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(radio news clips
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(newswoman)
...Would make performing
abortions a felony

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for doctors leading
to prison time...

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(newsman)
A controversial abortion bill

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was signed into law on Monday.
It will require doctors...

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(newswoman)
A contentious new law said to
take effect in July

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bans abortions if a woman
seeks the procedure...

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(newsman)
Can refuse to pay for
contraception...

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(newswoman)
Protestors voicing their
opinions at the State House...

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(newswoman 2)
State lawmakers passed a bill
banning all abortions...

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(newswoman)
Banning women from seeking
abortions...

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(newsman)
Victory for
pro-choice groups...

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(newsman 2)
Attorneys asking
a federal judge...

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(newsman 3)
Opponents promising to sue...

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The House has approved
a controversial bill...

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(newsman)
A Federal Judge...

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(newsman 2)
The court issued
a preliminary...

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(newsman 3)
New abortion law is headed...

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(newswoman)
Controversial abortion law...

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(newsman)
Bans an abortion...

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(overlapping newscasters
reading headlines)

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♪♪

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(heavy wind blowing)

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♪♪

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- My story doesn\'t have anything
to do with abortion.

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- It had to do with...

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a family doing what\'s
best for their family.

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I\'ve always wanted to be
a father, that\'s...

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That was my main thing is,
you know...

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It wasn\'t necessarily a certain
career or anything like that.

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It was I wanted to be a father
and have a family.

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- I found out in September,
the end of September of 2010

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that I,
that I was pregnant.

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Everything was normal.
Everything was fine.

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Um, I purchased Alex a big boy
bed \'cause he was gonna

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get out of his crib and...

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Again, just those
things you do

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when you\'re gonna
have a second, second baby.

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Alex was two, and so he was
still in diapers.

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And we were getting him--
putting his pajamas

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and getting him ready
for bed and...

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I felt something funny and...

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I looked at Robb and I said,
\"Robb, something\'s wrong.\"

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- I mean, I could see the water
going down to the floor.

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- Robb got me gathered up,
and he got me in our bedroom,

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and he helped me change
my clothes and he...

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helped me clean
myself and he...

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He just tried to make it okay.

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He was driving so fast,
and we got pulled over.

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It was the first time
I heard panic in his voice.

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And he said to the policeman,

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\"My wife\'s in labor,
and it\'s too early.

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You have to let us go.\"

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He waved us on, and he escorted
us to the hospital.

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They did this test strip
to see if the fluid

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was urine or amniotic fluid.

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I just looked at her
and I said,

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\"Just please tell me
I peed my pants.\"

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Like, just please tell me
that humiliating thing.

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That please tell me
that\'s what happened.

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We went to
the perinatologist.

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She explained to us that
my water broke at 22 weeks,

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and one day, I wasn\'t able
to retain any water.

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So, my baby\'s lungs
and other organs,

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but the most vital,
the lungs,

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would not develop past
22 weeks and one day.

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The odds of bringing a baby home
at all with a heartbeat...

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...were less than
ten percent and...

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Bringing a baby home without
a bunch of anomalies and needing

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a lot of machines and things
was less than two percent.

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I did ask her
at what point do we go from...

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At what point do we go
from being good parents

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and doing whatever it is
we need to do to save our child

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and being selfish...

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...and putting our child
through unnecessary things

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just for our own sake?

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(sniffles)

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So, we asked her if we
could induce the labor

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and let nature
take its course.

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And she explained that a law
had passed in Nebraska.

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And she didn\'t go into great
detail about the law but...

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It would be illegal for her
to induce my pregnancy.

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(Todd Pankratz, MD)
Unfortunately, the Nebraska
legislature had passed

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a 20-week fetal pain bill,
which, if any provider

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participated in a abortion
after 20 weeks,

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it was a felony charge

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and your license potentially
could be taken away from you.

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- And I, I\'m and I\'m like,
\"But it\'s not an abortion.\"

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- All of our doctors
said this is--

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We were in a very
unusual situation.

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- The law should not have
affected me at all.

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- The legislature will see

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any elective delivery
of a baby as,

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that is non-viable,
as being an abortion.

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And so, we informed Danielle
and her husband

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that at this point
our hands would be tied.

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- We were very shocked to hear
that there was nothing

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they could do for us
other than have us wait.

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It was ten days
of torture.

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- I got really sick.

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My temperature
went up really high,

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and my blood pressure got
really low and...

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I got really, really sick
and they wouldn\'t--

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They hooked me up to all this
stuff and no one would leave,

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like, the nurses were
there all the time and...

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(sniffles)

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My husband was just so nervous.

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- That just infuriates me.

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Because it did not
have to be that way.

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- The reason I was
so sick is because

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I had a really terrible
infection and, uh...

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Because I waited 10 days
with my membranes ruptured.

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- I could have very
easily lost my--

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love of my life
because of this law

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that was made by people

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that don\'t understand
how its affecting people.

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- Elizabeth was born at 3:00.

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And they wrapped her up,
and they put her in my arms.

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And she gasped.

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- And...

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we watched
her pass away.

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♪♪

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- 2010 was a really big year.

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2010, of course, was the year
the Tea Party swept into power.

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-We\'ve come to take our
government back!

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(cheering)

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Tonight there\'s a Tea Party
tidal wave,

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and we\'re sending
a message to \'em.

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(cheering)

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(chanting USA, USA...)

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(Andrea Friedman)
Members of the Tea Party ran
on a fiscal economic platform.

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Yet as soon they got to office,
it became very clear

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that the Tea Party was,
in fact,

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a very socially conservative,
anti-choice group.

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Its leadership,
its membership,

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and the legislators
that they elected.

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And so, one of their clear
original priorities

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became right away to restrict
access to abortion.

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-Will those of us privileged
to live and breathe in this

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the land of the free
and the home of the brave,

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finally come together
and protect mothers

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and their littleinnocent
pain-capable unborn babies.

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-We talk about
the choice.

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You ask us, \"Well,
don\'t we put ourselves

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in the place of a woman
and her choice?\"

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What choice does
the baby have?

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Who speaks for the baby?

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- Then what started and which
continues to this day, uh,

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a frenzy of anti-abortion
restrictions.

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Since 2010, state legislatures

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have passed approximately
300 restrictions.

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- Indeed, we\'ve had more laws
passed in the few years

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than in the prior decade.

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- It is a very scary time
in the United States right now

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for a woman
to become pregnant

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and to seek any kind
of medical care.

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- We\'re currently suffering
from a public health crisis

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from a number of forces

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that are all bearing down
on women right now.

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- The ultimate goal of
overturning Roe v. Wade requires

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that women lose their rights
in a number of different ways.

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Access to abortion, absolutely.

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But that is the tip of the
iceberg compared to all

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the other rights that are also
necessarily going to be chipped

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away at if they were to fully
realize their vision.

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- You really can\'t divorce the
struggle for abortion rights

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from the struggle from racial
justice, for the struggle

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for civil rights,
from human rights

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and really the struggle
for power in this country.

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And so, it\'s a mistake to think
the abortion rights struggle

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is about abortion
or even just about women.

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- When people tell me how
intense this debate is today

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on abortion, I remind them that
the last time this country

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dealt with an issue
of this dynamic, uh...

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we shot each other to doll rags
on the Civil War battlefield.

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(band playing \"When Johnny Comes
Marching Home\")

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(crowd chanting)
Keep your rosaries
off my ovaries!

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Keep your rosaries
off my ovaries!

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(Michele Goodwin)
This is a new war.

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Women have become
the collateral damage.

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The consequences of this war

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and attack on women
have pretty much been ignored.

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-I come to the Senate floor
today to ask my Republican
colleagues a question.

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Do you have any idea
what year it is?

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Did you fall down,
hit your head

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and think you woke up
in the 1950s or the 1890s?

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Should we call for a doctor,
because I simply cannot believe

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that in the year 2015,
the United States Senate

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would be spending its time
trying to defund

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women\'s health care centers.

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♪♪

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- Historically, women have
never been able to control
their reproduction.

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- 50 to 60 years ago, if you
were a woman who was single

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in a number of states,
it was outlawed

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that you\'d be able
to get the pill.

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- In the \'60s, Connecticut,
we think of as a kind

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of progressive state,
Connecticut had a law against,

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uh, uh, you know,
dispensing contraception

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to married couples.

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Married couples did not have
a right to access contraception

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in the state of Connecticut.

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(McGregor)
And, of course,
the court decided there,

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that it was not the role
of the state to interfere

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with the intimate choices
of married couples.

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This is what\'s interesting
about where we are today is that

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it seems to me one of the ways
you control women

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and you control their ability
to be equal

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and free actors in society
is you don\'t allow them

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to control their reproduction.

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- The younger generation is not
at all aware of the miseries

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that women went through
back before...

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Number one, they had effective
birth control and number two,

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before they had the right
to have a medically
safe abortion procedure.

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Young women would
do most anything

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to terminate a pregnancy.

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- During the illegal abortion
era in the United States

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before Roe v. Wade,
every large municipal hospital

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in the country
had a septic abortion ward.

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Indeed, incomplete
often-infected abortion

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was the single most common
reason that women

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were hospitalized
on gynecology services.

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These wards were always filled
with women suffering

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and often dying
from infected abortions.

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(chanting)

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(Walter Cronkite)
The illegal termination
of pregnancy

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has reached epidemic
proportions in this country.

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The laws which govern abortion
are broken an estimated

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one million times a year.

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(woman)
Gloria Steinem
who I don\'t think

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needs any further
introduction to anyone.

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-We will continue our fight
until every woman has the right

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to decide for herself
whether or not

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and when to have an abortion.

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- In a landmark ruling,
the Supreme Court today

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legalized abortions.

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The majority, in cases
from Texas and Georgia,

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said that the decision
to end a pregnancy

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during the first three months

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belongs to the woman and her
doctor, not the government.

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- For the pro-choice movement,
it was a huge victory.

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And it still is a huge victory.

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But it allowed us to perhaps
get a little bit complacent.

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It allowed the pro-choice
side to say we\'ve won.

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We\'ve won at the Supreme Court.
There\'s nowhere else to go.

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The highest court in the land,
and we can relax a little bit.

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We have--
we\'ve won this battle.

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And did not see the onslaught

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that was coming
from the anti-choice movement.

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-The reason I\'m here is because

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babies are being killed
in our hospitals and clinics.

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I can\'t tolerate it.
America can\'t tolerate it.

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We must start this
Right to Life Movement,

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which is growing
and growing.

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We will stop the killing.

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-How many millions of children
prior to their birth,

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will never live to see
the light of day

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because of the shocking action
of the majority

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of the United States
Supreme Court today?

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Whatever their legal rationale,

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seven men have made a tragic,
utilitarian judgment

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regarding who shall live
and who shall die.

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- When Roe v. Wade
came down, uh,

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it was an issue that, uh,

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cut to the heart
of the Catholic community, uh...

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The Protestants, Evangelicals,
were mostly on the sideline.

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And they did not join the fight,
uh, until maybe late \'70s.

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And, uh, I\'ve heard,
you know,

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Jerry Falwell and other, uh,
evangelical leaders

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talk about they were late to
the, uh, to the cause and they--

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It was the Catholics
that kept the issue alive

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front and center.

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(Carol Tobias)
A lot of people,
after the 1973 decision

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that were pro-life
were opposed to abortion,

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thought that
if they could just

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pass a constitutional amendment
this would be all over.

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(newsman)
The first stop for the right
to life demonstrators

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was the capitol.

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They immediately went to
Congressional offices

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to make their point.

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-And what do we want?

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We want a Constitutional
Amendment, right?!

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(crowd cheering)

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(newsman)
Today was the fourth anniversary

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of the Supreme Court decision
that said women have

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a constitutional right
to obtain abortions.

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And opponents are still working
for a Constitutional amendment

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to override that decision.

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(music playing)

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- When it became apparent that
wasn\'t going to happen,

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or at least wasn\'t going
to happen very quickly,

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National Right to Life decided
to try the incremental approach.

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- In 1973, we thought
the battle was won

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when Roe v. Wade was handed down
in January of that year.

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But very soon thereafter,
the opposition to abortion

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began to do terrible, terrible
damage to women\'s rights.

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One of the most notable in the
mid-\'70s was the Hyde Amendment,

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introduced by the late
Congressman Henry Hyde
of Illinois,

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which cut off Medicaid
funding for abortion.

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- Hyde himself said, I would ban
it for all women if I could,

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but I can only reach these women
\'cause they\'re the ones who get

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their health care through
the federal government.

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(Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas)
The first casualty of the Hyde
Amendment was Rosie Jimenez.

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Rosie Jimenez was a Latina
27-year-old single mother, uh,

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of a daughter
about five years old.

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She was a nursing student.

