ob/gyn's are abandoning the states. wage it in a place like texas? >> i think texas should also, it's just the cautionary tale of what america could become. things start in texas so often. texas, mississippi, louisiana, because they are in a court system that leads to hostile supreme court. when you look at texas, the number of ob/gyn's fleeing, idaho, missouri, ohio until they passed their abortion ban and also we can't forget talking about med students who don't want to go there and who don't want to be there. so we really find ourselves in a health care desert that is terrifying, that not only are you not able to access reproductive care when it comes to abortion, ivf birth control but just to make sure you can get cancer screenings. if doctors can't provide that, what is the message we're telling to anybody with a uterus? you don't matter? >> yeah. erin, now actually have names. women have died. two women in georgia. names of people who are victims of this policy, and it does feel important that vice president harri

in the country for the number of ob/gyn's we have here for population. and they all say it is going to come even harder to recruit to come here. one last thing on the birth control. she has been talking about this a lot, about passing these birth control pills. i agree, we should have a right to birth control, that we should encourage that as a way to avoid unwanted pregnancy. if we want to reduce abortions, absolutely we should have birth control. but here is the thing, when she had the chance to sign onto a bill that would actually give people a right to birth control in this country, she voted no in congress. there was a bill that she could have signed onto that she voted no on, and her bill that she proposed on birth control does nothing. every state in the country could completely ban every form of birth control, and her bill would do nothing about it. it deals with regulations and fda, but every state in the country could ban all forms of birth control under her bill. >> oral contraception over-the-counter. the same is true for the bill we passed.

as well as ob/gyn. i think when we look at the care models for maternal health care, it is important to recognize it includes ob/gyn's, but also midwives. they work together as a team area we increasing production. i cannot speak to if we are bringing in more ob/gyn sprayed we have residency programs, at the university. so there is definitely movement in the right direction for that. >> we always end with plugging the website. but it is incredibly important. putting this website to try and be a resource for women in the military who cannot get information elsewhere. what do you need to have in this website? >> we have all come together -- candle care. org. we are setting up as a non-for profit. what we found when we started this journey of research is there is no centralized positive oriole all dod policies. we will centralize the policies. a step-by-step guide on how you file to do the travel. because it is a non-dod affiliated site, i've gotten a lot of support from the university of pennsylvania scho

we were at a reproductive roundtable in atlanta the other day, and an ob/gyn was talking about women coming to see her and the fetus was dead inside, all sorts of horrible stories. and she said ob/gyn's, we cannot help these black women because we are afraid of being criminalized. the maternal mortality of black women is twice as high as other women. and so we have obligation to get to the polls and vote for kamala harris, as we know that she sees us, our bodies, and the right that we have to be able to make choices about our bodies between ourselves and our doctors, and that is not something that donald trump cares about at all. >> congresswoman sidney dove. inc. you for being with us. >>> after the break, we had back to the battleground pennsylvania -- state of pennsylvania to get a sense of what is on voters minds with just 16 days to go until the election. election. parodontax active gum repair breath freshener clinically proven to help reverse the 4 signs of early gum disease a toothpaste from parodontax, the gum experts. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating thes

i didn't know she was an ob gyn. so she's a jedi knight and a ob.y, that's that's terrifying for an ob gyn. yeah. da da da da da da da. scoot down. now. it's gonna be a little cold. you might feel a little pressure. okay. how do you know this? yeah, i was just going to say. hey, look at me. never mind. it is. you always should. like. like the liberals and the democrats. they want the government to be the parent. and now we're. we're witnessing it like the entire party is in preschool. what you're saying like, turn the page and they all do have that demeanor of, we're going to talk to you like you're four. now get out your your curvy pencils because you out your no sharp scissors. yeah. because you know, you're not as evolved as we are. so we have to talk to you like a child. it's kind of like an exercise in power. it's like when you go to a anything like the dmv and they talk to you like an idiot, because that's the only measure of power they have. dana, would you give them any if the if the democratic party had to start over and whatever, what woul

