at every step? is that right? sensene: i think it makes to return to the perceptions of this case, what the petitioners would have us believe is that they are here to fix something ,hat is a novelist in the law that there is an impression that in spite of many, many cases establishing the contrary, nonunion members are supporting political activity that they are not. is an obvious citizenship at this is he -- advocacy issue, a system of collective arguing chosen toystem has put into place. states have chosen not to put them into place. is awe have right now

great deal of leeway for public employers to choose what works best for them, and they are going to do it for her workforce relevance reasons, the incredible value of having your frontline workers were --sipated in projects participate in projects. but there are others that are policy reasons. these things have been vigorously debated in the public square. wisconsin,is ohio or these are matters people are shouting from the rooftops about. it enables really important changes in who we are his communities and citizens. for example, unions, especially in public services, it is well documented, they provide

middle-class jobs with benefits. this is particularly important for women, lgbt, and we are struggling in this country with women earning $.79 for every dollar a man works. if you are a public sector employee, that is cut in half. there are certain reasons that they want to make sure they had in place mechanisms to achieve goals that matter to our communities. anisha: there were a couple of the amicus briefs that were established -- they go to that point i suggest that you made and one veryty important thing that public employers get from unions is that unions can help them attend .ll sorts of deficiencies

i think there were a number of local governments briefs that were filed, and we all have discussed our experience of ,hese cost savings changes training, logistics, the way that work has been performed that results in millions of dollars of savings to local governments, and that's money they can use for other purposes. >> [indiscernible] andy: i think the states are laboratories. with respect to patronage, the test is reasonableness. the state can say, here is our view. we think that this class is should be subject to this political party affiliation. leeway tolot of select choice within that.

i think the states have been given a lot of leeway and abood gives them a lot of leeway with respect to this issue. the question is is that leeway going to be limited in a pretty drastic way? i guess with respect to pickering, what pickering says employer ist's basically going -- government as employer is going to act as private employers do with some limitations. that is the theory. that is true with the first amendment. that is true with respect to the fourth amendment. so, that's really the principle here. this is not a question about creating a system where the government is financing its enemy. that's not how collective bargaining works. the government has decided that having a well-established

bargaining partner will lead to labor peace, because employees will feel well represented, and will enable the kinds of achievements in terms of workplace safety and other things that are possible when you have someone who has the ability to take on those kinds of things because they have a financial base. that is the problem with the idea that this will all be voluntary. if you put aside the free rider you can't be sure for a three-year contract -- who knows whether there was a membership base in the friedrichs world? foolish. would be very -- thethat there is 90% whole thing collapses. and i want to make one last

point about the existential threat, because i would not want anyone to think about friedrichs -- if these petitioners when everyone will be happy and government employee union law will be set for generations. this is the first step or an intermediate step in the next step to the next step which is already being litigated in some cases, which is to say it violates the first amendment's for states to establish an exclusive bargaining agreement. and if you look at the language on the petitioner side, much of the language is about how terrible it is and what a first amendment violation it is for individual employees not to be able to bargain themselves with their government employer and have that funneled through the union. -- ittrue that right now does not mean the death of unions, but i think it would be to say that they seek

to limit the government >> we are coming to the end of our presentation and we will go to questions, but i think that marion wants to give us a thought on this issue. >> something that we have taken from -- for granted in this conversation about the consequences of essentially eliminating these fifty-year laboratories or how to get this is that the public sector has pretty much adopted on andate sector labor model it rest the duty of service for everyone in the union. we are getting right into the heart of what that model is and

given that duty of , it's eminently reasonable for a public employer to decide at that duty ought to come with some kind of shared obligation with regards to providing the services germane to the body. we could go on and on. i frequently do. we will at this point try to take your questions. people have questions, could they please raise their hand and weight for a microphone? we are also going to try to ask questions. so, that would be great. microphone? >> hello, i run a new service for unions around the country.

when they say nothing practical, i would ask them to look at wisconsin, where the membership has goneployee unions down by approximately 40%. the briefs from the california , i had saidociation that i had seen the briefs for the association in the first amendment argument. i would like to know how each of you would approach that. if you would stand up there at the podium for the court. >> great question, someone was mentioned by name, yes, it is jeffrey, so why don't you go first? >> one just wonders, i guess it is an empirical question i don't

have the answer to, but it is probably an exaggeration to see -- say that the entire decline was free riders. people that wanted to be in the union, is some of that 40% free riders? to be ant has exaggeration to say that going from 100% to something less than 100% is evidence of rampant free writing. i think it's telling, so yes. >> how would you cite the first amendment issue? >> i think that it is important to recognize that this is not being cited in a vacuum. there is a well-developed body of first amendment case law concerning government employees and employers. rely onnt employers that case law in the same way that we rely on collective

bargaining arrangements, government employers rely on that collective understanding of what the determination of the parameters are if their relationships are with employers in that context. that's one of the big things that the decision of the petitioners here could do. it could end first amendment case law in a way that government employers uncertain about how to deal with various different kinds of employee activities with different approaches that we have always understood are ok. >> marianne? >> i don't think that there is a first amendment issue in this case. to the extent that the law is well settled here, it's workable. it involves some line drawing, as many legal standards do. it has not proved excessively burdensome or difficult.

they do not have to support the political activities of unions. that seems to me exactly what we are talking about here. i would decline to take on the invitation by petitioners to workplace labor-management relationships as entirely political. leave the food alone. >> i think that in the interest of time i will agree with what has been said. there is the structure i have been talking about about workplace first amendment rights and what's next to it. why not leave it in place? >> question here, question here. moderators?