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She literally had a scholarship
check in her purse

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when she learned about her
unplanned pregnancy.

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She was on Medicaid and was
therefore denied access to
abortion coverage.

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She was forced to resort to
unsafe underground abortion

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and ultimately
died of septic shock.

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- Don\'t murder your baby,
please, let us help you!

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(Carole Joffe)
If you think about the
anti-abortion movement

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from its origins in the early
\'70s over the last 40 odd years,

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it\'s been a remarkable
development.

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It started primarily
by just local actions,

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protesting at local clinics.

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Over time developing
much more, uh, strong ties

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with the Republican Party.

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(man)
A human life amendment
would only...

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(protestor chatter)

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(Carol Tobias)
National Right to Life
decided if we want

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to change the law, we have
to change the lawmakers.

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- How can Jimmy Carter
be a man of God

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if he is preaching the Bible
out of one side of his mouth

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and he is for abortion
out of the other?

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You cannot mix religion
and abortion.

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They\'re directly opposed.

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- In 1980, our first election,
we helped to defeat Jimmy Carter

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and elect Pro-Life
Ronald Reagan.

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- Ronald Reagan came into
politics, uh, not as someone

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who was opposed to abortion.

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I know he was not pro-life
initially.

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And he signed a pro-abortion
legislation, very liberal

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pro-abortion
legislation as governor.

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By the late \'70s, uh,
he\'s beginning to rethink this.

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-And all the evidence so far,
comes down on the side

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of the unborn child being
a living human being.

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- That was beginning to be an
issue that was, uh, becoming

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one of the litmus test issues
if you wanted to, uh,

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operate at the national
level of the Republican Party.

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-Thank God for a president
who agrees in totality

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with what we morally
stand for here.

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(Carole Joffe)
Those who funded this movement
saw enormous potential

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to bring hundreds and thousands,
if not millions of new voters

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into the Republican Party.

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This was a battering ram that
helped bring to the fore

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all the issues they opposed.

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But abortion was the centerpiece
because it, it--

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now it brought in the churches
with all their resources.

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- I remember, uh, that, uh,
that was the one thing that

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George Bush had to assure
Ronald Reagan on the phone

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when he-- when Reagan
made the call,

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would he like to join
his ticket as vice president.

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Uh, he had to be assured
that he would be pro-life.

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♪♪

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(Carole Joffe)
Prescott Bush, the father
of the first President Bush

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was the national treasurer
of Planned Parenthood.

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Barbara Bush-- It was an open
secret that she was pro-choice.

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- George H. W. Bush was known
as a very strong advocate

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of Planned Parenthood, uh,
and, uh, uh, contraceptives.

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And he had a nickname
to go with that.

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(chuckling)

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- His nickname was \"Rubbers.\"

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- So, uh, this was a big change
for, uh, for George H. W. Bush

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and probably for the entire
Bush, Bush family.

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-There are many issues
and abortion divides.

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We have room in our party for
people that feel one way,

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pro-life or pro-choice.

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Democratic Party
the same way.

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Uh, I think everyone knows that
this is an issue that divides.

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- I remember, uh, a, uh, former
member of Congress who\'s a big,

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uh, lobbyist now, a very nice
fellow, uh, maybe 25 years ago,

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telling me \"Give up Richard
on the abortion issue.

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We\'ve lost that issue.\"
And we just said no.

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Uh, this, this is who
we are, this, uh--

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\"We\'ll never give up
on the life issue.\"

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And when you really believe
that, uh, it\'s the taking

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of a human life, I mean, you
know, you take, uh, you spend

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time and resources and energy
to, uh, try to, you know,

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save those babies and, uh,
you organize the same

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as if you were trying
to defeat the communists.

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- ♪ Christ has gotten us
the victory hallelujah ♪

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♪ Sound the trumpets of war ♪

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- Amen!

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-Roe v. Wade is going down!

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(cheering and applause)

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- ♪ Glory, glory hallelujah ♪

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- All we want
is a show of strength.

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- ♪ Glory, glory hallelujah ♪

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- Well, we don\'t have a plan.
We simply come here
to save babies

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because abortion is murder.

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- ♪ His truth is marching on ♪

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- Terminating the life of the
abortionist, I would not say

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is murder that needs to--
needs, needs forgiveness.

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It is an act of,
of, of rescue.

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It is an act of mercy.

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It is an act of defense
of a neighbor.

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And so, it isn\'t one that one
needs to ask forgiveness for.

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(explosion)

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(explosion, woman shrieks)

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-Oh, my God!

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(indistinct shouting)

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(Andrea Friedman)
We\'ve had abortion
providers murdered

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in their church,
in their home.

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And this is a, a true domestic
terrorist attack

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on women\'s right to choose.

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- The harassment,
intimidation of providers,

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indeed resulting in the murder
of a number of providers,

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has had a chilling
effect on our field.

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- We\'re getting to a point
where less and less physicians

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know how to perform
an abortion.

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There should really be
a baseline knowledge for all

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people who become physicians
regardless of their specialty.

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And for whatever reason,
a lot of medical schools

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determined that abortion
education just shouldn\'t

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be part of that
baseline knowledge.

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- Even if doctors got
abortion training

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and they really wanted
to provide abortion,

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sometimes their superiors
were just telling them,

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no, you can\'t,
you can\'t do abortion here.

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You won\'t work here or, um,
you know, were afraid.

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You can\'t being doing
abortion in my,

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in this private practice
or it\'ll make us look bad.

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We\'ll lose patients, people will
protest us, you know,

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we won\'t be able to compete
with other practices in town

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if we\'re known
as abortion providers.

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- The anti-choice movement, um,
has moved from just being

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the group that yells
and screams at women

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as they walk into clinics.

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They\'re no longer just
the folks holding the signs

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and protesting
outside of events.

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They have moved
into positions of power.

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They are taking over,

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um, in a very strategic way
politically

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that\'s actually putting a lot
of pressure on our communities

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in ways that we really haven\'t
seen in a very long time.

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(Andrea Friedman)
They understood that change
was going to happen

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in a state-by-state way.

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And so, they recruited
candidates at every level.

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They did organizing via
churches, via community groups.

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They recruited new members
and they brought them onboard

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to their political strategy.

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They got them elected
first at the local level.

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Then moving up the chain.

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And our movement failed to have
that same level farm team.

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-Uh, the President of Center
for Arizona Policy,

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Cathi Herrod.

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(cheering and applause)

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-Thank you, Aaron.

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At Center for Arizona Policy,

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our mission is to promote
and defend

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the foundational principles
of life, marriage and family,

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and religious liberty.

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(applause)

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You know, Moms and Dads,
when our daughters at the ages

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of nine or ten years old should
walk into an abortion clinic,

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be given their
first female exam,

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be given birth control pills,
and be taken to court

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to get an order for an abortion
without us knowing about it.

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How can we stay silent?
We cannot stay silent.

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We must engage in what\'s
going on in public policy.

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(applause)

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- I know the media in the last
couple of years has started

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paying attention about all these
laws that are being passed.

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But we\'ve been passing laws
since the late 1970s.

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- The legislators continued
to pass these ideologically

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driven mandates on health care
because they could.

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And our side went to the courts,
tried to stop some of these.

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And then we had the case
of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

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And in that case,
the court upheld

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the majority of these
restrictions.

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-In upholding Pennsylvania\'s
right to a 24-hour

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waiting period, to parental
consent and to state-sponsored

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propaganda that women will have
to be subjected to before they

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can seek a medically safe,
legal abortion, they have set

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the cause of women\'s rights
back a good 20 years.

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- In that case, there was also
a door that was left open.

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And that door
was that a state

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could, in fact,
pass legislation

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that would infringe
on the right of a woman\'s

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access to an abortion--
right to an abortion,

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so long as it did not
cause an undue burden.

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Now the court never specified

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what an undue burden
actually happens to be.

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What\'s been so strategic and
clever is that state by state,

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oppositional forces have gone
to state legislatures

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and have now been able
to enact a number of victories.

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- We want to nibble
away at Roe v. Wade.

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We want to educate
the American public.

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We want to protect unborn
children and their mothers.

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And we want to set up enough
common sense legislation,

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laws, standards, that the
Supreme Court eventually

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has to look at those
1973 decisions and say

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\"we have no idea what the Court
was thinking at that time\"

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because that was a really stupid
ruling and overturn it.

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(crowd cheering)

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(Carole Joffe)
After President Obama
was elected in 2008,

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a lot of conservatives, very,
very angry, furious about

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Obama\'s election, did not see
him as a legitimate president.

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Among the many arguments they
had was that he was pro-choice.

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And so, the 2010 election
brought total control

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of Republicans
to many state legislatures.

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So, what you started to see
in 2010 continuing

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to the present moment
is restriction

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after restriction
after restriction.

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- Lawmakers just approved a bill

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that would make performing
abortions a felony for doctors.

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-My goal is to end abortion
in Mississippi.

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- South Carolina lawmakers
have passed a bill

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banning abortion
after 19 weeks.

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(newswoman)
A contentious new law
set to take effect in July

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bans abortions if a woman seeks
the procedure because the fetus

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could have birth defects
or is a certain gender or race.

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- Several new abortion
restrictions

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going up for debate at the
Arizona State Capitol today.

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(newsman)
A controversial abortion bill
was signed into law on Monday.

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It will require doctors to
administer an anesthetic

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to a fetus more
than 20 weeks old.

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(newsman 2)
The new bill would ban most
abortions after 20 weeks.

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Abortions would have
to be performed

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in hospital-style surgical rooms

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and doctors would need admitting
privileges at nearby hospitals.

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-In signing House Bill Two,

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uh, today we celebrate
and further cement

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the foundation on which
the culture of life, uh,

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in Texas, is built upon.

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It also is our responsibility
to improve the quality of care

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for women in this state,
ensuring that any procedure

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they undergo is performed
in clean, sanitary

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and safe conditions
by capable personnel.

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(Andrea Friedman)
The anti-choice side was just
very successful in putting women

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on the defensive and shifting
their rhetoric to the ones

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that were supporting women\'s
rights instead of our side.

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And having to-- and making
us battle on our own terms.

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Whereas it was, they were about
the fetus and the life

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of the fetus
and now they\'re saying

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\"No, we\'re also about
the life of the woman.\"

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- None of these laws have ever
been about patient safety.

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They\'re about regulating women,
regulating, uh, women\'s access

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to their
reproductive care, um...

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decreasing the number of
abortions which basically

31:31.500 --> 31:33.768
decreases the number of
providers and clinics

31:33.792 --> 31:36.185
that can provide abortion,
making it more difficult

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for women to get procedures,
making it more expensive.

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Medical system benefits may
be available for prenatal care.

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The father of the pregnancy is
liable to assist and support,

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even if he\'s offered
to pay for the abortion.

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The legislature
has passed a script

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that I have to read
to my patients.

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And if I don\'t read that script,
in the law, it\'s a felony.

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I could go to jail,
lose my medical license.

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They can report it
to the board

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if I don\'t read this script
to this patient.

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And some of the things in this
script are not medically sound.

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- It\'s been sad for me
as a public health physician

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as well as a gynecologist to see
how the opposition

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has hurt women\'s health
over the years.

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And there have been several
strategies that they\'ve used.

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One is to develop an alternative
medical literature,

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terribly flawed studies
and publish them generally

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in minor league journals but
they then get these articles

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into the hands of legislators.

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So, they\'ve created an
alternative universe

32:27.917 --> 32:31.185
that would have us believe
that abortion is dangerous.
It\'s not.

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- I think the studies that would
say that there is a link

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between breast cancer and
abortion are too many

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and too strong to just deny
that there\'s any kind of link.

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Uh, there are studies that show
women who\'ve had abortions

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do have higher suicide rates
or attempted suicide rates.

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- No credible medical
organization holds this belief.

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Yet these alternative groups are
out there trying to convince

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legislators that there\'s
a giant conspiracy afoot

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to hide this risk factor
from women.

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It makes no sense.

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- What\'s important to understand
about what\'s happening

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right now in the United States
is that the attack

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on women\'s reproductive
health and their ability

33:15.334 --> 33:18.102
to make decisions about their
reproductive health

33:18.126 --> 33:20.475
is not just
about abortion.

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It\'s even about
whether or not

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young people have access
to sex education.

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Or sex education that includes
more than abstinence only.

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In a lot of states,
as it turns out, no.

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That sex education
is only about abstinence.

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It even boils down to
contraception

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and whether or not women
have access to contraception.

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- How has contraception become
part of the war on abortion?

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To many people,
it\'s ludicrous.

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The whole idea of contraception
is you prevent a birth, uh,

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and therefore you prevent
an unwanted pregnancy

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and therefore you reduce
the need for abortions.