you know, ob/gyn have had many closures over the past few years . truly, under senator cantwell's watch. the women of washington need health care. we are not talking about the issues of autoimmune disease, perimenopause, and cancer, and all of these things popping up in women's health care now where we don't have the ob/gyn facilities to provide the care. mental health is another health care desert. i was in everton, washington, with the first urgent care for mental health for children. that is a step in the right direction. ms. laven: thank you. dr. garcia, i'm not sure that i heard an answer from either of you on the second part of robin's question, which was what you would do to address the health care deserts specifically. sen. cantwell: there is a bill in the u.s. senate that myself and senator wyden are the lead on, a fight to make sure that we get access and costs reimbursement for these facilities. we need to have rural health care. we need to have capacity for that and this would help to stabilize it. i don't have time in 30 seconds, but ma

it's me, the sixth generation wisconsinite, the mom of four boys, the ob/gyn doctor who brought abortionnsin against trump-endorsed tony wied. this is the fellow what takes second billing on his own yard signs. he's such a rubber stamp for donald trump. he has been sued for stealing utilities from a neighbor, and for selling cigarettes and alcohol to minors. this is a guy who has no history of public service, and, frankly, his message doesn't resonate with people. so we're out there -- >> doctor, very quickly, sorry to interrupt you, very quickly, the issue of abortion, you think, is going to be one that will motivate a lot of people and maybe wouldn't be coming out? >> oh, for sure. every day when we're on the doors, this is what people are talking to me especially about because i'm an ob/gyn doctor and, you know, they're worried about this. we were alt a fund-raiser in rural wisconsin last night and i asked a woman what she cared about and she said abortion and abortion. even though this is known to be a catholic district, and you would think that catholics would not be for reproductiv

and more of the residence here are planning on not practicing here to be ob/gyn's./gyn's in our state. we are at the beginning of feeling the impacts of this extreme ban and we have to reverse it now. by beating ted cruz, we are going to make roe v. wade the law of the land again, and restore freedom to texas women. >> congressman colin allred on the verge of possibly making history in texas. think you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> if you are thinking of voting for jill stein, alexandria ocasio-cortez has something important to tell you about justin-- jill stein. that's next. that's next. (marci) what is going on? (luke) people love how the new homes-dot-com helps them get quick answers about any property by connecting them to the actual listing agent. (agent) oh! so, i'm done? (luke) oh, no, no, no! we're still not sure everyone knows that we're the only site that always connects you to the listing agent rather than selling off your contact info. so, we're gonna keep you up there a little while longer. (agent) okay, ya! i'm getting grea

todd ivy, and i have been a practicing ob/gyn in houston, texas for over 25 years.rs and applause] i went to acknowledge my colleagues here with me tonight who courageously continue the fight in texas for reproductive freedom for our patients. [cheers and applause] you know, we became doctors to take care of people. and when donald trump's supreme court justice is overturned roe v. wade and we see him stream abortion bans across our country, i could not believe what was happening. i could not believe that basic, essential medical care would be criminalized. yet, here we are. and today in texas because of donald trump, i could be thrown in prison for life for providing reproductive health care. [booing] and as a result, many of my patients with tragic pregnancy complications have been forced to flee our state to get the health care that they need and they deserve. [cheers and applause] in that moment of a devastating diagnosis, what i want to do, what i need to do, and what i have trained to do is to provide counseling and care for patients according to their wishes

we going to have a huge shortage of folks to actually serve as ob/gyn lapsed in the state.eeling the impacts of this extreme band and we need to reverse it now. by beating ted cruz going to make roe v wade the law of the land again, restore freedom to texas women work is been a congressman colin allred on the verge of possibly making political history in texas . thank you very much for joining us tonight. >>> if you're thinking of voting for jill stein, alexandria ocasio-cortez has something important to tell you about jill stein, and so do jill stein's children. that's next. that's next. being me. keep being you... and ask your healthcare provider about the number one prescribed h-i-v treatment, biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in many people whether you're 18 or 80. with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to undetectable—and stay there whether you're just starting or replacing your current treatment. research shows that taking h-i-v treatment as prescribed and getting to and staying undetectable prevents tr

mildred clark is an ob/gyn on our block in crown heights, the only neighborhood we lived in.alize was i had a rare experience being surrounded by black women physicians to the point where i thought most physicians were black women until i got to college and recognized most students did not look like me. these women were role models to me just like my mother and that representation was important in giving me the confidence to recognize that being a physician was possible. host: you describe your mother at harvard as a fish out of water. dr. blackstone: yes, i talk about how when she got to harvard her classmates had parents who had written the textbook, another classmate was a relative of jackie onassis in another had a parent who had won a nobel prize in immunology. at that point my mother could say her own mother worked full-time, managed to get off of public assistance, became a licensed practical nurse and she was proud of her mother. but it was a culture shock for her to be at harvard surrounded by people who had tremendous resources and opportunities, family members who

