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(footsteps thudding)

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(pills rattling)

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I like to try to invest in
as many pipelines as possible

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so that nobody is
all by themselves.

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We don't have yet a system
of getting a lot of product

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without worrying about
putting somebody at risk.

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That is the bottom line.

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Thank you for being in
the game. (laughing)

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(pensive music)

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The law hasn't been
helpful already.

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I'm not gonna be stopped
or hindered by the law

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one way or the other.

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(phone ringing)

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- There's a pill, is that-
- Yes.

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- [Caller] How does that work?

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- So you could use
medication abortion pills

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if you go on a website
called PlanCPills.org.

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- [Caller] I really,
really appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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- It's like we're
running a drug cartel

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in order to help people.

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(pensive music)
(timer clicking)

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- In a landmark ruling,

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the Supreme Court today
legalized abortions.

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The majority in cases
from Texas and Georgia

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said that the decision
to end the pregnancy

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during the first three
months belongs to the woman

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and her doctor,
not the government.

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- I wouldn't lie to ya.

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They got a pill
that you can take

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after you get pregnant

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and it will automatically
abort the child.

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[Reporter] To date,

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Great Britain and
France have approved

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the drug for general use.

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- Today I am directing to the
Food and Drug Administration

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to determine whether
the current import ban

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on the drug is justified

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and to rescind the ban if
there is no basis for it.

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The Food and
Drug Administration

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has approved the use

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of the pill to terminate
pregnancy, RU-486.

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The debate about
abortion is more furious

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in the United States than any
other country in the world.

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There's already been
a major campaign

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to keep the pill
off the market,

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or at least
severely restricted.

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(pensive music)

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(pensive music continues)

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(pensive music continues)

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(timer clicking)

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(fingers tapping on keyboard)

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- Okay.

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How are you gonna stop people
from buying something online?

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It's very hard to stop people

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from going on the internet,

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and it's very
difficult to stop

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products from being mailed.

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At the beginning it was just,

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you know, trying to make clear

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that people even
knew about this,

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that these pills existed,

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that they were safe,
they were effective,

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and that we should
have access to it

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and then questioning why
didn't we not in the US

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and what's the disparity

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between the
US and other countries?

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That was how we started.

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This should be an
option available

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just like any other
contraceptive method

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or any healthcare medication.

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People need to know about it.

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- I'm not an
abortion provider.

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Some people might call
me an enabler, I guess,

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because in providing
information,

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I do enable
people to access it.

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And of course people said,

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you can't do that,
that's illegal, right?

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People for years told us,

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you can't put up a website

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and you cannot publish this.

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Some people question whether
we could even publish

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the results of our research
in contraception, right?

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And we said, well,

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Pfizer published the
results of their research

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on fake Viagra pills.

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And nobody told them
they couldn't do it,

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but because this is abortion,
because it's stigmatized,

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they're saying, people
say, no, you can't do it.

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It's illegal.

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We are not providers.

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We, Plan C.

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All we do is share
information and data.

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We are not providers,

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and we do not
therefore have to fall

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under all of
these restrictions

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that providers in this
country have to fall under.

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We share information.

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We also catalyze
others into action.

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- [Reporter] A Washington
state resident fell ill

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after returning
for Wuhan, China.

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- [Reporter] The toll
is growing by the hour.

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- [Reporter] Some states
are banning abortions

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during the
coronavirus pandemic.

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- [Reporter] Calls to
domestic violence hotlines

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are spiking.

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- [Reporter] 21
states have restricted

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non-essential
medical procedures.

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- [Reporter] For the
past about two weeks,

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abortion has been
completely unavailable.

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- [Reporter] A shortage of key
drugs in the United States.

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Many of the raw materials
used to make common drugs

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come from China and India.

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(notification beeps)

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- Aid Access, because of
the India airport situation,

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has not been shipping pills.

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- It's like desperation time.

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And so we're desperately
trying to find a way.

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- It's not unreasonable
to bring up the issue

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of civil disobedience
right now.

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- No, it is not, it is not.

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- People are saying, is there
anything I can do myself?

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You know, is there
anything I can take?

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The pills, you can take
them if you can find them.

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The access situation
is non-existent.

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(tense music)

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- We began to push on the
obstacles that happened

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thanks to COVID.

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We wrote a little
one-page thing that said

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to providers all
over the country,

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all sorts of providers,

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please step up.

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This has gotten ridiculous.

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Do you know that you could be,

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you, a dermatologist,

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could be helping your
patients get a safe abortion

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while COVID's happening?

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(upbeat music)

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(upbeat music continues)

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(paper unraveling)

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(upbeat music)

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This is a disruption
of the norms.

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This is a disruption
of people's businesses,

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of their way of looking at
abortion in this country.

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It disrupts everything.

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- We really,
really believe that

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if we can take
advantage of this time,

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it will be something
that won't be able

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to be put back in the bottle.

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(pills rattling)

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(paper crimping)

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- We all went to the
post office just now

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to drop something off.

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Sometimes I'm like,

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hmm, I wonder if she's
gonna ask me what's in it.

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Sounds like candy
and, or like beads.

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Should I make something up
like a supplement or like, no,

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I think you just.
- No, no, you don't need to.

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- This is civil
disobedience, right?

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- Yes, exactly.

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- I have malpractice insurance
and if someone objects,

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I take the heat.

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(trunk clanking)

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- [Interviewer] Are you
okay showing your face?

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- Um, no.

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If I didn't have my
kids and my husband,

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I would do the whole thing.

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I would say my name
and be full face.

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- [Interviewer]
What's the scenario

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that plays out in your head?

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Like what are you
worried about?

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- Being put in jail,

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getting shot, getting bombed.

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COVID hit and suddenly all
the hospitals, clinics,

09:15.733 --> 09:17.467
they were shut down.

09:17.600 --> 09:19.967
Francine put out a message
saying, we need help.

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This group, Aid Access,

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that has been sending
medication for abortions,

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India is shut down so none of
the shipments can come out.

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We're looking for
US-based providers.

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- One of the things I was
looking at with Francine,

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for example, was,

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at some point
you have to decide

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where you stand on it.

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You're much better off just
going on the offensive.

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Just say, this is
what I'm doing.

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I'm doing it because of this.

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And full steam ahead.

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(car engine whirring)

09:52.300 --> 09:55.600
(door alarm beeping)

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There's this very
unique moment in time.

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And chaos brings opportunity.

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Anarchists look for moments
of breakdown in society

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as an opportunity
to create change.

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If that's your definition
of an anarchist,

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then that's who I am.

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- It's an energy drink

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'cause I'm a mom.

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So that's my baby, Olivia,

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my oldest, Joseph,

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and the middle is Leon.

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They're amazing and feral

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and I hope they stay that way.

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When I was first
looking into it,

10:50.633 --> 10:54.467
my brain went, just go buy
black market abortion pills

10:54.600 --> 10:56.933
because then you don't
have to go to a clinic,

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then it won't be
super expensive.

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I was like, I'll just
find these pills somewhere

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and I'll buy 'em.

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I started looking online

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and I found the
telehealth site.

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I was like, I found it!

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I found someone.

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You take this one first,

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wait 24 hours

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and you either insert
them in the vagina

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towards the cervix
and let them dissolve,

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or you can put them in
the pockets of your cheeks

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for 45 minutes and then
you can swallow the rest.

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- What if the
postpartum gets worse?

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What if I can't do
anything for her?

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Life's hard enough, so...

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- They wouldn't tie my
tubes because I was 24

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when I asked for
them to do that.

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And I was like,
I've got three kids,

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I don't need anymore
babies. (chuckles)

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Tie my tubes.

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And they were
like, no, we can't.

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It's always very difficult.

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And it has been
since the beginning

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with the military doctors
and Family Planning.

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- My son was born in 2009,

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so I start seeing like
(laughs)

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the age of the people
that I'm working with,

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like getting closer and
closer to my son's age.

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So I think about one
person, it was 2007,

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she was in Colorado and
she's very close to like,

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I think she was
close to 11 weeks

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and her mom was scared.

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And um, yeah...

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Plan C did put out
the call for

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who would be interested
in doing this work.

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And I definitely
was interested

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and I got connected
with Francine,

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but I couldn't do it

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because I didn't
have my own clinic

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and FDA regulations
require that

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medications ship to
a commercial address,

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so I couldn't get
the medications.

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I tried to get around that
law by renting a UPS Box,

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but they figured me
out very fast. (laughs)

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So they were like,
return us the medication.

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(lift buzzing)

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- There's still this
fear, I think of like,

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are you safe?

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Is it going to be safe

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if people around here
know what you're doing?

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Any sort of
visibility could equal

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attention in terms
of like picketers,

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but it also could equal like
people showing up at school

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and talking to your children

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or people showing
up at your house.

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And like, kids are playing
out in the yard all the time.

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It's easy to drive by a
house and whatever, so.

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You asked me about why,

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because I feel
called to do this.

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There's not really like a why,

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like why do you pick up your
kid when they're crying?

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Is there a why?

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Like you just do it.

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Every day, hour, minute
that they're pregnant,

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that they don't wanna be,
is very stressful, right?

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And then having
symptoms of pregnancy

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and all that becomes
even more stressful.

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If we can mail it
within our own states...

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Hi, I just need
to drop this off.

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Reaches there in two days.

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- I called Planned Parenthood

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and she couldn't fit me in
for like two or three weeks.

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Every day was

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panic attack
after panic attack,

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just like out of my body.

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I texted my friend

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like two in the morning,

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like, hi, I have two weeks

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until I can get to
Planned Parenthood.

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Like, I don't know what to do.

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I'm losing my mind.

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So she was like,
go to this website,

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send money
through this portal.

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You don't even have to
like talk to anybody.

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And to be able to be home

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and have my own way

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of going through the process,

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having Sean here,

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having the dogs,

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being able to set it up
exactly how I wanted it

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instead of being in a
creepy fluorescent office

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in Poughkeepsie, like
staring at the ceiling.

15:27.900 --> 15:31.467
(reflective music)

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I would much rather
be in my own home.

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(reflective music)

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- [Caller] There was
like a huge snowstorm

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so we were stuck inside.

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It was very nice
to be at home.

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[Caller] Me starting this
new job, I was like,

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well,
there's no way I can just

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already ask for work leave.

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- [Caller] I was far
away from like basically

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any civilization in
the desert areas.

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Like they don't have access.

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- [Caller] I was not
strong enough to deal

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with someone screaming in
my face that I'm a sinner

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and I'm going to hell
and I'm a murderer.

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- [Caller] I don't want anyone

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to know about my decision.

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- [Caller] No other stranger
knew what I was doing,

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like, when you
walk into a clinic.

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- [Caller] I was able to sit
across the table from him,

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have pill in front me,
have a glass of water,

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have this conversation,
cry together.

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- [Caller] It's very
common for people

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with my gender identity
to feel a lot safer

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taking their healthcare
within their own hands.

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- [Caller] This is the
route that I wanna go.

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I wanna be in my home.

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- [Caller] I felt more
comfortable doing this

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at my own pace,
at my own time.

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(reflective somber music)

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- Sabine, what would
you like to eat?

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You wanna eat a banana, huh?

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Marielle's gonna pick you up.

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You better eat something.

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Let's eat a banana
for breakfast

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or the beginnings
of breakfast here.

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Here, Sabine.

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Put the shoes on.

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I'm gonna have a
good day too, Sabine.

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I'm going on a road trip.

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Sorry you can't come with me.

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I know you love road trips.

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- Are we there yet?

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- Are we there yet, yep.

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- I have twin children.

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We were actually told
to institutionalize her,

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that she would never walk,
talk or be potty trained.

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Take your son home and
just give up on her.

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And my daughter
rides bicycles,

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played the cello,
is pretty amazing.

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- Is this all your stuff?
- Yeah, yeah.

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- Oops.

