will need to travel out of state. but tennessee s republican attorney general, now said he intends to effectively follow you out of state to get your medical records to see if you got an abortion somewhere else. even the state where it s illegal. that s the tennessean tonight. and look it s also in kentucky. tonight in the louisville kerrville journal, the kentucky general wants kentuckians out of state abortion records to be available to authorities. it is not just tennessee, it s also kentucky. and look here it is in arkansas to today in the arkansas times. arkansas attorney general wants to know about your out of state abortion and it s happening with the republican attorney general in arkansas to. and look, here tonight here it is in georgia. georgia attorney general here it is in mississippi.
mississippi attorney general and this is from mississippi today. a nonprofit news organization which was actually first to bring the headline the mississippi general wants to make it available to mississippi. mississippi has banned abortion. there s no abortion clinic left to mississippi. if you live in mississippi, and we need to get an abortion you will need to figure out how to get yourself out of mississippi and into a state where you can legally get one. but the republicans and state governor in mississippi say that they will effectively follow you out of the state by virtue of the fact that you are a mississippi resident, sorry. they now claim the right to seize your medical records from a clinic in new york. or in illinois. or wherever else you go. they claim the right to follow you there and take your private medical records from their for their own law enforcement purposes. and i just showed you headlines from mississippi kentucky
pro-choice america. it s really great to see you. thanks for being here. ei thank you for having me. so i want to start with this letter from these 19 republican attorneys general. they re writing to the biden administration why? why have they taken this on as a matter of they need to take one theto federal government? the republican ags have been increasingly extremist. they re some of the most egregiousth offenders of attack on our medical freedoms. it is not shocking as they re losing the public opinion war on abortion, they re pivoting and trying toe conflate a gender-affirming care attacks abortion care. we know that the opponents for reproductive abortion acts are theac same as for jn care. we know where the dark money is
coming from. there s model legislation. this all started with sb-8 in texas, my home state, which established this vigilante mechanism and reallyte encourag the citizens of the state to spy and report texans who left the state to have abortions. when you have organized entities withor extremist organizations likest harris society, christia right to life, they are literally disseminating within the agsin and the legislatures. so it is not shocking. our sense of this is they re losing the public opinion war on abortion. they are desperate to win back power and in mississippi, we know we have folks, the ag is up for re-election and she ll be in a toughio race. this is them fear-mongering against some of the most