it's also important to make sure that we still do align with our health care professionals and our ob-gynst we are looking for the best outcomes in a healthy pregnancy, and sometimes conception later in a woman's life means using donor eggs or ivf treatments, which can come with a hefty price tag, putting it out of reach. for many, these types of procedures can be quite costly. however, what we are starting to see is insurance companies and also companies are looking to cover some of these costs, whether that's with the actual procedure or the medications that are used for deirdre diener, all of the risks and costs were worth it. >> we first met her in 2019 as she was going through ivf at age 44. >> i have waited my whole life and i'm starting to get really nervous, something deirdre spent her 20s and 30s climbing the corporate ladder, but the marketing exec says she also had ambitions about becoming a mother, so she decided to do it on her own as a single mom. >> let's talk about the financial burden, because thank goodness you had the means. but this is cost prohibitive for a lot of peop

making sure women have decisions and making sure they have maternal mental health access and access to ob/gyn care and birth control and that also includes family planning if you decide that is something that you want. let me to be clear, our position is for reproductive rights and justice and the woman has that decision to make for herself, she has the full autonomy to make the decision and also to act and that is what we support and will continue supporting that. i understand the importance of providing resources and we do a great job of doing with that and working with organizations for funding and making sure it is taking into consideration all types of productive -- reproductive services. host: let's talk to kelly, texas, republican. caller: how are you doing? guest: i am great. how are you? caller: i am wonderful. what are your feelings on --, what are your feelings about facing discrimination and the jobs market. i have been out of work for just over three years. and i have a 23 years experience and i just want to know, what are your feelings on this? guest: we are not for any form of

in the states where abortion has been outlawed and criminalized, doctors, ob/gyn are fleeing in recordbers. at what point is that the federal government's job to make sure women are protected and women's rights are protected? i find it ironic that you think it is an extremist point of view >> i give you 30 seconds to respond to that. the eighth and ninth month to have an abortion. allowing people other than doctors to conduct their procedure. that which was included in was just referenced to an expansion. a very different thing. i am pro-choice and i would oppose a national abortion ban. >> ms. altman, i will pick up on that. new jersey itself has very strong abortion protections and some democrats like governor murphy said making allows even more encompassing. i want to ask you if there any parts of new jersey law regarding abortions as it stands right now that make you uncomfortable? >> no, there is not. i think new jersey is for very good reason accepting women who are in emergency situations that come here to seek healthcare. i am not a medical professional. my opponent is not a me

be'eri and the national enquirer staked out every ob-gyn in the area and waited for real to come in forn appointment. >> she left the doctor's office to a grocery store we attempted to question her than and said real we're told through multiple sources that john edwards is the father of your child. >> what we have to remember is rielle hunter doesn't really exist until the national enquirer says she does. and when she does everything changes really fast that day changed my life. >> you know, suddenly i had to become aware of my surroundings all the time cameras popping up out of weird vans parked down the street with their windows cracked. >> now, with physical proof of reelz pregnancy, a plan was hatched to get the media off of john edwards, sent what happened after that, when into a scenario that i had never experienced. week again receiving phone calls from various lawyers saying this is a case of two campaign workers and john edwards campaign who are having a child together. >> andrew young is the baby daddy of rielle hunter's child now, this is when the story it gets invented that

in a state where abortion has been outlawed and criminalized, doctors, ob/gyn's are fleeing in record number. at what point is at the federal government's job to make sure women are protected and women's rights are protected? i find it very ironic that you think that is an extremist point of view. well sir, people dying in parking lots is an x-ray miss point of view. >> extremist point of view is not allowing parents -- having the abortion. the point of view allowing people of any reason until the eighth and ninth month to have an abortion. what is extreme is allowing people other than doctors to conduct that procedure. that was included in the bill that was just reference. it was not a codification of roe v. wade, it was an extension through the night, which is very different. i'm pro-choice and i would impose a national abortion ban. >> new jersey itself has very strong abortion protections. some democrats like governor murphy have suggested making its laws even more encompassing. are there any parts of new jersey law regarding abortions as it stands right now that make you uncomfor

