relationships. joining me now, christina. the washington post opinio columnist and author o rethinking sex, a provocation. christine, welcome to th saturday show. nice to see. you not in the office like w usually see each other yeah, thanks for having me why is it important to keep abortion drugs like about the press down on charles at places like walgreens? well, you have the obviou answer, right. abortion medication abortion makes up more than 30% o abortions in the united states especially in the firs trimester which is when wome tend to have abortions in the states where it has bee perhaps been pushed off, where walgreens has it won t distribute, these are ofte some of the most rural states. red states where it is not like women can just taught over to thei ob/gyn to get an abortion done so this really reduces their access, and shows how troublin it will be in the future so, if the drug is outlawed
appreciate your time. as he mentioned, politics nation , week nights 6:00 eastern here on msnbc. as the reverend alluded to in the house of representatives members have started debating )jz bill. it would deny money to health care plans that provide abortion under the president s health care reform plan. joining me is john stanton of role call. good afternoon. the bill doesn t cut the deficit, even if the president had not threatened to veto, which he has, there s some that question whether it would cut down on number of o abortions in the country. my first question, why? well, i think there was sort of two thoughts going on. one is they had to do the vote õand republican leadership included it in their pledge to america last year.