dermish: there is a culture of fear now.not sure what to say to patients or what kind of care they can offer. they are afraid that if they offer the standard care they will be punished, they will lose their license, their livelihood, their family will suffer. and again, on the other side the patient suffers even more. you go into medicine to help people and to be held back from that is really devastating as a provider. i think what we've seen in the kate cox case is the state is determined to prevent us from practicing safe medicine. we see that with the letters of the attorney general sent to the hospitals and the physician, threatening them if they were to proceed with providing the standard of care. i think it will continue to harm people in ways we can't even imagine at this point. amna: as you know, texas is not alone in her abortion restrictions. there are some 15 other states that have near-total bands into the landscape shifts quickly. the arizona supreme court just heard arguments about an abortion ban and a wyoming