in states like utah with this uncertainty we see one in 5 ob/gyns considering leaving, we've seen an increase in the number of women who died during childbirth. we also have seen this spread into attacks on ivf. for my husband rob and i, ivf may be the only way that we can start a family in the future. my opponent has said i wish as a man i didn't have to make these decisions, representative curtis, you don't. it's long past time to end this egregious government overreach into our most personal and intimate decisions. utah deserves a us senator that trusts families to make the best decisions for themselves free from government intervention. >> bowen: several things to unpack here. a baby's heart is beating by six weeks. it has its own blood supply which is different from the mother's blood. by 10 weeks our baby is fully formed, ten fingers, ten toes, organs, the entire child. abortion ends a human life. without that human life having any input into it. so i'm 100% opposed to abortion. my republican opponent was a former democrat said that he is pro-life and i'm glad to hear that beca

they will do contraceptive care or health exams, but if i needed ob/gyn care i am on the network.uckily connecticut as reproductive health care in place. if i was in texas the same situation, my options are limited as an active duty service member. >> the military does a lot of things in a lot of remote places. i remember talking to one airman. you are hours away from those things, so it is simply not feasible. >> post dobbs there were some geospatial analyses done, and there were folks who are several hundred miles away from your nearest abortion care provider, so it has become a serious issue. when you were asking about what women are saying, we have folks down in states in texas for us to go off base to civilian fighters who were scared to talk to their providers about it, and even after they have abortion care they are not reporting that they have this in their history because they are afraid of being analyzed. -- penalized. >> who are most of the people who might need access to abortion? >> every person of reproductive age you can get pregnant needs access to high polity heal

mildred clark is an ob/gyn on our block in crown heights, the only neighborhood we lived in. what i did not realize was i had a rare experience being surrounded by black women physicians to the point where i thought most physicians were black women until i got to college and recognized most students did not look like me. these women were role models to me just like my mother and that representation was important in giving me the confidence to recognize that being a physician was possible. host: you describe your mother at harvard as a fish out of water. dr. blackstone: yes, i talk about how when she got to harvard her classmates had parents who had written the textbook, another classmate was a relative of jackie onassis in another had a parent who had won a nobel prize in immunology. at that point my mother could say her own mother worked full-time, managed to get off of public assistance, became a licensed practical nurse and she was proud of her mother. but it was a culture shock for her to be at harvard surrounded by people who had tremendous resources and opportunities, f

mildred clark is an ob/gyn on our block in crown heights, the only neighborhood we lived in. what i did not realize was i had a rare experience being surrounded by black women physicians to the point where i thought most physicians were black women until i got to college and recognized most students did not look like me. these women were role models to me just like my mother and that representation was important in giving me the confidence to recognize that being a physician was possible. host: you describe your mother at harvard as a fish out of water. dr. blackstone: yes, i talk about how when she got to harvard her classmates had parents who had written the textbook, another classmate was a relative of jackie onassis in another had a parent who had won a nobel prize in immunology. at that point my mother could say her own mother worked full-time, managed to get off of public assistance, became a licensed practical nurse and she was proud of her mother. but it was a culture shock for her to be at harvard surrounded by people who had tremendous resources and opportunities, f

need to do since the dobbs decision came down when we are looking at -- i have met with a lot of ob/gyn's concerned there are kids, excuse me, young people going through medical school now feeling deterred from engaging in reproductive health work. reproductive health work is vast. it is not only about abortion. it is about a whole array of care and we want to make sure we are not creating disincentives for people to go into that very important profession. we want to make sure we are in the whole issue of reproductive care not suggesting to women or the people who love them that they should be judged, because there is that also when you are talking about reproductive repair. women sometimes are made to feel or do feel embarrassed to talk about their needs as it relates to their reproductive health. i feel strongly the government should not be telling any woman what to do with her body. [cheers and applause] when congress passes a law reinstating the reproductive freedoms of women, i will gladly and proudly signed into law because i strongly believe one does not have to give up or abandon