>> they sue and the first of the questions presented should be overruled but will be dealt with and he went over the second question, whether the opt out would be the one that proved to be what the justices were willing to decide. i wonder if either of the panelists think that we might see a much narrower decision than the one that you all seem to be talking about. questions an important that we have discussed beforehand. annie, why don't you go first on that one? --i guess, i'm not sure again, maybe we will get to this case isverhanging this the question of overruling in whole or in part a precedent that has been on the books for

35 years without ever being challenged and has been applied by federal unanimous courts over those decades. i guess my reaction is -- a lot of overruling or a little overruling, that is still something serious for the court to consider about the standard should apply in that context. we will talk more about it, but the extent to which reconsidering things it is , that's what the court has look for before. there are certainly a lot of other contexts in the way in which affirmative action sort of opting out, with respect to constitutional protections is the norm. >> what about opt in, opt out? courtterms of will the

reach? i don't think so. think so.cessarily it's a bit of a gamble for the petitioners to include the because they are giving that out. the case that always comes to from the halliburton case from a couple of years ago, which everyone thought was on the market theory just to reconsider the doctorate that had been considered for a long time and ultimately it didn't go all the way and they entered into an intermediate holding. i don't think it's a high chance that the court will not address but the opt in opt out issue is there and by raising it petitioners might have inadvertently hurt themselves in the broader argument. >> did you want to say anything

about the narrow result question? briefs were part of what in a different way they chose to structure collective bargaining arrangements with terms of unions and what they can cannot do. some of those have gone with opt in arrangements, some have not. >> questions? >> it's over here. this gentleman here. >> is there any part of the expressive component of this case that could be put out and leave just the direct service to

the employee? >> could you here? i could not hear the question. i think that the assumption of but law has been the can, that has very much been challenged in this case. who wants to discuss that? jeffrey? go ahead. >> the one thing that gives me pause is the notion of grievances, but i guess i still don't -- the grievance seems like something that is more of a direct service to the individual where they are getting a sort of tangible, direct benefit. i guess in response to that concern, i would say first that the union still has a lot of power to decide which grievances are advanced in which are not. even though just listens grievance is there it will

ultimately only be advanced if it serves the union's interest. i guess the alternative could be that if it turns into a problematic situation there could always be a fee for service for grievances where if you have a grievance to the process of union you pay whatever the marginal cost is. that's the only one that gives me pause, but i wouldn't call it a full obstacle. >> tell us more about that, if you would. >> the hudson case from a few years ago, those of the procedures by which public unions represent what they are doing that is germane to collective bargaining and the processing of grievances and other kinds of dispute resolutions authorized under the agreements and separated out in

the activities that they undertake is membership organizations. that specifically took place to be sure that nonmembers if they did not support. the -- i feelo like him wanted to pick up on something you said. with regard to grievances there are states where arrangements like that are in place. again, there are states in the system that will make the decision that they don't want to have a great deal of individualized litigation or or workplaceoblems speech. and of course, the great danger in this case is that the decision for the petitioners was constitutionalize in a way that would be ineffective for employers. to the extent that grievances are part of the collective bargaining process and part of

the agreement that employers and working people's representatives make to have an efficient, productive workforce, they are the law of new york, california, or kentucky facilitates. >> what either of you like to take a look at that? >> going back to the benefits youpublic employers get, could say that a fee-for-service arrangement would work in every say that which is to the employer shall be perfectly happy if it grievance isn't resolved and the only person who has a stake in the resolution is an employee. in each case it has not been true, resolving employee grievances and ensuring employee satisfaction can be very important to ensuring the

uninterested provision of and that iservices something i have wanted to say at various points here, but just thinking about it there are lots of different ways in which adopting a system in which the only voice employee has -- employee has is -- take it or leave it. if you don't like it, that's fine, come work for us, that can be unhelpful for an employer because what that means is that as soon as an employee experiences dissatisfaction, , theon a very small thing solution should be for that employee to walk. from a public employer standpoint that may not be the best thing at all in what you want may be a well-trained work force that isn't turning over constantly. resolution of grievances is very important to that. >> another question?

>> should petitioners succeed in somehow overturning it, one scholar i know has written an article suggesting a positive solution to this problem is to have those public employers directly fund the unions entirely and reduce employee salaries in order to fund it. that doesn't strike me as quite right for a couple of reasons. it certainly is a suggestion to solving the problem. i wonder what you all think about how that would work. certainly runs against the theralism idea but if supreme court doesn't agree, with that actually solve petitions in this case? maybe for the reasons that andy mentioned earlier it might not. >> who would like to take that on? [laughter]

>> i think that i'm familiar with the case you are referring to, but i don't see any reason they suggested rightly, there are a lot of different ways the public employers can meet their goals. they can hear from frontline employees and incorporate their expertise into improving services. there are instances of that. there are obviously entire countries who depend on a model like that for labor relations. i think that we are going to see a lot of new models over the coming years regardless of the outcomes of these cases. as has been mentioned, there are a lot of challenges and re-shifting of our economies. we will see a lot in terms of

the effective delivery of public services. i also think that we need to bear in mind that one of the things that makes a workplace thenization effective is fact that it is a workplace organization of employees. we talked about one of the reasons why it has been so effective is that the frontline workers understand they can actually participate, give because theyback have a strong representative that has the back. that is a really important part of the mix. whatever happens, i expect the model goes to the future that comes next year and will always involve some component of strong work organization. >> anybody else? >> in terms of the what comes next, it's important to keep in both the exclusive

representation and collective bargaining ability, that's an extraordinary power. the aclu, naacp, and nra have no authority to compel the government to sort of sit down and talk to them to help promote their interests. --t sort of the nature of just sort of the nature of the power at stake -- if something is in the interest of 51% or more of the employees, i find it hard to believe that there would not be a sort of vigorous, engaged constituency of employees who would voluntarily but is a paid and be willing to fund that, because of course only the members of the union get to participate in the process. i don't know, i find it hard to believe that there wouldn't be , time,an enough funding and resources to make that continue to happen.