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The more extreme, we might say
the more fanatical wings

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of the anti-abortion movement
changed the discourse.

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They said no, contraception
doesn\'t prevent abortions.

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Contraception is,

34:15.583 --> 34:18.559
is supportive
of the abortion mentality.

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The same person who would
try to prevent a birth

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is the same kind
of person who would,

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if she had an unwanted
pregnancy, would abort it.

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So, contraception became like
the little sister of abortion.

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Evil, not quite as evil,
but still evil, uh...

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And then the ante
got raised even more.

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Contraception itself became
reframed as an abortifacient,

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something that causes
an abortion.

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- In a major
ruling today,

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the Supreme Court
said that some employers

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cannot be forced to cover birth
control in their health plans

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if that violates
their religious beliefs.

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- We\'re finding that companies
are denying contraceptive access

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in their insurance plans, um,
and there\'s pharmacists that are

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denying access to contraception
in their pharmacies.

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We\'re seeing laws across
the country that are cutting

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at the heart
of family planning programs,

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and these programs provide
vital resources to women

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and to communities.

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-Texas will not allow
a program

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that includes
abortion providers

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or their affiliates,
like Planned Parenthood,

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to be a provider.

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(applause)

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(Jessica)
We\'re seeing HIV on the rise.

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We\'re seeing sexually
transmitted infections
on the rise.

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We\'re seeing unplanned
pregnancies on the rise.

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There\'s real life implications
when you cut and defund

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preventative and family
planning programs.

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- Part of the problem
in our defensive fight

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is how successful the
anti-choice side has been

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around stigmatizing abortion.

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- How this shows up in our
communities is we have women

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scared to speak up
for themselves.

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We have women being shamed into,
um, completing pregnancies

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that they don\'t want or
they\'re-- or barriers to access

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which puts them into positions
they don\'t want to be in.

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- The Supreme Court
just handed down

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an important
ruling on abortion.

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By five to three vote,

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the eight justices
struck down

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new regulations in Texas
that have forced

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many abortion
clinics to close.

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-Women across America

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have had their constitutional
rights vindicated.

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(crowd cheering)

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-It was a win
for the abortion industry.

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All excited about this victory,

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Planned Parenthood announced
a nationwide campaign.

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They will work to repeal
pro-life laws,

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pass pro-abortion laws, well,
they didn\'t say pro-abortion,

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but that\'s what they are.

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Enact pro-abortion laws
and pursue litigation

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to strike down laws
they consider to be unjust.

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Now, I will admit
I was a bitamused by that.

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We\'ve been
passing pro-life laws

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in state after state
after state

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for year after
year after year.

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And they think they\'re going to
waltz in and just repeal them?

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It\'s not gonna happen,
so, you know...

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(applause)

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Good luck to them,
but it ain\'t gonna happen.

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- So, we are living at a time
where it\'s not--

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it\'s not just abortion,
it\'s not just contraception,

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it\'s not just sex ed,
it is every aspect of pregnancy

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and childbirth
that is now being subject

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to state punishment,
control and surveillance.

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(Joan McGregor)
The same young women who are
sexually active

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assume that they have these
rights are unaware

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of the fact that many of these
rights are being eroded.

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- Roe versus Wade,
isn\'t that, uh...

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uh, something to do
with Black History?

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- Yeah, I\'ve heard of it,

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but I don\'t know
the specifics of it.

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- Roe versus Wade, um...

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Man, I studied that
so long ago.

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- Didn\'t that, like, get rid of
segregation between schools?

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(woman)
Does Roe versus Wade
mean anything to you?

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- I\'ve heard it.

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- Wasn\'t it that it made, like,
birth control, uh, legal?

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- Um, it was a landmark decision
by the United States

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Supreme Court
on the issue of abortion.

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- I\'m not surprised that
I didn\'t learn it in school.

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But it does-- it\'s upsetting
that we never learned that.

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- And one, two and three...

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(Carol Tobias)
We have been working for many
years to encourage,

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educate and motivate
young people.

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♪♪

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A lot of our state affiliates
have youth camps.

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(young female)
Basically we are the generation
that\'s gonna stop this.

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So, we need to be educated
and know how to debate

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and talk to people
and change people\'s lives.

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(man)
We will be teaching you

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how to make your pro-life
case persuasive.

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How you-- how to be able
to articulate
your pro-life position.

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(young woman)
When you feel like you don\'t
have enough courage

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to speak up for what
you believe in,

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and you see all these people
here, like, our age,

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it gives you the courage,
like, get out there

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and really spread
the word of God.

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-I know we are going to win
because we are winning

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the hearts and minds
of the young people.

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-The war of abortion
is between life and death,

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and we need everyone to fight.

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It doesn\'t matter
if you are younger or old.

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For allthe teenagers here
like me, God can use you.

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Together, I believe my
generation can end abortion.

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(cheering and applause)

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-It is not progressive
to try to resolve problems

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by eliminating a human life.

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It took 300 years
for the Church to conquer Rome.

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If it takes us 300 years to
conquer the United States

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in regard to life,
we\'ll sit here and do it.

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(cheering)

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♪♪

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- The anti-abortion movement\'s,
uh, laws, rhetoric and strategy,

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uh, is really doing something
far greater than only depriving

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women of the right
to choose abortion.

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It\'s establishing precedent
for punishing them

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for experiencing
miscarriages, stillbirths,

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for not being able to guarantee
a healthy birth outcome.

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And what they\'ve ignored
is the fact that in countries

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that have
criminalized abortion,

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that today make abortion
illegal, like El Salvador and

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some states in Mexico, of course
the women are going to jail.

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The women are going to jail not
only for having abortions,

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but women who\'ve had
miscarriages and stillbirths

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which are very hard to
distinguish from an abortion.

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♪♪

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(speaking Spanish)

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- So, the notion that abortion
can be recriminalized

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and women won\'t go to jail
is absolutely untrue

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and is shown to be untrue
by the fact that women

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in every other country where
abortion is illegal, go to jail.

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And that women here in the
United States of America

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are already going to jail.

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Women who\'ve suffered
miscarriages and stillbirths,

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couldn\'t guarantee a healthy
birth outcome,

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who did something--
gave birth to a healthy baby,

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but somebody believed something
they did during their pregnancy

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created a risk of harm,
endangered that baby,

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and women who have attempted
abortions are going to jail.

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(newswoman)
Purvi Patel, an Indian-American
woman, became the first person

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in U.S. history sentenced to
prison for feticide,

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for ending her own pregnancy.

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(newswoman 2)
Prosecutors would
later accuse Patel

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of taking drugs to try
to end her pregnancy.

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(newsman)
23-year-old Kenlissia Jones
is charged with the murder

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of her own child in possession
of a dangerous drug.

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Investigators say Jones
researched the abortion pill

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on the Internet
for a week and a half,

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acquiring Cytotec
from Canada.

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(newsman 2)
35-year-old Bei Bei Shuai has
been behind bars for 432 days.

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Prosecutors charged her with
murder and attempted feticide.

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Back in 2010, she was
despondent over a breakup

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with her boyfriend
and ate rat poison.

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The child was born but died
several days later.

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- All across the country,

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we have seen this policing
of the womb.

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(Jennie Linn McCormack)
I didn\'t have the means
to raise another child.

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I was single, divorced,
raising three kids,

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living on child support
and public assistance.

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I had a boyfriend,

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and we were using protection.

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I didn\'t have, um, periods
for a few months

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which was not unusual.

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I didn\'t realize I was pregnant
until I started showing.

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- Jennie at this time
was, uh, had an income

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with three children
of $250 a month.

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- I made calls around Idaho.

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There\'s no abortion clinics
that, um, I could do.

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- No physician
in this part of Idaho

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will perform an abortion.

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- I called down to Utah.
It\'s too expensive.

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It\'s three
and a half hours away.

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- The abortion
would have cost her

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close to $2,000, uh,
in Salt Lake.

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Plus, she would have had
a babysitter

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at least for one night

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if she went to Salt Lake,
and a woman in Jennie\'s position

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that was just not an option.

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- That\'s when I called
my sister to help me out, um...

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She looked online
and she ordered the pills.

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And they were
sent to me, um...

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And I took them.

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By 7:00
in the morning, I, uh...

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I aborted.

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I wrapped it in a sack,
I put it in a box.

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I could not, uh, bury it.

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It-- the ground
was frozen.

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The only other
thing I could do

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is probably put it
in the trash.

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And... I couldn\'t do that.

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Put it on my back patio, uh...

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I guess a few days later,

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my friend
came over, um...

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I\'m not clear exactly
what I said to him about it.

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But, uh...

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He went and told his sister...

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...that I had an abortion.

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She called the police.

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- The police investigated, uh,
this tip as a crime

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because Idaho passed, uh, laws

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restricting when a woman
can have an abortion.

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And the abortions in Idaho must
be performed by a physician.

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And in the second trimester,

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they must be performed
in a hospital.

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- I look out the window
and there\'s three officers.

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I hear these
two bangs on the doors.

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By the time I opened it,
there was four,

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and they wanted to know if I had
an unlawful miscarriage.

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I said, even if I did, wouldn\'t
that be my personal choice?

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He said no.

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Not in some circumstances.

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It can be
against the law.

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(police radio chatter)

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I honestly didn\'t think I was--

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I did anything wrong.

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I didn\'t understand that
it was illegal to self-induce.

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- Because Jennie,
during the questioning,

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admitted that she had, uh,
taken pills with the intent

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to induce an abortion,

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the police investigated
this as a felony.

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The case was treated in--
like it was a homicide.

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Although the abortion law

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is not the same law
as a homicide, um,

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in this area,

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abortion is murder to many,
many people.

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(Jennie)
I turned myself in.

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They fingerprinted me, um,

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took my picture
and gave me my charges.

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The newspaper came out.

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People were looking at me

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with some disgusting
looks on their face.

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(Richard)
Jennie was a pariah, uh...

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She lost, uh, her job at a dry
cleaners because people would

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not even allow her to handle
their dirty clothes.

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- I turned into a hermit.

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I couldn\'t go to the store,
people were snickering at me.

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I just stayed home
all the time.

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- When the charges were
dismissed at the probable

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cause hearing, we went-- we were
afraid that the prosecutor

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might re-file charges
because he was so aggressively

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pursuing Jennie that we filed
in Federal District Court.

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The Federal courts found the
Idaho law was an undue burden

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on Jennie\'s access
to an abortion.

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- You have no clue how I feel.

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How my kids, what this
has done to my family.

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I have never regretted
having an abortion.

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I just wish
it didn\'t happen like this.

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-Lord, we\'re here today
to represent you.

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We pray your blessings
upon our legislators,

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and we thank you for them and
those who stand for life.

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-I am declaring this election
year, 2016,

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the year
of the innocent unborn.

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May this year, 2016,
go down in history

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as a year of repentance,

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a year of turning around
this American holocaust.

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(applause)

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-Now, I have a bill that I will
introduce into the House today.

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I imagine I\'ll have a lot of
co-sponsors on it.

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But it\'s a constitutional
amendment that will define

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when life begins
in the state of Alabama.

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We have to say
at the very beginning

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of our founding document

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that life begins
at conception.

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Life begins at that moment
and we have to respect it.

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And we will respect it
from the beginning to the end.

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- There is no way to add
fertilized eggs,

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embryos or fetuses
to the Constitution

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without subtracting pregnant
women from that community.

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What the anti-abortion movement
in this country, uh,

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the movement that\'s trying
to re-criminalize abortion

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is putting in place
is a mechanism by which

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any of the six million people
who become pregnant each year

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could be subject
to arrest and prosecution.

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- If they can get this being
a person at the point

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of conception, then you see you
cannot terminate a pregnancy

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because you are then getting
into the field of murder.

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(man)
Personhood is the new
Civil Rights Movement

51:18.499 --> 51:20.102
for the 21st Century.

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It is the fulfillment
of our potential as a people

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and as a nation.

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And it is reinvigorating the
culture of life in our society.

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- The goal was to boil down to
the very basic principle

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of our cause that the most,
um, the, the large majority

51:36.792 --> 51:38.352
of people could grab onto.

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And that would be
basically said

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in enough characters
to fit into a tweet.

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And so, we were able to boil
down to a single word,
and that\'s \"Personhood.\"

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(man)
Before us lies the arduous road
of the many battles to come

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as we seek a federal
constitutional amendment

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that protects
allhuman life.

51:57.209 --> 52:00.976
- To break out of sort of this
tired rhetoric of pro-life,

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pro-choice, Republican,
Democrat, dah-dah-dah, you know,

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this-- we needed to come at this
issue from a whole nother

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perspective, in a whole nother,
um, um, way of thinking.

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We take a social
movement approach

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which has been emulated
by the marijuana movement,

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the gay rights movement, uh,
many environmental movements.