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You know, people doing the
sort of thing she's doing

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have been killed
in our country

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and so I worry, I actually
worry about that but,

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that's what she wants to
do and so I support it.

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I mean I once said that

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if I ever have a
grave stone on it,

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it'll say David Glanzman,

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and then have the dates

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and say he was married
to Francine Coeytaux.

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- You know how much
Sabine likes road trips?

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- [David] Yep.

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- You know what she
said this morning when-

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- [David] What?

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- I said, Sabine, I'm
going on a road trip.

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I'm sorry you're
not coming with me.

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She goes,

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are we there yet?

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(both laughing)

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It's perfect.

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Bye, sweetie.
- Take care.

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(car engine humming)

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- Okay.
(dogs clattering)

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Most of my patients
are farm workers

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or they work
in packing houses.

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A lot of them are
Spanish-speaking only.

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A lot of like young parents.

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I feel bad for the teens

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who don't want to be pregnant

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but can't access abortion care
for one reason or another,

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stigma, shame,

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afraid to tell their family,

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don't have the money,
whatever the reason may be.

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But then we also have a
huge problem in the US

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of shaming teen parents

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and trying to convince
them even

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not to continue a pregnancy.

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It's all about like
what the patient needs

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and just steering whatever way

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they want the
conversation to go.

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The cookies are
phenomenal by the way.

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- Are they?

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Great success?

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- My standard line is,
okay, what do you need?

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She didn't need much.

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Just cook dinner

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and make sure that the
dogs are dealt with

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and kind of and
stay outta my way.

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Cool, real short
checklist. (laughs)

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I think the only thing that I
really have even changed was

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I started locking that outside
front door, just in case.

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(trunk shuts)

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(dog yelping)
(fist knocking on door)

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- Good morning.
- Come in.

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Hey guys, how are ya?

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- She just received
her pills yesterday

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so I have no idea

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if she's taken them
or not taken them.

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- [Nurse Caller]
I'm an ICU nurse.

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My daughter is 13 months now

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and it was a lot for me

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to go through working
through all of that

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and getting sick with COVID
while I was pregnant with her.

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Actually, I've extended
my breastfeeding

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so that I can at least try

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and pass some
antibodies that way.

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Bolster her immune system.

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My anxiety about
having another one

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after everything we've
gone through is very high.

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Yeah, especially where I am,

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finally back working
full-time again.

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Thank you all for your work.

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- This is so amazing because,

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we've essentially
just witnessed

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Christie doing an abortion.

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(pensive music)

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- Green means easily
accessible, minor barriers.

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- [Francine] Which
one of those states

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do you each feel
comfortable moving on?

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- Well.
- Vermont.

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- Pennsylvania.
- Alaska, Colorado.

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- And New Hampshire
should be a go.

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- The Aid Access providers
in the US are charging $150.

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I do it on a
sliding scale model,

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so sometimes I'm
donating part of the cost

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and sometimes the full cost.

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- The minute we say, oh yeah,
it's happening in this state,

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this state, this
state, this state,

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it drags everybody along.

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So let's keep moving on
more states, more patients,

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more doctors.

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You're gonna get stopped

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because they're
gonna try to stop you

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not because they've done
their analysis of these laws.

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And so if there's several
people working in a state,

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that would be helpful because
you wouldn't be alone.

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It wasn't clear that
it was legal, right?

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It wasn't clear that
it was okay to ship.

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What's legal and what's not?

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Half the time,

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it has to just be
proven by doing it

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and finding that, in fact,

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nobody can come after you
or does come after you

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because probably
it wouldn't stand.

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My role was to push and say,

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we need you to do your part

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so we can get closer
to this vision.

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(tense music)

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- For the pill, it's $700.

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And you have to be
11 weeks or less.

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All right, every
state is different

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and unfortunately Alabama
requires you to come in.

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- [Assistant] That pays
for your ultrasound,

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lab work and counsel.

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- All of our first
trimester procedures,

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before 10 weeks are $700.

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It's the same,
surgical and medical.

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It's expensive
to run a clinic.

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Right now, most
clinics that operate,

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that are doing both procedures
and medication abortion,

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we can operate because we have
so much medication abortion

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and if you take that from us,

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if we were a state where you
could just get medication

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through the mail

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and do it far more cheaply,
then we would close.

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I run the operations
for this clinic.

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Sometimes I get to
act as a clinic escort

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and yell at the protestors.

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Sometimes I get to sit
with patient's kids

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so that the kids aren't
alone in the car.

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Ready and go!

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Oh, that one was really close!

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- [Assistant] What
does he look like?

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You said he's coming
up to your car?

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Call the police.

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No, if we call, the
police won't come.

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You live by yourself?

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And this is your
monthly income. $3,100.

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Yeah, so it's gonna exceed.

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It's gonna say that
you make too much.

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- Hello, hello.

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How's everybody?

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The pill that we
gave you in your hand

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is the Mifepristone pill.

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That's the pill that you
are going to swallow today

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and that stops the
pregnancy from developing.

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If there are no questions,

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you can go ahead and take
your Mifepristone pill

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without further ado.

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You're free to go.

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You can give us a call
if you need anything.

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Otherwise, we will hear
from you in four weeks.

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This is a medication that
is safer than Tylenol.

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It is safer than Aspirin.

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It is safer than Ibuprofen.

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It is safer
than many medications

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you can walk into a store

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and buy without
a prescription.

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So this medicine should
be readily available,

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especially since it's also
used in miscarriage management

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and many providers
do not use it

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even though it is the
recommended regimen

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because of the restrictions.

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I have to pause and give
that lady Mifepristone.

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Excuse me.

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- A federal judge
has suspended a rule

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in regards to obtaining
an abortion pill.

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Patients are no longer
required to visit a doctor

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to get the pill in the
middle of this pandemic.

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- It makes it significantly
easier for women,

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particularly in rural
areas of this country

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or women who simply don't
have the time or the resources

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to get to a clinic.

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- We already thought
we could mail,

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but now the judge said you
absolutely can during COVID.

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After COVID, everything's
back to who knows what.

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(pensive music)

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(pensive music continues)

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- Hi Christina, this is Dr.
Amaon from Just The Pill.

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Okay, is now still a good
time for your consult?

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So it looks like first
day of your last period

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was the 20th of February.

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Does that sound about right?

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Okay, so that makes
you about five weeks

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and three days
today based on that.

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Can you tell me what
you're feeling right now?

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Ashamed?

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Well, know that
you're not alone.

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This is something that
one in four people

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in their lifetimes choose.

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I know a lot of people
don't talk about it,

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but it's very common.

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She didn't really say,

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but it didn't sound like
she had somebody in her life

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that she could
talk to about this

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which is unfortunate

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'cause I bet if she asked,

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one of her friends has been
through the same thing.

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- This is Frances calling
from Just The Pill.

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How are you?

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The law requires that when
you are talking to the doctor

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that you are within either
Minnesota or Montana.

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Which one is closer to you?

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Minnesota, okay.

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So you can be anywhere.

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A lot of patients just
drive over the state line

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and they just pull over, park,

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and have the conversation
with the doctor

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and then go back home, okay.

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And then to get your package,

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what we do is we find
a mailing center,

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the closest one to you.

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We have a patient who got

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almost all of her
financial assistance.

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She had to pay $50.

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But she has stopped
responding to us.

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- Good girl, Tsunami.

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Good girl, go, please.

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- Oh look, she replied.
- Come on, come on bud.

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Come on.

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- I'll have the
$50 this weekend.

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I'm gonna put the little
huggy guy. (laughs)

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You know, a lot of
times, very often,

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it has to do with money.

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Hello, Laresha.

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We did a little
bit of research

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and we found
a fund in your area

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that might be able to
help you with the $50

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that you're missing.

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(rain pattering)

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- [Laresha] I'm, Laresha.

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I'm currently a junior

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studying
construction management.

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As a black woman,

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it's not a field where
you see too many women

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and especially
people of color.

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When I first found out
that I was pregnant,

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like my depression
fell in instantly,

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it was kind of like, oh crap.

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I wasn't going outside,
I wasn't eating.

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There was a time where
I didn't leave the house

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for like a week and a half.

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I make a thousand
dollars, roughly a month.

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Being down those
past couple weeks

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affected my work schedule.

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You guys had already
done so much for me

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and found me so much funding

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and like my legit whole
paycheck went to rent.

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If I would've made it out,

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keeping myself alive,

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that would've been
a blessing from God.

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- We understand

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you know how
difficult it can be

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and you know we're
here to help you

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and get you through this.

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- [Laresha] Thank
you, seriously.

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- These are the
times that, you know,

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I know that I'm doing
the right thing. (crying)

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You know?

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And that I am
where I need to be.

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- Yes.
- Yeah.

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- She said, so what kind
of pictures do you take?

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And I said, (scoffs),

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I said my phone is pretty much

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just filled of
pictures of my dog

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and she said, I'm not
really a pet person.

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And I thought, this
is never gonna work.

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And then we got married.

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(both laughing)

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- Oh, scratch.
- Yes.

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- Oh!
- I really for real won!

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Yes.

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So...

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It's kind of scary,

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that Frances, the work
that they do, for real,

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like it's a little bit scary.

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Frances is five foot tall,
you know what I mean? (laughs)

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She's not, I mean,

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she's a force to be
reckoned with, for sure,

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but not to a gun or a vehicle.

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You know what I mean?

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And some people, I mean,
we live in Trumpsylvania.

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- Good boy, Dante.

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- It's scary to love someone

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that walks out
for a good reason

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to do something that
needs to be done,

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knowing that they
could be injured.

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- [Reporter] Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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has died at the age of 87.

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- [Reporter]
Ginsburg championed

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a woman's right to choose

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both as a lawyer and
on the Supreme Court.

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She believed the
government has no right

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to decide what a woman
does with her body.

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- [Reporter] Shortly
before she passed away,

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Justice Ginsburg
said, and I quote,

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my most fervent wish

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is that I will not be replaced

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until a new president
is installed.

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- Oh, darn.

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- We have a
shorter window now,

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very openly,

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because that's what our
Roe v. Wade allows us

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is to say because we
have a right to abortion,

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we can talk about this

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even if you're in Kentucky or
even if you're in Louisiana

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or even if
you're in some state

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that is trying
desperately to make sure

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you don't have access to it.

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You can't stop us
from talking about it

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and you can't stop us from
doing what's necessary.

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(reflective music)

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(tense music)

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- [Amy] I, Amy Coney Barrett,

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do solemnly swear
that I will do my job

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independently of
my own preferences.

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- [Donald Trump]
Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

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(tense music)
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(tense music)
(crowds yelling)

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- [Reporter] The Supreme
Court has reinstated a rule

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mandating any woman
seeking an abortion pill

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must go to a medical
office to get it.

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- [Reporter] Their
ruling came on Tuesday,

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the single deadliest day
since the coronavirus began.

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[Reporter] Local officials

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are bringing
back strict orders

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to stay home.

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- Ew, it's dusty.

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It actually caught me
completely off guard.

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Oh my God, did
you hear the news?

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And I was like, what?

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The Supreme Court decision.

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She was like, oh my God,

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did you see the
Supreme Court decision?

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I was like, I don't, what, no.

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What are we gonna do?

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Like we can't...

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And I'd already
seen three patients

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that had a visit with me

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that were not gonna
be able to mail.

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So I was like, well, what am
I gonna do with these people?

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They can't
get their medications.

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And when I was younger

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and I didn't have
my medical license,

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I'd be like,

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I could do whatever they
need me to do, whatever.

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But now I just worked my butt
off for 10 years to get this

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and it matters to me.

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And I can't keep
providing service

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if I get that
taken away from me.

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So we're sticking with,

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the most
strict interpretation.

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- Hello, everyone.

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I'm state representative,
Tim Miller.

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Recently I was informed
of an organization

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called Just the Pill.
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They're putting
together a mobile unit

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that will bring RU-486

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and other chemically
induced abortion products

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out into rural Minnesota.