i was just going to say, no one is compelling the states to do anything, right? they decided to adopt this because it is in their interest to have someone to bargain with who is funded and can be an partner, as is often the term, across the bargaining table. obviously they have dramatically opposed views but the best labor-management relationships are the ones where there is a very active give-and-take where they hammer out a contract as in other situations at work for both sides. but no one is compelling the states to do that. states have decided that this is good for us, we would like to have a partner to do this with and if they don't want to decide elected their representatives that want to decide that, they don't have to do it. but i don't want to lose the idea that if the petitioners

here were to win, the very next day you might see a reinvigorated effort to get rid of exclusive bargaining on the very same theory. that this is an abstract thing that we can separate, no, it first amendment applies here and prohibits this, then i think that people are going to say -- well, that that an clearly means employee's right to bargain for himself or herself is even worse. you just have to look at history to see that when employees cannot band together they generally don't get the kinds of working conditions that they would like to have. they do it,ot certainly even in the private sector where there are unions, the ability in the fact that employers know that unionization is possible, if you are in an

environment where it can never happen, i think that that will be an unfortunate environment. minutesve just a few ft and i want to exercise the moderators prerogative to ask one last question that everyone might have something to say about. just to recap the history of this issue a little bit, this case comes out of the victim in a case called knox versus service employees union in which without particularly the question having been presented, justice alito in his opinion said -- by the way there is a case that supports these public employee unions. i happen to think the case is a complete anomaly and should be overruled. the opportunity was presented to him in a case called harris where during oral argument he said that due to the for the union in that

case -- are you aware that many people have thought that it was wrongly decided on the day and think that it should be overturned? twitch the person said something -- i don't remember. his opinion in harris versus entirely tooted trashing the president and saying that it is a violation of the first amendment. have a more limited result, simply that these particular workers cannot have a fair share fee arrangement. possibly some of us could be forgiven for thinking that it might be overruled. i don't know. what i want to ask this group is -- is this result fakes? what should they look for without -- when listening to oral argument?

will it be something that we cannot anticipate? what do you think? >> at think that anyone who thinks that anything is baked into supreme court decisions is just -- they haven't had a lot of experience with the court. jeff referred to the halliburton case where everyone believe that there would be a significant change in securities and class action litigation rules and there was a minor change. knows what can happen. i do think that too sort of , youd your western olympic know, the court has a serious question to confront in terms of overruling and the standard that it will apply. the current court viewing that it was deciding that it was circumstancesng and whether or not the decision has been questioned, i'm a little biased.

i think it's very hard to say that those factors are messier. applied unanimously in number of times, relied on in the ball -- bar association cases, you have to step back. people who care about the court have to say -- g, we are in this incredibly polarized era where all of our institutions are viewed skeptically and the court for the most part with some ups and downs escaped that. i do think that there is a risk byt overruling a decision what would almost certainly be a five to four vote risks making the court appeared to be an institution where it is all about the personnel and not a legal principles, one of the reasons we have asked them to avoid that. one instancehat

but think of the knock on the effect in terms of confirmation what we can discern because it sort of reduces the ofrt to an institution something more akin to a political operation than a court. would be at that terrible, terrible result and that that will be on the minds of a number of the justices. looking for you be on monday? what would surprise you or indicate to you that the case is going in a direction we don't anticipate? frommilar to the answer earlier, i think that if the second issue is getting play, that's a sign that he could sail through the whole argument and the second issue isn't even brought up. kennedy, itoks like doesn't look like justice alito is in play but if justice

kennedy is asking a lot of questions, i think that's a sign that it is seriously in play. >> what about you? regard to the extent that they are asking questions about the implication of pulling , thatk out of the wall will reveal some reluctance to overreaching in this case. one thing we haven't talked about a lot are the tremendous interests of disruption that would flow from the decision. and from the district of columbia. there are laws governing public sector labor management relations that would be undone. we've got other states, like the state of wisconsin, other states that would find themselves within a limited context and

trouble terms of the governing rules. we have got those thousands and thousands of contracts. justice kagan alluded to that in her dissent in the harris case. but i don't think -- i hope that they will not be receptive to the assertion that these would severed and business would continue as usual. i don't think that's the case at all and we have seen a huge amount of reopening and renegotiating. also learned from that experience, litigation involving unions and employers alike, it will be an incredibly disruptive case. the should be on their mind in terms of a vote without a record without a reason to do so. one other thing, to come back to where i started on this, i don't think that this case -- i very much hope that this case will not be seen as a technical

discussion of agency fees, the first amendment and what does and doesn't allow. this case should be viewed as it is, a result in favor of petitioner's creating substantial limitations on the ability of working people, many of whom are struggling to get by in our country to effectively advocate for their communities that they live in. making this case part of something much larger. in another itself the legal issues are not as interesting to me as it should be, but it is placed within what it's -- within what is going on in this country and is very important and i believe that the court will be thinking in terms of what kind of a legacy at once to provide. or four minutes left. do you want to tackle that question? >> we will break away from the last minute of this program and take you live to manchester, new hampshire. democratic candidate hillary

received an endorsement today from the planned parenthood organization. this the first time that your organization has endorsed a candidate during the primary. richards will join the former secretary of state at the event. our live coverage is underway at c-span. >> at me tell you, you all are in store for an event today. we all know it's a big year for planned parenthood and for everyone of us in this room. for me, this is the euro going to hit that our ball jackpot. 1.3 million. but for planned parenthood this is the year that we turn 100 years old. yes. we are celebrating 100 years of dividing life-saving care to women, men, families, and people across the country. and that matters.

this is the first time in our that we have endorsed a primary candidate in the presidential election. we are proud, enthusiastic, and over the moon to announce our endorsement of secretary hillary clinton for president of the united states. applause]d are you already to do this in 2016? applause]d all right, we have got to warm up a bit. you know it's not planned parenthood and must be start to do some chanting, you know. so, we are going to do some warm-ups. when i say planned, you say parenthood. planned?

