everything we can do and working with the department of justice, we ll make sure we re trying to protect the rights of women to access reproductive health care services. secretary, i want to kind of hone in on what you said about boosting access to abortion medication. the federal government regulates medication, but you have a number of states trying to ban that. how can the federal government ensure access to this medication in places that maybe will have a state ban of that? well, that s why it s so important that people understand what the dobbs decision does and doesn t do, because we don t want people to believe that certain rights that they have are no longer around. we want to make sure it s clear what dobbs did, and what it didn t do because we don t want people to act in ways against their own health interest, if they don t have to. we want to get as much
correct. i mean, he former president trump brought the people there. he obviously encouraged them to go to the capitol. that s problematic in and of itself whenever it results in the kind of violence that we saw. i want to turn to another major story tonight, governor, that is abortion in what is now a post roe america. after the supreme court ruling on friday, your state had a trigger law that if roe is overturned, another law goes into effect. and the law in your state that went into effect is a law that pan bans abortions in all cases except to save the life in a medical emergency. you signed that law in 2019. i know that you say you would have preferred that your state ban was not as restrictive as it is. how come? well, because whenever you look at rape and incest, the result of criminal conduct,
women have to travel to another state, and women who filled that warehouse where i was. who will face the same illegal abortions. rene, we know that abortions are still legally estate. there is, though and i want to read this to make sure i m seeing it correctly. there s a temporary injunction blocking the enforcement of a state ban. i m sorry, it could change any moment if a temporary injunction blocking the enforcement of the state then is in fact lifted. we also know the governor filed a lawsuit in early april asking the michigan supreme court to guarantee the right to abortion your state. how confident are you this in fact will be able to happen? that your clinic will be able to continue operating? it won t be any minute. there is a hearing in the court of appeals in michigan. and, no matter who wins or loses, they will appeal to the michigan supreme court. it will take time. there is a restraining order in place right now.
we fought and the wish list is off the table. so you might ask, what is on the table? more mental health resources. more support for our schools, and making sure that violent criminals and the mentally ill cannot buy a firearm. meanwhile, president biden is praising his home state of delaware for adopting a state ban on assault-style weapons, and called on congress to, quote, do the right thing. on friday, the uk approved the extradition of wikileaks founder julian assange to the united states. assange has been in a british prison for the last three years. he is wanted in the u.s. on 18 criminal charges related to the release of thousands of classified files and diplomatic cables. if convicted, he faces up to 175 years in prison. assange s wife and one of his