it for weeks, it suspended fda approval of mifepristone, th drug that, as you know, ha been safely used for more than 20 years, has become the mos common method for terminatin pregnancies in this country. within an hour, another federa judge in washington state, contradicted that ruling ordering the fda to keep the drug available at 17 states in d.c. president biden last night condemning the texas route calling it, quote, the next bi step before the national ban o abortion by republican elected officials have vowed to make a lot america. vice president kamala harris committed to fighting back there is no question, president and i are gonna stan with the women of america, and do everything we can to ensure that women have the ability to make decisions about their health care, their reproductiv health care, in a manner tha is what they need, and the decide that, not their government the drug will continue to b available for now, since the texas judge gave the fda seven days
saying they want gun safet legislation enacted. here s the thing, i think yo can look at all of these polic issues and they all time back to th bigger questions of democrac and reform, includin gerrymandering, which yo referenced, you wouldn t b sitting here having this conversation in the same way if there were not these larger forces at play, making sur that the voices of a minorit appeared as a voice of the majority and i wonder, for you, a someone who does the work of both understanding thi electorate, but also engagin this electorate, such that the don t decide hey, i m gonna si this one out because that s always th concern. if people come to the plac where they feel disenfranchise from their democracy, if the feel ignored, that then, instead of showing up twice as hard, they begin to slink away i wonder how you think about that complicated push and pull well, we re looking at it i relationship to two differen factors. one, factor, how is it tha