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spent two years and its affiliates. and to get away with people united states. in the past that it's one of those states with a total bail in the nation's sophomore about that. and be on that's what the fact is the child was and vice

president troubling the country for two years speaking truth about how horrific it is. it's not just about freedom.

this is one issue in your effort the vice president for women's reproductive health care. we thank you for making that commitment. people don't realize how important it is the kind of support and hear from our director for civil rights

because the director and i think it is important understand the reason is so important because not just access to abortion care but in general and losing access to care we are putting at risk their lives in from the state of texas we don't believe anyone diminish, we don't think they are surviving, we don't want to go back but that is where we are and that's why it's been very

exotic. we must restore the rights that we have. we are creating all of those in the think we will have the second gentlemen forget. perhaps you will story. >> i was an abortion provider for about five years. became illegal at one time and

stayed for a little while and there was a case resident not doing this anymore. when they ask you for that, they don't need to like and they get on a plane and that is breaking my hippocratic oath and not going to do this. i left and i didn't know it was going to work and i found out that it is incredibly hard and from the ground up now that i'm

here, they are pulling from all over the country. coming from unities every now and then and then we come back and i was doing really good job and it went well for them but what did all those people have? i knew i would put myself in a place and build out that access. one of the things i see when it was overturned there are more abortions. you know what's going to happen.

you may decide abortion right now. i had so many patients i was shocked tommy after abortion, federal if i would have done this if this was an illegal. maybe i would have made it into the pregnancy, baby the pregnancy is what i want. none of this did what they thought it would. may the entire situation worse, the ripple effect and it will continue to happen. >> in these complaints what they

are entitled to give us the story. the public health letter the senior medical in the clinical trial and i'm really fortunate and the provider was right there in chicago and because of that, i not only had screening and i worry they will not have the

opportunity i had years of. it is unconscionable. >> thank you so much. pre-student, things are very different and how out front of open. also is a live physician and a network, i really saw abortion controlling the narrative so i

made a personal decision in addition to delivering high quality is going to address head on the statement. december 2022 site announced my practice. ... such a wonderful learning experience because my name, my face was website. i'm very proud about what i do. i deliver first trimester abortion care fight alongside comprehensive family medicine managing anxiety, diabetes,

sprained ankles. not because of looking to atone for the abortion care i provide but to demonstrate this care is incredibly safe and it is broadly needed across every reproductive demographic in this country. since we've opened we have served not only families in richmond, virginia, but from all over the country. folks have taken the first plane ride to get an abortion with me in richmond, virginia. that come from texas, wisconsin, florida. one of the things they tell us again and again is the actually chose our clinic because of her website, because my face was there, my name. there's a lot of unknown around abortion care. it's been unsafe for abortion providers to be upfront about what they're doing and it takes a really seriously. the payoff here is folks know they're coming to see some of the looks like she could be there sister or their friend. it's really just wonderful to see the relief on peoples faces. i hope of the family doctor in this country realizes at minimum to have the skills needed to

provide abortion by pill and if we all provide it opened in our clinics, and takes with all the pop out of the counter argument for abortion care. >> great point. sonata the director of our office for civil rights at the department of health and human services, melody. >> thank you, mr. secretary, sacajawea. among officers who worked at the is department health and human services. my deputy bricks of rights and health care and to protect medical privacy. so those are two pretty big jobs especially right now, thanks to the leadership of secretary and vice president harris we and around the country having conversations with patients and providers and students and advocates, at a lot of those stories stick with me at night and sugar stick with the vice president and the secretary and the second gentleman. they don't go away. hearing someone say they couldn't get care, they had to in the car with with the bt more is pretty barbaric. that's why i'm so proud were able to do all the work we're

doing. as some of you i shared my story earlier this year. i was privileged enough to ivf. i became pregnant with twins. i know some is make a face. i suffered a miscarriage, it's awful. then i was fortunate enough to have safe legal abortion care in maryland. at no point in the process was i worried my medical records with your weaponized against me. at no point was i worried that i was going to be shame for the care that i received. and, in fact, i was doing this on working on regulations to help women all across the country whether it's the civil rights or through privacy to protect them. that story needs to be shared because miscarriage is a very, healthcare, and it is healthcare. women across the country it happens to them everyday. it's so important for women like me to uplift that's right because there are women across the country who do not get to share their story, who do not get the opportunity to sit in tables like this and let that opportunity. that's why i'm so grateful we put out a rule earlier this year under this president and this

vice president leadership to show medical records for being weaponized to hurt patients. when women seek lawful reproduction health care, people cannot going fishing expeditions into the records, that they feel safe with a talk to the doctor. they know the doctor is 90 information. another doctor will would y can to protect them. when i need follow-up care even if i have to travel somewhere i feel safe going into emergency room or to a clinic to get that care. we all know healthcare so important to women everywhere and we know making sure your privacy is protected is critically important at the moment. so thank you to you stack to burst out of for allowing us the space to do this. it's important and appreciate the opportunity. >> we have a bit of time. we have little time. i'll ask you to chime in that give any thoughts would like to get the second gentleman in. >> thank you all for sharing your stories. i know it's hard to do it and i know it's rushing.

but where we hear? we are here because of the former president. the former president who ran on a platform that one, when it should be punished, those words came out of his mouth, and they talked about nominating supreme court justices that would overturn roe v. wade. and that's exactly what he wanted and that's exactly what he got. so let's be honest here. this is on the former president, the guy who wants to run for president get a platform of taking is us backwards. this is a perfect example of just taking us backwards. and you talked about, , like my mother, same thing. when i heard the news about dobbs, the first person to call it was vice president and she said, and we knew it was coming but it was such a shock. she said, ducky, the actually did it. the actually did it.