>> parenthood. >> plan? >> but parenthood. i say build, use a power. >> power. >> build. >> power. >> when i say plan, you say build. you are ready for this event. not bad, not bad. all, this is going to be such an exciting time that we had together today. before we get started i wanted to tell you a bit about myself in this experience we are having now. do we have any midwesterners in the house? only a few. when we were going up, we were churchgoing folk. we were not the kinds of catholics you are thinking of. caloriesdn't burn 500 breathing, you were not doing it right type of catholic. i'm telling you that for two reasons. the first is that i require a high level of following

response. we've got to make sure that everyone with us today knows that planned parenthood is here, ok? ok. all right. the second reason i'm telling you that is that we had this pastor preach. some of the greatest lessons i learned about what it means to be in a community with folks island sitting in those pews. he had one sermon that resonated with me when i thought about why we do this work of advocating and fighting for freedom. he said that people come to the state for two reasons. i'm talking about this kind of space and community. he said that first it is for prosperity. to do better, to thrive in our circumstance. he said the second was for salvation, to deliver us from harm, to survive and get by. idea ofthat this salvation and survival has never been more resonant than in this moment for us.

in this community that we are in, have been in a fight or allies over the last years. do you hear me? through that fight we have shown an unparalleled resilience. couple ofe you a examples. in new hampshire last year we saw vandalism right here in new hampshire, shutting down the guessont clinic area what? the community did not turn away to say aol. they raised funds and last year that clinic reopened ready to provide services. [applause] this congress? this congress has voted 20 times to cut access to essential reproductive health care. 20 times. did we back down? no. it we stoodhey did up and we said that we stand with planned parenthood. nearly 2.5 million people have stood with planned parenthood,

delivering petitions to congress . give theirre online voice to fighting back. providingmmitted to care no matter what. [applause] it is clear that we are certainly in a fight for our lives. but in this moment we have become stronger. we are more resilient than ever and we are ready to do the work to survive and thrive in 2016. we cannot get to reproductive freedom until we have racial justice, right? until we have economic justice and immigration reform.

so that at the end of the day none of us can get free until all of us get free, is that right? [cheers and applause] all right, we need some heroes here and i see several hundred of them here today. you all know you're ready for me. if you are ready for 2016, let me hear you say the you are ready. let me hear you say that you are ready. all right, he all. this endorsement that we are announcing today was done after a long process of engaging millions of our supporters, leaders, and activists across the country. they came to discuss the issues that clearly impacted them every day, driving decisions about who we would put the weight of the organization behind. together to say that we needed to come out bold and come out egg.

folks said that we needed to be bold and unapologetic in our advocacy for abortion and expanding rights. [cheers and applause] folks said that we had to think about access in even more broad terms than we already do to that no matter the barriers you faced before you got to a health center, that we had access to care and true health equity in every area of our lives. so, throughout these meetings we engaged a diverse group of folks , a young group of leaders, a variety of folks from across the movement. what they told us made it clear that we had to identify a champion who was going to be in

the white house to advocate for all of these issues. that champion's hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] yes. today, in this historic moment we are together here, starting the work of electing her as the next president of the united states. defended thoset rights, she has made it her life's work to defend those folks across the globe. that is the work that we need advocating for us over the next few years. we are about to get -- get started, you will hear from our programs in the planned parenthood family and how ready they really are. willafternoon, y'all, we wrap this up with a special appearance of two of the fiercest ladies that i know. cecile richards and hillary clinton.

all right, just a few housekeeping things before we get into the program. i know that everyone up in here has a smart phone. or no kia or whatever you might be rocking today. conversation p a pacforhilary. use that are all of your social media. twitter, tinder, whatever you got. use it there. [laughter] already, i have one more ask of you. go ahead, you can dig deep into your purse, it is ok. we want to make sure that we are electing a champion to the white house with folks across the country advocating for these rights at every level. we want to make sure the you have all the information about the political work happening in states across the country. to get that you need to text

tolary 2016, hillary 2016 69866. 2016 to 69866. now, my phone is getting clunky, so i will say it again. that will sign you up for all the updates you need. we are about to move forward but i want to acknowledge the folks who have really made this event possible for us today. teame shout out to the that has made this possible for us. perkins with esther .rooke thank you so much for your support. [cheers and applause]

thank you to the local board members who came out to join us, we are so happy to have you all here in this space. i want to introduce someone here who has a special place in my heart. none of the work that we do as a leading health care provider would be possible without our doctors and providers. so, yes. so, it is my pleasure to inroduce planned parenthood northern new england. ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ >> thank you, kelly. i have been a planned parenthood medical director based in north carolina and now here, in new hampshire and in northern new england for close to 10 years.

as a medical director i see incredible patience in my routine work. they all have a face. a personality in the story. many have stories that show me time and again the need for improved access to health care and the detriment of effects of delays in care. want to tell you about one unforgettable new hampshire woman who came to us for care a little over one euro ago. she had noticed a lump in her breast one year before she came to our doors and was in a great deal of pain. she told me she wanted her breasts cut off. it was clear to our provider why she was so -- what she was in so much pain. the size of the lump was considerable.

the exam the provider immediately referred the patient to radiology and the local specialist. we were able to arrange an appointment for her very quickly and she was diagnosed right away with breast cancer. can you imagine why the patient waited a full year before picking up the phone and scheduling an appointment? because she lacked health insurance. she had a few financial resources and was torn with exide he about how she could pay her medical bills. her lack of health care access meant that her cancer had time to grow and metastasize. thankfully, the planned parenthood of northern new england was able to cover her early bills to the breast health grant. we help her get expanded new hampshire medicaid as a result of the affordable care act. [cheers and applause]

ofs patient is emblematic why this country needs access to health care and why hillary clinton clinton is the health champion that we all need. after all, after all, it was hillary clinton who as first lady created the blueprint for universal health care access. she set the stage for president obama to get the aca past. [cheers and applause] americans, including residents of new hampshire, need access to the kinds of services that we provide every day. that are within reach because of the aca. they need affordable access to cap tests, birth control, testing, treatment, wellness visits, and they need access to abortion.