mildred clark is an ob/gyn on our block in crown heights, the only neighborhood we lived in. what i did not realize was i had a rare experience being surrounded by black women physicians to the point where i thought most physicians were black women until i got to college and recognized most students did not look like me. these women were role models to me just like my mother and that representation was important in giving me the confidence to recognize that being a physician was possible. host: you describe your mother at harvard as a fish out of water. dr. blackstone: yes, i talk about how when she got to harvard her classmates had parents who had written the textbook, another classmate was a relative of jackie onassis in another had a parent who had won a nobel prize in immunology. at that point my mother could say her own mother worked full-time, managed to get off of public assistance, became a licensed practical nurse and she was proud of her mother. but it was a culture shock for her to be at harvard surrounded by people who had tremendous resources and opportunities, f

about being arrested more medical students reconsidering even pursuing women's health at all more ob gyn a clinics without enough doctors to meet demand, closing their doors leaving untold numbers of women and communities throughout this country without a place to go for basic guy. now, logical care, which in turn will leave millions of us at risk of undiagnosed medical issues like cervical and uterine cancers this is real so do you think donald trump is thinking about the consequences for the millions of living in medical deserts does anyone think he has the emotional maturity and foresight to come up with a plan to protect us. before these state bans, america was already lagging behind every other wealthy nation on measures like maternal mortality and paid leave so we we could be right back to the days before roe which many young people here don't even remember the days when abortion wasn't as safe as it is today the days when the number of mothers of color dying in childbirth was 30 to 40 percent higher than when it was under roe so to that men who love us let let me just try to paint

and my ob/gyn and learning that my pregnancy was not viable, i was given an option. despite at high risk for infection, because of taxes extrema law i was told i had to wait. which i did in the hospital for several days. my baby girl, amory was born five days after my water broke. she lived only for a few minutes but i told my husband and i held my baby as she went to sleep. when her heart stopped, we continue to embrace her and held her for hours as she was lifeless. it was immediately after she was born in the hospital discharge me that i felt a severe pain. eventually i found myself in the e.r. fearing for my life where my reality soon changed. i was diagnosed with sepsis and send it to a six-hour emergency surgery. i and toured a partial lung collapse, two liters of inflected fluid removed from my abdomen and an incision that ran from under my breath to my pelvic area. this has left a deep scar. i was hospitalized for 3 weeks and my body, it was overwhelmingly consumed with infection. i nearly lost my life. i remember praying to god just allow me to be peaceful w

barry and the "national enquirer" staked out every ob/gyn in the area and waited for rielle to come intment. she left the doctor's office to a grocery store. we attempted to question her then and said, "rielle, we're told through multiple sources that john edwards is the father of your child." what we have to remember is rielle hunter doesn't really exist until the "national enquirer" says she does, and when she does, everything changes really fast. [camera shutter snaps] that day changed my life. you know, suddenly i had to become aware of my surroundings all the time, cameras popping up out of weird vans parked down the street with their windows cracked. now with physical proof of rielle's pregnancy, a plan was hatched to get the media off of john edwards's scent. [telephone rings, receiver picks up] levine: what happened after that went into a scenario that i had never experienced. we began receiving phone calls from various lawyers saying this is a case of two campaign workers in john edwards' campaign who are having a child together. andrew young is the baby daddy of rielle hunter

doctor vinita mota, an ob gyn perinatologist from kaiser permanente, told us today. on. the nine newborns can come into the world already protected. >> you know, the mom's body will make the antibodies that go pass right on to baby. against covid. against flu. and you mentioned the tetanus vaccine. it protects babies against pertussis and now rsv. and so yeah before you know we weren't able to offer these protections. so we didn't have all these vaccine conversations. but we're actually lucky now that these vaccines are available. >> this comes as a growing number of children are not getting the recommended childhood vaccinations, measles vaccinations among kindergartners are already below a federal target. vaccines for other diseases, including polio and tetanus, have also dropped. data show the majority of those exemptions were nonmedical. >> well, two people here in california have tested positive for bird flu. state health officials say the infections were connected to cows. both people were workers who had come into contact with infected cows in the central valley,