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Things like that.

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If you look at the actions that
we\'ve taken, you\'ll be--

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you would be able to identify
that that\'s been our blueprint.

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I could care less
about the Supreme Court.

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Uh, to me, uh, it\'s not our goal
to overturn Roe versus Wade.

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I don\'t think
it will ever be overturned.

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We don\'t need it to be.

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- So, part of the legal strategy
was to pepper throughout

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the statutes in every state,
references to the unborn,

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to fetal life,
to giving the fetus

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as much legal status
as possible.

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♪♪

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- South Carolina
was the first state

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to declare a viable fetus
to be a person.

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The Medical University
of South Carolina had a policy

53:19.376 --> 53:23.601
back in the \'80s of actually
testing women who came through

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their system
for illegal drugs

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when they would do
a routine blood, blood test.

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- It was very much focused
on black women who were poor.

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What they did not know is that
the Medical University

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of South Carolina was engaging
in this surreptitious process

53:40.834 --> 53:42.851
with police
and with prosecutors.

53:42.875 --> 53:46.976
What they did not know is that
every bit of information

53:47.000 --> 53:49.475
that they would tell
nurses and doctors

53:49.499 --> 53:51.643
for the furtherance
of their care

53:51.667 --> 53:55.475
would actually be told to
police and prosecutors

53:55.499 --> 53:59.268
without their knowledge,
without them ever being read

53:59.292 --> 54:03.185
any kind of Miranda Right
or anything else like that.

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There were dozens of women
who were dragged out

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of the Medical University
of South Carolina hospital,

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dragged out bloodied,
in bloodied gowns,

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shackled and tossed in the back
of police cars.

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These were women
who were left out on their own.

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It wasn\'t part of a narrative
about choice, right?

54:26.000 --> 54:29.475
And so there were organizations
that didn\'t come to the aid

54:29.499 --> 54:32.476
of these women,
and I think they didn\'t see

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that that was the start.

54:36.542 --> 54:39.475
(C. Rauch)
Cornelia Whitner
is an African American

54:39.499 --> 54:44.976
from Greenville, South Carolina
who was charged with child abuse

54:45.000 --> 54:48.685
because her child tested
positive for drugs at birth.

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She pled guilty to it.

54:51.499 --> 54:54.685
At sentencing, uh,
Cornelia Whitner admitted

54:54.709 --> 54:57.394
that she was addicted
to drugs, um...

54:57.418 --> 55:00.976
She asked for some help
with her drug addiction.

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And the help
she got was jail.

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(cell door shuts)

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I got involved
in the case in what we call

55:08.499 --> 55:12.185
a Post-Conviction Relief Action,
which is after you\'re convicted,

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you try to overturn your
conviction on some ground.

55:15.834 --> 55:20.102
We took the position
that a, uh,

55:20.126 --> 55:22.018
viable fetus
is not a child

55:22.042 --> 55:24.726
within the meaning
of the Child Abuse Act.

55:24.750 --> 55:26.851
The Lower Court
agreed with us.

55:26.875 --> 55:30.935
The State took an appeal
from that case.

55:30.959 --> 55:33.018
Ultimately the South Carolina
Supreme Court

55:33.042 --> 55:35.475
reversed the Lower Court
decision,

55:35.499 --> 55:39.875
reinstated her conviction
by a three to two vote.

55:41.251 --> 55:45.935
It actually took them
ironically, 28 months to finally

55:45.959 --> 55:51.143
decide what the word \"child\"
meant within our code, uh...

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And they said in the opinion
that the word \"child\"--

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meaning of the word \"child\"
is plain and unambiguous,

55:57.499 --> 56:00.976
to which I responded when it
takes you 28 months to decide

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what a word means, it is neither
plain nor unambiguous.

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The anti-abortionists would like
to take the Whitner decision

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as authority
for pushing personhood

56:15.499 --> 56:19.435
as far as they can toward
the moment of conception.

56:19.459 --> 56:21.435
- When you put the fetus
on equal grounds,

56:21.459 --> 56:25.559
the law then becomes the arbiter
of what is right and good

56:25.583 --> 56:29.518
for that woman\'s pregnancy,
for her health and her life.

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(bells tolling melody)

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- In Alabama, there have been
over 500 prosecutions

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of pregnant woman.

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We have hundreds of women
who have taken plea deals

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under a law that\'s a child
endangerment statute

56:46.126 --> 56:50.352
that it\'s proponent
said was never intended

56:50.376 --> 56:53.310
to be applied
to pregnant women.

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♪♪

56:56.875 --> 57:01.102
- This area, at least initially,
was where methamphetamine began

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to have its most
significant problems,

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specifically with, uh, homemade
Mom and Pop meth labs.

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And so, we worked with our own
legislative delegation,

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ultimately with our legislature

57:12.499 --> 57:14.475
to develop our own
chemical endangerment law.

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- The chemical endangerment
statute was intended to apply

57:19.000 --> 57:25.018
to children exposed to meth labs
and drug abuse at home, um...

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and the harmful chemicals
and, you know,

57:27.792 --> 57:29.268
the dangers
associated with that.

57:29.292 --> 57:34.810
- For us it was, uh, an avenue
to try to deal with what we saw.

57:34.834 --> 57:38.227
It was a growing problem of
children, uh, that were

57:38.251 --> 57:41.018
testing positive in our local
hospitals upon birth.

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Our theory at that point in time
was for the definition of child,

57:45.499 --> 57:48.268
that it included a child
in utero, for purposes of being

57:48.292 --> 57:52.310
able to charge for the mother
exposing that child

57:52.334 --> 57:53.976
to a controlled substance
while pregnant.

57:54.000 --> 57:57.935
- And then these prosecutions
of pregnant women began

57:57.959 --> 58:01.185
which was a misconstruction
of that statute

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and misapplication
to that conduct.

58:04.499 --> 58:08.143
(newsman)
Casey Shehi charged with one
count of chemical endangerment

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of exposing a child to an
environment in which controlled

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substances are ingested,
produced or distributed,

58:14.542 --> 58:16.310
which is a felony.

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- I can\'t think of anything
worse than to be called

58:20.500 --> 58:24.143
a child abuser, you know,
a neglectful mother,

58:24.167 --> 58:28.394
because that\'s really what that
charge says, to me, anyway.

58:28.418 --> 58:31.352
(Ann Sharpe)
My daughter Casey was
having a rough pregnancy.

58:31.376 --> 58:33.518
She had already been in the
hospital a couple of times.

58:33.542 --> 58:36.726
She had a condition
called preeclampsia.

58:36.750 --> 58:38.559
She was swollen to the point

58:38.583 --> 58:40.476
that her skin
was ready to burst.

58:40.500 --> 58:43.352
- Started having contractions,
preterm labor, and my doctor

58:43.376 --> 58:47.394
took me out of work at that
point and put me on bed rest.

58:47.418 --> 58:50.352
- She called me one night,
hysterical.

58:50.376 --> 58:52.768
- I was on the phone
one night with my ex-husband.

58:52.792 --> 58:56.810
We got into a big fight, um,
about my--

58:56.834 --> 58:58.268
our son, my oldest son.

58:58.292 --> 59:01.476
- It took me a while
to get her to calm down,

59:01.500 --> 59:03.143
even for her to tell me.

59:03.167 --> 59:03.893
I was terrified.

59:03.917 --> 59:05.018
Didn\'t know what had happened.

59:05.042 --> 59:09.768
- I was crazy, nervous,
and hyperventilating,

59:09.792 --> 59:12.475
and, um, just couldn\'t...

59:12.499 --> 59:14.475
I couldn\'t function,
I couldn\'t sleep.

59:14.499 --> 59:15.475
I was crying uncontrollably.

59:15.499 --> 59:18.935
- I\'m the one who said, do you
have something you can take?

59:18.959 --> 59:20.227
You have got
to go to sleep.

59:20.251 --> 59:23.185
You\'ve got to calm yourself down
or you will lose this baby.

59:23.209 --> 59:27.475
- My boyfriend at that time
had a prescription for Valium.

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Um, I asked him, let me
have a half of your Valium

59:31.917 --> 59:34.475
just so that I can calm down
and go to sleep.

59:34.499 --> 59:35.851
- I thought nothing of it.

59:35.875 --> 59:37.851
I thought, okay,
you know, a half of--

59:37.875 --> 59:39.018
half a Valium is, is fine.

59:39.042 --> 59:42.685
I thought there was no way any
harm would ever come from that.

59:42.709 --> 59:45.559
- I went to my last doctor\'s
appointment about four weeks

59:45.583 --> 59:50.643
before my due date, and my blood
pressure was through the roof.

59:50.667 --> 59:55.583
So, the doctor admitted me
and I had a baby that day.

59:56.625 --> 01:00:01.143
So, one of the nurses came in,
and she kind of whispered to me,

01:00:01.167 --> 01:00:04.268
we\'re going to have to take
James to the nursery

01:00:04.292 --> 01:00:07.310
until he can produce
his first void

01:00:07.334 --> 01:00:10.435
because you had
a positive drug screen.

01:00:10.459 --> 01:00:14.851
It was positive for
a benzodiazepine.

01:00:14.875 --> 01:00:16.476
I said that can\'t be right.

01:00:16.500 --> 01:00:17.475
That can\'t be right.

01:00:17.499 --> 01:00:20.143
Half of the Valium
that I took earlier wasweeks,

01:00:20.167 --> 01:00:22.475
almost a month
before he was born.

01:00:22.499 --> 01:00:24.643
There\'s no way it was still
in my system, no way.

01:00:24.667 --> 01:00:28.475
I said, that, that\'s impossible,
that can\'t be true.

01:00:28.499 --> 01:00:30.643
Please test
that sample again.

01:00:30.667 --> 01:00:33.352
And they did,
they tested the sample again.

01:00:33.376 --> 01:00:35.394
And she said that it came back
the same,

01:00:35.418 --> 01:00:37.060
still positive for Benzo.

01:00:37.084 --> 01:00:40.143
And I said, okay, um, I need you
to send that sample out

01:00:40.167 --> 01:00:43.685
to LabCorp, an offsite,
you know, laboratory,

01:00:43.709 --> 01:00:47.060
to see really if there was any--
if it was positive or negative.

01:00:47.084 --> 01:00:52.475
And they did, um, but, of
course, I didn\'t find out those
results until days later.

01:00:52.499 --> 01:00:56.018
(Ann)
James had nothing in his system.

01:00:56.042 --> 01:01:01.435
And she had a minimal amount
of whatever is in a Valium.

01:01:01.459 --> 01:01:05.976
(Casey)
It was six weeks after James
was born, I went back to work.

01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:09.476
My boss comes walking down
the hall, and she just comes

01:01:09.500 --> 01:01:12.935
in my office and closes
the door behind her.

01:01:12.959 --> 01:01:16.060
And that made me a little
nervous, you know.

01:01:16.084 --> 01:01:17.935
What is she about to tell me?

01:01:17.959 --> 01:01:19.643
Um, She said, \"Casey,

01:01:19.667 --> 01:01:23.227
there are three
investigators in the lobby.\"

01:01:23.251 --> 01:01:25.394
The gentleman there said,

01:01:25.418 --> 01:01:26.976
\"we have a warrant
for your arrest.

01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:29.352
And we\'re gonna have
to take you to jail.\"

01:01:29.376 --> 01:01:31.559
And I said, \"what\'s,
what\'s the charge?

01:01:31.583 --> 01:01:32.475
What is it for?\"

01:01:32.499 --> 01:01:36.559
He said \"Chemical Endangerment
of a Child.\"

01:01:36.583 --> 01:01:41.018
I said,
\"Chemical endangerment
of a Child.\"

01:01:41.042 --> 01:01:45.475
And then I... I put it together
that it had to have been

01:01:45.499 --> 01:01:49.084
from the positive
drug screen at the hospital.

01:01:50.625 --> 01:01:54.060
While I was in that jail
for the time that I was,

01:01:54.084 --> 01:01:55.935
you know, they,
they interviewed me.

01:01:55.959 --> 01:01:58.768
And here\'s where I made
the biggest mistake, um...

01:01:58.792 --> 01:02:01.768
I genuinely thought that he was
gonna try to help me.

01:02:01.792 --> 01:02:04.310
\'Cause he said he was,
you know?

01:02:04.334 --> 01:02:08.018
And, um, uh,
I, I was honest with him.

01:02:08.042 --> 01:02:12.018
I was honest with him about what
I\'d done and what I\'d taken.

01:02:12.042 --> 01:02:15.810
Um, and that
was the onlyrealevidence

01:02:15.834 --> 01:02:18.518
that they had against me
was my confession.

01:02:18.542 --> 01:02:20.976
The drug tests
from the hospital

01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:23.475
were all received
without chain of command.

