we'll examine the case and we'll speak with arizona state senator eva burch. she made headlines last week when she gave a speech on state senate floor where she shared her plans to obtain an abortion after receiving news that her pregnancy was nonviable. >> generally speaking, people speak -- seek abortion for the same reason i did. i am choosing because i am pregnant and for reasons i should not have to explain to you or to the church or to the state of arizona, i need to not be pregnant anymore. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the u.s. supreme court appears set to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which is used for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the united states. oral arguments were held tuesday in a case wrought by a group of anti-choice medical associations which have sought to overturn moves by the fda to increase accessibility to the drug which was first approved over 20 years ago. on tuesday, several justices questioned if the doctors eve

and in a touching speech on the arizona state senate floor tuesday, democrat eva burch shared she plans obtain an abortion after receiving news her pregnancy is nonviable. the first-term lawmaker spoke about her struggles with fertility and a miscarriage she had over a decade ago. >> two years ago while i was campaigning for this senate seat, i became pregnant with what we later determined was a nonviable pregnancy. it was a pregnancy we had been trying for and we were heartbreaking -- heartbroken over it. i wish i could tell you otherwise, but after numerous ultrasounds and blood draws we have determined my pregnancy is once again not progressing and is not viable. once again, i've scheduled an appointment to terminate my pregnancy. i don't think people should have to justify their abortions but i am choosing to talk about why i made this decision because i want us to be able to have meaningful conversations about the realities of how the work we do in this body impacts people in the real world. amy: arizona state senator eva burch is a former nurse practitioner who worked at a women's

. >> a profile in courage from state senator eva burch of arizona publicly discussing her planned abortion advocating for the reproductive rights of all women. senator burch joins me tonight. >>> also, chaos in the courts over whether texas is use state and local police to arrest and deport migrants. >>> plus, the oversight committee's impeachment freak show continues with a series of sketchy witnesses, including one convicted fraudster who could not attend today's hearing in person because he's behind bars. >>> but we begin tonight with the desperation of a man facing a ticking clock with with each tick and each tok, two thoughts weigh on this man's mind, staying out of prison and not becoming destitute and losing all of his properties. donald trump has five days left to come up with the $454 million bond for his new york civil fraud judgment or new york attorney general latitia james can start seizing the very properties that trump has used to portray himself as a wealthy and successful businessman. the crux of what elevated him to the white house. an appellate court should disregard tru

also joining us is arizona state senator, eva burch. >> i'm so glad you are able to join the program.our own experience. i want to take a listen to what you said. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> first, i was required to have another ultrasound at the abortion clinic. i didn't have an ultrasound because my doctor thought i needed one. i had one because legislation has forced me to do that. then i got to sit through an exhaustive list of absolute disinformation that was read off to me. i was told that there were alternatives to abortion, parenting or adoption among them. as if delivering a healthy baby is an option for me. from where i sat, the only reason i had to hear those things was in a cruel and really uninformed attempt by outside forces to shame and cohearse and frighten me into making a different decision other than the one i knew was right for me. >> senator, i am sorry for what you have been through. i'm sorry that we live in a country where women are constantly called upon to excavate their own pain in the interest of being seen and treated as full people. i want t

amna: that is democratic arizona state senator eva burch joining us tonight. so much for your time. ♪ alarming suicide rates among the military and veterans can be traced to the stress and trauma from the long wars in afghanistan and iraq. but those conflicts are over. and suicides remain at what the pentagon calls an unacceptably high level. as nick schifrin details, a new report reveals that within the army, armor brigade combat teams, which revolve around tanks, have the highest suicide rates. nick: since 9/11, more than 30,000 active duty service members or veterans of the post-9/11 wars have died by suicide. that is more than four times the number of those who've died in combat. secretary of defense lloyd austin has repeatedly said that even one suicide is too many, and that the department must do more to prevent suicide. a new report by the army times found the highest rates of suicide are among soldiers in the army's tank community. it was written by senior reporter davis winkie, who joins me now. and i'm also joined by craig bryan, a former air force p

. >> that's democrat eva burch who said she will be getting an abortion because her pregnancy is no longer. she is also a nurse and has struggled with fertility for years. she said she wanted to share with the public the effects of abortion restrictions in the state. arizona bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy except to save the life of a mother. >>> and "the houston chronicle" says three young boys are in custody after allegedly robbing a bank. the 16, 12, and 11-year-old boys dubbed the little rascals by the fbi were arrested yesterday and charged with robbery by threat. they're accused of threatening a teller at a bank outside houston last week and leaving with an undisclosed amount of money. witnesses said they did not see any weapons. after the robbery, the fbi posted their photos on social media asking for the public's help to catch them. >>> still to come, a blossoming sensation. we're going to show a little tree in d.c. that's become a folk hero. d.c. that's become a folk hero. i have relapsing ms, but i still want to spend my time my way. i chose kesimpta because it works fo

amna: eva burch is the democratic whip of the arizona state senate, and she joins me now.ing us and let me begin by saying how very sorry we are for your loss. >> thank you for having me and i appreciate the sentiment. it is an unfortunate thing to happen, but i am glad that i had the opportunity to turn this sad moment into something that is powerful and meaningful and has the opportunity to affect change. amna: tell me about your decision to share that decision publicly. how easy was it to decide to speak out on the floor like that? >> it is a complicated decision, but i do not know that it was a difficult decision. i started going through this process, and as i was having my initial consultation where you have to have this counseling in arizona it became clear to me that i was being told who i was in that council meeting and that my provider did not want to say the things that they said, and i felt a strong sense of responsibility to take ownership of the debt and to tell people who i was instead of the other way around. i know that there is this stigma about through th

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arizona state senator eva burch, thank you so much for sharing your story.versation. it's the larger conversation about how we take control of the situation and translate it into action and get people to come to the ballot and make sure their voices are being heard in a meaningful way, the way they're not being heard in the arizona legislature right now and in legislatures across the country. >> absolutely. thank you so much. molly, what more can we say? this is the kind of story telling and the kind of discussion that women need to have, politicians need to have. again, we have to meet the fight where it is. the fight is that they call it abortion. they call it the right to life. it's health care. i really think when we use the word abortion, we need to add health care to it just to drive the point home. eva's health care, your health care, my health care, my daughter's health care. >> yeah. i mean, look, there was this amazing report from lift louisiana out two days ago which documented all of these women and doctors talking about how hard it is in louisia