for people who can t afford it and many will not realize they re pregnant at that point and this is a direct attack on them very similar to the voting rights attacks we ve seen on them. thank you, ali. nice to be with you. let me just say this, i co-chair the pro choice caucus with diana degib and we ve seen this coming for many, many years. but i also remember the days of abortions and we re not going back. we re not going back. let me say a couple things. this is an issue of racial justice. when you look at the fact that low-income women and lo income people and rural districts that don t have money and won t have access to be able to exercise their full range of reproductive health care, including abortions. and that means annual screenings, we re talking about birth control, pregnancy tests. all the full range of services that people deserve. and so, if you don t have money now under the texas law and if
this new texas law what you, the uber driver did is illegal or sit there and say there is still roe v. wade and that has not been overturned and we cannot consider this act illegal. what do you think happens to the people who actually gets sued? nobody knows. that s the really nefarious part of this law is the fact that it s essentially a way
our clinics and trying to make sure that they can stop abortion from the outside because they haven t been able to completely do it through the legal apparatus. but until now, they haven t generally had the veneer of the protection of the law. in texas, now have the encouragement of the law to do those types of things. that has got to endanger everybody in the process not the least are the women seeking reproductive health care but the providers and the doctors and everybody around them. most definitely. and i can say just from our own experience here in alabama that we re already seeing an uptick on people who are coming to our clinic. we already see people who are coming closer than they used to. they re not necessarily following the rules as to how far they need to stay away from a clinic. we are, all of our clinics, all clinics, honestly, in the nation are on a high alert because once
they do about the vigil ante nature of this law. taking life and death issues and who gets to exercise their full citizenship in their country. these things should not vary depending which state you live in. this article that you have written, one action at the federal level involves the food and drug administration which is in the midst of reviewing restrictions on, i don t know the name of this drug, which is one of the drugs used in the medication induced abortion as a result of an acu lawsuit. that is another part that texas republicans are trying to do, prevent the ability to sell and mail that drug, an abortion drug within texas. yes. and we ve also written that that fight that is also happening in
it s critical. and it s an emergency. it s unusual in the united states that it s not protected legislatively. was that a mistake or, you know, should we have done something in 50 years to make it legislative as opposed to depend on this roe v. wade which many people thought was solid. conservatives saying, come on, roe v. wade is established law. it is not going away. should this have happened early? i believe it should have. when you have a congress that will not move and try to turn the clock back then it becomes a heavy lift. but i think the public now really understands what has been taking place over the years. and that s why passing the women s health protection act is so important. we have to make this the federal law now because we see what is taking place. women are going to die as a result of this texas law. and so we have to pass this. these vigil antes now who can