01:02:23.499 --> 01:02:26.227
There was nothing that
that could be held up in court.

01:02:26.251 --> 01:02:28.475
And right after I got
out of jail,

01:02:28.499 --> 01:02:32.475
I asked-- requested from the
hospital all my medical records

01:02:32.499 --> 01:02:34.060
from when the baby was born.

01:02:34.084 --> 01:02:37.475
And in that medical record
was actually the result

01:02:37.499 --> 01:02:41.810
from the offsite lab that I had
requested, and it was negative.

01:02:41.834 --> 01:02:46.435
It dragged on and
on and it finally--

01:02:46.459 --> 01:02:48.394
they said that it had gone
before the grand jury,

01:02:48.418 --> 01:02:49.893
and they decided that
there was no evidence

01:02:49.917 --> 01:02:52.518
to support the arrest,
so it was not processed.

01:02:52.542 --> 01:02:57.475
- Now in order to get it off her
record is going to cost her

01:02:57.499 --> 01:03:00.185
$2,000 plus
attorney\'s fees

01:03:00.209 --> 01:03:04.893
for their making an arrest
that they cannot substantiate.

01:03:04.917 --> 01:03:08.227
- I need to be redeemed
somehow...

01:03:08.251 --> 01:03:09.018
(sniffles)

01:03:09.042 --> 01:03:12.475
to show all
of the people that, you know,

01:03:12.499 --> 01:03:18.475
believed that I was
a danger to my son

01:03:18.499 --> 01:03:22.435
without knowing
the truth, you know.

01:03:22.459 --> 01:03:24.601
I want them
to know the truth.

01:03:24.625 --> 01:03:25.893
I want \'em to know
the truth.

01:03:25.917 --> 01:03:29.893
And maybe it\'s
for selfish reasons.

01:03:29.917 --> 01:03:31.976
I don\'t-- maybe it\'s because
I just don\'t want

01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:34.459
people thinking
of me that way.

01:03:41.499 --> 01:03:43.475
(heavy breathing)

01:03:43.499 --> 01:03:45.060
(man off camera)
Calm down.

01:03:45.084 --> 01:03:51.475
(Debi Word)
It\'s scary, it is, it is scary
watching someone have a seizure.

01:03:51.499 --> 01:03:54.418
You feel like
she\'s about to die.

01:03:56.959 --> 01:04:01.143
(Katie Darovitz)
When I found out that I was
pregnant for the first time,

01:04:01.167 --> 01:04:05.685
I would definitely say
I was scared.

01:04:05.709 --> 01:04:07.352
I was scared mainly because

01:04:07.376 --> 01:04:12.499
I didn\'t know how things would
go with me having epilepsy.

01:04:16.167 --> 01:04:20.851
- And then twelve weeks later,
she lost the baby.

01:04:20.875 --> 01:04:23.394
- I went to the doctor.

01:04:23.418 --> 01:04:25.310
And he told me
I had a miscarriage.

01:04:25.334 --> 01:04:28.768
- The doctors told her that
it was more than likely because

01:04:28.792 --> 01:04:32.102
of her anti-seizure medicine.

01:04:32.126 --> 01:04:34.435
And that she may not
be able to have a baby.

01:04:34.459 --> 01:04:40.476
- And when I got pregnant again,
I was definitely happy and...

01:04:40.500 --> 01:04:44.268
I would definitely
say that I knew more

01:04:44.292 --> 01:04:47.810
of what to do this time.

01:04:47.834 --> 01:04:52.143
I researched
all my medicine.

01:04:52.167 --> 01:04:54.935
And the images online

01:04:54.959 --> 01:04:58.102
of the different
side effects,

01:04:58.126 --> 01:05:03.518
cleft palate, club foot,
um, spina bifida.

01:05:03.542 --> 01:05:06.475
I had seen on one website

01:05:06.499 --> 01:05:09.893
that marijuana
has no effects

01:05:09.917 --> 01:05:12.334
on the child during pregnancy.

01:05:14.126 --> 01:05:17.768
- When she got pregnant
the second time,

01:05:17.792 --> 01:05:21.601
I highly suspected that
she had been using cannabis.

01:05:21.625 --> 01:05:28.475
- I just stopped taking the
medicine and started smoking.

01:05:28.499 --> 01:05:29.976
My seizures had stopped.

01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:35.394
I felt like that was the better
choice to save my son.

01:05:35.418 --> 01:05:40.976
(Debi)
Will weighed seven pounds,
eight ounces, perfectly healthy.

01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:46.559
Came out open-eyed,
looking around, just...

01:05:46.583 --> 01:05:51.227
fat little baby,
like a little butterball, um...

01:05:51.251 --> 01:05:53.726
You know, it--
he was just...

01:05:53.750 --> 01:05:57.851
He was really...
It was a really good day.

01:05:57.875 --> 01:06:00.102
And then Katy called me.
She was crying.

01:06:00.126 --> 01:06:05.268
She said that she had tested
positive and that she was sorry.

01:06:05.292 --> 01:06:09.060
And, um, she knew that I had
warned her, uh, but she felt

01:06:09.084 --> 01:06:12.893
like she had to do what she felt
was right for the baby.

01:06:12.917 --> 01:06:17.601
- They drug tested me
without my permission.

01:06:17.625 --> 01:06:19.475
- She was never asked.

01:06:19.499 --> 01:06:24.726
Never signed a form saying
can we do a drug test on you?

01:06:24.750 --> 01:06:28.394
They said that\'s all part
of patient care.

01:06:28.418 --> 01:06:29.643
When you sign

01:06:29.667 --> 01:06:33.768
that you accept their care,

01:06:33.792 --> 01:06:36.499
they can do whatever tests
they want on you.

01:06:38.209 --> 01:06:39.601
- I was in bed.

01:06:39.625 --> 01:06:43.475
Actually, just about to wake up
and then the phone rang.

01:06:43.499 --> 01:06:47.268
The officer\'s name
was Officer Hopkins.

01:06:47.292 --> 01:06:50.475
He had introduced himself
and he said,

01:06:50.499 --> 01:06:53.685
\"I need to talk to you
about a case.\"

01:06:53.709 --> 01:06:57.476
The next thing I know,
he\'s knocking on the door.

01:06:57.500 --> 01:06:59.518
Open up the door,
he comes in,

01:06:59.542 --> 01:07:04.475
and he\'s getting out the
handcuffs, and he was, like,

01:07:04.499 --> 01:07:06.018
\"We have a warrant
for your arrest.\"

01:07:06.042 --> 01:07:10.227
- My son called me and said that
the sheriff was there

01:07:10.251 --> 01:07:12.475
to pick Katie up,
and they were arresting her.

01:07:12.499 --> 01:07:17.292
And they were charging her with
Chemical Child Endangerment.

01:07:19.583 --> 01:07:21.476
Katie was taken to the jail.

01:07:21.500 --> 01:07:25.475
She was very unstable
and crying hysterically

01:07:25.499 --> 01:07:27.475
after she got to the jail.

01:07:27.499 --> 01:07:29.851
So, they put her
on suicide watch.

01:07:29.875 --> 01:07:32.475
- They put me
in a suicide suit.

01:07:32.499 --> 01:07:37.475
It was like a paper onesie,
no underwear, nothing.

01:07:37.499 --> 01:07:41.851
- She was still bleeding
from having the baby.

01:07:41.875 --> 01:07:47.518
She was getting blood
on her paper scrubs.

01:07:47.542 --> 01:07:50.976
She was also still lactating.

01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:54.475
She didn\'t have
any protection from that.

01:07:54.499 --> 01:07:58.851
She was not allowed to be
in a cell with the other girls.

01:07:58.875 --> 01:08:04.475
Her suicide watch was for her
to sit in the hallway

01:08:04.499 --> 01:08:07.268
so they could watch her.

01:08:07.292 --> 01:08:10.976
- I remember the department
nurse asking me specifically

01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:14.893
\"Did I feel
like hurting myself.\"

01:08:14.917 --> 01:08:17.601
And I looked at her
and I said, \"No.\"

01:08:17.625 --> 01:08:19.685
I just had a baby.

01:08:19.709 --> 01:08:22.475
I have to live for him.

01:08:22.499 --> 01:08:26.060
(baby babbling)

01:08:26.084 --> 01:08:29.685
(Kate)
She could be sentenced
for ten years in prison?

01:08:29.709 --> 01:08:33.518
Ten years in-- Till this child
is ten years old?

01:08:33.542 --> 01:08:37.268
I can\'t imagine
this baby

01:08:37.292 --> 01:08:40.935
being away from his mother
for that long

01:08:40.959 --> 01:08:44.851
and wondering what happened.

01:08:44.875 --> 01:08:49.475
- It hurts that
a lot of people

01:08:49.499 --> 01:08:53.542
don\'t understand
why I made that choice.

01:08:55.126 --> 01:09:01.143
And I just hope that the day my
son can understand what I did,

01:09:01.167 --> 01:09:05.499
I hope he doesn\'t hate me for
it because it was illegal.

01:09:08.376 --> 01:09:09.559
And I hope he understands

01:09:09.583 --> 01:09:13.542
that I just...
I love my son.

01:09:18.167 --> 01:09:21.435
- These women are caught up
in that pro-life/Personhood

01:09:21.459 --> 01:09:24.475
movement or fight
that\'s going on.

01:09:24.499 --> 01:09:26.185
-And I ask you
for your prayers,

01:09:26.209 --> 01:09:28.227
and I ask you for the prayers
on this house,

01:09:28.251 --> 01:09:29.810
that we can change
this situation

01:09:29.834 --> 01:09:32.476
and make
Alabama abortion-free.

01:09:32.500 --> 01:09:33.476
Thank you.

01:09:33.500 --> 01:09:35.976
(Carmen)
In the cases that
I handled on appeal,

01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:41.227
I knew that, um, abortion and,
you know the right to life,

01:09:41.251 --> 01:09:42.394
these were gonna be issues.

01:09:42.418 --> 01:09:46.476
My position was that this
interpretation of the statute

01:09:46.500 --> 01:09:50.185
is doing the opposite
of protecting unborn life.

01:09:50.209 --> 01:09:55.726
- If you\'re threatened with the
potential of incarceration

01:09:55.750 --> 01:09:59.475
by revealing your
full health history,

01:09:59.499 --> 01:10:02.394
why in the world
would you go to see a doctor?

01:10:02.418 --> 01:10:04.268
- You have women,
for example,

01:10:04.292 --> 01:10:06.559
um, in states
with strong restrictions

01:10:06.583 --> 01:10:09.475
or strong criminalization laws
for drug use,

01:10:09.499 --> 01:10:12.352
giving birth in their cars
instead of going to the hospital

01:10:12.376 --> 01:10:13.685
because they\'re afraid to be
drug tested.

01:10:13.709 --> 01:10:17.060
- Now, I know of one case
in particular in this area

01:10:17.084 --> 01:10:20.475
where a woman gave birth
to a two-pound premature baby

01:10:20.499 --> 01:10:23.352
at home in her bathtub, and she
stayed at home for about

01:10:23.376 --> 01:10:26.893
three days before she went to
the hospital to seek appropriate

01:10:26.917 --> 01:10:30.435
medical care for herself
and this premature newborn.

01:10:30.459 --> 01:10:33.018
And it was because she was
afraid of being arrested.

01:10:33.042 --> 01:10:36.726
- In some states, it\'s safer for
a woman to go and give birth

01:10:36.750 --> 01:10:38.851
in a developing country
than it is

01:10:38.875 --> 01:10:41.435
to actually
give birth in that state.

01:10:41.459 --> 01:10:43.435
So, from a public health
perspective,

01:10:43.459 --> 01:10:46.726
we\'re really missing the mark
in terms of this policing.

01:10:46.750 --> 01:10:52.475
- If you carry the Personhood
statutes to their logical

01:10:52.499 --> 01:10:56.476
extreme and say that...

01:10:56.500 --> 01:10:58.685
life begins
at conception,

01:10:58.709 --> 01:11:04.893
then what you\'re saying
is that the state has the right

01:11:04.917 --> 01:11:08.643
to intervene in a woman\'s life
from the second

01:11:08.667 --> 01:11:12.976
she becomes pregnant,
intervene in a big way,

01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:15.976
such as saying what you
can take, can\'t take,

01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:20.185
what you can do and can\'t do,
uh, and that\'s,

01:11:20.209 --> 01:11:23.143
that\'s an intrusion
in the life of an individual

01:11:23.167 --> 01:11:28.499
that should shock every true
conservative in this country.

