that legislation was authored by congressman weldon of florida, a doctor himself. and it protects empty tis of all kinds, including individuals, from being compelled to be involved with abortion. the problem is, it has one flaw. we were unable to fix it for years in the appropriations process. the only remedy for an aggrieved party, an individual like a nurse in new york who was compelled to participate in a gruesome dismemberment abortion took four years for her to get any kind of relief at risk of losing her job and many others who have been compelled. in california, all the health insurers including catholics christian, evangelicals, every faith denomination are being told now that your plan has to pay for abortion on demand. this isn't the exchanges. this isn't obama care. this is the existing plans private sector plans and public interest plans like religious organizations. and the remedy is to go to the department of health and human services have and have their offices on civil rights adjudicate indicate the matter. don't hold your breath on that one. the re

we have legislation that would strengthen the weldon amendment the abortion nondiscrimination act and congressman fleming and diane black the prime sponsor of it an excellent bill that we have tried repeatedly to get passed in the senate. we will pass it i believe in the house and that provides a right of private action so the individual to nurse the doctor whoever it might be can assert their very substantial rights in the weldon amendment so they don't have to be complicit in any way, shape or form with the killing of unborn children in the wanting of their mothers. that legislation will be coming up soon in the house and i do believe it will get a vote in the senate. this is unconscionable to think that people are being coerced. what is all this choice talk when you are coercing people to be involved in abortion at every stage, funding a providing a facility for it enabling it. going back several years ago to show you this is nothing new there was an effort if you wanted to be an ob/gyn before you are certified there was a clinton administration effort to say that out want it to be

that legislation was authored by congressman weldon of florida, a doctor himself. and it protects empty tis of all kinds, including individuals, from being compelled to be involved with abortion. the problem is, it has one flaw. we were unable to fix it for years in the appropriations process. the only remedy for an aggrieved party, an individual like a nurse in new york who was compelled to participate in a gruesome dismemberment abortion took four years for her to get any kind of relief at risk of losing her job and many others who have been compelled. in california all the health insurers including catholics, christian, evangelicals, every faith denomination are being told now that your plan has to pay for abortion on demand. this isn't the exchanges. this isn't obama care. this is the existing plans private sector plans and public interest plans like religious organizations. and the remedy is to go to the department of health and human services have and have their offices on civil rights adjudicate indicate the matter. don't hold your breath on that one. the re

business history prospective is defining those businesses that we're trying to support move to the james weldon johnson next generation view and adapt this is an important point to think about when we frame legislation because for example in some locations in terms of the type of products they off you want to support them as they reinvent themselves to continue to the next generations that point is important because most of the capability all my students that came up in the heritage report which is the excellent report it is for the facade or the whole this not to support the businesses as we talk about the businesses there are other types of scott taylor's schools used not put into a vital business for instance has technology has to adapt to a changing market and so on and so forth so they've struggled in things that are not traditionally relayed but for example technology had to move their business into the modern age second point i want to - so main we can come back to that in questions the 3 points i want to throw out for thinking in those particularly businesses framing the mission of the

larkin is doing that kind of work in fisherman's wharf planning around conrad square and james weldon johnson street to improve fisherman's wharf from a pedestrian and action point of view i say keep going i want santa clause to bring me this and have it for access and stanley and know it's there to aggregate all the stuff that goes that the station. >> thank you lastly i'd like to acknowledge mr. wong all of this needed to be looked at and the inconvenience and displacement what times to people with the affordability if the land crisis raising i'm all for that but the construction after work i think ms. christensen about the neighborhood character was addressed i'm for moving forward with some type of study if the money is available. >> commissioner hillis. >> thank you for this i agree that commissioner antonini and the other commissioners the central subway is half done there's something wrong about where it has and not continuing on to connecting it to the density it part of san francisco it is newer growing sdenlser areas of san francisco i agree if we're going to take ourselves

i also wanted to call out lee an weldon from the san francisco parks alliance council who is here and all of the members of the public that came and in conclusion going forward parks alliance will continue to partner with the department both for leveraging funds for the playgrounds in tier two and as dawn mentioned will also host a civic forum on playground design to get input from community members on what elements and experiences they would like all of our playgrounds to have going forward so we look forward working with the department to continue our work. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning. thank you for the opportunity to comment. my name is trudy garber and a project manager at the trust for public land. i work with alhand ja who served as a member on the failing playgrounds task force. we are a national nonprofit and conserves land for people and parks. our goal is to make sure every child has safe access to play be a garden, park or playground within 10 minutes walk of their home. we're a proud and close partner with san francisco recreation and p

larkin is doing that kind of work in fisherman's wharf planning around conrad square and james weldon johnson street to improve fisherman's wharf from a pedestrian and action point of view

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