all over our country, including over half of the counties in georgia, oklahoma and texas, have no ob gyn. i do not say a few. i said none. so to them i say, don't come talking to us about the health of women and babies. when you have not treated maternal mortality as the crisis, it is, how dare you. and emily's list do note these extremist so-called leaders are on the attack against our health care system as a whole. they have tried to ban the abortion pill. and if the president now we know and realize the fda has been approving medications for over 80 years, peer reviewed scientific process is to determine the health and safety of medicines, including medicines for asthma, for high blood pressure, for diabetes. well, mr. preston has proven to be safe and effective as a medicine for abortion and miscarriage care for over 20 years. but these extremist so called leaders suggest that lawyers and politicians, not doctors, should determine which medication is best. okay. so i would urge them to look in their medicine cabinet. to understand the implications of what they are doing. i would ask

alice rothchild, retired ob/gyn, was last in in august. on friday, dr.hchild participated in a nonviolent protest to shut down the federal building in seattle where democratic senator patty murray of washington has an office, urging the senator to call for an immediate ceasefire. dr. rothchild is on the steering committee of the jewish voice for peace health advisory council and providing frequent updates on the deteriorating medical situation on the ground in gaza. she's also the mentor liaison for we are not numbers, and on the board of gaza mental health foundation. welcome back. if you can talk about the attack on hospitals. you have the attack on the ambulance convoy. israel said it was because they were transporting hamas fighters. you have the attack on the hospitals come israel says it is because command-and-control is underneath. can you comment on this? and the number of the death toll at this point? >> this is an appalling situation in terms of the death toll. there are multiple international laws, starting with the geneva accord, being violat

and last of the stages doctor christina francis, a board-certified ob/gyn from fort wayne indiana and the chief executive officer of the american association of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists. an associate scholar with of the charlotte institute, a board member of indiana right to life and physician member of the abortion pill reversals network. let's welcome our guest. [applause] doctor francis, i'm going to start with you if i can and i'd like to talk a little bit about how in abortion pill works for those who don't understand in the audience. >> absolutely. it's important when we talk about chemical abortions or the abortion pill to understand what it is because sometimes there's confusion about that. some people equate it with the morning-after pill or plan b emergency contraception. that's not what we are talking about. what we are talking about is a specific two drug combination. the first is called myth the press down or you might have heard it referred to. the drug is intended to block the action of a crucial hormone in early pregnancy called progesterone and it does

alice rothchild, retired ob/gyn, was last in in august. on friday, dr.othchild participated in a nonviolent protest to shut down the federal building in seattle where democratic senator patty murray of washington has an office, urging the senator to call for an immediate ceasefire. dr. rothchild is on the steering committee of the jewish voice for peace health advisory council and providing frequent updates on the deteriorating medical situation on the ground in gaza. she's also the mentor liaison for we are not numbers, and on the board of gaza mental health foundation. welcome back. if you can talk about the attack on hospitals. you have the attack on the ambulance convoy. israel said it was because they were transporting hamas fighters. you have the attack on the hospitals come israel says it is because command-and-control is underneath. can you comment on this? and the number of the death toll at this point? >> this is an appalling situation in terms of the death toll. there are multiple international laws, starting with the geneva accord, being viol

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in your experience as an ob/gyn, is that the case? dr. francis: absolutely not. i have never been called to the emergency room to take care of a tylenol complication and i have been called to the emergency room many times to take care of complications of these drugs. that does not mean the people do not present to the emergency room due to tylenol complications, but those are one they overdosed on tylenol. these complications with chemical abortions are when women take the fda approved dosage and regimen for chemical abortions. as you said in your opening cut we know that chemical abortions have a four times higher complication rate then surgical abortions. part of the problem of how women are able to continue to be told these lies that it is safer than tylenol is because the fda does not do a good job of capturing these complications. they are difficult to report to the fda. there is a process you have to go through. often it is not the abortion providers caring for these complications. it is physicians like me who are seeing women who have been abandoned to the

he's a retired ob-gyn who still manages a medical practice in columbus. dr. my bias is knowing how lovely that coordinated care of a physician and a nurse practitioner can be working together. stephanie: he says that even with their expanded training, nps typically have fewer hours of clinical practice, than physicians do. dr. parnes: there's an art to medicine. and it's not that nurse practitioners can't practice it. they definitely can. there are different levels of developing that art and different opportunities to develop it. stephanie: how do you decide at what point you really need to see a primary care physician with all those thousands of hours of residency versus being okay with seeing an advanced practitioner? dr. parnes: i think initially it would be access. and so that is one of the things i like about having more and more nurse practitioners is it increases the access. stephanie: gross says the law makes it harder for ordinary ohioans to access health care. rep. gross: let's talk about our elderly. let's talk about our medicaid. we're a medicaid

