dr. willie parker. ( cheers and applause ) welcome, doctor.at's in the book, just give somebody who has no clue what is it like for a woman who is trying to have an abortion in the deep south, you know, places like alabama, georgia, mississippi? >> if you're not familiar with all the barriers that are in place, the laws that have been put into place, even though abortion remains legal based on the roe decision, there have been lots of rules placed in the path of women, things like waiting periods. in alabama there is a 48-hour waiting period. once you decide to have an abortion in louisiana, it's 72 hours, in mississippi 24. so there are long waiting periods, financial barriers. those are just the institutionalized thing. there is the stigma and the shame women are made to feel that they are doing something immoral by choosing their lives over the ambitions that other people have for them. >> trevor: if someone were to encounter and say why are you in such a worry, why not a waiting period, why not any amount of time to wait on? what would you