and i happen to have a daughter who is applying to medical school and has wanted to be an ob-gyn since she was about four years old and. she currently works at a planned parenthood on the east. so she's i'm curious what you kind of foresee for young providers, potential providers in terms of their training forward? excellent question. i'm not sure i can answer it. i first of all, i have no direct experience with the training program because of this. i'm a graduate university of harvard medical school. i'm on the faculty i'm not allowed to teach doctors how to do abortion and our medical school. okay. i was at the number of doctors taught in the medical school is exactly over 50 years zero. i do teach doctors in my office when they're going to come to work for me and they're a number of physicians who do train doctors. and there are some training in some medical school. and i think that they offer some basis. but i think that i'm not generally what i know that they're being taught adequately just the same or the overarching looming problem we have is three weeks from now, whether we dec

we've seen one in five ob/gyn considerately think it we've seen an increase of the number of women who die during childbirth. we've also seen the spread into an attack on ivf. my husband rob and i may be the only way we can start a family in the future. my opponent has said i wish as a man i did not have to make these decisions. well, representative curtis you don't. it's long past time to end this drug reaches into her most personal intimate decision. utah deserved a u.s. senator that trusted families to make the best decisions for themselves, free from government intervention. >> mr. bowen your thoughts? >> are several things to unpack here. a baby's heart is beating by six weeks. it has its own blood supply which is different from the mother's blood. by 10 weeks a baby is fully formed 10 fingers, 10 toes, organs, the entire child. abortion ends a human life without that human life having any input into it. i'm one 100% opposed abortion. now my republican opponent was a former democrat said he is pro-life on i'm glad to hear that because there is a recent interview on one of his snap

and all the things that happened after that women who can't get breast screenings, what happens to ob-gyns who aren't going into the practice anymore, was happening to health insurance costs. those are the things that are driving it because if they can get some of those suburban women who are on the fence about, well, they don't like donald trump and they can get them focused on why those voters might turn the harris. and she is fischer. >> i would say they are leaving something on the table. i think issues like this are vital to people and home health care for elderly parents. i think the same women you're talking about are very responsive to that. healthcare is a huge issue in this campaign. >> yeah, guys do sandwich generation and she does talk about $35 a month insulin. so there are lines about it, but we think are staking their ground as a republican. >> does it concern you hearing that rfk is meeting with the transition co-chair and having a two-hour meeting where he's sowing doubt about vaccines and asking to access data from the federal, i don't i don't as an american, it concerns

or whatever, that you're seeing, lower places for people, for women to get breast exams are seeing ob-gyns decide to get out. you're seeing insurance costs go up. these are all things that are getting in the way. and so women are having this problem. we have not hold women well since the dobbs decision, women have overperformed against maga every time they've had to choose in the election since dobbs, i think it's one of the questions in this current election. is that going to happen again and benefit kamala harris, father of ivf, is going to be probably in an ad. i would assume. thank you all for bigger. i'm not sure on which side necessarily up next we're gonna talk about an alarming alliance that we're seeing forming right before our eyes as kim jong un is reportedly sending north koreans to fight in russia's war in ukraine and why the secret of state just blew up roads near south korea's border i call later chest congestion hello 12 hours of relief wow. >> okay. not coffee and a yoga antiquing, not coughing a, coffin. movies, hashtags, joe not coughing mucinex, dm gives you 12 hours of

with this issue and i was learning, wow, i didn't know that and then i would run into some of my ob-gyn friends roundening the hospital and asked them and they doesn't know about it. no, this is what the u.s. preventive services task force tells us know the to pry it, but this tendency to close ranks. what do you think motivates that? >> well, on that issue of hormone replacement therapy for women around the time of menopause, when i was doing the research for the book and learned the back story of how this incredible medication got demonized by a scientist at the nih, i felt like i need to get this book out as soon as possible. matter of fact, my editor's wife immediately started hormone therapy when she learned the back story from the editor sharing with her the account. it may be the biggest screwup in modern medicine. hormone therapy is an amazing treatment. it replaces the body's natural estrogen when the body stops producing it in postmenopaual women and women who started within three-- start it, and live three and a half years longer. the risk of alzheimer's goes down by 35%. a w

