abortion free. he s well on the way to that. he says he will sign a new trap law, a new targeting st states only abortion clinic with new regulations sometime in the next few days. in iowa the week, wrangling among republicans over abortion restrictions seem poise to delay the work on the budget and the end of the legislative session. yesterday the iowa senate was fighting abdomen defunding planned plarnt poplan ed parenthood. he was asked about the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. the law that gets women equal pay for equal work. here is what he had to say about the fair pay act at a campaign event this week. i voted against it. that thing is a nuisance. it shouldn t be the law. that thing is a nuisance. he called it a nuisance. again, it s a law that says
anti-regulation republican governors using deliberately intrusive, shut them down, punitive regulations to get the government s way on what happens to your pregnancy. joining us now is the executive director of pro choice virginia and a member of the virginia coalition to protect women s health, a group of medical providers and advocates formed specifically in response to virginia s new trap law. ms. keen, thank you for joining us. i appreciate your time. thank you for having me, rachel. did i describe what s going on in virginia accurately? do you expect that these regulations will effectively shut down most of the abortion providers in the state? well, i think tomorrow, once the draft regulations come out, i will have a better answer for that question. but if there s if they are following the same track that our proponents are pushing, that they emulate the south carolina regulations, then, yes, we have a really big problem on our hands here. and i fear that the majority of o
and like i said before, these are many of these women are marginalized already. and this might be the only place they can go for their general health care needs. not to mention their reproductive health care needs, such as birth control, and their regular annual pap smears. and cancer testing. sti testing. these are things that are very important to the women of virginia, but especially those groups that tend to be underinsured, uninsured, young, and rural women. they really depend on these facilities. i mentioned in the introduction that you re part of a group that has formed in virginia, specifically in response to this new trap law and these regulations from governor mcdonald. what are advocates in virginia doing at this point to try to strategize in this environment, and what do you think happens next after these regulations come out tomorrow? well, we definitely have formed a coalition to try to mitigate these regulations, to give us the best-case scenario,
joining us now is the executive director of pro choice virginia and a member of the virginia coalition to protect women s health, a group of medical providers and advocates formed specifically in response to virginia s new trap law. ms. keen, thank you for joining us. i appreciate your time. thank you for having me, rachel. did i describe what s going on in virginia accurately? do you expect that these regulations will effectively shut down most of the abortion providers in the state? well, i think tomorrow, once the draft regulations come out, i will have a better answer for that question. but if there s if they are following the same track that our proponents are pushing, that they emulate the south carolina regulations, then, yes, we have a really big problem on our hands here. and i fear that the majority of our women s health care
and cancer testing. sti testing. these are things that are very important to the women of virginia, but especially those groups that tend to be underinsured, uninsured, young, and rural women. they really depend on these facilities. i mentioned in the introduction that you re part of a group that has formed in virginia, specifically in response to this new trap law and these regulations from governor mcdonald. what are advocates in virginia doing at this point to try to strategize in this environment, and what do you think happens next after these regulations come out tomorrow? well, we definitely have formed a coalition to try to mitigate these regulations, to give us the best-case scenario, although we feel like being singled out is never a best-case