That abortion ruined think chanf me giving birth. As a result, ive had five miscarriages. Three of them have been tubal pregnancies requiring emergency surgery and were very near death experiences. I have suffered from bouts of depression and attempted suicide, selfmutilation. My experience of Emotional Trauma after abortion is the same as millions of other women and their families. I havebe 317 statements i are 317 statements, each as powerful as that in terms of the human consequences of what this legislation would produce. Thank you, mr. Chair. Thank you. Ms. Northrup, would this legislation prohibit the use of ultrasound when a patient requests them . Oh, no, not at all. This law, again, is just very focused on those underhanded type of restrictions that are treating abortion not like similarlysituated medical practices that dont advance health and safety and are harming access to services. Ins sense, it would be irrelevant to the instance that senate be cruz has just described. Ye
Overtime to see if it changes. There is no doubt about that. Final thoughts . Thank you for your willingness to engage any discourse. There are important issues to us and we are able to do this today without yelling and screaming at each other or pointing at each other and making acquisitions accusations against each other. We have to as a nation come to grips with what is the balance here and there is going to be a lot of different perspectives out there. I understand that. Be grateful that you live in a nation that is willing to have this kind of dialogue. That is a good thing for us. Are there tensions along the way . Yes. Its not unique to cyber and its not the first time we had challenges have challenges like this and it wont be the last. But if we are willing to sit down and have a conversation we can move where we want to be. [applause] please remain seated until wrapping up. If you missed any of the conference you will be able to watch it in its entirety on the website cspan. O
Continues. Host Fiscal Health of states is the topic for the next 45 minutes and we are joined by two state treasuries. Jim mcintyre, Washington State treasurer. Along with david miller, who was the Tennessee State treasurer. Mr. Lillard, i want to begin with what do state treasurer is due . Guest theyre usually the chief Financial Officers of their state and they managed hundreds of billions of dollars for State Governments and local governments entities throughout the United States, including Pension Funds. They play a very Important Role in Fiscal Health. Host how do you go about doing your job . Guest a sickly investing monday investing money and offering programs to citizens of that they can use in their state like that. Host jim mcintyre, who do you report to in your job . I elected, pointed, how does it work . Guest im elected by the voters every four years and we have nine statewide elected officials in Washington State. Other states have fewer, but we are very active and i rep
House. Lets begin with the decision to retain troop levels in afghanistan. Democratyou can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan or journal cspan. Org. Lets show you a friend pages of the pages. Obama the slow troop withdrawal from afghanistan. The u. S. Will maintain current levels. Two will be out by 2000 troops will be out by 2017. What are your thoughts on this . The phone lines are open. Lets hear a little bit more from the president yesterday. [video clip] president obama you cannot minimize the sacrifices that our military families make. Some folks will be rotating that for a few extra months. We are moving the drawdown pays over to the bright for several in part to compensate for the linkengthy time it took for government formation. We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to help Afghan Security forces succeed. So we do not have to go back. So we do not have to respond in an emergency because terrorist activities are being launched out of afghanistan. We
Allen frances a member of the leadership and the former chair of psychiatry it currently lives in san diego california. He will talk about his latest book is the heaviest of the three. Titled saving normal among many issues tackled the underscores the politics in diagnosis. Please ball club allen frances. [applause] i am very worried about the Current Situation in america and only slightly hopeful of the future prognosis we have become a pill popping society in the wrong people are getting the pills those suits should not be taking the pills are statistics are astounding 20 of the population take the psychiatric medication to . Antidepressant is 11 percent in women over 40 with 25 percent take the antidepressant. 4 of the teenagers are taking stimulants and antidepressant the antipsychotics of class that should be restricted to a small percentage of the population is one of the biggest revenue producing drugs in america with 18 billion per year being used for all sorts of things. Antid