she was enraged. click wishes on done the last few years. next message i got was from my been 23 old daughter, now 25 saying i'm angry. we need to fight. dad, you need to do something about this. next one was my mother who is in her '80s, she was one of those women who is fighting for reproductive freedom and equal rights. her anger right now, to think as you mentioned, that she has enjoyed a right that she fought for that was just ripped away that my daughter, our daughter cannot enjoy. it's completely antithetical to the we are as a country, we were supposed on allies going ford and not backwards. that's what we need to do frankly in this upcoming election, go forward. >> i had a few comments because my mother has been an advocate for reproductive rights her entire life. she died in 2020, and in some

ways i'm glad she didn't see dobbs. she would've an absolutely appalled. we went on marches with her with our kids. we assume this was a right that we would be able to maintain, and it's horrifying that it isn't. >> let me ask something because you came from texas. as i've traveled a expect the second jump as we heard the stories i was in idaho where to are provided who were leaving idaho because they don't believe that they can exercise, as you said, the full rights and the privileges they have gained as a result of -- do you think there are other providers, doctors like you, were leaving states' rights are restricted? and if so, what does that do for the patients who can't leave the state for the rights are restricted? >> yes, there are absolutely other physicians leaving. i know some have chosen to stay

sort of do what they can but is not just abortion providers that are leaving. it's other physicians as well. i've heard of an oncologist who's leaving texas. before dobbs, about three years ago i had a patient who had a broken arm and he refused to set or do anything because she was pregnant. i had to do abortion was she still had a bone sticking out of her arm. that was before it became illegal. i had a patient -- also before. i had a patient die of metastatic breast cancer. a radiation was only pelleted and a completely took away from her when she became pregnant accidentally. so that was already that bad. so now imagine you are an oncologist and trying to treat your cancer patients who was actually gets pregnant even if they say no but i do want this pregnancy, i want you to treat my cancer. i'm the patient. it doesn't matter. the state made the decision for you, not the doctor. as a professional, like, here's

some did think about. i still am a texas licensed. what do i do with that? i have virginia license to practice medicine but have texas license. if i do something you to be in texas think they have a right to come after me because i hold that? and this this is a profess, right? took a professional job that is now a professional job is illegal. if you do professional job you spent your string on putting you in jail for life, treatment. >> so the three of you who are healthcare providers who have helped cure people, keep them healthy, what's the message would like the second gentleman or me surfing the vice president, the president take back from this visit? >> i would just like to scissors light of discussion about again women who need abortion or abortion fighters and it's all extract. know when it comes office thought he would ever be there. but when you're in a position,

maybe the scariest most unpredicted position of your life, do you want to find yourself with no options or do you want to send your daughter,, your sister, your friend to someone like me or someone like doctor rubio who spent decades getting the skills that we need to provide compassionate care? this is not an abstract issue for people. i know it feels like it but trust me one day it will be for you or someone you love regardless of your political affiliation. >> abortion is healthcare. and what i didn't say is that in college i had friends who had to have back alley abortions. it was horrific, horrific experiences for them, which is why i call my story naked 74. i was really grateful that i had access to safe abortion and it made all the difference in my

life in terms of personally and professionally. i have the children that i have planned. it's wonderful. and their grandchildren, and to my granddaughters. >> any final thoughts, second gentleman? let me offer you final thoughts as we get ready to close. >> again, the vast majority of our country, regardless of political beliefs, religious beliefs, are on the site of all things we've been talking about and that is been proven at the ballot box the time of the gentleman has expired again. whenever this type of access is on the ballot, and it could be any bright a budget bright red state and overwhelmingly 70% whatever are voting for healthcare, voting for freedom, voting for autonomy. that's what makes this so outrageous. as a lawyer, fellow

professional, the thought that i couldn't practice my chosen profession in one state but i could practice it in another to care for clients the way that i love to care for them is just outrageous. i have talked to many doctors over the last two years and the thought, they told me stories of having rather than providing care, they're looking over their shoulder talking to the h.r., talking to insurance, talking to risk management. it's just outrageous. it's wrong. it's immoral and it's got to change. this will change when we elect kamala harris' as an ex-president of the united states. >> on that note, we will go ahead and close them what to say thank you to each and everyone of you. thank you for allowing us to use facility, to be able to gather. thank you to our director of our office of civil rights and to the second gentleman who could've been any other part of the country couch is to be us. >> and was on the schedule. the matter what else is going on

one of you today to talk about this. it's at a port. >> thank you all very much for attending. [inaudible conversations] >> your reaction to the names is are recalling her? >> that's all he's got? look, you heard the vice president yesterday making the case against donald trump very clearly, laid out the case directly and in a compelling fashion. but you also laid out the vision for the future, a vision where this freedom, were not having to talk about these issues of today in this post with dobbs hells gate the donald trump created. we need to guess, were going to prosecute the case against donald trump and his lies, he is gas lighting, during covid, dereliction of duty, inside an insurrection and all those other things, work and make that very clear. she's going to be able to make

that case. we're also going to move on from this type of environment, this dobbs where freedoms are taken away, were autonomy is taken away, where the telling you you can't read this book. they're telling you you cannot learn these facts. they're telling you you can't vote. all that is going to change and a must change. you see enthusiasm. you see the excitement. use of the money raised at you saw the party called the. >> use of the broad base of support that yet in just one or two days because she's talking about an america that we all have a place in. that's why kamala harris' my so proud of i'm also so proud of the present. i got choked up yesterday in wilmington when he called in all of us did what a great man. love joe biden. but kamala harris' has united the party purchase would unite the country. she's going to earn this domination picky see that happening and she's going to win this