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I'm not going to accept
this in my small towns.

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I'm not going to accept
this in Minnesota.

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Let me know if you have seen
this van in any of your towns.

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- That concerns
me a little bit.

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It does.

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I think we will
have more of our,

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I don't know, spidey sense,

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we'll be looking out more.

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We always pick public
places like public libraries,

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post offices where there's

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lots of people
coming and going.

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We rarely stay at a place
more than 30 minutes.

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We try not to go to
the same places twice.

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So hopefully, this will
protect our patients

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from protestors
but you never know.

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(suspenseful music)

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Howdy, howdy.

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- When we start adding stops
for individual patients,

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it ends up like
really delaying.

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- Yeah.
- Yeah, here it is.

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Does she have little kids at
home, anything like that or?

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I just wanna see what she's
trying to deal with, you know?

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- [Frances] She just
does not have a car.

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- [B] No, that's
really too far for her.

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- [Frances] I asked her,

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hey, if we can get
somewhere close to you,

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you think that you
can get somebody,

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you can get to us.

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- [Frances] And I will let
you know what she says.

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- [B] Okay, perfect.

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- And maybe we can
figure that out for her.

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- For 18 years, I worked
in an abortion clinic

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and my mentor was
an incredible woman

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who her children were
followed at their school,

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bloody baby dolls
were left in her home.

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She had Nazis protesting
at the clinic,

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"Kill the Jewish doctor".

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I am willing to take the risks
that they will do that to me,

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but I'm not gonna
make it easy for them.

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Let them do that work if
they wanna come after me

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and if they do, that's fine.

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And when I say it's
fine, none of it's fine

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but we'll deal with it.

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I'm not afraid of them

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but I'm not gonna
make it easy for them

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to do that to my family.

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I mean I've heard
people say, well,

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we have a doctor
who will sit there

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and put the medicine, put
the labels on the medicine.

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- Yeah.
- Put it into the envelope.

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- Yeah.
- And that's dispensing.

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- [Dr. Amaon] Right.

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- But the lawyers
that we talk to

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say that it has to
be done in person.

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- [Dr. Amaon] Right.

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- To make it
harder for people.

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It's a political stunt,
not a medical stunt.

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We all know that
it's not necessary.

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Can I get ya out?

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I need to get you out.

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(upbeat country music)

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♪ Ow

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(upbeat country music)

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♪ One more day,
one more dollar ♪

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♪ Lipstick on and
hair all straight ♪

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♪ Nice face, fine lace,
sent to the man's race ♪

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♪ They don't know it
but I punch my weight ♪

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♪ I can do it all
and then some more ♪

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♪ I think on my feet and
I'm fast on the floor ♪

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♪ Just watch me

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♪ Just watch me

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- [Dr. Amaon] Hi, good
to meet ya, come on in.

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- [Woman] I have never
seen anything like this.

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- Yeah, come on in.

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You can sit or stand,
whatever's best for ya.

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(tense music)

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- [Caller] I was
raised to be pro-life.

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I was always taught

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whores have abortions.

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- [Caller] He wanted
me to keep that child

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because he wanted to
always be connected to me

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but not because he actually
cared about the child.

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- [Caller] I can't
discuss it with her

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because I already know
she's not supportive

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and I don't wanna put
myself through that.

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- [Caller] I wasn't
ready for this baby,

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but I loved
it enough to let it go.

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There's so many
women out there

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that are
going through this

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in silence and feeling
like they are a bad person

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and that's just
so not the case.

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(reflective music)

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(pensive music)

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- Our creator

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endowed us with
the right to life.

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And yet, millions of children

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lose their right to life every
year because of abortion.

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In Texas, we work
to save those lives.

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- Why force a rape
or incest victim

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to carry a pregnancy to term?

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- It doesn't
require that at all

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because obviously it
provides at least six weeks.

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- This law is either
brilliant or diabolical

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depending on which side
of the debate you're on.

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It's not the government,

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the state government
that's enforcing the law.

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Instead, like Wyatt Earp,
they have deputized citizens

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to file private
lawsuits against anyone,

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not just who conducts
an abortion

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or performs an abortion

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but aids, abets,
assists in an abortion.

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- [Reporter] And again,
that Texas law is said

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to go into effect
on September 1st.

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- Does Mife or Miso
show up in a blood test?

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- No.
- Okay.

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The clinician does
not need to know

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that you took these pills.

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They can't tell that
you took these pills

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and that you know,

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some people choose not to
disclose that information

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'cause they don't wanna
put themselves at risk.

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- Let's say these laws in
Texas that actually stick,

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- If every abortion fund
would help somebody in Texas,

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by the way, did you
know this is an option,

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we don't want them
to push anybody

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someplace they don't wanna be,

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but that would be huge.

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- If you had a partnership
with like a homeless shelter,

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there might be somebody at
that shelter that's like,

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oh yeah, like I
know this process.

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Let me do this for you
or like help you do this.

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Like is that-

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- Let me do this for you

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is different than let
me help you do do this.

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There was a mother who
ordered it for her daughter

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and helped her daughter
have an abortion

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and the mother went to jail.

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- She did jail time
because she was so scared

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that she plea bargained

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when they threatened to get
her for attempted murder

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is what they were
trying to get her for.

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She got scared

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and agreed to a
lower number of years

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for some lower thing.

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- It was providing medications
without being licensed.

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That's what it was.

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- That law will not stand.
- It would stand,

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if you're
providing medications

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and you don't have a license.

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And the question that
was asked is about people

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who are helping somebody
have an abortion

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and that I
think is less clear.

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(pensive music)

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- We have some very
positive news to share

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and we're going to
share it very loudly.

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The message in Texas now is

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abortion pills are
available by mail.

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It's a thing.

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And believe me,
there are gonna be

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a lot of very angry people

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as we make it
mainstream, valid,

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reality-based truly
happening in Texas.

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(pensive music)

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- The government sent people
around to document America

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and so we have records
of black people's lives

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in the thirties because of it.

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Yeah, kids learning science.

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- Loretta Ross is
co-author of the book,

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"Reproductive Justice"

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and co-founder
of "Sister Song,

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Women of Color Reproductive
Justice Collective".

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- Black women in 1994
created the concept

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of reproductive
justice, 12 black women.

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I was lucky enough
to be one of them.

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And we recognized that
the pro-choice movement

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would fight for the right
not to have children

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by using birth
control and abortion.

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But they would not fight

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from our perspective

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for the right to have the
children that we want to have.

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And that's the right
to raise our children

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in safe and
healthy environments.

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Black people, although we're
going to be harmed in this,

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we're collateral damage.

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So we need to center
them in our lens.

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We need to maybe smuggle
abortion pills to them.

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But I think the number
one thing we need to do

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is make sure that we
blanket the states

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that oppose abortion
with information.

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'Cause a person can't fight
for their human rights

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if they don't know
that they have 'em.

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You know, they got to know
that they have options

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beyond the deadly
and dangerous ones.

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Okay, let's get
back in here then.

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When Nixon supported
the Title 10 Programs

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through the Office of
Economic Opportunities, OEO,

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it was argued that putting
Family Planning clinics

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in communities of color
was good for the country.

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So the first one was opened up

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in a Mexican-American
community in Texas

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and targeting black
communities and stuff,

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because when Family
Planning was pitched

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as a way to address racial
conflict and racial unrest

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and these burgeoning
populations

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of people of color,

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the Republicans all
lined up to support it

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including Ronald Reagan

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and President Bush was on the
board of Planned Parenthood,

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George's father,
I mean, you know?

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It's only when it was pitched

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as a women's rights issue

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where white
women were accessing

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these Title 10
clinics, did they flip.

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If they could target
the reproduction

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of black and brown people,

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they would send limousines

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to take us to the
abortion clinics. (laughs)

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(phone ringing)

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- [Caller] Hello?

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- Yes, this is the doctor
from the M&A Hotline.

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I'm just returning your call.

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- [Caller] My pregnancy
with my three-year-old son

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resulted in him being in
the NICU for three months.

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If your first
birth is preterm,

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that situation is
more likely to happen

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the second time around.

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Healthcare professionals
and a healthcare system

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didn't value my black body
and my son's black life.

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I was 28 weeks,
having contractions

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and the doctor
gave me a Gatorade

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and told me to go home
and that I was dehydrated.

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And that Sunday morning,
I woke up bleeding.

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I was in labor.

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The doctor just broke my
water without talking to me.

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Five seconds later,
out comes by baby.

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My son was, he had
to be resuscitated.

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He came out not breathing.

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And for three months I
sat in front of that,

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isolate and,

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just tried to love him

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as much as I could in
the way that I could.

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(somber music)

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There is no time in my life

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that I felt
more unlistened to,

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or more unprotected than
when I was pregnant.

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I was at most vulnerable
place in my life

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and I felt like everywhere
I turned for help,

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people just couldn’t have
cared less about my child.

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(somber music)

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(somber music)

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- I kind of almost
see abortion rights

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as like the canary
in the coal mine

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of like what is happening
overall in the United States.

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That there is an overall like
push to restrict many rights.

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I think of Flint, right?

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The Flint water crisis,

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that has been
going on for years.

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And many people
don't know this but

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like lead causes miscarriages.

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So no protests there.

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No protests in Lansing
about all the miscarriages,

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the contaminated
water was causing,

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like it's
just not a real concern.

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A black woman in Mississippi

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is 118 times
more likely to die

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from continuing a
pregnancy than an abortion.

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118 times more likely.

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So I mean like, again,
whose life are you saving?

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You don't really
care about life.

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(pensive music)

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- [Caller] I know that
like one state over,

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it doesn't
have to be this way.

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it doesn't
have to be this way.

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- [Caller] I think it
was legal in Colorado

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but it might not be anymore.

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(tense music)

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(tense music continues)

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- Why don't you go after
every second grade teacher?

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Because the best person
who aids and abets you

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in getting an early abortion

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is somebody who taught
you how to read.

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Hoping that the
bubblegum will get people

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to be willing to take
something from her.

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Later if they're all trying
to figure out what to do

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and all the clinics
have closed down

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and they will find one
of these little cards,

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go to Plan C if you need care.

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(upbeat music)

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Let's go this way.

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When you get closer,

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I'll let you go in ahead of me

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and there's two stalls.

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(upbeat music)

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Take the right one, okay?

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And I'll go in
the same bathroom.

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So don't lock it
when you're inside.

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I hope she
doesn't recognize me.

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She might think it's weird
that I've come in twice

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but now I have a hat.

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Maybe she won't recognize me.

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(upbeat music)

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- We're here trying to
like spread the word

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and kind of like kick dust up.

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(upbeat music)

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- It hurts me so much

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to think that somebody
would kill their own child.

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- I just think it's
really important

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that you're spreading this.

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- Thank you!
- Thank you!

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(upbeat music)

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- Where am I gonna put this?

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(upbeat music)

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I'm gonna put it on right here

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so that when you're
sitting, you can read it.

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When you're sitting
here breastfeeding,

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let me just sit here
and see what happens.

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Oh, it's a nice
rocking chair, wow.

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So somebody has a baby.

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They have to change
a baby, okay.

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New Testament,
psalms and proverbs.

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Oh my goodness, Gideon Bible.

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Okay, if they can put
it in, I can put it in.

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(door squeaking)

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(upbeat music)

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Most people say,
you can't do that.

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No billboards company's
gonna let you do that.

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- Yeah.
- They're not gonna put it up.

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We really thank you.
- Of course, no problem.

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(pensive music)

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- People have been
nudging their friends

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and pointing at the truck.

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While I was at the
bar scene last night,

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two young ladies were
passing the truck

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and they
weren't the most sober

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but they pointed at the truck

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and was like, I love you,

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whatever that means.

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But I don't know,
maybe the truck,

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maybe they resonated
with the message.