they need to be able to trust medical providers to give them a reliable, truthful, health-care information. less scripts littered with junk science. [applause] they need to have local access to health care that includes -- yes, abortion. without medically unnecessary waiting periods and without having to travel across state lines. [applause] every single gop presidential .andidate wants to ban abortion rollback health insurance coverage for birth control and block patients from accessing care at planned parenthood.

votesss has taken eight to defund planned parenthood nationally. here in new hampshire we feel that impact every single day. later this year the supreme court will be deciding once again if women have access to safe and legal abortion. the stakes have never been higher. which is why, more than ever, we control ofn to take the white house. hillary clinton is the right person for the job. as first lady, as senator, as secretary of state hillary clinton has always stood for women's health and rights. stood for us and now it is our time to stand with her. [cheers and applause]

>> all right, all right, let's hear it for dr. d. all, this year we have voices heard in congress where we legislate and we have to make our voices heard at the polls to. guys, i'm going to do some chanting here now. democracy looks like? >> this is what democracy looks like. >> show me what democracy looks like. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> show me what planned parenthood looks like. >> this is what planned parenthood looks like. >> let me tell you what it does not look like. the people that we serve every day. not patient are advocates, they are the heart and soul of this movement and organization. i want to introduce one of those

leaders from new york city to the stage. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you, kelly. thank you to the action fund for inviting me to speak today. i am from brooklyn, new york. my name is the tosha. old.33 years i felt to lumps during my monthly exam. this was about seven years ago. when i felt them i immediately called my doctor. she gave me an exam and said that there was definitely something suspicious, so she gave me a referral for a mammogram, my first one ever. not what you expect to hear. mammogram a had an

ultrasound that same day. the technician knew that there was something suspicious. after a long week of stress and anticipation my results came back positive. i had cancer. the diagnosis came as a complete shock because the was no family history of it. i kind of didn't know what to do with myself. my breast cancer was stage one, but in terms of aggressiveness it was stage three. so, i had a complete respect to me of my left breast with a complete reconstruction in five years of hormone therapy. tellstanding here today to you i have celebrated my seven year cancer survival. [cheers and applause] not for the care i got a planned parenthood i

might not be here today. i would hate to think what could happen to other women like me across the country. so, when i see republican candidates standing on stage railing against the care that help to save my life, i realized one thing, they really don't get it. they don't get what my life was like or what the lives of millions of other planned parenthood patients are like. how else could they possibly think that trying to nullify basic reproductive health care is a good thing? millions of women, men, and others across the country see it as a trusted provider, the place where they can turn to for exams or the place that catches the breast cancer early. hillary clinton gets it. she understands that women's rights are human rights. [applause]

she knows that access to health care are fundamental in ensuring economic growth and opportunity for everyone in this country. planned parenthood action fund's were not made in the political stuffy office in the corner of washington, d.c.. this was informed by millions of energized and diverse activists around the country, including myself, who have been coming together over the past three months to discuss what it is they want in our president. threeonally met with all democratic presidential candidates. know what we decided? hillary clinton is our champion. [cheers and applause] we know that she will go to bat for young women, young men, the lg bt community and communities of color. we know that she stands with those hit hardest by the tax on

reproductive health care. here's my question for all of you today. are you ready to help us election records and is the next resident of the united states? i said -- are you ready? [cheers and applause] thank you, guys. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> yes, we have some work to do. we have an opportunity to redefine the battle for fighting for reproductive rights and freedoms of the generations to come never have to fight for what we thought for today. we have the opportunity to expand that vision. the leadership that we need is in this room today. of theto introduce two leaders on the ground doing this work every day. gutierrez, one of our

student leaders from the university of nevada, las vegas. and another leader here from portsmouth, new hampshire. >> wow. there is so much youth out here. this is amazing, i love it. a shoutve the youths out? let's shout out right now. all right, hi, everyone. my name is hannah gutierrez. in nevada planned parenthood is a vital source in providing sexual education at the k-12 level and university system. they sponsor honest and open sex education coming to campus. today more than ever we are attacks against health care access in a been told to lay down and permit the attacks.

everyone in this room today is here saying -- no, we will not permit these attacks. and the chanceon to use this opportunity to drive change. that time is now. it's here, fighting with planned parenthood to defend reproductive freedom. i've always had a deep passion for reproductive freedom, but i did not know how to channel the passion until two years ago, when a friend of mine invited me to youth training conference. we learned how to canvas and we helped to defeat ted cruz. [applause] just last summer, we were lobbying in d.c.. myself and everyone here today are examples of young women and youth that will not take this election for granted.

toht now we have the power shape this coming election starting now. supporting hillary clinton, the candidate who will channel our passions into reality. i'm standing with hillary and planned parenthood. this year i am committing to donating 10 hours of my time each month to protect reproductive freedom. i would like to ask all of you to make that same commitment. what can we do, everyone in this room, to make sure that we not only make it to the white house but that we win in our communities? [applause] consider donating your time, money, or your friends. win 2016.that we