. >> columbia university has apologized to thousands of women for allowing an ob/gyn to continue practicingked after the sexually insulted -- assaulted patients. there was a multimillion dollar settlement fund. the doct was convicted in federal court last january and sentenced to 20 years in prison for enticing for patients to cross state lines where he examined and assaulted them. they were warned about his behavior. a podcast brought to light the assaults and the university's failure to act. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for the imitation. >> before we get into the role of the university, help us understand the extent of how this abuse between the early 1990's and his first arrest in 2012. what were women saying happened and how many women are we talking about? >> to the last question, we don't really know how many women we are talking about. we know so far of more than 700 women who have come forward. it could be in the thousands. he came to columbia in the late 1980's. he started practicing in 1990 as a member of the faculty. from what we can tell, he started abusing women from

one of the new plaintiffs is danielle mathisen, who is an ob/gyn who was forced to leave her home state just to get abortion care. dr. mathisen said -- "texas lawmakers know nothing about medicine and they have created a full-blown public health crisis." in related news, a federal judge last week blocked an idaho law which made it a crime to help a minor cross state lines for an abortion without parental consent. the judge says the law, signed in april by republican governor brad little, violated the first amendment. this comes as the justice department backed two lawsuits challenging a similar law in alabama. and in ghana, african leaders issued a collective call for reparations for the historic enslavement of people of african descent. there prime minister was one of the speakers during the two day conference. >> the psychological trauma conflict by this practice continues to resonate across generations, affecting our effective consciousness. colonialism with his arbitrary borders and economic exploitation further reinforce racial hierarchies and sow seeds of discourse that persist to

one of the republicans who lost was an ob/gyn talking about her experience delivering premature infantsort for a 15 week limitation with exceptions on abortion. what happened, an example of what happened was in northern county, what republicans needed to win to take control of the senate, the prosecutor ran a campaign on abortion suggesting all abortions across the south were in danger. it didn't matter how sensible republicans were, democrats exploited the issue. paul: growing concern among democrats over president biden's standing a year out from the 2,024 election as his support for israel angers key parts of his democratic base. . all that planning has paid off. looks like you can make this work. we can make this work. and the feeling of confidence that comes from our advice? i can make this work. that seems to be universal. i can make this work. i can make this work. no wonder more than 9 out of 10 clients are likely to recommend us. because advice worth listening to is advice worth talking about. ameriprise financial. somedays, i cover up because of my moderate to severe plaque ps

>> even as i was listening to that segment, it really is still triggering to me as an ob/gyn and as aed earlier that black women are three times more likely to die and when we look at that as a category, as a country that should have the best care health care in the world we still have ten-times more death rates than some other high-income countries, australia israel, japan, spain, so, where we are really seeing this issue, we know there are a lot of social factors that play into that racial trauma, discrimination, marginalization, so the list goes on. but what we doe know is that this number needs to significantly decrease than what we're seeing here increasing. >> doctor, the comparison between the u.s., a developed country, and other parts of the world, why are we lagging so far behind other countries? >> now, one thing that i do know for sure is that we have seen this in studies as well, because we have so much diversity within this country what comes of that are good things, but what comes with that as well is systemic racism, this goes down into the foundation of hospital organi

even here, where one of the state senators is an ob/gyn run on the republican side, she doesn't mentionin her stump speech at all either. democrats on the other hand around this area and really around the commonwealth are making a big deal about it and talking about really what is at stake in this race as it relates to abortion. here is what governor youngkin had to say during his final campaign rally last night. >> hold the house, flip the senate. hold the house, flip the senate. we know how to do this. we learned in 2021 how to win elections. we make sure this generation will inherit a better virginia tomorrow. we are the party of hope. they are the party of fear. that's all they have. >> reporter: as you can tell, that man is very good at retail politicking. 2024, if he does not win out with republicans today, it's going to be very difficult for him to see voters outside of virginia, whether they are interested in somebody who didn't win their state legislature. >> thanks so much. shaq, the governor is so popular in a red state, it's remarkable he does so well in such a trump state.