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(people exclaiming)

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I'm just the messenger.

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I'm just the person who
happens to drive the truck.

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(pensive music)

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- Oh wait, look
at how- (laughing)

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It's so big and bright.

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- Oh my god,
it's so beautiful.

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I cannot tell
you how gorgeous.

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I mean it's just popping up.
- Oh, look at that.

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That's great.

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(reflective music)

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- We've been kicked
off of Instagram

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most likely to getting
a lot of attention

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from people who
want to report us

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and don't want us
sharing this information.

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So we're trying to appeal it.

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- [Caller] It's a
different Texas now.

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I wish we'd been talking about
these pills way before now.

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We're gonna have to
be extremely careful

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about anything we post on
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

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And I even have to watch
the words that I say

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when I go on television,

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even though it should
be freedom of speech,

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I need to start censoring
myself in a way.

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- I'm taking very
seriously the fact

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that you've said that
continuing to talk to us

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is still open to figure out

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what effective
partnership we can do

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and basically we're
very open also

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to have it be an
unofficial partnership.

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All of you in Texas who are
at higher risk of being sued

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so that nobody
can come after you

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because
they're coming after us.

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We have made the decision

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that we are not going
to become more quiet.

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We're gonna become louder.

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- [Woman On Phone] Good
luck on your road trip.

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Y'all are, I feel,
doing the Lord's work.

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(pensive music)

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- My mom has always said
that her biggest sin,

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according to my grandfather,

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her father-in-law,

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was I was born a girl.

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I was supposed to
be the oldest son

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of the oldest son
of the oldest son.

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(pensive music)

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Pope Valley had a
little red schoolhouse.

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For a long time, it was one
teacher for eight grades.

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It's all boys,

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boys who have shot their
fingers off with shotguns

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and rough little boys.

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(reflective music)

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I was damned if I was
going to be treated

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with the expectations of
a girl in this rural town

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where girls were
truly not respected.

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(reflective music)

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You can't do this.

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This is actually illegal

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and they're
gonna come after you

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and have you got your LLC?

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How can you
protect your house?

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How come your husband
lets you do this?

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Are you sure you
shouldn't be fire bombed?

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Are you sure you don't have
security in your house?

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Have you put up cameras?

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I've heard this all my life.

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(reflective music)

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You cannot run and
hide with a bully.

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When you call the
bully on their bluff,

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they don't come after you.

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The only way you get out
of dealing with a bully

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is to stand up to a bully.

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You're gonna be the one
who successfully stops me?

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Ha, no fucking way,

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is Texas gonna be the one
to get me to stop talking

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about what I know
is a justice issue.

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- [Man In Crowd] I love life,
I love life, I love life!

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I love life, right to
life, right to life.

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Right to life.

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(tense music)

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- [Crowd] Fuck the church,
fuck the state,

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you can't make us procreate!

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[crowd] Fuck Greg Abbott!

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[man] Fuck Greg Abbott.

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[crowd] Fuck Greg Abbott.

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[man] Fuck Greg Abbott.

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[crowd] Fuck the church,
fuck the state,

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you can't make us procreate!

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(pensive music)
(crowds cheering)

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Post Roe?

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Fuck no!

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Post Roe?

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Fuck no!

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(pensive music)

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- My body!
- My body!

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- My body!
- My body!

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(pensive music)

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- [Reporter] 26-year-old,
Lizelle Herrera,

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now faces a murder charge,

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after her hospital
passed information

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onto the local sheriff's
office it investigated

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and determined she had
a self-induced abortion.

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(pensive music)

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Let's say that New York

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passes a law
protecting providers

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to provide telemedicine
abortion to people in Texas.

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So the providers
are protected.

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But what about the people
in Texas ordering the pills?

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Think about the case
of Lizelle Herrera,

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who was the woman
down on the border

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who just a month or two ago

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was criminally prosecuted
for miscarriage

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and you know, the prosecutor
dropped the charges

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'cause in fact at the time,

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Texas had no laws

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criminalizing
self-managed abortion

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or miscarriage.

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But I think that is
very likely to change.

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I think states are
going to go after women.

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The kinds of toys
that police have,

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the technology they
have to surveil people,

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the gear that they have
to go after people,

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that whole apparatus is vast.

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They can take your phone

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and download everything
from your phone

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and if there's a
digital record of you

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searching for abortion pills
or purchasing them online,

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they will have
that information.

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That kind of
digital technology

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and machine learning
and surveillance

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is gonna combine post-Roe

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to allow anti-abortion states
to surveil, investigate,

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charge and prosecute people

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who self-manage abortions.

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(tense music)

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When you're going to be

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talking to people
about abortion

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or even about your
pregnancy in general,

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if you don't think
you're gonna keep it,

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you need to only talk to
people that you know for sure

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are going to respect
that privately.

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But also never put it
in writing anywhere.

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Not at all.

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Like if you're going
to text somebody,

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use Signal, have
disappearing messages,

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get a throwaway account.

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If you're gonna ask
somebody on Facebook

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if they know where
you can get pills

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or even, do you know
where I can find money?

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Do you know where a clinic is?

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People right now in
abortion groups on Facebook

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are in them who are
anti-abortion activists.

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And they go and they
figure out, okay, alright,

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it says in their
Facebook profile

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that they are in a
relationship with this person.

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I'm gonna contact them

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and let them know that they
are trying to find an abortion

58:49.400 --> 58:51.867
so that that person will
try to talk them out of it.

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That's what happens in
groups online right now.

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It's not even just about,
hey, you might end up in jail,

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it's everybody's gonna
know your business.

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- The medical risks
of abortion have waned

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with the advent of abortion
pills, which is great.

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Unfortunately, the legal
risks continue to exist.

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(pensive music)

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In a hundred
percent of the cases

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that we're
working on right now,

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the person who was prosecuted

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is experiencing intimate
partner violence

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or was experiencing
intimate partner violence

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and the fact of

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their self-managed
abortion is a tactic

59:26.133 --> 59:28.633
that their abuser
used to control them,

59:28.767 --> 59:32.000
to say, you know, if you leave

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or if you don't
do what I want,

59:33.733 --> 59:37.600
I'm going to tell the
cops what you did.

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Once people tell their
story to somebody else,

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they lose control over it.

59:43.100 --> 59:45.500
And you know, and that's
one of the other ways

59:45.633 --> 59:47.800
that we see
people be prosecuted

59:47.933 --> 59:50.800
is that they tell somebody,
they tell a friend

59:50.933 --> 59:52.600
and their friend
tells her sister

59:52.733 --> 59:54.500
and her sister is
opposed to abortion

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or somebody misunderstands

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and thinks that there's a
body on the property, right?

59:58.467 --> 59:59.833
Like these are the kind of
things that really happen.

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And so like helping
people understand

01:00:01.967 --> 01:00:04.433
like if you tell somebody,

01:00:04.567 --> 01:00:07.333
you effectively told
law enforcement.

01:00:09.300 --> 01:00:11.000
Buying abortion pills online.

01:00:11.133 --> 01:00:13.767
You can't be honest with
your medical professionals

01:00:13.900 --> 01:00:15.600
because they might report you.

01:00:15.733 --> 01:00:17.300
Like what kind of a
world are we living in

01:00:17.433 --> 01:00:19.133
where that's a possibility.

01:00:19.267 --> 01:00:21.767
I mean I don't think any
physician has any obligation

01:00:21.900 --> 01:00:25.633
anywhere by law to report
people for any of this,

01:00:25.767 --> 01:00:29.767
but some idiots think they
should and that's terrible.

01:00:29.900 --> 01:00:31.133
That's not our
role as physicians.

01:00:31.267 --> 01:00:33.100
We're not police.

01:00:45.100 --> 01:00:46.100
My friend

01:00:46.233 --> 01:00:49.100
handed me a little
sandwich baggie

01:00:49.667 --> 01:00:52.267
and I realized that this was

01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:55.833
a different medication regimen
than I'd had in the past.

01:00:56.300 --> 01:00:59.200
I was used
to the mife/miso combo

01:00:59.667 --> 01:01:02.667
and they'd
given me only misoprostol.

01:01:04.433 --> 01:01:08.867
I was not prepared
for that level of pain

01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:11.800
and it went on for
over four hours

01:01:11.933 --> 01:01:15.833
and to the point
we grew concerned

01:01:15.967 --> 01:01:19.400
because I had not experienced
something like that before.

01:01:20.700 --> 01:01:24.767
And my boyfriend just said,

01:01:24.900 --> 01:01:26.600
if we make it to
the five hour mark,

01:01:26.733 --> 01:01:28.433
I'm taking you to the ER.

01:01:29.733 --> 01:01:30.600
You know, at that point,

01:01:30.733 --> 01:01:32.233
I wasn't even concerned

01:01:32.367 --> 01:01:33.900
about what was going
on with my body.

01:01:34.033 --> 01:01:35.633
I was just concerned about
what does it look like

01:01:35.767 --> 01:01:40.800
to go to the ER when
I'm in this position.

01:01:41.533 --> 01:01:43.200
And what is it,

01:01:43.333 --> 01:01:46.967
what happens if my
miscarriage is questioned?

01:01:48.700 --> 01:01:51.433
And what happens when
this person that's with me

01:01:51.567 --> 01:01:54.433
brought me in and is
sitting next to me?

01:01:54.567 --> 01:01:56.767
It could have been
someone saying,

01:01:59.700 --> 01:02:03.400
you are having a self-managed
abortion right now

01:02:03.533 --> 01:02:05.600
and here's this individual
that brought you in

01:02:05.733 --> 01:02:07.533
and is assisting
you in that process.

01:02:07.667 --> 01:02:09.700
I don't know, but we
kind of walked through

01:02:09.833 --> 01:02:11.433
some of the possibilities.

01:02:13.033 --> 01:02:15.967
And luckily right around
four hours and 45 minutes,

01:02:17.433 --> 01:02:19.600
I passed the pregnancy,
the cramps stopped

01:02:19.733 --> 01:02:20.833
and it was like, ugh.

01:02:22.633 --> 01:02:26.900
At least I had access
to a safe option.

01:02:29.033 --> 01:02:32.233
Safe medically,
though, legally risky.

01:02:32.367 --> 01:02:35.433
(suspenseful music)

01:02:42.933 --> 01:02:44.367
(online meeting
notification beeps)

01:02:44.500 --> 01:02:48.300
- I had a patient who called
the hotline a few weeks ago

01:02:48.433 --> 01:02:53.433
who was five and
five sevenths weeks

01:02:55.133 --> 01:02:56.167
and was seen at

01:02:56.300 --> 01:02:57.800
Planned Parenthood
with a positive test

01:02:57.933 --> 01:03:01.200
but couldn't be seen
for three more days

01:03:01.333 --> 01:03:02.967
and then they would
do an ultrasound

01:03:03.100 --> 01:03:04.400
and then if they saw anything,

01:03:04.533 --> 01:03:06.300
she wouldn't be
able to get help.

01:03:06.433 --> 01:03:09.967
And I just thought, wait, you
were in Planned Parenthood.

01:03:10.100 --> 01:03:13.167
You're requesting this and you
had to leave and come back?

01:03:13.300 --> 01:03:15.767
Like it's just ridiculous.

01:03:15.900 --> 01:03:17.433
What's to prevent me
from prescribing it

01:03:17.567 --> 01:03:20.000
for somebody in Texas
when they're not pregnant?

01:03:20.133 --> 01:03:21.033
- Exactly.

01:03:22.967 --> 01:03:24.833
- I get
frustrated by everybody

01:03:24.967 --> 01:03:27.233
trying to follow the rules,

01:03:27.367 --> 01:03:29.967
instead of what really
needs to be done.

01:03:30.100 --> 01:03:34.967
So I feel so strongly about
fighting for these things

01:03:35.100 --> 01:03:38.200
that I'm willing
to take some risks.