>> i'm with you. i know that i will be donating some of my time this summer to help the planned parenthood new hampshire action fund and hopefully all of you will as well. make sure the you don't leave this room today until you find someone with a clip board and sign-up to committing to do something in the selection. i want to tell you about about my story. i am so excited to be here with all of you as we raise our voices today in defense of access toghts and reap record of health care. i was an uninsured young woman who could not afford it on my own, i turned to planned parenthood. because of the professional and compassionate care that i received there i was not only able to get educated, i was able to get birth control and wellness exams at no cost. [applause]

if not for the support and that critical time in my early life, i have no idea how my life might be different today. unfortunately for many new hampshire women, due to insufficient funding the planned parenthood location in my hometown is no longer there. more recently the new hampshire executive councils defunding of it just the summer is threatening care at locations across the state, some which already have limited hours of operation. this puts access at greater risk. primarily for low income new hampshire women and men. let's not forget that in november, chris sununu -- blin -- [booing]

vote.just boo, he wants to be the governor new hampshire. we know that access to sexual and reproductive health care will continue to come under attack. every republican candidate in the selection as promised to defund planned parenthood and remove birth-control coverage from insurance. the people affected by this type of assault on women's health millionsyou and me and of other women and men and young people and families across the country. we need a champion to make sure that our reproductive freedoms and access to basic health care are not in jeopardy. that champion's hillary clinton. i'm so glad you are all excited. i'm so excited and honored to introduce the greatest champions i know for women's rights and

access to reproductive health care. hillary. richards and are you ready to meet our champion? [cheers and applause] you guys are amazing. cecile richards has spent a lifetime helping to build movements of justice for people from all walks of life. she represented as all when she testified before congress, making sure that -- ]heering she major that women's voices were heard by bringing planned parenthood patients into the room at the hearing. she has worked to make sure that reproductive health services are covered under the affordable care act. she helped to organize the nationwide campaign to preserve access and helped the affiliates in all 50 states, including right here in new hampshire to fight back against legislative attacks on let that rubric of health care.

please join me in welcoming cecile richards. [applause] >> ok, they ask you what song to come out too, so i had to dance a little bit. thank you to our incredible and young leaders. thank you, natasha, for sharing your story and for being an amazing leader. can we give it up for kelly robinson? the most awesome? i was back there with secretary clinton and she goes -- kelly -- i like it.

like, no, don't touch. she's going to organize this entire country for us. i also want to thank the good doctor who came and was one of the heroes of the movement. and all the doctors for the work that they do every single day. we also have some planned parenthood ceo's today. , dr. jenniferlena the ceo of the planned parenthood advocacy fund. own meganry gallagher, thank you for being your. there are a lot of elected officials. i want to mention a couple. congresswoman annie custer is here. tsongas isan niki

here. and former congresswoman carol shea-porter. thank you for being here today with us. of personala point pride we have two awesome and brave new hampshire executives -- [cheering] cecile: give it up for them. they are amazing. many state reps and state senators from new hampshire, two many to mention. thank you all for being here today. i'm really excited. i have been on campaigns pretty havemy whole life, but i not been this excited since the day 26th years ago on the capitol lawn in austin, texas when my mother declared that she was running for governor of the state of texas, and richard -- richards.

i am so excited to be in new hampshire. are you ready to make history today? thank you. let's set the stage. planned parenthood was started nearly 100 years ago. the whole idea was to give women access to health care and the rights they needed to build their future. since then, women have made an norm is progress, and let me tell you, we are just getting started, my friend. almost half the workforce in america, more than half the college students. we are on congress, we are on the supreme court, and with your help, we are going to be in the white house, right? and i think it's really important because of why we are here today, women have made these gains because we have the right to plan whether and when we have children. it's absolutely fundamental to everything we can do.

we are here to say we are not going back now. , as you heard a little bit before, planned parenthood health centers all across america see millions of patients every year, from every single state including here in new hampshire. there is no more american institution in this country then planned parenthood. to derry toremont keene, women wrote about how they depend on planned parenthood every day. a woman who depends on it so she can finish school and plan her career. or a mother who goes to her annual checkup to planned parenthood because she knows she will get excellent, high quality, affordable health care, and one young woman are in

manchester with a family history of cancer who goes and gets her peace of mind by going to planned parenthood for her annual breast exam. they are why we are here today. andned parenthood patients staff and supporters come from every walk of life. they come from every single political persuasion. right? am i right? yes. through our doors not to make a political statement. they are coming because they need the best quality care from the best medical professionals that is high quality and affordable without judgment and without shame, my friends. that is what we are about. [applause] so, as one of our patients from keene said, planned parenthood provides screenings that keep our population healthy and able

to live free. isn't that what new hampshire is all about? absolutely. the planned parenthood action fund was created because the byisions made by officials, congress, by presidents affect the everyday lives of women and families. we saw ts last week when the house of representatives voted one more time to eliminate millions of people's ability to go to planned parenthood for preventative care. you know the reason that bill will not go into effect? because president barack obama vetoed it the moment it hit his desk. the moment. exactly. that is why we need a friend in the white house. and thank you, president barack obama. [applause] that helps us know why the stakes have never been higher for women and families.

over the past few months, as you have heard at community forums, planned parenthood action fund supporters have talked with supporters about what they want from the next president, and here's what we heard. they won a president who realizes access to health care is not a luxury. it is a human right. a president who realizes being pro-choice actually means being able to choose to have a child. right? and a president who will fight for prenatal care and headstart and health care for kids and an excellent public education, right? because as someone famously said, it takes a village to raise a child. and they want a president who will stand up to the gun lobby and demand safety for kids in schools and folks in church and women who are going to get

health care, no matter why. -- no matter what. heers and applause] and they want a president who will demand that no one be paid less just because they are a woman. 100 cents on the dollar. and folks demand a president who will protect access to safe and legal abortion and is tough enough to stand up to anyone who would deny women the ability to make their own health care decisions. right? the good news is, you probably heard this year we have that candidate. i could not be prouder to say that the planned parenthood action fund is proud to endorse hillary clinton to be the next

president of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] as i think you all know, in this election, with the attacks on women's health and rights, more than ever before, we don't need a solid vote, a supporting statement. we need a fighter. it was hillary clinton who first said to the world that women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, once and for all. here is the tough thing. there are some folks who still don't believe in that. the real problem is several of them are running for president of the united states of america. personally, i hope i live to see the day when i woman right to health care is embraced by republicans and democrats and and understand it is an american value. it is an american value. but one lesson from the recent

