have republican governors in your state, that means that as of now, the state no longe wants to prevent a pregnancy from occurring as a result o rape they want you to be forced t bear the pregnancy and the child against your will, after you have been raped, eve though it is within their powe to stop that and before this policy change, the state regularly took steps to stop it they are going to change tha policy because they woul rather you bare that pregnancy and the rapist s baby agains your will, and it is the choic of republicans and state government to insist upon that for you, despite what you want after you have been raped. iowa, a red state, we re still two as a red state, 61% of the public wants abortion to b legal in some or all cases not only has that republican government there now criminalized abortion, they re going after contraception, and specifically targeting rap
this is how she responded. no, i m not concerned about litigation you know, look, i just want to be clear i mean, displays, this is th foundation of our country democracy. you know, this is bedrock. and if you come here to mess with our rights, our freedoms, we re gonna take you on. we re certainly not gonna stan for that joining us now is massachusetts governor governo maura healey governor, it s really nice o you to make time to be with us tonight. thank you. oh, it s great to be with you, rachel. tell me about the practicalities of this decisio about mifepristone you asked university o massachusetts to buy thousands of doses of this drug, and t have them in hand in state before this texas ruling goe into effect, which could effectively ban th distribution of that dru nationwide tell me how it would work fo the state to effectively control a stockpile like that, of that drug look, rachel, as you know the battle to protect abortion is really being waged in the
very quickly to try to get ahead of what republicans an conservative judges are trying to do, because republicans are not just trying to ban abortion, and criminalize abortion, even go after contraception in al the states where they contro the state government, they r trying to do it nationwide they are trying to do it i blue states, too they re trying to do it even i states where there s democrati governance, and where people have voted through their representatives to make sure abortion stays legal and so, democratic governors are trying to move the defense mode and what that has meant very quickly, just in the last fe days, is that democratic led states, democratic governors have moved to literall stockpile these abortion pills before the republicans reall can try to ban them everywhere and a state house brisk on france today in boston, maur healey announced an executiv order to protect massachusetts doctors and pharmacists from
victims to start the targeting of contraception you cannot abort a pregnancy once it happens, even if i happens as a as a result of rape, saying they will n longer assist you with that as a rape victim, nor can you prevent a pregnancy from occurring by using emergency contraception. the state will no longer hel you with that either and this, again, is not just something brought that they re doing for the whole they are specifically targeting rap victims. so, like i said, the phras radical turn here is a considered phrase. i do not use it lightly. in idaho, also consider that republicans just passed a la late last week that threaten you with 2 to 5 years in prison, if you help someone under th age of 18 leave the state to get an abortion. you have to leave the state of idaho if you want to get a abortion because they have criminalized abortion there. but helping someone do so no is a new crime, and they r
calling it, abortion trafficking. and it is 2 to 5 years i prison if you do it. you would think in the unite states of america that a state could not pass a law banning you as an american fro traveling to another state but that s the idaho republica idea of freedom. they are also going to try t use the law to bring crimina charges against doctors wh provide an abortion in another state, if that abortion is provided to a young woman wh has traveled there from idaho. now, in one of the states that has a long border with idaho s washington state, wher abortion is legal. that state democratic governor jay inslee, wrote a letter jus a few days ago to idaho republican governor brad little. so, jay inslee, the democratic governor from washington, on the left side of your screen there, and brad little, that republican governor of idaho on the right side of you screen jay inslee s letter to bra little, basically for most o the letter, tells him what a bad idea it is for idaho t