01:03:38.333 --> 01:03:40.300
(car engine whirring)

01:03:40.767 --> 01:03:43.533
(ambient music)

01:03:50.467 --> 01:03:53.333
(brooding music)

01:03:53.467 --> 01:03:55.533
The biggest issue
now is product.

01:03:57.100 --> 01:03:58.900
See if I can get the big
drugs in there by three days,

01:03:59.033 --> 01:04:01.533
instead of three weeks.

01:04:03.567 --> 01:04:05.067
Even if you find out

01:04:05.200 --> 01:04:07.633
or you're so regular
with your period

01:04:07.767 --> 01:04:09.533
and you know right away,

01:04:09.667 --> 01:04:12.067
I missed my period and I
need this and I access this

01:04:13.867 --> 01:04:15.933
and you add three weeks
to that, it's seven weeks.

01:04:16.067 --> 01:04:18.400
When you push on the envelope,

01:04:18.533 --> 01:04:21.733
especially the envelope about
what's legal and what's not,

01:04:23.533 --> 01:04:24.800
there is always,

01:04:24.933 --> 01:04:28.733
each person has to
take one step further

01:04:28.867 --> 01:04:30.700
than what everybody
else thinks is legal

01:04:30.833 --> 01:04:33.733
or otherwise you're
not being bold,

01:04:33.867 --> 01:04:35.133
you're not doing anything.

01:04:36.867 --> 01:04:38.700
As people are trying to
figure out how much liability

01:04:38.833 --> 01:04:40.533
are they willing to take,

01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:43.600
that's their decision.

01:04:43.733 --> 01:04:46.733
And it could be
a dangerous one.

01:04:46.867 --> 01:04:49.700
(brooding music)

01:04:50.833 --> 01:04:52.533
I'm in a place in my life,

01:04:52.667 --> 01:04:55.567
I can take the risk that
maybe I couldn't have earlier.

01:04:55.700 --> 01:04:58.567
(brooding music)

01:05:00.067 --> 01:05:03.333
I have to do it on my own.

01:05:03.467 --> 01:05:05.533
I'm going to on my own,

01:05:06.267 --> 01:05:07.800
do this on the side.

01:05:07.933 --> 01:05:10.767
(brooding music)

01:05:12.567 --> 01:05:14.467
I'm not sure this
one's gonna make it.

01:05:14.600 --> 01:05:15.967
I have some doctors
I was telling you

01:05:16.100 --> 01:05:17.733
who are willing to just say,

01:05:17.867 --> 01:05:20.733
well, I have some extra
product that I got.

01:05:20.867 --> 01:05:23.567
(brooding music)

01:05:23.700 --> 01:05:25.800
X in (beep) has
to stay anonymous

01:05:25.933 --> 01:05:27.800
so that we can get
into the red states

01:05:27.933 --> 01:05:29.600
where there are laws
that won't allow us

01:05:29.733 --> 01:05:31.033
to do it the other way.

01:05:31.167 --> 01:05:34.267
(suspenseful music)

01:05:35.767 --> 01:05:39.533
The decision making
is now red state,

01:05:39.667 --> 01:05:40.933
this is the distributor,

01:05:41.067 --> 01:05:43.333
no longer the
Indian distributor.

01:05:43.467 --> 01:05:45.967
(suspenseful music)

01:05:46.100 --> 01:05:49.333
- We are sister movements
and we are allies.

01:05:49.467 --> 01:05:51.000
So Francine reached out to us

01:05:51.133 --> 01:05:52.800
asking if we
would be interested

01:05:52.933 --> 01:05:55.567
in supporting their movement.

01:05:57.133 --> 01:05:58.633
You know, I just heard that
we're gonna get a donation

01:05:58.767 --> 01:06:00.433
and I'm like,
I'm gonna buy a safe

01:06:00.567 --> 01:06:01.500
because I'm just like

01:06:01.633 --> 01:06:02.667
literally keeping
it in my desk.

01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:05.867
It's like with my
kid's roller skates.

01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:10.867
We have cut out the sides
that have the indicator

01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:13.767
that could be identified
to any specific physician.

01:06:13.900 --> 01:06:18.700
And then ensure that
the pills don't rattle.

01:06:18.933 --> 01:06:20.867
And then off
to the post office.

01:06:21.600 --> 01:06:24.667
People will receive packages
within two to four days

01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:26.867
depending on where
they're located.

01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:28.500
Lots of Texas,

01:06:28.633 --> 01:06:33.000
also South Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Florida.

01:06:33.133 --> 01:06:34.500
And we're not
talking about cities,

01:06:34.633 --> 01:06:36.700
we're talking
about rural areas.

01:06:37.700 --> 01:06:39.000
I am personally packaging.

01:06:40.533 --> 01:06:42.067
I don't want to put
anyone else at risk

01:06:42.200 --> 01:06:45.667
and I understand that
this is a risky situation,

01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:48.367
so I am putting
the risk on myself.

01:06:51.933 --> 01:06:54.467
I come from a long
line of firefighters.

01:06:54.600 --> 01:06:57.067
The recognition
of an emergency

01:06:57.200 --> 01:06:58.867
and the need to respond to it

01:06:59.000 --> 01:07:02.167
is something that
is part of who I am.

01:07:02.300 --> 01:07:05.100
(suspenseful music)

01:07:05.233 --> 01:07:07.933
- [Interviewer] And when
you hold those packages...

01:07:08.067 --> 01:07:10.900
- [X] Feels like a revolution.

01:07:11.133 --> 01:07:14.233
(suspenseful music)

01:07:15.867 --> 01:07:17.133
- I feel like the Wizard
of Oz or something

01:07:17.267 --> 01:07:20.100
'cause I'm still
behind everything.

01:07:20.233 --> 01:07:21.933
I was the first one

01:07:22.067 --> 01:07:24.600
and the next shipment is
going out by somebody else.

01:07:24.733 --> 01:07:26.567
And then we have a third
one lined up, third,

01:07:26.700 --> 01:07:28.633
and then I think I've got
a fourth person lined up

01:07:28.767 --> 01:07:33.800
to get medications in the
hand of this organization.

01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:37.733
And what they're doing is
mailing medications to people

01:07:37.867 --> 01:07:41.067
who are too far to wait
along in their pregnancy

01:07:41.200 --> 01:07:43.133
to wait for a
shipment from India.

01:07:43.933 --> 01:07:46.233
We're like, we're putting
fingers in the holes,

01:07:46.367 --> 01:07:49.600
but there're gonna
be more and more.

01:07:49.733 --> 01:07:52.400
The worse it gets, the more
you go, okay, forget it.

01:07:54.200 --> 01:07:57.033
(pensive music)

01:07:58.867 --> 01:08:02.833
- Every day, we're learning
new ways to get people pills

01:08:04.100 --> 01:08:05.800
and we're getting
better and better at it.

01:08:05.933 --> 01:08:07.700
- What we haven't figured out

01:08:07.833 --> 01:08:11.900
is how to just get you the
immense amount of product

01:08:12.033 --> 01:08:14.900
that is faster and
faster you need.

01:08:15.033 --> 01:08:16.867
- [X] I would say I
probably have enough

01:08:17.000 --> 01:08:20.167
for another week and a
half of distribution.

01:08:20.300 --> 01:08:21.367
- Oh dear.

01:08:21.500 --> 01:08:23.867
Well, we can probably
do another box.

01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:26.000
- Couple months, we'll
be back, asking again.

01:08:26.133 --> 01:08:27.000
You want to do it again?

01:08:27.133 --> 01:08:29.133
Because it's underground

01:08:29.267 --> 01:08:30.800
and because you don't wanna
get too many people involved

01:08:30.933 --> 01:08:32.667
to know about the underground

01:08:32.800 --> 01:08:34.200
that every time you add

01:08:34.333 --> 01:08:36.567
another provider
willing to do this,

01:08:36.700 --> 01:08:38.700
that's another
person who knows.

01:08:38.833 --> 01:08:40.633
Even asking a provider

01:08:40.767 --> 01:08:42.833
and finding out they don't
really feel comfortable,

01:08:42.967 --> 01:08:45.400
that's a person who
knows without providing.

01:08:46.467 --> 01:08:49.733
I had a supplier in Mexico

01:08:49.867 --> 01:08:52.567
who was going to give
me a huge amount.

01:08:52.700 --> 01:08:54.700
The problem was the legality

01:08:54.833 --> 01:08:57.300
of coming over with a
suitcase of product.

01:08:57.433 --> 01:09:01.233
Who's gonna take that risk
and who's gonna do that?

01:09:01.367 --> 01:09:02.933
- What we're looking
forward to is

01:09:03.067 --> 01:09:05.733
if we multiply
Texas by 20 times,

01:09:05.867 --> 01:09:10.900
it's just gonna be such
chaos and craziness

01:09:12.233 --> 01:09:13.667
because the states
that people in Texas

01:09:13.800 --> 01:09:15.700
rely on going to
other than New Mexico

01:09:15.833 --> 01:09:17.367
are all gonna be
shut down as well,

01:09:17.500 --> 01:09:21.167
as well as everything you
know in the South and Midwest,

01:09:21.300 --> 01:09:22.267
for the most part.

01:09:22.400 --> 01:09:24.267
It's gonna really be chaos.

01:09:24.400 --> 01:09:27.167
I just can't imagine
how we can expand enough

01:09:27.300 --> 01:09:28.867
to take care of everybody.

01:09:30.333 --> 01:09:32.767
- Organizing and
mobilizing is really hard

01:09:32.900 --> 01:09:35.167
when you're scared
and you're censored.

01:09:36.767 --> 01:09:39.433
(pensive music)

01:09:52.167 --> 01:09:54.100
- [Reporter] Demonstrators
gathering again,

01:09:54.233 --> 01:09:56.133
in response to that
unprecedented leak

01:09:56.267 --> 01:09:57.433
of an opinion draft

01:09:57.567 --> 01:10:01.933
that suggests the court
will overturn Roe v. Wade.

01:10:02.067 --> 01:10:05.367
(suspenseful music)

01:10:05.500 --> 01:10:07.400
- [Reporter] With the Supreme
Court seemingly poised

01:10:07.533 --> 01:10:09.267
to overturn Roe v. Wade,

01:10:09.400 --> 01:10:12.233
it's looking more and more
like a race among the states

01:10:12.367 --> 01:10:16.100
to pass the most extreme
law restricting abortions.

01:10:16.233 --> 01:10:18.933
- [Rep. McCormick] It is time
for Louisiana to stand up

01:10:19.067 --> 01:10:20.767
and end abortion.

01:10:20.900 --> 01:10:22.933
- [Rep. Capriglione]
Abortion is not healthcare.

01:10:23.067 --> 01:10:25.267
Abortion is not a service.

01:10:25.400 --> 01:10:27.233
Abortion, quite
frankly, is murder.

01:10:27.367 --> 01:10:31.900
- [Rep. Olsen] Over 80% of
women that get an abortion

01:10:32.033 --> 01:10:33.333
are unmarried.

01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:37.000
- [Rep. Humphrey] We're not
talking about, is it murder.

01:10:37.133 --> 01:10:40.533
You darn skippy, it's murder.

01:10:40.667 --> 01:10:42.233
We done established that.

01:10:43.433 --> 01:10:44.733
I have hope in our courts.

01:10:44.867 --> 01:10:46.433
I have hope in America.

01:10:46.567 --> 01:10:48.733
I have hope in the
state of Oklahoma.

01:10:48.867 --> 01:10:50.767
And I have hope in the people

01:10:50.900 --> 01:10:53.600
that we're going to
end sanctioned murder

01:10:53.733 --> 01:10:54.933
in the state of Oklahoma.

01:10:56.600 --> 01:11:01.300
- Declare the vote.
- 73, aye, 16 nay.

