it is forcing girls women people at the capacity for pregnancy to endure pregnancies which are already highly risky in the united states. united the u. s. supreme court in 2016 reported that. and this was based on other empirical studies that a woman is 14 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term that by having an abortion in the united states. so even with that information that the supreme court had you put that in the backdrop of what we're talking about today. and it is a deadly proposition. but the 13th amendment of the united states constitution prohibits slavery an involuntary servitude. and this is another form of it, and we need to recognize that as such. and elizabeth does this reflect the majority of americans opinion on us. well, know that part of the issue is that the vast majority of the american public supports abortion rights. it's just that the politicians don't have the same values and there's a long history of how the elections have changed and you know, where states have republican control and what that means. and frankly, what that means is a lot of what michelle and jessica are talking about around limited a

supreme court was an ally to conservative, reactionary, monied forces. this court denied black people american citizenship in dred scott, gave corporations the right to exploit workers, allowed states to sterilize feebleminded patients in the 1920's. they said three generations of imbeciles is enough. the court had a brief golden age in the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's and has periodically done the right thing ever sense, but most of the court's history is bleak and distressing. what i hope is that americans who have come to rely on the court as this guarantor of equal rights and individual liberties will wake up to the fact that that is a fantasy in 2022. we need the democratic process to enshrine these rights in a way that cannot be taken away by a single justice dying and getting replaced by an extremist. we need people on the ground engaged in coalition building and passing laws that will stick. we simply cannot rely on unelected judges to do this work for us, even if they should. you know, they are not going to for a long time. so people need to be individually, directly involved in this, demanding their elected representatives stand up and do the work. >> it might sound cliche or like a bumper sticker saying but i think