this area, in this -- it is district 16, the republican candidate for state senate is a practicing ob/gynabout the issue of abortion, and why republicans don't seem to make it a big deal. >> what we are talking about is finding a way we can go forward together, and not keeping this something that consumes an entire campaign, when we could be talking about things like our kids learning loss, and their ability to afford college, and the other things that matter to families. there's no oxygen in the room for that, because all of the democrats want to talk about this abortion. it is time to talk about other things, that will make a big difference for every virginian family. >> so early voting has wrapped up here in the commonwealth of virginia. we are told more than 750,000 people voted early, those numbers don't exactly match what happened in 2021, but the governor was on the ballot that time, he hasn't. >> all right gary -- thank you gary, appreciate it. so, issues from abortion to cannabis legalization, climate change, they are motivating young voters, both in this year's election, and of

reason state republicans had such a bad night, the defeat of an incumbent state senator, a practicing ob/gyn supported the governor's call for that 15-week limit. here's how the democrat who defeated her characterized the results. >> our victory and victories across the state are aa sign that folks want progress to continue. they want us to focus on things that matter. and they certainly don't want us taking away women's rights. >> priscilla thompson is on the ground in ohio, joining me here, michael steele, former rnc chairman and an msnbc political analyst. it's pretty clear, michael, that the abortion issue cuts across party lines, not just democrats, independents, moderate republicans. how did democrats capitalize on that, and what do republicans do about it? >> well, what the republicans do about it part is a lot harder than how the democrats capitalize on it because what republicans have done across the country and certainly at the state level where the original argument was let the states decide. a lot of states have decided. they've said, okay, guess what. >> be careful what you wish

decision, it's the same situation happening in hospitals and when asked across the country where ob/gyn's are feeling the need to have legal counsel to advise them because they have all of these criminalized ability as well as potential liability in terms of stepping out signs lines that are not clear. moving forward, it's clear in my opinion congress needs to act on clarity though our legal system to achieve a goal is recognized as essential. >> we need to make sure students understand their experience should be representative at universities and they shouldn't shy away from that. they might have students first amendment and 14th amendment right and their stories. >> thank you. i'd like to recognize. >> a bit of response to the criticism chief justice roberts. when you look at the most recent opinion you said a judiciary picks winners and losers based on the skin, or be the consequence of the judicial system to acquire laws based on race? >> i agree that would be concerning, individuals should before the law and judiciary that doesn't do that would be very concerning. >> last week the st

decision is the same situation that is happening in hospitals and clinics all across the country were ob/gyn's are feeling the need to have legal counsel to advise them about how to practice medicine. because, again, it's just they have crated all of these cross currents of possible criminal liability as well as professional liability in terms of just stepping outside lines that are not clear, in terms of just how they are supposed to practice medicine. again, moving forward though, it's clear that, in my opinion, congress needs to act to set some clearly so that we can, again, our legal system to achieve a goal that has always been recognized as essential. >> ya. we need to make sure the students understand that their full experiences should be represented and universities should shy away from that. in fact, they might be running afoul of student's first amendment and 14th amendment rights if they try to censor students stories, simply because they're related to race. >> thank you. i would i know -- i'd like to now recognize mr. moran. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms. solomon, i want to come t

. >> where there already are not enough ob-gyn providers in rural communities.ng goes, democrats hate their base. republicans fear their base. that's really playing out right now. >> yeah. >> you see, i mean, not the democrats hating their base. i'm not commenting on that, but that's the political -- you know, people have been saying it a long time. but if you look at the new hampshire polls and just how nikki haley would crush joe biden, if the republican party actually had a political apparatus that -- >> if they wanted to win. >> -- did party control and would strongarm. instead, you have a political party that each person, top leadership, wants to keep their power and not be transplanted by trump. >> i'll say also, willie, and i noticed this since joe biden has been president. i'll say it again. the progressives have been extraordinarily patient. >> yup. >> they've been the opposite of the right-wing extremists. they've actually kept -- progressives have kept the bigger goal in mind. we need to win elections. we need to have joe biden continue to appoint fed