01:11:03.633 --> 01:11:08.667
(timer clicking)
(suspenseful music)

01:11:12.133 --> 01:11:14.167
- [Woman] It's really hard
to not take all of this home

01:11:14.300 --> 01:11:16.667
because we can sit here and
we can think of all the women

01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:18.467
that have called and you know,

01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:20.167
we tell 'em we're not
taking appointments

01:11:20.300 --> 01:11:21.800
and they cry on the
phone and they're like,

01:11:21.933 --> 01:11:22.800
I don't know what to do.

01:11:22.933 --> 01:11:23.833
And we're just like,

01:11:25.767 --> 01:11:26.767
you go home and
you think about it.

01:11:26.900 --> 01:11:28.567
Did they call anybody else?

01:11:28.700 --> 01:11:29.667
What's gonna happen?

01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:31.667
Are they just,
did they give up?

01:11:34.100 --> 01:11:35.833
- [Woman] A lot of people say,

01:11:35.967 --> 01:11:37.633
well, I guess I should
just go kill myself then.

01:11:37.767 --> 01:11:40.000
- If I can't get an abortion,
I'm gonna kill myself.

01:11:40.133 --> 01:11:41.833
And then she
hangs up the phone.

01:11:44.500 --> 01:11:46.100
- [Woman] It almost
feels like when you're,

01:11:46.233 --> 01:11:48.033
like, if you're having a dream

01:11:48.167 --> 01:11:50.100
and you're walking
down like a hallway,

01:11:50.233 --> 01:11:51.967
like a long hallway

01:11:52.100 --> 01:11:53.633
and you're just kind of
stepping into this unknown,

01:11:53.767 --> 01:11:55.533
but you know you have
to just keep going

01:11:55.667 --> 01:11:57.167
but you don't know
what's gonna happen

01:11:57.300 --> 01:11:59.700
or what is at the
end of that hall.

01:11:59.833 --> 01:12:01.200
I feel like that's
what we're all doing.

01:12:01.333 --> 01:12:02.567
We're just like
walking in the dark,

01:12:02.700 --> 01:12:04.600
trying to get to the end

01:12:04.733 --> 01:12:05.733
and see what's gonna happen

01:12:05.867 --> 01:12:08.033
and we just can't reach it.

01:12:08.167 --> 01:12:09.100
You just feel lost.

01:12:09.233 --> 01:12:11.000
You just feel alone.

01:12:11.133 --> 01:12:12.200
You just feel like you
can't reach the end of it.

01:12:12.333 --> 01:12:13.733
It's never gonna happen.

01:12:13.867 --> 01:12:16.867
(reflective music)

01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:23.400
(dog barking)
(pensive music)

01:12:25.200 --> 01:12:28.167
- I take birth control and
I skip the period pills,

01:12:28.300 --> 01:12:30.733
so if I were pregnant,
I wouldn't even know it.

01:12:30.867 --> 01:12:32.300
I just started thinking like,

01:12:33.367 --> 01:12:34.900
I am sexually active

01:12:35.033 --> 01:12:37.567
and these are good
for two years.

01:12:37.700 --> 01:12:39.833
And in two years,
I'll order another set

01:12:39.967 --> 01:12:41.833
if I haven't
taken them already.

01:12:41.967 --> 01:12:43.733
I told them I was doing
this for advanced provision.

01:12:43.867 --> 01:12:46.700
I just want them just in case.

01:12:46.833 --> 01:12:49.067
I went to PlanCPills.org.

01:12:49.200 --> 01:12:51.900
They're from India,

01:12:52.033 --> 01:12:53.900
made their way through France.

01:12:54.033 --> 01:12:56.033
It took about two weeks
for them to arrive

01:12:56.167 --> 01:12:57.767
after the time I ordered them.

01:12:59.067 --> 01:13:01.733
This is almost priceless.

01:13:01.867 --> 01:13:03.167
Living in Texas,

01:13:03.300 --> 01:13:06.733
having an anti-pregnancy
kit is almost priceless.

01:13:08.700 --> 01:13:10.967
I'm just
looking for good ideas

01:13:11.100 --> 01:13:12.233
because I don't
know if we can rely

01:13:12.367 --> 01:13:14.100
on our lawmakers anymore.

01:13:16.767 --> 01:13:19.267
(dog hassling)

01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:26.800
- When the Supreme Court
draft leak happened,

01:13:26.933 --> 01:13:30.800
then I was working like
15 to 18 hours a day

01:13:30.933 --> 01:13:34.233
for two weeks
straight pretty much.

01:13:34.367 --> 01:13:36.300
And that was a bit exhausting.

01:13:38.100 --> 01:13:41.633
Prior to the leak, we would,
for advanced provision,

01:13:41.767 --> 01:13:46.133
we would get about
40 requests per day.

01:13:46.267 --> 01:13:48.633
And that was
from all 50 states.

01:13:48.767 --> 01:13:51.067
And then in the two
days following the leak,

01:13:51.200 --> 01:13:55.000
we got 5,000 requests.

01:13:56.267 --> 01:13:58.500
- [Brad] I got migraine
stuff upstairs.

01:13:58.633 --> 01:14:00.600
- Well, I just took some Advil

01:14:00.733 --> 01:14:03.200
and that's why I scarfed
down that banana.

01:14:04.467 --> 01:14:05.900
- Have you been
drinking enough water?

01:14:06.033 --> 01:14:07.867
- Probably not. (laughs)

01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:10.000
- Even if we go to
bed at the same time,

01:14:10.133 --> 01:14:11.733
I'll fall asleep and roll over

01:14:11.867 --> 01:14:13.667
and wake up 30 minutes later

01:14:13.800 --> 01:14:15.833
and she's on her phone
doing more stuff.

01:14:17.467 --> 01:14:19.700
- A zombie law is a law
that's been on the books

01:14:19.833 --> 01:14:21.633
from before Roe v. Wade.

01:14:21.767 --> 01:14:26.267
So there are states that
have laws from the 1960's.

01:14:27.800 --> 01:14:29.333
There is at least one
state that I know of

01:14:29.467 --> 01:14:34.367
that has a law from the 1800's
that is banning abortion.

01:14:35.400 --> 01:14:37.167
And they just left them there,

01:14:37.300 --> 01:14:40.800
even though Roe v. Wade said
they couldn't be enforced.

01:14:40.933 --> 01:14:42.600
And then now that
we're looking at

01:14:42.733 --> 01:14:44.700
likely Roe getting overturned,

01:14:44.833 --> 01:14:46.800
any of those laws that
are still sitting there

01:14:46.933 --> 01:14:49.200
will immediately
be effective again.

01:14:52.300 --> 01:14:54.200
I mean it's
creating this like,

01:14:58.800 --> 01:15:01.633
like 1984 type states

01:15:01.767 --> 01:15:03.200
where they're gonna try

01:15:03.333 --> 01:15:05.367
to monitor people
coming and going

01:15:05.500 --> 01:15:08.033
from states like
traveling and saying,

01:15:08.167 --> 01:15:11.067
okay, now that you've had
a positive pregnancy test,

01:15:11.200 --> 01:15:12.933
if you leave the
state at any point,

01:15:13.067 --> 01:15:15.233
you'll have to do a
mandatory pregnancy test

01:15:15.367 --> 01:15:17.367
upon reentering the state.

01:15:17.500 --> 01:15:19.667
And if it's negative,

01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:22.400
then we'll have to launch
a full investigation

01:15:22.533 --> 01:15:26.600
as to whether or not you had
a miscarriage or an abortion.

01:15:28.133 --> 01:15:31.000
And if it's found that
it was an abortion,

01:15:31.133 --> 01:15:33.267
then you'll be jailed
and all these things.

01:15:33.400 --> 01:15:38.167
And it feels crazy.

01:15:39.067 --> 01:15:42.067
It feels like a stretch.

01:15:42.200 --> 01:15:43.933
But it also doesn't at all.

01:15:44.067 --> 01:15:48.833
Like I can foresee the path
that might lead us there.

01:15:51.400 --> 01:15:55.133
- [Woman On TV] Almost 70% of
our patients are parenting.

01:15:55.267 --> 01:15:56.767
They have multiple jobs.

01:15:56.900 --> 01:15:57.933
They're juggling school.

01:15:58.067 --> 01:15:59.267
They're juggling childcare.

01:15:59.400 --> 01:16:01.500
I mean it's nuts, right?

01:16:01.633 --> 01:16:03.867
Making a decision to
travel out of state.

01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:05.100
Most people are trying

01:16:05.233 --> 01:16:06.867
to figure out how
to make it work.

01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:10.333
Honestly, what option has
the state really left people?

01:16:10.467 --> 01:16:15.300
- Our local patients
are like on edge

01:16:15.433 --> 01:16:17.500
and we see some
happened in Texas

01:16:17.633 --> 01:16:20.000
and then we
get patients going,

01:16:20.133 --> 01:16:21.500
is this legal?

01:16:21.633 --> 01:16:22.633
Like are we good?

01:16:24.100 --> 01:16:25.833
Can we still do this?

01:16:25.967 --> 01:16:28.167
You know, because they're
hearing about it in the news.

01:16:28.300 --> 01:16:30.167
So there's a lot of fear.

01:16:30.300 --> 01:16:31.800
- Literally, your
zip code dictates

01:16:31.933 --> 01:16:32.767
the quality of
your medical care.

01:16:32.900 --> 01:16:33.600
- Yeah.

01:16:36.033 --> 01:16:37.333
- Just because that's a law,

01:16:37.467 --> 01:16:39.233
not because that's
what's best for you,

01:16:39.367 --> 01:16:41.333
not because that's what's
best for a human being.

01:16:41.467 --> 01:16:43.167
Not because it's
what's best medically.

01:16:43.300 --> 01:16:46.067
Not even because
it's most profitable,

01:16:46.200 --> 01:16:47.500
which I could even get,

01:16:47.633 --> 01:16:49.833
I could even like,
I'm a mathematician.

01:16:49.967 --> 01:16:50.967
I could see that.

01:16:51.100 --> 01:16:52.833
It would at least make sense.

01:16:52.967 --> 01:16:55.167
The only thing that makes
sense here is control.

01:16:56.400 --> 01:16:58.800
(suspenseful music)

01:16:58.933 --> 01:17:00.867
- [Francine] It
made me so angry

01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:02.400
that the journalists continued

01:17:02.533 --> 01:17:05.833
to trot out these
desperate situations.

01:17:05.967 --> 01:17:08.033
Providers could
have met their needs

01:17:08.167 --> 01:17:10.033
by getting these women pills.

01:17:12.467 --> 01:17:13.933
- I'm here in this hotel,

01:17:14.067 --> 01:17:17.000
I have it 'cause you
were able to order it

01:17:17.133 --> 01:17:18.900
and you knew how to order it.

01:17:19.033 --> 01:17:22.200
But unfortunately, most of
the US doesn't know yet.

01:17:22.333 --> 01:17:26.900
The entire system is still
rigged, really rigged,

01:17:27.033 --> 01:17:29.000
to assuming you're
going to travel,

01:17:29.133 --> 01:17:31.233
we're gonna
get you to a clinic.

01:17:31.367 --> 01:17:34.400
Okay, we made you travel
all the way here to LA

01:17:35.367 --> 01:17:36.567
and here's your pill

01:17:38.300 --> 01:17:40.833
and you're still gonna
have to manage this at home

01:17:40.967 --> 01:17:43.333
or in your car
or in your hotel

01:17:43.467 --> 01:17:46.500
or wherever it is that
it's going to take place.

01:17:47.667 --> 01:17:50.167
There isn't even
that recognition

01:17:50.300 --> 01:17:52.033
on the part of the providers.

01:17:52.167 --> 01:17:53.333
- Francine...

01:17:55.633 --> 01:17:59.933
is a very good idea person

01:18:00.067 --> 01:18:03.400
and the balance of Francine
and Elisa usually works well

01:18:03.533 --> 01:18:06.467
because Francine has
these huge big ideas

01:18:06.600 --> 01:18:09.233
that she just wants to
go, go, go, go, go with.

