kerri kupec is illegal to medications director at alliance for defending freedom. chuck donovan is the president of the charlotte lucier institute and the heritage alum and sarah torre is an analyst at the heritage foundation. what we would like to do is we would like to have folks i'll give an introductory comment and we will go with sarah and then chalk and then kerri and ryan and ryan will moderator q&a afterwards. any questions you have for the members you can ask our panel afterwards. >> i will focus them on basically the details of represented christmas remarks. he has done an incredible amount of work on the 20 week bill so hopefully we will go into the telnet. i would like to specifically focus on the last piece of legislation that representative smith mentioned the abortion nondiscrimination act. this is not just an issue in california as you mentioned. over the past five pounds california and d.c. have passed mandate and pieces of law that would basically force pro-life americans to enroll in a health plan plan and play plan and pay for health on the cove

kerri kupec is from alliance defending freedom. chuck donovan is president of charlotte lozier and heritage alum. and sarah torre is policy analyst here at heritage foundation. we would like to have each give ab introductory comment. we'll go with sarah, chuck kerri and ryan. any members you have for the panel, can you ask afterwards. >> i'll focus in on basically the details of some of representative chris smith's remarks. chuck here has done an incredible amount of work on the 20-week bill. he'll go more into detail with that. i would like to specifically focus on the last piece of legislation that representative smith mentioned, the abortion nondiscrimination act. this is not just an issue in california, as he mentioned. over the past five months, both california and d.c. have passed mandates and pieces of law that would basically force pro-life americans to enroll in a health plan and pay for a health plan that covers surgical abortions. over the past year or so we've had a lot of discussion about the hhs mandate, about being f

kerri kupec is from alliance defending freedom. chuck donovan is president of charlotte lozier and heritage alum. and sarah torre is policy analyst here at heritage foundation. we would like to have each give ab introductory comment. we'll go with sarah, chuck, kerri and ryan. any members you have for the panel, can you ask afterwards. >> i'll focus in on basically the details of some of representative chris smith's remarks. chuck here has done an incredible amount of work on the 20-week bill. he'll go more into detail with that. i would like to specifically focus on the last piece of legislation that representative smith mentioned, the abortion nondiscrimination act. this is not just an issue in california, as he mentioned. over the past five months both california and d.c. have passed mandates and pieces of law that would basically force pro-life americans to enroll in a health plan and pay for a health plan that covers surgical abortions. over the past year or so we've had a lot of discussion about the hhs mandate, about being f