and don t take it if you are on dialysis. take aim. .at chronic kidney disease by talking to your doctor. .and asking about farxiga. if you can t afford your medication,. .astrazeneca may be able to help. far-xi-ga we re back with see seal, kim, and claire as the supreme court appears poised to overturn roe in just a matter of months, cecile, you wrote about how you misjudged just how serious the republican party was trying to do this. you wrote this. if i have one regret from my time leading planned parenthood it is that i underestimated the callousness of the republican
should not upend the rule of law. that s why we have this idea of precedent. it shouldn t swing radically from one moment to the next. it s not good for democracy. joining me right now is cecile richards, co-chair of the american bridge and former president of planned parenthood federation of america. see seal, thank you for being with us this afternoon and i want to read one of your tweets in response to the reading. you wrote, there were many horrifying statements during the scotus hear, but the low point was justice kavanaugh s statement that this case is hard because we can t accommodate the interest of both the woman and the fetus. it was clear who he was prioritizing and it isn t women. what other parts of oral arguments stuck out to you? well, certainly justice barrett s comment that somehow we women didn t need access to safe and legal abortion because even if they had an unintended or unwanted pregnancy or even a dangerous pregnancy,
violence work in the 1970s and 80s. and the shelters for people coming in sometimes for domestic violence were always shielded. it doesn t say shelter outside because you recognize that there s real danger. and so, you know, i look at a moment like this and go, so do we take the planned parenthood signs down? do we cower? then i also worry about the safety of providers. we worry about that intensively, right, our staff are very well trained around security procedures. i think it s all of the law enforcement officials i saw commenting on this yesterday talked about how really well trained they were that there wasn t a larger loss of life or folks who were injured. but i think it s like really the question that we should be building better barricades for women s health centers, you know, is not the right one. we have to be figuring how the why women s health is under attack in such an intense way. see seal talks all the time
have been problematic for boehner. so perhaps there s an opportunity to build a bridge there. but it s not like they re working from two different play books. if mccarthy gets this big job will try to set a new tone. he s using words like changing the culture within the republican conference. he has been a part of leadership for a number of years, but he s at least trying to strike that note. he s got boehner s endorsement as well as that of other prominent republicans in the house. so there doesn t seem to be a threat to mccarthy getting the speaker job. it will really be more of a battle for subsequent leadership jobs which also change when they take these leadership elections. kelly o donnell on capitol hill, thank you very much. they re now going through the rules on that house oversight committee. as soon as see seal richards testimony begins, we ll bring it to you. but developing now, president obama s meeting with cuban leader raul castro as we speak, just the second meet