01:11:37.042 --> 01:11:40.102
(church bell rings)

01:11:40.126 --> 01:11:44.209
♪♪

01:11:48.499 --> 01:11:52.394
- At the same time that we\'ve
had this shift in the rhetoric

01:11:52.418 --> 01:11:54.310
and the environment
around abortion

01:11:54.334 --> 01:11:57.851
and reproductive rights,
where we have this increasing

01:11:57.875 --> 01:11:59.476
stigma on abortion,

01:11:59.500 --> 01:12:03.475
we also have a growth
of a Catholic hospital system.

01:12:03.499 --> 01:12:07.310
So, while the anti-choice
movement was in the courts

01:12:07.334 --> 01:12:11.102
and in the legislatures and
doing the propaganda campaigns,

01:12:11.126 --> 01:12:15.435
at the same time you have
the hospital system,
the health care system,

01:12:15.459 --> 01:12:18.394
sort of a fourth place where
these attacks were happening.

01:12:18.418 --> 01:12:23.475
- Catholic hospital mergers
and Catholic hospital buyouts

01:12:23.499 --> 01:12:24.810
of local hospitals

01:12:24.834 --> 01:12:29.601
and the rise of anti-choice
legislation

01:12:29.625 --> 01:12:31.475
have created the perfect storm.

01:12:31.499 --> 01:12:34.475
- It is the location
where politics,

01:12:34.499 --> 01:12:37.976
religion and medicine intersect.

01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:40.935
(all chanting)
Stop the merger!

01:12:40.959 --> 01:12:43.185
Stop the merger!

01:12:43.209 --> 01:12:44.102
(man)
We can!

01:12:44.126 --> 01:12:45.268
(all)
Stop the merger!

01:12:45.292 --> 01:12:48.394
-The beef that I have
with this whole concept

01:12:48.418 --> 01:12:49.475
is this right here.

01:12:49.499 --> 01:12:53.018
It\'s called The Ethical
and Religious Directives.

01:12:53.042 --> 01:12:54.060
If it wasn\'t for this,

01:12:54.084 --> 01:12:55.976
I think we would have
an ongoing discussion.

01:12:56.000 --> 01:13:01.475
But this here ties your rights,
my rights, everybody\'s rights,

01:13:01.499 --> 01:13:04.435
because it doesn\'t
allow us to practice

01:13:04.459 --> 01:13:08.143
the type of medicine that
you are entitled to.

01:13:08.167 --> 01:13:11.475
(woman)
We\'re not against the Catholics
or the Catholic Church.

01:13:11.499 --> 01:13:16.018
People shouldn\'t be able
to make rules and partnerships

01:13:16.042 --> 01:13:17.685
like this without any input.

01:13:17.709 --> 01:13:20.475
This is the only place
in the county I can practice

01:13:20.499 --> 01:13:23.060
obstetrics and gynecology.

01:13:23.084 --> 01:13:25.352
I think,
one of the signs says,

01:13:25.376 --> 01:13:28.810
it should be under state law,
not under canon law.

01:13:28.834 --> 01:13:30.768
(cheering and applause)

01:13:30.792 --> 01:13:34.102
- Even though there are variety
of Catholic health care networks

01:13:34.126 --> 01:13:37.310
and there\'s actually
quite a lot of them,

01:13:37.334 --> 01:13:39.935
in order to be considered
a Catholic hospital,

01:13:39.959 --> 01:13:43.518
they have to comply with the
Ethical and Religious Directives

01:13:43.542 --> 01:13:45.976
for Catholic Health Care
services.

01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:50.268
And those are very
specific policies

01:13:50.292 --> 01:13:51.475
written by the U.S. Bishops.

01:13:51.499 --> 01:13:54.810
-If you\'re a Catholic facility,
your medical ethics

01:13:54.834 --> 01:13:56.976
come from the fact
you\'re Catholic.

01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:58.976
And as Catholics,
we have great concern

01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:00.768
for the dignity
of every human person.

01:14:00.792 --> 01:14:06.475
- Catholic health care is as old
as the Catholic Church.

01:14:06.499 --> 01:14:11.475
And, uh, it-- Catholic
health care is seen as

01:14:11.499 --> 01:14:14.810
an integral ministry
of the Church.

01:14:14.834 --> 01:14:16.394
We currently have
a Holy Father

01:14:16.418 --> 01:14:20.268
who describes the Catholic
Church as a field hospital.

01:14:20.292 --> 01:14:24.143
(Freedman)
When a Catholic hospital takes
over a non-Catholic hospital,

01:14:24.167 --> 01:14:27.394
then they usually lose their
abortion services.

01:14:27.418 --> 01:14:31.518
They also lose their ability to
offer sterilizations to women.

01:14:31.542 --> 01:14:33.685
And women really
rely on sterilization

01:14:33.709 --> 01:14:37.435
much more than we realize
around the country.

01:14:37.459 --> 01:14:41.499
♪♪

01:14:44.499 --> 01:14:47.102
(Mary Jo Deppen)
Every time I had a kid,
it\'s always been in the back

01:14:47.126 --> 01:14:51.685
of my head, how am I gonna
take care of all these people?

01:14:51.709 --> 01:14:53.475
(sniffles)

01:14:53.499 --> 01:14:56.060
I had four children.

01:14:56.084 --> 01:14:58.601
I was falling deeper
into poverty.

01:14:58.625 --> 01:15:00.060
I was starting to grow up

01:15:00.084 --> 01:15:02.475
and mature a little
and freaking out.

01:15:02.499 --> 01:15:03.476
What am I doing with my life?

01:15:03.500 --> 01:15:06.227
How am I going to take care
of everybody?

01:15:06.251 --> 01:15:09.601
Um, I really wanted
to get the tubal done.

01:15:09.625 --> 01:15:11.601
I didn\'t want to have
any more children.

01:15:11.625 --> 01:15:13.518
I was pretty adamant
of that at that point.

01:15:13.542 --> 01:15:16.643
First and foremost,
I wouldn\'t use the IUD because

01:15:16.667 --> 01:15:20.475
of my pro-life views, and I have
trouble just taking that pill,

01:15:20.499 --> 01:15:23.018
a birth control pill
that you have to take

01:15:23.042 --> 01:15:27.851
at the same time every day
for it to be effective.

01:15:27.875 --> 01:15:31.851
As far as getting a man
to wear a condom,

01:15:31.875 --> 01:15:33.227
that can be impossible.

01:15:33.251 --> 01:15:36.476
If a man doesn\'t like it,
it doesn\'t feel the same.

01:15:36.500 --> 01:15:42.499
Um, I\'m not really too sure but
I\'ve had that argument before.

01:15:43.126 --> 01:15:45.143
I wanted to get
my tubes tied.

01:15:45.167 --> 01:15:47.643
I, I asked about
getting my tubes tied.

01:15:47.667 --> 01:15:49.185
My only options always been,

01:15:49.209 --> 01:15:52.726
when I lived in Denver
I went to St. Anthony\'s.

01:15:52.750 --> 01:15:55.143
I live in Grand Junction,
I go to St. Mary\'s.

01:15:55.167 --> 01:15:59.518
That\'s who you go to see if
you\'re on Medicaid in this town

01:15:59.542 --> 01:16:05.227
and they don\'t do sterilizations
unless it\'s medically necessary.

01:16:05.251 --> 01:16:08.935
I had asked my doctor
after I had my fourth,

01:16:08.959 --> 01:16:11.475
can we go ahead
and get my tubes tied?

01:16:11.499 --> 01:16:17.476
And in a roundabout way I was
pretty much just told, no.

01:16:17.500 --> 01:16:19.475
We, we can\'t do that
at a hospital here.

01:16:19.499 --> 01:16:22.601
You can go somewhere and find
a doctor who will do it.

01:16:22.625 --> 01:16:27.394
Trying to get on the highway and
drive 3-1/2 hours just to meet

01:16:27.418 --> 01:16:29.810
with a doctor to see
if they want to do it

01:16:29.834 --> 01:16:34.102
and drive back home,
coming up with the gas money,

01:16:34.126 --> 01:16:36.893
what if I break down
on the side of the road?

01:16:36.917 --> 01:16:39.060
There\'s no other
way around it.

01:16:39.084 --> 01:16:42.475
I can\'t get my tubes tied.

01:16:42.499 --> 01:16:45.601
I\'m just gonna
get pregnant.

01:16:45.625 --> 01:16:48.209
I just kind of accepted it.

01:16:48.542 --> 01:16:53.475
- We do know and acknowledge
that the tubal ligation

01:16:53.499 --> 01:16:57.018
during a C-section,
uh, can be, uh...

01:16:57.042 --> 01:17:00.893
challenging and problematic,
and, and for that reason,

01:17:00.917 --> 01:17:04.475
many, many hospitals are talking
with their bishops

01:17:04.499 --> 01:17:08.102
and, um,
looking at this situation.

01:17:08.126 --> 01:17:13.475
- We have these sick patients
who are sent to us.

01:17:13.499 --> 01:17:17.475
They\'re the ones who
are at huge increased risk

01:17:17.499 --> 01:17:19.475
of another pregnancy

01:17:19.499 --> 01:17:23.018
and huge increased risk
of another surgery.

01:17:23.042 --> 01:17:26.435
This may be their
only chance

01:17:26.459 --> 01:17:30.475
to have
the procedure they need

01:17:30.499 --> 01:17:33.518
and their life
is threatened

01:17:33.542 --> 01:17:36.185
by having
another pregnancy.

01:17:36.209 --> 01:17:39.435
- I\'ve been in the practice
of obstetrics and gynecology

01:17:39.459 --> 01:17:42.310
in Southern California
for the past 28 years.

01:17:42.334 --> 01:17:46.476
Approximately six years ago,
the hospital was purchased

01:17:46.500 --> 01:17:51.475
by a religious group who changed
the bylaws of the hospital.

01:17:51.499 --> 01:17:54.559
And the purchase and sale
of the hospital was contingent

01:17:54.583 --> 01:17:58.893
on the doctors signing off
on the religious bylaws.

01:17:58.917 --> 01:18:02.185
Few of them felt that such
drastic changes

01:18:02.209 --> 01:18:04.559
would actually come to pass.

01:18:04.583 --> 01:18:10.518
Once the sale was signed off on
and the hospital was purchased,

01:18:10.542 --> 01:18:13.601
immediately the religious bylaws
were introduced

01:18:13.625 --> 01:18:17.685
to the department
and women no longer could get

01:18:17.709 --> 01:18:20.143
routine obstetrical
and gynecological care.

01:18:20.167 --> 01:18:23.768
- Women may receive grossly
inappropriate and negligent care

01:18:23.792 --> 01:18:26.726
for complications
such as miscarriage

01:18:26.750 --> 01:18:27.935
in the first part of pregnancy.

01:18:27.959 --> 01:18:31.475
When the timely emptying of the
uterus is medically indicated,

01:18:31.499 --> 01:18:32.726
these women may
be turned away.

01:18:32.750 --> 01:18:35.685
- They\'re told,
\"Oh, you can just go home

01:18:35.709 --> 01:18:37.475
and wait till
you get sick,\"

01:18:37.499 --> 01:18:38.726
And carry around this baby

01:18:38.750 --> 01:18:43.310
that\'s going to die
for however long.

01:18:43.334 --> 01:18:47.476
And then you can come in
and maybe we\'ll decide

01:18:47.500 --> 01:18:51.376
you\'re sick enough
to deliver you.

01:18:51.750 --> 01:18:55.559
- If you want the best health
care, go to a Catholic hospital.

01:18:55.583 --> 01:18:57.518
That\'s what my family
had always taught me.

01:18:57.542 --> 01:18:58.893
I was born
in a Catholic hospital.

01:18:58.917 --> 01:19:02.475
That\'s where I got all my
health care my whole life,

01:19:02.499 --> 01:19:04.394
was at Catholic hospitals.

01:19:04.418 --> 01:19:06.475
I was experiencing
my second pregnancy,

01:19:06.499 --> 01:19:08.475
I was about 12 weeks along.

01:19:08.499 --> 01:19:10.352
I was, like, had some
pinkish discharge,

01:19:10.376 --> 01:19:12.475
so my husband was, like, okay,
I\'m gonna take you to the ER.

01:19:12.499 --> 01:19:15.310
And they were, like,
\"Oh, well, just go home
and put your feet up.\"

01:19:15.334 --> 01:19:17.475
They were, like, but you
probably are having
a miscarriage.

01:19:17.499 --> 01:19:21.227
So, you can be hopeful, but,
like, don\'t... you know,

01:19:21.251 --> 01:19:24.475
Just know, that it\'s probably
not a good sign.

01:19:24.499 --> 01:19:29.394
The next day I started
bleeding fairly heavily.

01:19:29.418 --> 01:19:31.475
So, I go back to the ER.

01:19:31.499 --> 01:19:35.018
And they\'re, like,
take me to the ultrasound.

