joining me now is what indiana state representative maureen bauer. for joining us this evening. i wanted to play a clip of your passionate floor speech from last month about your state's abortion ban. >> from every corner of this state, people are demanding that their voices be heard by this legislature. to demand equal rights under the law, to have the same control over their body that is guaranteed to any man in indiana. >> talk to us a little bit about your reaction to your state's abortion ban. it obviously moved you. it touched you, and i just want you to expand on that for us. >> we were the first state, as you mentioned, to enact a ban on abortion, through the state legislature. this was overwhelmingly unpopular in the state of indiana. medical doctors first spoke up during the pandemic to defend public health measures, when the republican controlled general assembly attempted to remove those protections that were in place, attempted to overstep, interfere with the medical communities ability to do their job. and so, this year again, we saw me