smear appointment for three months because the ob-gyns left the count pi.t of the laws and they don't want to talk about that. they don't want to talk about the real every day tangible consequences they have on american women. >> who is there anyway of being able to know how many women have been affected by threes coneian laws and rulings because we hear some of the horrific stories of a woman dying of highly preventable accepts ies prevent sepis and can you shed light on the stories you heard. >> i include those stories in the bock and i think one of the things that is so hard is that we are only hearing a very tiny fraction of the horror stories because people are afraid to come forward, especially when it is a loved one who has died. they know that the right wing media machine is going to attack the person. we have seen that happen with the women who have died and we have heard the stories and so there is this real fear about coming forward. the other thing that's happening is the anti-abortion movement is trying really hard to make it hard to track thos

that is one of the reasons i felt champion a loan forgiveness programs for ob/gyn to go to these ruralcan help woman's maternal health from start to starting a family. >> mr. balcom, i will ask you the same question. should congress pass national protections for in vitro fertilization and other treatments? >> there is a bill that the congressman can sign onto. unfortunately, he has now. the reality is his record shows that access to contraception and ivf could be under threat if he continues to be in congress here the reality is the congressman has inserted himself into a deeply personal decision. he has put himself in the doctor's office. in a place where he is telling a woman what to do with her body. by telling her what to do with an abortion. the reality is we have to make sure that this decision, a deeply personal decision stays with the woman, her family and her doctors. it is so crystal clear to me that this is not a politician's place to be in this decision-making process. we have to find a way to give women their rights back. that means codifying role in congress. passing woma

i have been there with the husband whose wife is dying of atopic pregnancy or demise or other ob/gyn have had to send them to the operating h room to terminate tt pregnancy or the woman would die. this is who i am. this is my experience m and this is how i'm going to represent yount as your new united states senator. >> thank you pretender can't always like to respond? >> it said people are losing their lives over this. as we saw in georgia we need people are going to stand up and fight for this right to be restored. the challenges that we face is at the republican party, except for two people want to be up to individual states. i'm saying this is a right women should have a national level. i'm going to spend my time advocating would you like to respond? r >> the dobbs decision create a lot of anxiety. i want the women of washington to understand my stance. i'm not asking you to trust every republican. as i would not ask you to trust every democrat. i'm asking you to trust me. i'm going to defend the state. as a pro-choice state everyday as u.s. senator. i like this one top pick that

making sure women have decisions and making sure they have maternal mental health access and access to ob/gynare and birth control and that also includes family planning if you decide that is something that you want. let me to be clear, our position is for reproductive rights and justice and the woman has that decision to make for herself, she has the full autonomy to make the decision and also to act and that is what we support and will continue supporting that. i understand the importance of providing resources and we do a great job of doing with that and working with organizations for funding and making sure it is taking into consideration all types of productive -- reproductive services. host: let's talk to kelly, texas, republican. caller: how are you doing? guest: i am great. how are you? caller: i am wonderful. what are your feelings on --, what are your feelings about facing discrimination and the jobs market. i have been out of work for just over three years. and i have a 23 years experience and i just want to know, what are your feelings on this? guest: we are not for any form of di

we've seen one in five ob/gyn considerately think it we've seen an increase of the number of women whog childbirth. we've also seen the spread into an attack on ivf. my husband rob and i may be the only way we can start a family in the future. my opponent has said i wish as a man i did not have to make these decisions. well, representative curtis you don't. it's long past time to end this drug reaches into her most personal intimate decision. utah deserved a u.s. senator that trusted families to make the best decisions for themselves, free from government intervention. >> mr. bowen your thoughts? >> are several things to unpack here. a baby's heart is beating by six weeks. it has its own blood supply which is different from the mother's blood. by 10 weeks a baby is fully formed 10 fingers, 10 toes, organs, the entire child. abortion ends a human life without that human life having any input into it. i'm one 100% opposed abortion. now my republican opponent was a former democrat said he is pro-life on i'm glad to hear that because there is a recent interview on one of his snappers i'm g

ulg also hear from austin who was an ob/gyn herself and who was forced to travel out of state for any any measure, texas is in a health care crisis. the only issue in this case, however, is who should be getting abortions under the medical exception to the state's abortion bans and two years later, still, no one knows. >> and amanda joining us now. amanda is back on the show with us, along with the film's directors, macy crow and abby perot she is joining us along with uma abedin, an adviser for one of the producers who directed the documentary. all right. so macy and abby, in order, just tell us briefly if you could what you set out to do to accomplish in this documentary. >> well, we wanted to understand what abortion bans meant in practice, especially in a state like texas where we're both from. one of the first things we asked amanda when we began filming was what wasn't being covered in the media that she had already done, and we all agreed that understanding the long-term effects, traumatic effects, of being denied health care was important to focus on. >> abby. >> i think the