01:19:35.042 --> 01:19:36.102
And they do an ultrasound.

01:19:36.126 --> 01:19:40.435
And they\'re, like, well,
your fetus stopped growing

01:19:40.459 --> 01:19:43.685
regularly, like,
a couple weeks ago.

01:19:43.709 --> 01:19:45.726
But we can\'t do anything
for you,

01:19:45.750 --> 01:19:48.475
because there\'s
still a heartbeat.

01:19:48.499 --> 01:19:52.792
So, you just need to go home.

01:19:53.625 --> 01:19:56.475
So, I go home.

01:19:56.499 --> 01:20:01.102
And by, within hours,
I was bleeding so heavily

01:20:01.126 --> 01:20:03.185
that I couldn\'t
even use pads.

01:20:03.209 --> 01:20:06.518
My twins were babies
at the time, um...

01:20:06.542 --> 01:20:09.475
And I was taking
their diapers

01:20:09.499 --> 01:20:12.851
and using them, um,

01:20:12.875 --> 01:20:15.143
to collect the blood,
\'cause, like, I literally

01:20:15.167 --> 01:20:17.601
was just bleeding
through pads.

01:20:17.625 --> 01:20:21.102
I just remember
falling out on the floor.

01:20:21.126 --> 01:20:22.976
And then the next thing
I remember is the paramedics

01:20:23.000 --> 01:20:25.726
being there and that they
couldn\'t get an IV in my arm

01:20:25.750 --> 01:20:29.601
because I was going into shock
and my veins were collapsing.

01:20:29.625 --> 01:20:32.476
I didn\'t even realize
how close to death I was

01:20:32.500 --> 01:20:35.475
until I got to the hospital,
\'cause then I felt,

01:20:35.499 --> 01:20:38.851
like a coldness,

01:20:38.875 --> 01:20:43.394
like when you lose
a lot of blood.

01:20:43.418 --> 01:20:46.102
And then they rushed me
to the emergency surgery

01:20:46.126 --> 01:20:47.310
for an emergency D & C.

01:20:47.334 --> 01:20:53.143
And the same gynecologist who
had sent me home both times

01:20:53.167 --> 01:20:55.018
was still on call.

01:20:55.042 --> 01:20:58.475
And I said to the
anesthesiologist,

01:20:58.499 --> 01:21:00.102
please don\'t let him kill me

01:21:00.126 --> 01:21:02.475
\'cause all I remember
thinking about was,

01:21:02.499 --> 01:21:04.518
I\'ve gotta go home.

01:21:04.542 --> 01:21:06.499
Sorry.

01:21:08.583 --> 01:21:11.500
I\'ve got to go home
to my babies.

01:21:16.499 --> 01:21:19.042
They don\'t know where I am.

01:21:23.499 --> 01:21:27.499
♪♪

01:21:41.499 --> 01:21:46.475
(Faith Groesbeck)
This is a very poor community.

01:21:46.499 --> 01:21:49.143
We have a very
low income level.

01:21:49.167 --> 01:21:51.726
We have a very
low level of education.

01:21:51.750 --> 01:21:55.475
People do not feel empowered
to come forward

01:21:55.499 --> 01:21:58.685
and speak up against
these large institutions

01:21:58.709 --> 01:22:03.143
that have so much power
in our community.

01:22:03.167 --> 01:22:08.935
Nearly every health care
and human services nonprofit

01:22:08.959 --> 01:22:11.518
in my county is religious.

01:22:11.542 --> 01:22:15.060
So, there is a pervasive

01:22:15.084 --> 01:22:18.185
climate of favoritism

01:22:18.209 --> 01:22:23.499
toward religious respectives
on reproductive health care.

01:22:28.459 --> 01:22:31.893
There was a hospital merger
in our community.

01:22:31.917 --> 01:22:35.518
We had two facilities,
now we\'re going to have one.

01:22:35.542 --> 01:22:39.559
That would create a sole
Catholic health care system

01:22:39.583 --> 01:22:42.476
in our--
for our entire county.

01:22:42.500 --> 01:22:43.518
What would change?

01:22:43.542 --> 01:22:48.475
How would that change things
in Muskegon County?

01:22:48.499 --> 01:22:50.475
Everybody was reassured.

01:22:50.499 --> 01:22:52.583
There would be
no changes.

01:22:54.042 --> 01:22:58.935
So, the first thing was the lack
of contraception for employees,

01:22:58.959 --> 01:23:01.726
the lack of insurance coverage
for contraception.

01:23:01.750 --> 01:23:06.559
The second thing was the
inability to terminate,

01:23:06.583 --> 01:23:10.643
even in the event
of a non-viable pregnancy,

01:23:10.667 --> 01:23:15.768
lethal anomaly, something that
would, for sure, um...

01:23:15.792 --> 01:23:19.352
a fetus that for sure would not
survive outside of the womb.

01:23:19.376 --> 01:23:25.394
Um... and then the next thing
that came to my attention

01:23:25.418 --> 01:23:29.499
was the miscarriage
mismanagement issue.

01:23:30.499 --> 01:23:33.475
Women having to...

01:23:33.499 --> 01:23:37.559
Knowing that they were going
through a miscarriage,

01:23:37.583 --> 01:23:40.475
being strapped
to a fetal monitor.

01:23:40.499 --> 01:23:43.935
Telling them that nothing
could be done for them

01:23:43.959 --> 01:23:46.935
because it was
a Catholic hospital

01:23:46.959 --> 01:23:49.601
and having to listen

01:23:49.625 --> 01:23:55.935
to their fetus\'s heartbeat
until they could recognize

01:23:55.959 --> 01:23:59.475
the exact moment
that it stopped.

01:23:59.499 --> 01:24:01.475
There\'s a woman miscarrying.

01:24:01.499 --> 01:24:06.268
She needs help completing
the miscarriage medically

01:24:06.292 --> 01:24:11.685
because she\'s sick and her body
isn\'t doing it on her own.

01:24:11.709 --> 01:24:15.310
And there\'s a doctor
on the phone with the bishop.

01:24:15.334 --> 01:24:17.167
Why?

01:24:19.499 --> 01:24:21.726
So, I started to do research.

01:24:21.750 --> 01:24:24.475
I started to talk to people,
make phone calls.

01:24:24.499 --> 01:24:29.893
And then I started to understand
why women were being

01:24:29.917 --> 01:24:35.185
sent home from the ER
despite signs of infection.

01:24:35.209 --> 01:24:38.726
Some of the women I spoke to
didn\'t own a thermometer.

01:24:38.750 --> 01:24:42.268
Had other children
they were caring for.

01:24:42.292 --> 01:24:43.476
Were in excruciating pain.

01:24:43.500 --> 01:24:46.475
Some of these women
had clear signs of infection.

01:24:46.499 --> 01:24:51.475
Foul-smelling amniotic fluid,
uterine tenderness.

01:24:51.499 --> 01:24:57.060
You\'re asking somebody
with no medical background,

01:24:57.084 --> 01:25:00.268
to go home and monitor

01:25:00.292 --> 01:25:05.394
a potentially life-threatening
condition

01:25:05.418 --> 01:25:09.810
while they\'re
making dinner

01:25:09.834 --> 01:25:11.851
and putting kids to bed.

01:25:11.875 --> 01:25:16.475
It, it was very--
it was unbelievable to me

01:25:16.499 --> 01:25:21.185
that people\'s lives could be
toyed with like that.

01:25:21.209 --> 01:25:23.143
- People rest
better at home.

01:25:23.167 --> 01:25:25.643
They\'re more comfortable,
they\'re less tense at home.

01:25:25.667 --> 01:25:29.685
So, obviously if it\'s safe
to send the mother home

01:25:29.709 --> 01:25:32.352
with good discharge
instructions,

01:25:32.376 --> 01:25:35.475
good parameters,
that\'s all the better.

01:25:35.499 --> 01:25:40.475
Um, but it\'s not because we have
to wait till she\'s mortally ill

01:25:40.499 --> 01:25:44.394
before, um, we\'re going
to deliver the pregnancy.

01:25:44.418 --> 01:25:46.935
- But the problem always
comes down to is

01:25:46.959 --> 01:25:50.851
somebody\'s definition
of maternal life.

01:25:50.875 --> 01:25:54.475
What-- how are you going
to define, you know,

01:25:54.499 --> 01:25:57.643
a mom\'s life is in danger,
is it just an infection?

01:25:57.667 --> 01:26:02.394
Does she have to be in complete
sepsis and on life support?

01:26:02.418 --> 01:26:05.685
You know, what does she have,
what\'s the definition of that?

01:26:05.709 --> 01:26:06.726
It\'s never defined.

01:26:06.750 --> 01:26:09.394
And so, that\'s the question that
always everybody has is when

01:26:09.418 --> 01:26:14.518
can you intervene without
putting everybody at risk.

01:26:14.542 --> 01:26:18.060
- There\'s a maternal health care
crisis in the United States,

01:26:18.084 --> 01:26:19.352
which is a human rights crisis.

01:26:19.376 --> 01:26:22.768
Two to three women will die
every day in the United States

01:26:22.792 --> 01:26:25.102
from pregnancy-related
complications

01:26:25.126 --> 01:26:28.018
and approximately half of these
deaths are preventable.

01:26:28.042 --> 01:26:30.643
So, while every death
is a personal tragedy

01:26:30.667 --> 01:26:32.435
for a community
or a family,

01:26:32.459 --> 01:26:36.102
a preventable death means
that a government or a state

01:26:36.126 --> 01:26:39.583
is not meeting its human rights
obligations.

01:26:41.500 --> 01:26:44.601
- The U.S. does horribly
in comparison to other

01:26:44.625 --> 01:26:47.185
First World and in fact,
even Third World countries

01:26:47.209 --> 01:26:50.851
in terms of maternal
fetal health care.

01:26:50.875 --> 01:26:53.435
We rank somewhere
like 50th in the world

01:26:53.459 --> 01:26:57.352
in terms of maternal survival
after pregnancy.

01:26:57.376 --> 01:27:00.685
(David)
The United States is an anomaly
among developed nations

01:27:00.709 --> 01:27:03.476
in that we are the only one
to my knowledge

01:27:03.500 --> 01:27:06.268
in which the risk of pregnancy
and childbirth

01:27:06.292 --> 01:27:09.685
is actually increasing
rather than decreasing.

01:27:09.709 --> 01:27:10.810
- A maternal health crisis

01:27:10.834 --> 01:27:13.475
does not somehow magically
appears in a country.

01:27:13.499 --> 01:27:17.518
It appears when you have
a confluence of restrictions

01:27:17.542 --> 01:27:20.394
on women\'s health and
information and choices.

01:27:20.418 --> 01:27:22.935
Where you have a lack of
accountability for when there

01:27:22.959 --> 01:27:26.685
is pregnancy-related preventable
death and when you have

01:27:26.709 --> 01:27:29.851
a culture which disregards
the lives of women.

01:27:29.875 --> 01:27:34.475
- The ultimate goal, of course,
is to overturn Roe.

01:27:34.499 --> 01:27:38.559
But doing so means that
you are taking away

01:27:38.583 --> 01:27:41.935
a whole series of other rights
from women.

01:27:41.959 --> 01:27:45.060
So, women who want to carry
a pregnancy to term,

01:27:45.084 --> 01:27:47.559
want to make choices
about how they give birth,

01:27:47.583 --> 01:27:48.768
might lose those rights.

01:27:48.792 --> 01:27:52.935
Because the court may be able
to decide that what they\'re

01:27:52.959 --> 01:27:55.475
decide-- whey they\'ve chosen
for their birth, for their

01:27:55.499 --> 01:27:57.475
pregnancy is not in the best
interest of the fetus.

01:27:57.499 --> 01:28:00.851
- There\'s a number of cases in
which women have been either

01:28:00.875 --> 01:28:02.726
coerced into options
they didn\'t want

01:28:02.750 --> 01:28:07.875
or didn\'t understand or whose
wishes have been simply ignored.

01:28:13.334 --> 01:28:15.475
(Rinat Dray)
I was born in Israel.

01:28:15.499 --> 01:28:20.143
I was studying to be
a teacher in Israel.

01:28:20.167 --> 01:28:20.893
I love kids.

01:28:20.917 --> 01:28:23.834
I wanted to have
a big family, too.

01:28:28.499 --> 01:28:31.060
I moved to the United States
when I was 24.

01:28:31.084 --> 01:28:34.643
I met my husband
and got married to him.

01:28:34.667 --> 01:28:38.976
I was hoping and I wished
from my first birth

01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:41.310
to have a natural birth.

01:28:41.334 --> 01:28:46.601
When my water broke, I went
right away to the hospital.

01:28:46.625 --> 01:28:51.268
And then the doctor came and
said it\'s going too slow.