01:18:09.367 --> 01:18:14.400
And Elisa is a great
partner to say like,

01:18:15.433 --> 01:18:18.300
yes, but let's
take a step back.

01:18:18.433 --> 01:18:20.833
Let's slow down.

01:18:20.967 --> 01:18:23.300
You know, there's one like
version of pushing someone

01:18:23.433 --> 01:18:25.133
out of their comfort zone

01:18:25.267 --> 01:18:28.867
to try to expand what they're
doing but in a safe way.

01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:29.967
And then there's something

01:18:30.100 --> 01:18:31.300
where someone
doesn't feel safe

01:18:31.433 --> 01:18:35.033
and that's where you
start to run into issues.

01:18:35.767 --> 01:18:37.233
(suspenseful music)

01:18:37.367 --> 01:18:41.600
I was on Twitter and saw
the Twitter responses

01:18:41.733 --> 01:18:42.933
that were happening.

01:18:43.067 --> 01:18:44.567
So I took some screenshots

01:18:44.700 --> 01:18:48.133
and I immediately sent
them to Francine and Elisa.

01:18:48.267 --> 01:18:51.033
(pensive music)

01:18:58.600 --> 01:19:02.300
(pensive music continues)

01:19:07.633 --> 01:19:09.833
(pensive music continues)

01:19:20.267 --> 01:19:23.367
- The people in
Texas were caught

01:19:23.500 --> 01:19:27.833
between the reality of
helping their clientele,

01:19:29.100 --> 01:19:30.700
including the clinics,

01:19:30.833 --> 01:19:33.133
the reality of shutting the
doors on all these patients

01:19:33.267 --> 01:19:36.300
that were their patients
and who they take care of.

01:19:36.433 --> 01:19:39.200
And us coming in and saying,

01:19:39.333 --> 01:19:41.500
just let people know
there's this option

01:19:41.633 --> 01:19:44.267
when the lawyers were telling
them if they even do that,

01:19:44.400 --> 01:19:46.200
they're going to
get criminalized.

01:19:49.067 --> 01:19:51.367
(tense music)

01:19:51.500 --> 01:19:53.000
- Well, first of all,

01:19:53.133 --> 01:19:54.467
we're in the middle
of a call out culture.

01:19:54.600 --> 01:19:57.367
Hell, everything is
called out nowadays.

01:19:57.500 --> 01:19:59.333
So there's that.

01:19:59.467 --> 01:20:01.067
A lot of people think that

01:20:01.200 --> 01:20:03.233
deeply criticizing
everybody else

01:20:03.367 --> 01:20:06.333
is the way you do
social justice activism

01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:09.633
and they have not
figured out how divisive

01:20:09.767 --> 01:20:11.633
and counterproductive it is.

01:20:12.700 --> 01:20:13.900
How did that become
the number one thing

01:20:14.033 --> 01:20:15.367
we need to be worried about

01:20:15.500 --> 01:20:17.067
when we're trying
to fight fascism?

01:20:17.200 --> 01:20:19.900
(pensive music)

01:20:20.033 --> 01:20:23.167
That's piss poor threat
assessment in my opinion.

01:20:23.300 --> 01:20:24.400
(laughs)

01:20:24.533 --> 01:20:26.900
To the extent you have
the time and energy,

01:20:27.033 --> 01:20:29.400
why not keep it
focused on the fascists

01:20:29.533 --> 01:20:32.867
instead of punching sideways
within the movement?

01:20:34.333 --> 01:20:37.133
- We're all operating
under such fear

01:20:37.267 --> 01:20:41.533
that I think communication
is breaking down

01:20:41.667 --> 01:20:43.167
in the relationships.

01:20:43.300 --> 01:20:46.133
(pensive music)

01:20:48.833 --> 01:20:50.300
- We've been out here for
every single decision day

01:20:50.433 --> 01:20:51.700
since like February
or March or so,

01:20:51.833 --> 01:20:53.500
and back then it
was just a dozen

01:20:53.633 --> 01:20:55.333
or two dozen of us out here.

01:20:55.467 --> 01:20:57.633
No opposition, no pro-choice
people caring about it

01:20:57.767 --> 01:20:59.200
'cause they're not as good

01:20:59.333 --> 01:21:01.533
at mobilizing their
people as we are.

01:21:01.667 --> 01:21:04.533
(crowds cursing, yelling)

01:21:04.667 --> 01:21:06.600
- Pro-choice is a fucking lie!

01:21:06.733 --> 01:21:08.700
- Babies never choose to die!

01:21:08.833 --> 01:21:10.567
- It's hard to
fight for something

01:21:10.700 --> 01:21:12.433
when a lot of, most people
have already given up.

01:21:12.567 --> 01:21:15.433
(pensive music)

01:21:24.667 --> 01:21:26.200
- [Reporter] Breaking news

01:21:26.333 --> 01:21:28.600
regarding the Supreme
Court opinion ruling.

01:21:28.733 --> 01:21:31.967
There is no longer a
federal constitutional right

01:21:32.100 --> 01:21:33.433
to an abortion.

01:21:33.567 --> 01:21:35.167
- [Reporter] Abortion
is up to the states

01:21:35.300 --> 01:21:36.667
and it's about
to become illegal

01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:38.267
in about half of them, Lester.

01:21:38.400 --> 01:21:40.433
- NBC's Pete Williams
with the decision,

01:21:40.567 --> 01:21:43.267
the landmark decision from the
United States Supreme Court.

01:21:43.400 --> 01:21:44.700
- [Reporter] All was
quiet Friday morning

01:21:44.833 --> 01:21:46.400
at the West Alabama
Women's Center.

01:21:46.533 --> 01:21:48.267
They have
stopped all procedures

01:21:48.400 --> 01:21:49.500
and spent the better part

01:21:49.633 --> 01:21:51.033
of the day canceling
appointments.

01:21:51.167 --> 01:21:53.100
- We are already
seeing mass chaos

01:21:53.233 --> 01:21:55.867
among OBGYN's,
emergency room physicians.

01:21:56.067 --> 01:21:59.333
OBGYNs who are sitting on
patients in emergency rooms

01:21:59.467 --> 01:22:00.733
while they bleed,

01:22:00.867 --> 01:22:02.900
while their vital
signs become unstable,

01:22:03.033 --> 01:22:04.800
while they're waiting
for hospital lawyers

01:22:04.933 --> 01:22:07.367
to decide is this
patient sick enough?

01:22:07.500 --> 01:22:10.367
- We've been waiting to
open the door for 50 years.

01:22:10.500 --> 01:22:11.767
Now that the door is open,

01:22:11.900 --> 01:22:15.300
we go to every state
and the Congress

01:22:15.433 --> 01:22:17.367
and the territories.

01:22:17.500 --> 01:22:19.967
(phone ringing)
(pensive music)

01:22:20.100 --> 01:22:22.533
- [Caller] I get a call
from the doctor himself

01:22:22.667 --> 01:22:25.667
and he says, hey,
everything has changed.

01:22:25.800 --> 01:22:27.800
We cannot help you anymore.

01:22:27.933 --> 01:22:29.433
- [Caller] Just pull over.

01:22:29.567 --> 01:22:31.500
I can't even function
right now. (crying)

01:22:31.633 --> 01:22:33.367
(phone ringing)

01:22:33.500 --> 01:22:34.500
- [Caller] I don't really
know how to start this

01:22:34.633 --> 01:22:35.933
but I'm six weeks pregnant

01:22:36.067 --> 01:22:38.433
and I had an abortion
appointment tomorrow

01:22:38.567 --> 01:22:42.633
and things got shut down.

01:22:42.767 --> 01:22:46.567
- [Caller] I found that pill
site that you told me about.

01:22:46.700 --> 01:22:48.933
- Since you are in a
state where it is banned,

01:22:49.067 --> 01:22:51.300
you don't wanna put
them in vaginally

01:22:51.433 --> 01:22:52.667
because if something happened

01:22:52.800 --> 01:22:54.600
and you went
into the hospital,

01:22:54.733 --> 01:22:56.400
we don't want to have
anything that they can tell

01:22:56.533 --> 01:22:58.567
that you actually
took medication.

01:22:59.933 --> 01:23:01.700
Here's one, my mom
tried these sites,

01:23:01.833 --> 01:23:03.400
which one will ship directly
to a restricted state.

01:23:03.533 --> 01:23:04.967
We ordered from
Abortion RX Friday

01:23:05.100 --> 01:23:06.500
and they refunded the money.

01:23:06.633 --> 01:23:08.367
But it looks like Abortion RX

01:23:08.500 --> 01:23:10.833
is not prescribing to the
banned states anymore.

01:23:10.967 --> 01:23:13.000
So I gotta let
Francine know that.

01:23:14.167 --> 01:23:16.900
- Okay.
(notification beeps)

01:23:17.033 --> 01:23:19.000
(pensive music)

01:23:19.133 --> 01:23:21.367
(phone ringing)

01:23:21.500 --> 01:23:23.900
- [Caller] I work
for a tribal clinic.

01:23:25.467 --> 01:23:28.100
We're reverting back
to a law from 1849.

01:23:30.067 --> 01:23:32.933
Abortion is against
the law in the state.

01:23:33.067 --> 01:23:34.600
It is a felony.

01:23:34.733 --> 01:23:37.567
Our doctors said, order it,

01:23:37.700 --> 01:23:39.833
regardless of what
our attorneys,

01:23:39.967 --> 01:23:41.900
our legal counsel says.
- I would try, yeah.

01:23:42.033 --> 01:23:43.867
- [Caller] Order
it, but we can't,

01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:46.333
so far we can't purchase it.

01:23:46.467 --> 01:23:47.833
I'm trying.

01:23:47.967 --> 01:23:50.733
- And I might talk to
other tribal clinics

01:23:50.867 --> 01:23:53.000
and find out what other
people are hearing.

01:23:53.133 --> 01:23:54.733
You know,
if you band together,

01:23:54.867 --> 01:23:56.567
I think that's a good
idea, like you said.

01:23:56.700 --> 01:23:58.067
- Exactly.
- Yeah.

01:23:58.200 --> 01:24:02.033
(pensive music)
(rain pattering)

01:24:02.167 --> 01:24:03.867
- When I was on, on Friday,

01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.533
I was doing nothing else
except answering the hotline,

01:24:06.667 --> 01:24:08.100
the phone calls and the texts.

01:24:11.233 --> 01:24:13.000
Prescribing
across state lines,

01:24:13.133 --> 01:24:15.833
they'll have a warrant out
for my arrest for murder

01:24:15.967 --> 01:24:18.000
in Texas and other places.

01:24:18.133 --> 01:24:19.933
But I don't
mind not going there

01:24:20.067 --> 01:24:22.633
as long as (beep)
will protect me

01:24:22.767 --> 01:24:25.900
from being extradited
and sent to those states.

01:24:26.033 --> 01:24:29.100
And I really don't wanna spend
the rest of my life in jail.

01:24:29.700 --> 01:24:31.233
This is not established law.

01:24:31.367 --> 01:24:32.567
There are no precedents.

01:24:32.700 --> 01:24:34.133
So let's make them.

01:24:34.267 --> 01:24:36.067
Let's push the boundaries.

01:24:36.200 --> 01:24:39.567
We're asking you to try and
protect us as much as you can.

01:24:39.700 --> 01:24:41.533
And they're like,

01:24:41.667 --> 01:24:43.133
well, we can't do it because
then people might be misled

01:24:43.267 --> 01:24:44.267
in thinking that
this is okay to do

01:24:44.400 --> 01:24:45.600
or we don't need this yet.

01:24:45.733 --> 01:24:47.533
And that's really frustrating

01:24:47.667 --> 01:24:49.567
'cause we're just gonna
build capacity in New York

01:24:49.700 --> 01:24:51.467
so people can come to
New York and you're like,

01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:55.467
no, people who are poor
do not have the resources.