denied care or because they can't get a pap smear appointment for three months because all of the ob/gyns talk about that. they don't want to talk about the real, every day consequences that these have on american women specifically. >> jessica, how is there any way of being able to know how many women have been affected by these draconian laws and rulings? because we hear some of the horrific stories, a woman dying of highly preventable sepsis and denied a very common gynecological treatment. can you shed some light on the stories you heard while reporting on this? >> yeah, you know, i include some of those stories in this book and i think one of the things that's so hard is that we are only hearing a very tiny fraction of those horror stories because people are afraid to come forward, especially when it's a loved one who has died. they know that the right wing media machine is going to attack that person. we've sheen that happen with the women who have died. we've heard those stories. so there is this real fear about coming forward. the other thing that's happening is that the anti-abor

kelly morrison spent most of her career as a pracing ob-gyn, but she realized she wanted to of a voicesenate in 2022, and today she's favored to win her house district in minnesota. so i think the conclusion here is that while 2016 brought a loss for women at the top of the ticket, that moment has been a catalyst that has powered down ballot races in the years since. >> and huma, watching hillary clinton, i mean, you were there. you were deep in it through it all, and it was deeply personal and very painful, but you also witnessed firsthand how the former secretary of state built a pipeline for women to seek higher office. can you tell us more about the women maggie mentioned, but also how the dynamics since 2016 have been so motivating to more women like that to run? >> well, mika, there are three big takeaways i have both from this research and the things th drove hillary for decades, building that pipeline, doing the work, having the experience. there's that age old adage that seeing something makes you believe it's possible. and added to that, to have the loss to then shift to the

in the states where abortion has been outlawed and criminalized, doctors, ob/gyn are fleeing in recordis that the federal government's job to make sure women are protected and women's rights are protected? i find it ironic that you think it is an extremist point of view >> i give you 30 seconds to respond to that. the eighth and ninth month to have an abortion. allowing people other than doctors to conduct their procedure. that which was included in was just referenced to an expansion. a very different thing. i am pro-choice and i would oppose a national abortion ban. >> ms. altman, i will pick up on that. new jersey itself has very strong abortion protections and some democrats like governor murphy said making allows even more encompassing. i want to ask you if there any parts of new jersey law regarding abortions as it stands right now that make you uncomfortable? >> no, there is not. i think new jersey is for very good reason accepting women who are in emergency situations that come here to seek healthcare. i am not a medical professional. my opponent is not a medical professional.

. >> as an ob/gyn nurse my coworkers and i are experiencing an overwhelming number of illegal immigranting the quality care they gave for and deserve. how would they address this growing problem. >> not that this is the most important issue today but i think it was a few years ago. maybe our nurses would be less overwhelmed if we did not have a federal government firing people for not taking the covid shot a few years ago. [applause] >> whatever year feels, whatever your views i think it was smart to let individual nurses and moms and dads to make these decisions. now force. the answer to your question is if you have 25 million, 20 million, whatever it is in your country, we are compassionate people. we will not let people just conspire on the streets nor should we. a compassionate name for our own citizens. i believe it is to stop the open border and saw people coming in the first place. if you look in the state of pennsylvania, i believe the last time i checked, the media fact checkers will double check my information here. it is around three hours. you go to the emergency room and yo

or other ob/gyn emergencies and it had to send them to the operating room to terminate the pregnancy or the woman would die. this is who i am. this is my experience, this is how i'm going to represent you as your united states senator. >> thank you. senator cantwell, would you like response? >> avs said people are losing their life over this as a saw in georgia. we need people who are going to stand up and fight for this right to be restored. the challenges we face is that the republican party except for key people in the united states senate have basically decided they want this to be up to individual states. i am saying this is a right that women should have added national level. that i'm going to spend my time advocating for it to pass into federal law. >> thank you, senator. would you like response per? yes. the dobbs decision to create a lot of anxiety and discomfort throughout the country. i want the women of washington to understand my stance. i'm not asking you to trust every republican just as a as a wooden ask you to trust every democrat. i'm asking you to trust me. i am go