delivering remarks about the booster program, and this comes just days after the cdc director rochelle walensky overruled a cdc advisory panel endorsing an additional dose of the pfizer vaccine, not just for older americans but also for frontline workers at high risk for covid. it has been 27 days since texas banned most abortions in that state. the new restriction bans all abortions after six weeks, which is before most women know that they re pregnant. it also takes the extraordinary stem of allowing any private citizen to sue anyone who treats or assists on one seeking the procedure. now abortion providers in neighboring states are reporting a big increase in the number of texas women seeking their help far from home. joining me now is someone who knows this very well, the co-executive director of trust women clinic in oklahoma city. thanks for being here.
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in 1986 his clinic was bombed. tiller hung a sign outside the bomb out building hell no, we won t go. he reopened the next day at a secret location. we have had a major $100,000 bombing here in our organization, and one day later we re in business. in 1991 the radical anti-abortion group, operation rescue, called on thousands of anti-abortion activists from across the country to converge on wichita to physically shutdown george tiller s clinic. wichita is not used to guerilla tacks but it s learning. harassing patients, using children as human shields. eventually the radical fringe of the anti-abortion movement turned to a chilling new tactic to isolate and target doctors. wanted posters that cast abortion doctors as murderers and gave anyone who might wish
others. while he does have a desk, his desk sits opposite a metal detector, and he wears a gun on his hip. carl swinny works for julie burkhart at the trust women clinic in wichita, kansas. he s the facilities coordinator there which means he s in charge of keeping the staff at that clinic safe as well as the patients who go there for health care. carl worked for dr. tiller s clinic, too. he was the security guard at dr. tiller s clinic up until the day tiller was shot at his church. carl remembers seeing the man who killed his boss. he had come by the clinic when dr. tiller worked there. you d seen scott roader here. i d seen him, yeah. what got me is what he said in court or so i heard it. he was asked why he didn t try to shoot him here instead of in church and he said well the
she has to fly doctors in to wichita and oklahoma city every week to see patients. angela marchin is one of those doctors. i m from the midwest so i had thoughts of moving back to the midwest. i don t feel that it s safe for me to go to live in a place where i would constantly be under threat of violence or harm. so you wouldn t feel safe living in wichita and working here? no. this setup where clinics do not have in-town doctors, this is very common in the states where abortion access is already most vulnerable. and at least half a dozen republican led states where there are very few or even just one remaining clinic the atmosphere is seen as so hostile to abortion providers that clinics are not able to find any local doctors who will do the job. just like julie is doing, they
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