01:24:55.600 --> 01:24:57.467
Even if you give them
the money to travel,

01:24:57.600 --> 01:24:59.200
they have jobs,
they have families,

01:24:59.333 --> 01:25:00.633
they can't get like a,

01:25:00.767 --> 01:25:02.633
they just can't take
a leave of absence.

01:25:02.767 --> 01:25:04.267
You can't take a
leave of absence

01:25:04.400 --> 01:25:06.633
from three part-time
jobs making minimum wage

01:25:06.767 --> 01:25:09.600
to be able to go get an
abortion in New York.

01:25:11.400 --> 01:25:13.133
We used to say, oh, Roe
will never get overturned.

01:25:13.267 --> 01:25:14.233
Well, it did.

01:25:14.367 --> 01:25:17.233
There's a
very real possibility

01:25:17.367 --> 01:25:21.067
that if our government
gets a Republican president

01:25:21.200 --> 01:25:23.400
and they get back the
House and the Senate,

01:25:23.533 --> 01:25:26.167
that they will ban abortion
across the United States.

01:25:26.633 --> 01:25:29.400
(pensive music)

01:25:36.300 --> 01:25:39.733
(pensive music continues)

01:25:46.767 --> 01:25:48.467
- Bye.
- Bye, see you later.

01:25:48.600 --> 01:25:53.633
(pensive music)
(car door shuts)

01:25:55.967 --> 01:25:58.933
- Today we're here to
meet with the entire group

01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:03.100
of intrepid providers

01:26:03.233 --> 01:26:05.733
who come from literally
all over the world.

01:26:05.867 --> 01:26:08.767
(classical music)

01:26:09.867 --> 01:26:11.767
- People are now just scared,

01:26:11.900 --> 01:26:13.767
they're afraid they
will go to jail.

01:26:13.900 --> 01:26:19.100
It now immediately became
like this big secret.

01:26:19.233 --> 01:26:21.600
And that is I think
the biggest thing

01:26:21.733 --> 01:26:23.267
that this decision has caused.

01:26:23.400 --> 01:26:26.433
And I think that we
need to do everything,

01:26:26.567 --> 01:26:30.133
everything to turn
that around again.

01:26:30.267 --> 01:26:33.300
(reflective music)

01:26:34.600 --> 01:26:36.233
- Especially the
younger generation,

01:26:36.367 --> 01:26:38.467
where they get the information
from is social media

01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:40.733
and we are having
a serious problem

01:26:40.867 --> 01:26:42.567
with the social
media blackout.

01:26:42.700 --> 01:26:46.233
They will remove posts that
we write about abortion.

01:26:46.367 --> 01:26:47.867
I think
Plan C's site went down,

01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:50.100
Aid Access' site went down.

01:26:50.233 --> 01:26:51.867
- We're spending
way too much time

01:26:52.000 --> 01:26:55.433
just trying to fight every
single time we get shut down.

01:26:55.567 --> 01:26:57.733
- Is it all the platforms?
- Yeah, pretty much.

01:26:57.867 --> 01:26:58.867
- [Interviewer] And
you're finding that, too.

01:26:59.000 --> 01:27:00.433
And when you say shut down,

01:27:00.567 --> 01:27:02.400
you mean they just like-
- They take it off.

01:27:02.533 --> 01:27:03.800
(pensive music)

01:27:03.933 --> 01:27:05.467
(ladies
indistinctly chattering)

01:27:05.600 --> 01:27:07.800
- So should I give a speech?
- Yes, yes!

01:27:07.933 --> 01:27:08.967
(glass clinking)

01:27:09.100 --> 01:27:10.800
- We met all
for the first time

01:27:10.933 --> 01:27:12.467
since we worked together,

01:27:12.600 --> 01:27:16.167
which is amazing that we
have been a virtual team

01:27:16.300 --> 01:27:17.500
for more than a year.

01:27:17.633 --> 01:27:21.933
I mean, it's so
exciting, so empowering,

01:27:22.067 --> 01:27:23.533
so hopeful

01:27:25.600 --> 01:27:26.800
to be doing this together.

01:27:26.933 --> 01:27:28.633
- Yes.
- Yeah.

01:27:28.767 --> 01:27:29.633
- Amen.
- Cheers.

01:27:29.767 --> 01:27:31.967
(ladies exclaiming)

01:27:32.100 --> 01:27:33.367
I just have to say,

01:27:33.500 --> 01:27:35.667
Francine,
you are the connector.

01:27:35.800 --> 01:27:37.367
If it weren't for you,
we wouldn't be here.

01:27:37.500 --> 01:27:38.600
- Yeah.
- So.

01:27:38.733 --> 01:27:39.767
- Thank you, Francine.
- Yes.

01:27:39.900 --> 01:27:40.767
- Thanks, everybody.

01:27:40.900 --> 01:27:41.933
It takes the village!

01:27:42.067 --> 01:27:44.033
We built the village.
(group clapping)

01:27:44.167 --> 01:27:46.100
May I add something
to that, Rebecca?

01:27:46.233 --> 01:27:47.433
- Yes.
- Oh, you go, girl.

01:27:47.567 --> 01:27:48.967
- Francine!
- Yeah?

01:27:49.100 --> 01:27:51.967
- Look at the moment where
we are in the United States.

01:27:52.100 --> 01:27:53.233
It's a shit show.

01:27:53.367 --> 01:27:54.567
It's a horror show

01:27:54.700 --> 01:27:56.800
in terms of
access to abortion.

01:27:57.767 --> 01:27:59.500
And yet!

01:27:59.633 --> 01:28:02.867
Thanks to you, thanks to
you around this table...

01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:06.300
(reflective music)

01:28:06.433 --> 01:28:10.233
There's a whole new
option that is real.

01:28:10.367 --> 01:28:13.000
- Miscarriage management
everywhere in the US

01:28:13.133 --> 01:28:14.667
where there's red states.

01:28:14.800 --> 01:28:15.867
We do abortions in
the other states,

01:28:16.000 --> 01:28:16.967
but the miscarriage management

01:28:17.100 --> 01:28:18.867
in the other states.

01:28:19.000 --> 01:28:21.867
- I just, I don't like this
idea of going to the devious,

01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:23.367
this is miscarriage,

01:28:23.500 --> 01:28:26.033
when there's a
legitimate way to do it.

01:28:26.167 --> 01:28:28.367
- I still think we haven't
gotten the good language

01:28:28.500 --> 01:28:30.367
for what you
are as opposed to-

01:28:30.500 --> 01:28:32.533
- Facilitator.
- The aider and abetter!

01:28:32.667 --> 01:28:34.867
- If someone is
in Massachusetts,

01:28:35.000 --> 01:28:37.833
until all of their
like surrounding states

01:28:37.967 --> 01:28:39.333
also get shield laws,

01:28:39.467 --> 01:28:40.767
it's sort of like,

01:28:40.900 --> 01:28:42.767
can you travel out
of Massachusetts?

01:28:42.900 --> 01:28:44.900
I mean it's
all risk tolerance.

01:28:45.033 --> 01:28:47.833
- Now our biggest goal
is to get the word out

01:28:47.967 --> 01:28:49.967
about access
in the red states.

01:28:50.100 --> 01:28:52.533
- We are demanding of
our lawmakers to say,

01:28:52.667 --> 01:28:56.400
we need you to protect
us to do what's right.

01:28:56.533 --> 01:28:58.533
- Yeah, right.
- What we took an oath to do.

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- The fear that people have,

01:29:00.833 --> 01:29:04.700
is somebody gonna watch
me when I come back,

01:29:04.833 --> 01:29:06.967
if I bring the
pills back to Texas?

01:29:07.100 --> 01:29:08.700
Where do I have to take them?

01:29:08.833 --> 01:29:11.800
All these questions
are terrorizing people.

01:29:11.933 --> 01:29:13.600
- When fear happens,
as we know it,

01:29:13.733 --> 01:29:15.600
and abortion is the
perfect example,

01:29:15.733 --> 01:29:16.767
it becomes word of mouth.

01:29:16.900 --> 01:29:18.767
Who do you trust that you ask?

01:29:18.900 --> 01:29:20.433
Let me explain to you

01:29:20.567 --> 01:29:22.933
a little bit about
how this works.

01:29:23.067 --> 01:29:25.667
- The message I want to convey
is that we are everywhere

01:29:25.800 --> 01:29:27.733
and if I am
arrested and jailed,

01:29:27.867 --> 01:29:30.967
there will be 10 people
behind me to do this work.

01:29:31.100 --> 01:29:32.767
And if those are jailed,

01:29:32.900 --> 01:29:33.933
then there will be a
hundred people behind them.

01:29:34.067 --> 01:29:36.467
- If we just minimally

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do an accurate
threat assessment,

01:29:40.733 --> 01:29:43.400
I really do think our
victory is inevitable.

01:29:43.533 --> 01:29:45.733
- Station a police officer at
my mailbox like, I dare you.

01:29:45.867 --> 01:29:48.833
You know, do it to all
the mailboxes in Texas.

01:29:48.967 --> 01:29:50.133
You know, good luck.

01:29:50.267 --> 01:29:53.067
- You make your decisions
and it forms your life.

01:29:53.200 --> 01:29:54.600
It forms your story.

01:29:54.733 --> 01:29:57.767
It's not something that anyone
should be ashamed of anymore.

01:29:57.900 --> 01:30:01.767
- I wanted to make the
decision for myself,

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what's best for me right now
and my situation. (crying)

01:30:06.833 --> 01:30:08.933
- [Caller] Every
time I talk about it,

01:30:09.067 --> 01:30:10.967
it makes me feel a
little bit better.

01:30:11.100 --> 01:30:13.033
- [Caller] It's just
nice to be heard

01:30:14.533 --> 01:30:18.433
and it's nice to tell
my story on this.

01:30:18.567 --> 01:30:21.067
- [Caller] Whether you
feel guilty, shame, joy,

01:30:21.200 --> 01:30:23.300
all of the emotions that
you can have, they're normal

01:30:23.433 --> 01:30:25.733
and other people are
having them, too.

01:30:25.867 --> 01:30:27.300
You're not alone.

01:30:27.433 --> 01:30:30.133
(dramatic music)

01:30:51.567 --> 01:30:54.900
("Some Of Us Are Brave"
by Danielle Ponder)

01:31:19.567 --> 01:31:21.767
- [Reporter] The abortion
pill is now becoming known

01:31:21.900 --> 01:31:23.167
as Plan C.

01:31:23.300 --> 01:31:26.333
- So we're already seeing
a huge increase in demand

01:31:26.467 --> 01:31:27.700
for these services.

01:31:27.833 --> 01:31:29.367
- I wanna show
you how easy it is

01:31:29.500 --> 01:31:31.533
and safe it is by
taking it myself.

01:31:31.667 --> 01:31:34.400
- You're taking it,
are you? (laughs)

01:31:41.200 --> 01:31:43.067
- Plan C, the way they
did it was they did it

01:31:43.200 --> 01:31:44.867
in a form of an example.

01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:46.800
There's a woman named Sarah.

01:31:46.933 --> 01:31:49.800
She wants to get abortion
pills from another state.

01:31:49.933 --> 01:31:52.700
She has to get a
mailbox in another state

01:31:52.833 --> 01:31:54.800
where they
could send the pills.

01:31:54.933 --> 01:31:59.000
They made it to the Colorado
address Tuesday evening.

01:31:59.133 --> 01:32:02.267
I had the pills a
day later, yeah.

01:32:07.067 --> 01:32:09.233
- What people in the US can do

01:32:09.367 --> 01:32:12.067
is that they make sure that
they have the abortion pills

01:32:12.200 --> 01:32:14.500
at home for when they need it

01:32:14.633 --> 01:32:15.867
or when a friend needs it.

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There's no way that those
pills can be stopped.