say that with the bromine caveat listen, he s he s just a blunt force trauma guy. he sees out he sees the absentees and i m sure he s looking at an universal absentee. he s just saying this is bad and i think everybody agrees universal absentee is bad. i come from california we have a very successful absentee program, but have also seen the flaws in universe apps and t. i mean, i ve gone to the post office where you see ballots in the trash because of voter has changed address. well, those ballots are being picked up by party officials on the republicans sayyed, and a democratic side, i can t see any place where that is good for our democracy brian and bennett, blunt force trauma politics. here we go. it s good to see you both. thank you very much. a new our of z to undo central starts now we are standing by for crucial emotional testimony in the federal gun case against hunter biden new executive action at the border, in effect as of now, what impact is it having on the bo
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that sperm suppression. and that s the way that this form of birth control would work. now, i will say, if a man forgets to put the gel on one day, it won t have an immediate effect because it takes about eight to ten weeks to stop the jail and return to a normal sperm production. so on the flip side there is that caveat, but overall, kate, this is an interesting, i guess, alternative for men. out there outside of vasectomy to consider and this research, again, it was just recently presented. so more trials, more testy needs to be done, but it s fascinating. preliminary data on this gel. kate yeah, and goes without saying is what you re alluding to, is this. obviously we re still require, needs fda approval and they seem to be more that it s great to see you. thank you so much, jacqueline. you to john all right happening now to veteran nasa astronauts are strapped into a star, starliner spacecraft. i think we have pictures of them well, there s a picture
seen as jaclyn howard has the details and she s joining us now, jacqueline. and what are you learning from this new clinical trial? yeah. okay. this is new research that was just recently presented and researchers developed and tested a type of hormonal gel that can be used as a form of male birth control. so how this works in this research, you apply the gel to your body men in the study applied it to their shoulders. you apply it but one daily and it contains progesterone and testosterone, it s a hormonal gel and it works by suppressing sperm production in the body. so a normal production of sperm and normal sperm count typically ranges from about 15 million to around 200 million. but in this study, researchers say the gel was able to suppress production to less than 1 million per milliliter. and in this study, researchers say that after using the gel for about 12 weeks, 86% of men did achieve