republican debates is we have a lot of work to do. every single leading republican candidate for president has committed to destroying the progress that women have made. they have all about to ban safe and legal abortion. they have pledged to repeal the affordable care act, ending insurance coverage for birth control for 55 million women in america. pledged to lock planned parenthood access, including cancer treatments and wellness planning. they have painted their vision for america and it looks a lot like the 1950's, and my friends, we are not going backwards. i mean, yeah. men" is great entertainment, but i do not want to live in that series. been fightings

for women her entire life. as a young attorney advocating for victims of abuse, as first lady, helping to create the children's health insurance program which provides 8 million children in america access to health care. [cheers and applause] and as u.s. senator, she entered eight bills to expand access to reproductive health care, and that is eight more than anyone else running for president of the united states. done more foras women and families, for our health, rights, and our economic security. she is the leader i trust in the white house to make sure women and families move forward. as secretary of state, she put women's health care and rights at the top of the global agenda and she stared down some of the toughest dictators around the globe. doubt she can stare

down the gun lobby, the tea party, and anyone who would take because she rights, never wavers. she never wavers. [cheers and applause] these last eight years under president obama, women have made huge advances. so, again, thank you, president obama for being a champion for women every single day. [cheers and applause] donald -- ift's donald trump or ted cruz have their way, we will be back in the stone age and we can't go back there. this election is a showdown between those who want to build on the incredible progress we have made and the promise of the future, and those who want to rip it all away. and we have worked really, really hard together to get where we are today. it is unthinkable our granddaughters and our daughters could be facing a future where they have fewer rights than we

do. is that right? .ake no mistake this election will determine whether roe versus wade continues to be the law of the familiesther women and make their own childbearing decisions, not politicians, and whether women can continue to seek care from planned parenthood. our pledge, hillary's pledge, is s doorsanned parenthood' will stay open. so, that is why we are here today. that is why we are here in new hampshire are. -- here in new hampshire. we are here to make history. ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the united states of america, secretary hillary clinton. ♪ [cheers and applause]

secretary clinton: are you guys ready to win an election? sure am. i'm ready with your help and i am so honored to accept this endorsement of the planned parenthood action fund, and -- just said, i have stood with you throughout my life and certainly throughout my

career, and i promise you this. as your president, i will always have your back. we will work and fight together. this has been a pretty energetic and even an emotional afternoon, because you have heard so many great advocates, so many people on the front lines, fighting to preserve wome's rights. i want to thank some of them. i want to thank the great mc, i want to thank donna burket, i want to thank natasha from brooklyn for her story. she is a patient advocate who has been a patient. the studentank advocate from las vegas. i want to thank crystal from new hampshire who is also a patient and a volunteer both for planned parenthood and my campaign, and i appreciate both. membersant to thank the

of congress who are here -- ann tsongas, carol shea-porter, former and future member of congress from right here in new hampshire. i want to thank everyone associated with planned from the board to the staff, to the supporters one and all, and i particularly want to thank your fearless leader cecile richards. [cheers and applause] there's a lot about cecile i really admire, and among the when republicans demanded that she testified before congress, a not know what they were getting themselves into -- they did not know what

they were getting themselves into. [cheers and applause] i know a little bit about this. experiences with cecile, because for five hours republicans believed and bluster. cecile never flinched. she just told them the facts, and you know, a lot of the republicans are fact adverse. [laughter] notetary clinton: they did want to hear any of that. they do seem to live in an evidence free zone. just like the republican candidates for president, and when it was over, i saw an interview where someone asked cecile, how did you do it? how did you stay so poised in breathtakinguch contempt for women's health, women's rights, women's dignity? do you know what her answer was?

are standingn you up for what is right, you keep going. and that's what -- [cheers and applause] that is what planned parenthood has done for nearly 100 years. it is certainly what cecile richards has done. andcomes by that grit determination from her wonderful mother, who i was privileged to richards i wish ann could be here with us for this election. with new love to hear her give -- [laughter] secretary clinton: donald trump and ted cruz and the others a piece of her mind? oh, boy, so what i. [laughter] know,ary clinton: you every election is important, but this one poses such a stark choice, and mistakes are so high

. in january of 2017, a new president will walk into the oval office. america cannot afford for it to be a republican who will rip away all of the progress we have made. you hear them, you hear what , as the cellist for position. the same top-down policies that failed and led to the great recession. they don't even seem to understand what is going on in .he lives of americans whether it is economic policy or health care policy or foreign policy, they are so out of touch and out of date. this year, they succeeded in passing a bill to repeal the affordable care act and to

andnd planned parenthood, the only thing, as cecile said, stopping them from making that the law of the land was president obama's veto pen. [applause] and every one of them had promised to sign such a bill, and you know what that would mean. when planned parenthood is threatened, the health of women and a lot of men, too, all across our country is threatened , just like here in new hampshire when the executive plannedvoted to defund parenthood. affordable care act 19 million americans would lose their health coverage. insurance companies would be back in charge. they would be free to

discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, free to go back to charging women more for our health care than men. so, clearly we cannot let that happen. and therefore we need a democratic nominee who will be able to beat the republicans and get the job done for americans. i shudder to think about what the republicans would do if given the chance. we know any republican president would accelerate the assault on access to safe and legal abortion. and think about this. the next president could easily appoint more than one justice to be supreme court's. the court is getting ready to consider a texas law and imposes burdensome medically unnecessary requirements on abortion

providers. if these restrictions are allowed to stand, 5.4 million women will be left with just 10 health centers across that huge expanse of texas that provide necessary services and the effects of that decision would ripple out across our country. it is the biggest challenge to roe v wade in a generation. the court will also review another challenge to the affordable care act provision.ol remember the hobby lobby decision that made it possible for a woman's employer to limit her health care choices? that fight is not over either. access to affordable birth control is still hanging in the balance at the supreme court. if a republican wins this