01:28:51.292 --> 01:28:53.475
Uh, I want you to do
a C-Section.

01:28:53.499 --> 01:28:57.227
I didn\'t want to do it,
and I didn\'t want to really,

01:28:57.251 --> 01:29:00.268
but they just pressed me,
they pressed me.

01:29:00.292 --> 01:29:02.126
And pressed, so...

01:29:03.251 --> 01:29:04.893
I was in a lot of pain.

01:29:04.917 --> 01:29:07.476
It\'s only because I really
wanted to have

01:29:07.500 --> 01:29:10.935
a natural birth,
so I waited long.

01:29:10.959 --> 01:29:12.185
When my baby was 3-1/2,

01:29:12.209 --> 01:29:16.685
I got pregnant
a second, second time.

01:29:16.709 --> 01:29:20.018
I wish, I wanted
to have a natural birth.

01:29:20.042 --> 01:29:24.018
The doctor came in
and told me,

01:29:24.042 --> 01:29:29.685
and told me, um, you have
five minutes to decide

01:29:29.709 --> 01:29:32.518
or you\'re going
to have a C-section

01:29:32.542 --> 01:29:34.810
or I\'m leaving you alone.

01:29:34.834 --> 01:29:38.227
I was, uh,
very sorry later

01:29:38.251 --> 01:29:40.476
that I didn\'t have the courage

01:29:40.500 --> 01:29:44.499
like, to stand up and say,
no, that\'s not what I want.

01:29:44.709 --> 01:29:48.018
Every time after C-section,
I was feeling broken,

01:29:48.042 --> 01:29:50.625
emotionally, physically.

01:29:52.499 --> 01:29:57.310
It\'s not just because
I didn\'t want it.

01:29:57.334 --> 01:30:03.084
It\'s because
physically I had pain, uh...

01:30:12.499 --> 01:30:14.685
My husband wanted
to have more kids.

01:30:14.709 --> 01:30:18.893
But I was too...
I was too scared.

01:30:18.917 --> 01:30:20.959
But then I got pregnant.

01:30:21.542 --> 01:30:24.851
I was researching that topic.

01:30:24.875 --> 01:30:30.435
There are articles
and research comparing, um,

01:30:30.459 --> 01:30:34.310
natural birth after C-section,

01:30:34.334 --> 01:30:40.475
uh, compared to a C-section,
like, repeat C-section and...

01:30:40.499 --> 01:30:44.310
And I read there that,
uh, like, all the risks

01:30:44.334 --> 01:30:49.185
that can happen to,
to the mother and the baby.

01:30:49.209 --> 01:30:52.435
- So, when Rinat called me, um,
about being a doula for her,

01:30:52.459 --> 01:30:55.475
for the birth of her third
child, um...

01:30:55.499 --> 01:30:57.394
She was looking
to have a vaginal birth

01:30:57.418 --> 01:31:01.601
after two prior cesareans, um,
which is evidence-based

01:31:01.625 --> 01:31:04.893
and there\'s no reason why
not to encourage someone

01:31:04.917 --> 01:31:08.976
to at least attempt,
um, to do so.

01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:11.475
I suggested she might
wanna look into

01:31:11.499 --> 01:31:14.685
getting another
care provider, um...

01:31:14.709 --> 01:31:19.475
Although her care providers
had a reasonably high

01:31:19.499 --> 01:31:25.643
VBAC success rate, um,
I knew from prior experience

01:31:25.667 --> 01:31:30.435
that they were not, um...

01:31:30.459 --> 01:31:35.102
supportive, um, what we might
call woman friendly.

01:31:35.126 --> 01:31:38.475
Even though sometimes
they got the job done,

01:31:38.499 --> 01:31:43.475
they got the job done
with a lot of,

01:31:43.499 --> 01:31:47.185
uh, collateral damage,
emotional trauma,

01:31:47.209 --> 01:31:53.475
um, with a lot of, with a lot
of, uh, with a lot of pain.

01:31:53.499 --> 01:31:54.559
- Because I was on Medicaid,

01:31:54.583 --> 01:32:00.102
I did not have the choice to
switch to a different doctor.

01:32:00.126 --> 01:32:02.185
- When we arrived
in the hospital,

01:32:02.209 --> 01:32:05.851
the doctor on call was not
immediately available.

01:32:05.875 --> 01:32:10.475
Rinat this time definitely
seemed to be in real labor

01:32:10.499 --> 01:32:12.227
and what I would
call active labor.

01:32:12.251 --> 01:32:16.475
When the doctor showed up, um,
she was again given

01:32:16.499 --> 01:32:18.976
the ultimatum, you know,
you can stay

01:32:19.000 --> 01:32:22.475
and have a C-section
or you can leave.

01:32:22.499 --> 01:32:26.475
These are your choices, um...

01:32:26.499 --> 01:32:28.268
Rinat was in a tremendous
amount of pain.

01:32:28.292 --> 01:32:31.976
It was clearly against
everything that she wanted.

01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:35.475
And it was very hard
to come to terms with.

01:32:35.499 --> 01:32:40.102
On one hand, do you stay and
submit to this C-section

01:32:40.126 --> 01:32:44.352
that you don\'t want and
medically right now don\'t need?

01:32:44.376 --> 01:32:47.475
Or do you leave, and if you
leave, go where?

01:32:47.499 --> 01:32:50.018
Go where in the height
of active labor.

01:32:50.042 --> 01:32:54.559
- After two hours,
I was six, dilating six.

01:32:54.583 --> 01:32:59.185
So, Shayna was there and my
mother was there, and, uh...

01:32:59.209 --> 01:33:02.976
I was so happy, uh,
and Shayna was crying

01:33:03.000 --> 01:33:06.851
and wow, it\'s going
to happen, um...

01:33:06.875 --> 01:33:11.559
What you wanted, and, um,
you\'re very happy.

01:33:11.583 --> 01:33:12.685
But then he came in.

01:33:12.709 --> 01:33:17.475
He came in and he said,
\"Don\'t be so happy.

01:33:17.499 --> 01:33:19.435
\"It\'s not going to happen.

01:33:19.459 --> 01:33:22.851
You\'re not going to have
a natural birth.\"

01:33:22.875 --> 01:33:28.352
- The fact that she was pursuing
a VBAC after two cesareans

01:33:28.376 --> 01:33:31.435
against his clinical judgment,

01:33:31.459 --> 01:33:33.976
his personal individual
clinical judgment

01:33:34.000 --> 01:33:38.518
was grounds enough for her
being an abusive mother.

01:33:38.542 --> 01:33:41.685
He said things like
\"You\'re a bad mother

01:33:41.709 --> 01:33:44.227
\"for putting your baby
at risk.

01:33:44.251 --> 01:33:46.893
\"We, we can call a court.

01:33:46.917 --> 01:33:51.475
\"We can call a judge and have
you-- have a court-ordered

01:33:51.499 --> 01:33:54.018
\"C-section that you
have to do this

01:33:54.042 --> 01:33:55.518
for your baby\'s well-being.\"

01:33:55.542 --> 01:33:59.475
Meantime, he had not given her
any information

01:33:59.499 --> 01:34:03.476
that her baby\'s well-being was
actually some type of an issue.

01:34:03.500 --> 01:34:08.435
- If I\'d known that
my baby was in danger,

01:34:08.459 --> 01:34:12.601
I would go for a C-section,
of course.

01:34:12.625 --> 01:34:14.810
- He said, \"We can have
a court-ordered caesarian

01:34:14.834 --> 01:34:17.475
\"to keep your baby
from being subjected,

01:34:17.499 --> 01:34:19.394
\"subjected to your insistence

01:34:19.418 --> 01:34:22.726
on continuing,
uh, to be in labor.\"

01:34:22.750 --> 01:34:26.518
- He said, if you\'re not going
to stand for a C-section,

01:34:26.542 --> 01:34:27.518
we can, uh,

01:34:27.542 --> 01:34:32.475
we can take away
your children, um...

01:34:32.499 --> 01:34:38.310
Just to press me, to scare me,
that I should sign the C-section

01:34:38.334 --> 01:34:39.518
and he\'s also,

01:34:39.542 --> 01:34:44.102
he also came back, um,

01:34:44.126 --> 01:34:47.851
and put a glove on
to check me,

01:34:47.875 --> 01:34:50.935
and then he just took off
the glove

01:34:50.959 --> 01:34:53.185
and said \"No, I\'m not
going to check you.

01:34:53.209 --> 01:34:55.976
\"I\'m not going
to check how dilated you are

01:34:56.000 --> 01:34:58.475
unless you\'re signing
for the C-section.\"

01:34:58.499 --> 01:35:02.475
- What happened was kind
of the unbelievable.

01:35:02.499 --> 01:35:07.102
He brought in
another physician.

01:35:07.126 --> 01:35:11.018
The two of them released
the wheels of the bed.

01:35:11.042 --> 01:35:12.726
They rolled her
out of the room.

01:35:12.750 --> 01:35:14.518
They rolled her down
the hallway.

01:35:14.542 --> 01:35:19.726
- I, um...
was screaming, crying.

01:35:19.750 --> 01:35:23.685
But they didn\'t, uh,
they didn\'t pay attention.

01:35:23.709 --> 01:35:28.499
They just kept rolling the bed
into the operation room.

01:35:31.251 --> 01:35:32.893
- My jaw just dropped.

01:35:32.917 --> 01:35:35.435
She didn\'t sign anything!
What\'s going on here?

01:35:35.459 --> 01:35:37.475
How can they, how can they
just be just rolling her

01:35:37.499 --> 01:35:40.475
down the hallway
into the operating room?

01:35:40.499 --> 01:35:44.475
- But after a few minutes,

01:35:44.499 --> 01:35:47.601
while they are taking
the baby,

01:35:47.625 --> 01:35:49.851
taking care of him,

01:35:49.875 --> 01:35:53.643
the doctor screamed, \"Urologist!

01:35:53.667 --> 01:35:56.268
Urologist, urologist!\"

01:35:56.292 --> 01:36:01.726
Um, and I still
did not realize why?

01:36:01.750 --> 01:36:06.559
And now, they asked Shayna to
leave and they said they need--

01:36:06.583 --> 01:36:12.476
they asked, uh, anesth-- to have
a general anesthesia

01:36:12.500 --> 01:36:17.167
because the doctor cut,
cut my bladder.

01:36:18.583 --> 01:36:23.685
It was horrible to be treated
this way, it was, um...

01:36:23.709 --> 01:36:25.851
Not only the fact
he did a C-section.

01:36:25.875 --> 01:36:29.310
It was all the way,
how he was behaving,

01:36:29.334 --> 01:36:34.102
how he\'s using
scary tactics and, um...

01:36:34.126 --> 01:36:38.227
And what was, I was, like, uh,
I didn\'t believe that something

01:36:38.251 --> 01:36:42.499
like that gonna happen
to me in United States.

01:36:45.875 --> 01:36:49.851
- People have a misconception
about what is taking place

01:36:49.875 --> 01:36:51.726
in the United States right now.

01:36:51.750 --> 01:36:55.102
- We definitely see women
being prosecuted,

01:36:55.126 --> 01:36:56.810
women losing
this bodily autonomy.

01:36:56.834 --> 01:37:01.143
It often happens in various
isolated incidences.

01:37:01.167 --> 01:37:04.851
So, it\'s hard to see sometimes
that there is a larger trend.

01:37:04.875 --> 01:37:08.459
But there absolutely
is a larger trend.

01:37:09.209 --> 01:37:11.685
The attack on abortions,
the attacks on contraception

01:37:11.709 --> 01:37:16.475
and sex education and women\'s
rights to control their bodies

01:37:16.499 --> 01:37:17.559
are all part and parcel.

01:37:17.583 --> 01:37:20.475
And this collateral
damage of other women

01:37:20.499 --> 01:37:25.499
who are being prosecuted,
these are all interconnected.

01:37:30.542 --> 01:37:33.810
And if we don\'t step in
in every place along

01:37:33.834 --> 01:37:38.768
this spectrum, in every aspect
of where anti-choice

01:37:38.792 --> 01:37:41.475
conservatives are trying to
control women\'s choices

01:37:41.499 --> 01:37:45.475
and lives, all of these pieces,
all of these dominos

01:37:45.499 --> 01:37:46.810
are going
to come down together.

01:37:46.834 --> 01:37:50.475
- That even worse, there\'s a lot
of people who just simply

01:37:50.499 --> 01:37:55.935
have no idea
how horrific it has been,

01:37:55.959 --> 01:37:58.143
what is happening to women.

01:37:58.167 --> 01:37:59.518
And I think there
are a lot of people

01:37:59.542 --> 01:38:04.709
who simply don\'t know that they
could possibly be next.

01:38:14.917 --> 01:38:19.000
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