on thursday, voters legislator passed a total abortion ba that will have dir consequences for people living across the south within hours of its passage, ron desantis quietly signed th bill into law. that would ban abortion afte six weeks of pregnancy that is before many women know that they re even pregnant law won t take into effect until they resolve a chanc 15-week abortion ban that is signed into law last year florida s one blast places where people can access care i the south. it has quickly become unde abortion desert. when the six-week ban goes int effect, abortion will be entirely banned throughout the southern united states meanwhile, the fight to keep a decades old drug legal and accessible throughout th country has now reached th supreme court. yesterday justice alito paused the court ruling that woul have restricted access t nationwide to the bill for stone. for now, at least until next week, access has bee preserved. the issue however is far fro resolved and fut
way to make a conversation happen and make people think about this but i can t provide that information, that is provide to you robin, thank you so much fo having, for joining us today i want to ask you, we basicall saw two big decisions that are going to potentially impac alabama disproportionately one, the desantis ban that h signed into law. and also, the abortion bil that now is going to be facing the supreme court. how is that going to impac your state and the south well, first of all, thank you for having me on one thing that i want to mak extraordinarily clear abou this medication abortion fight is that it does not impact the south. for the most part, it is going to not have any effect on us whatsoever because we have n abortion it doesn t matter if it is procedure, it doesn t matter i it is mifepristone we have nothing in here. the reality is that this bil and this medication bill was
week, access has bee preserved. the issue however is far fro resolved and future portio bills remain uncertain it really maintains the status quo for a few more days to allow the justices to consider the issue. the white house on the other hand is doubling down on defending reproductive rights. this coming tuesday, vic president kamala harris will b in nevada to participate in an event where she s expect t emphasize the importance o keeping medication legal the audience, young voters medication abortions now account for more than half o all abortions are performed in the nine states. i mifepristone is one of two drugs often used to endorse an abortion a method that has been prove be safe, effective, an popular. joining me now is robin, she s the operations director of the west alabama woman cente located in tulsa, right in the heart of america s abortio desert in south. she is the author of the important book, the ne handbook for a post-ro america. robin, before we get started thank yo
fight for rehab. robin, falling with what yo just said, i want to quote another tweet that you wer yesterday. it said, while blue states are worried about medication abortion restrictions. they haven t realized that a six-week ban in florida migh actually hurt the more can you explain this i was recently talking to the washington post about what the impact would be for a floo to six-week ban. primarily, about how it woul affect people in balloon alabama. the reality is that everyone i thinking about how it will affect the states that are surrounding florida, that have used it as a place where the can get safe care. what they are not thinking about is the fact that florida even before roe was providin about 80,000 abortions a year. those people have to g somewhere. there is no place around for them to go they will be heading to sout carolina where abortion is onl legal up to 14 weeks they will be going to nort carolina where for now
introduced because the right need something to keep their people engaged they lost to many people whe roe was overturned because too many of their fowler s thought that was the goal, send it bac to the states. they need to come up wit something that would get the to still come to the polls they need to give them something to be still be angry at by four and they need to give them something to help them fun race still because otherwise everything with dry up if this does happen, this is going to leave the country the blue states will have yes, less access to mifepristone. they will still have procedura abortion they will still have thi abortion, while it is not as great as being able to have regime, it is still extremel effective, extremely safe, i is something that people wil be able to access. what this has done has made al of the blue states start t focus on themselves an fighting to maintain their old status quo it is taking up all th attention, resources, an especially money that c