election and gets the chance to stack the supreme court with right-wing justices, together, toy will accelerate the move take america and the wrong direction, and so many issues you and i have fought for and many americans now take are granted, they want to strip away workers rights and make it harder to organize. they want to turn back the clock on voting rights and lgbt right. got want to further gutaign -- further campaign-finance reform. a republican will not do what is necessary to ensure that women finally get equal pay for the work we do. they all want to cut taxes further for the super rich and get out of the way of

corporations. 2014 was the second hottest year on record, but some republican candidate still deny that climate change even exists. you know what they say. well, i'm not a scientist. [laughter] secretary clinton: there is an that.nswer to go talk to a scientist. and you know -- [cheers and applause] in fact, on all of these issues, i do not know who they's and their time talking to or listening to. goodness, they do not agree with anything i'm advocating for, raising the minimum wage, combating climate change, raising incomes for working americans. i see them talking to people. i have concluded they have a group of actors that move from place to place. no one stands up and says what i hear from the thousands of people i listen to. so, you don't have to take it

from me though. they are saying it all themselves. they are telling you exactly what they will do if they get elected. and you know what? we should believe them. we should believe them because they are so far out in saying what they will do, they will be held to it, and some of them even believe it. we have to know exactly where we stand, and i want you to know where i stand. first of all, i will always defend planned parenthood and -- [cheers and applause] and i will say consistently and proudly, planned parenthood should be funded, supported, and appreciated, not undermined, misrepresented, and demonized. i believe -- i believe we need to protect

access to safe and legal abortion, not just in principle, but in practice. any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at all. not when patients and providers have to endure harassment and intimidation just to walk into a health center. not when -- [applause] not when making an appointment means taking time off from work, finding childcare, and driving halfway across your state, not when providers are required by recite misleading information to women in order to shame and scare them, and not as long as we have laws on the books like the hyde amendment, making it harder for low income women to exercise their full rights.

now -- i talk like this, and i do often -- [laughter] secretary clinton: republican say i am playing the gender card. well, if fighting for each pay, paid leave, and planned parenthood is playing the gender card, deal me in. [cheers and applause] i want you to also know, i will always stand up for access to affordable contraception without interference from politicians are lawyers. birth-control is basic health care, and it plays a vital role in the health of millions of

women and their families. i waged a fight with my good friend, senator patty murray from washington, when i was in the senate to make sure emergency contraception could be over-the-counter. and we -- battled for years. we held up a bush appointee that the fda -- to the fda, and we finally one. i promise you i will never give up and i will never back off. comprehensiveport , inclusive sex education. [cheers and applause] for goodness sakes, people deserve accurate information. i thought we were in open society.

-- i thought we were an open society. we will make sure that is true across the board. i will defend and improve the affordable care act. as first lady, i fought to give every american access to affordable, quality health care, and i still have the scars to prove it. and when the drug companies and insurance companies and their allies blocked our way. i was disappointed, but not discouraged. i went back to work with leaders on both sides of the aisle to healththe children's insurance program and two decades later, i was so proud to be part of president obama's administration when he signed the affordable care act into law .

as your president, i will do more to bring down costs for families and ease ordinance on small businesses and make sure consumers happy choices you deserve. toone in america should have choose between getting health care and paying the rent. we can fix this. but only if we elect a president who has what it takes to get the for american families. to take on issues as big as the world and a small as your kitchen table. i have been fighting for women and families my entire life. i will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone, and work my heart out to find common ground, but i will stand my ground. i'm not going to let anyone rip made.he progress we have that is why hedge fund billionaires are running ads against me. that is why the koch brothers whatevering to spend

it takes to stop me. they know that i will defeat their right-wing, top-down agenda that is so bad for america. [cheers and applause] now donald trump and ted cruz and their powerful friends may be trying to drag us back to the stone age, but we have our sites set on the future. because in spite of the challenges we face, i believe our best days are ahead of us. there is so much we can do together. just look at planned parenthood, every single day at health centers across america. people are doing extraordinary things together. sometimes under enormous stress and pressure. who never should have been allowed to have a gun in the first place killed three

people at the planned parenthood in colorado springs, the community came together to mourn . the very next day, planned and wentd staff got up to work in colorado and across birthuntry, providing control, std testing, cancer screenings, and yes, abortion is. tory time a patient calls ask if they can still come in for their appointment, there was thesene response. at stores stay open. those four words -- [cheers and applause] those four words sum up everything you need to know about land parenthood, don't they? standing up for what is right, you keep going. i was raised by a mother who had a difficult childhood.

she was abandoned, mistreated, out on her own as a housemaid by the time she was 14. but she never stopped believing the future could be better. she never stopped being grateful for the second, third, and fourth chances people gave her in our country. and now i have this amazing 15 --month-old granddaughter and i think about her every day. and of course i will do everything i can to make sure she has every opportunity in life. what i have concluded now that i am a member of the grand parent club. [laughter] secretary clinton: that's not enough. it really matters what kind of country she grows up in and what kind of world is waiting for her. it matters not just that my grandchild can realize the promise of america, but that every child and grandchild has the same opportunity. together -- [applause]

together we can have the america that we all believe is possible. and i need your help to do that. i need your help starting here in the new hampshire primary and .owa caucus father a future where a can tell his daughter, you can be anything you want to be, president of the united states. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] ♪

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>> [indiscernible] secretary clinton: thank you. >> thank you so much. >> so there you see hillary clinton live in manchester, new hampshire. something rather unusual, and endorsement from planned parenthood in a primary. they have never done that before. they have done it in a general election. we are going to open the phone lines to hear what you think. we will start in winston-salem, north carolina with scott on the line from republicans. , sky.ere you're on c-span. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just had a question -- a comment first and then a question. remember a years ago, the current president promised c-span he would allow