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To get an abortion. well, very soon that s not going to be possible. and so it s as bad as it is now, it s going to be total chaos not too long from now. and again, as we ve talked about this story isn t going to get better. one of the things i didn t mention in this ob/gyn survey that s amazing to me and so horrifying, more and more women are calling about sterilization. they re calling to get sterilized because they cannot face another unintended pregnancy, and that is wrong. dr. patel, i had heard that from a gynecologist that i know in new york city who said she had been asked to or she performed more sterilization surgeries in new york city that at any point in her career for the reason that cecile is articulating, that women don t trust the policies and the ....
Their 10-year-old daughters wondering if they re raped by someone up the block or in their family, should their 10-year-old daughters become mothers at 11. and there are republican women saying no, and that s a reality. this is not just democratic women saying no, these are republican women saying no. but it is also something important to think about back to that map, and cecile, thank you for pointing out what else is going on in that map because it s a ven diagram to the american south. it is a ven diagram to the confederacy. that is really important for us to note. it hasn t been why those states in their own efforts to say now we embrace the rights of women, now we embrace the rights of people of color, of black women, mississippi didn t ratify the 13th amendment until 2013. that s the amendment that banned slavery. in 1865 mississippi didn t get around to it until 2013. and mississippi is the state that petitioned the court to ....
Had to face what does it mean to take away the right of people to make decisions about their pregnancy. it s no longer a hypothetical. and that actually changes peoples feelings, and as we know more people are talking about abortion. many people know someone who s had an abortion, and i think it s come out in the open. and the last thing interesting to me about this is as more and more people have realized the rest of the country is pro-choice as we saw in kansas and have continued to see more and more people feel confident saying i am, too, and that includes republicans and independents. cecile, the banner under which a majority of americans reside is pro-choice america, which always meant the choice, you know, more options in front of you. i wonder how impactful you think the stories are we ve always focused with you on the real ....
Right after dobbs we saw the story of a 10-year-old girl having to flee one state in order to get to another in order to have that pregnancy terminate. she was fleeing ohio to get to indiana. there were lawmakers after that who said it was a hoax, it couldn t be, showing a grave naivety and ignorance, showing their own lack of concern because of course the story was real. but she wasn t alone. we ve also seen judges participate in this with denying teenagers the ability to be able to get a judicial bypass. in one case in florida with a judge saying that the young woman was too immature to have an abortion, but that leaves us with a question, mature enough to be a parent? and this is the landscape in the united states. and it s far filled from any other peer country at all. you know, cecile, people say that politics and running for office is an x-ray some people say about television as well, you re revealed. this issue is an x-ray. ....
Abortions in states that you show as blue where abortion remained legal. to get to the stories a woman in the south the new travel time for her to be able to access i ll just call it basic health care. this isn t abortion care. people don t come into our offices with signs that say my last menstrual period was such, and i m at exactly 5 weeks and 6 days. we take care of the person in front of us, but when they need to travel someplace, that time for a black woman in texas can be one to two full workdays. when you think about texas being one of the states that failed to expand medicaid, nicolle, that just compounds the barriers in access to care and makes their lives even shorter. and to the point that cecile raised about doctors, it is widespread. this graduating class of medical students for the first time has said they re cynical about entering careers and not just obstetrics and gynecology but ....