stigmatizing the disease and preventing people who are not really open about their sexuality from seeking care. we all remember what happened in the early 1980s with the hiv epidemic where it was so stigmatized as a gay man s disease and we know that not to be true. it is a balancing act. anytime there s an infectious disease it tends to affect the margins of society before it gets into the mainstream society. anybody can get it with prolonged intimate contact. it doesn t have to be necessarily sexual activity. you raise a point about being honest with those who are caring for you. dr. mathew, thank you very much. thank you. still to come, protesters in akron, ohio, are demanding action after a fatal police shooting last month. we have an update after a quick break. ep number?
their cruelty. state laws banning abortion are automatically taking effect today, jeopardizing the health of millions of women, some without exceptions. so extreme to the women can be punished for protecting their health. so extreme that women and girls are forced to bear their rapists child. with a child of consequence it just stuns me. i think the doctors will be criminalized for fulfilling their duty, to care, imagine having young women having to carry their child of incest, as a consequence of incest. no option. too often the case, the poor woman are gonna be hit the
call patients, to let them know the appointments scheduled could no longer take place. right now, in states across the country, health centers were forced to stop providing care, providing health care, to people that need it. so, i need people to know that this is a devastating moment, planned parenthood is here. we will find to access to the care that you need. we will get you information, visit abortion finder dot org, and we will help you get to the care that you need. we ve got the abortion funds, also available to support people and getting access. at the same time, we re gonna be fighting back. this is not the end of the story, as vice president kamala harris said, we ve got to vote. we ve got to make clear who is accountable here. we ve got to be clear that those justices that made this decision live, when they said that they have respect for the courts have failed us. and tonight, what i saw, and the steps of the supreme court and the communities across the country, it was hu
less access to the health care system. and i do think it is the cruelty of this. i think that this was a day where it s hard to really get to the politics of it. because it s just the inhumanity of what the justices have done, it s so profound. but that is what is really striking to me about this opinion, is it seems the justices five unelected justices, or six if you want to include roberts just don t care. they don t care that this is overturning a freedom that we ve had in this country for more than 50 years. they don t care of what it is going to do to women in this country. and they don t care the fact that this is not with the majority of americans want. that is chilling, to think that we ve lost our freedom in this country. and we ve lost it to people, unelected folks use it on the supreme court, who are making their own decisions about our lives and our futures. joining our discussion now from texas is dr. as elena yeti,
right to reproductive freedom, and so that criminalize people who are seeking care. so we have legislative options, and we re gonna do everything we can. georgia representative nikema williams, thank you very much for joining our coverage tonight. really appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. nikema williams gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. the 11th hour how do they have the right to tell me or any woman what she can do with our body? it s not their choice this is not what they should be allowed to make for themselves. it s a slap in the face to women. i want nothing more than to be a mother in my lifetime, but i wanted to have it on my own terms. it feels like a betrayal. it feels like the country doesn t even love me. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle.