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(telephone ringing)

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- Women\'s Medical Fund, Lisa speaking,

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how may I help you?

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- [Woman On Phone] I\'m
currently four weeks pregnant.

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I\'m having an abortion at
the Planned Parenthood.

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It is $450 and they told me my
insurance does not cover it.

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- So, let me tell you a
little bit about how we work.

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We ask that you raise as much money toward

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the cost of the procedure
as you possibly can

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and then we try to help with the rest.

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The amount that we help with depends

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on how much you can come up

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and how much funding we have available

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at the time of your call.

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- [Woman On Phone] Okay.

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- [Lisa] Can you tell me a little bit

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about your living situation?

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- [Woman On Phone] I\'m
raising three kids by myself.

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The father does not help.

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I work full time.

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- [Lisa] And what kind of work do you do?

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- [Woman On Phone] Clerical.

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- [Lisa] All right, and
so how much do you have

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set aside for the procedure as of now.

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- [Woman On Phone] I have $125,

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that\'s my savings.

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- [Lisa] Okay.

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And have you spoken to the other person

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involved in the pregnancy?

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Are they able to help you out at all?

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- [Woman On Phone] They
want nothing to do with me.

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- [Lisa] Is there anyone
else in your life,

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like any family or friends,

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or maybe coworkers that you\'re
able to borrow anything from

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before next Thursday?

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- [Woman On Phone] I might
be able to get like $50

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from my mom but that\'s it.

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- [Lisa] Okay, so that\'s about $175

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and that\'s a really good start

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but it leaves $275

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which is unfortunately more than

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we can cover for today.

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Do you have other ideas
about how to raise money

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for the procedure?

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- [Voice Over Phone] I\'m not gonna

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be able to do anything
more than that. I mean,

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this is my only option.

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- In order to expedite matters,

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we have a limit on debate here

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and if everybody will cooperate,

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we can complete this orderly.

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(gavel bangs)

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Gentleman from Illinois.

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(audience clapping)

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- All politicians when they campaign,

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they say I\'m for the little guy.

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I\'m for the little guy.

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There\'s no one littler

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than an unborn child in
the womb defenseless.

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Mr. Chairman, we can not save the unborn

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of the rich if their parents,

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if the pregnant woman wants to destroy

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the child in her womb, she can.

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Thank God we can save some
of the children of the poor

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and that\'s what I want to do.

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Thank you.

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- Time for the Gentleman has expired.

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(dramatic music)

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- We heard from my good
friend, Henry Hyde,

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about listening to the cry of the heart

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and I ask you my friends,

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let\'s listen to the cry of the heart.

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Let\'s put a human face
on the Hyde Amendment

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and let\'s think very carefully.

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- The Hyde Amendment is nothing but

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a discriminatory policy

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against poor women who happen to be

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disproportionately Black.

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The real choice for low income women

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becomes carrying their pregnancy to term

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or finding alternative funding

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that is rent, food, or clothing money.

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(telephone ringing)

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- [Lisa] Women\'s Medical
Fund, this is Lisa.

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Do you have any medical conditions

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that make this pregnancy
a risk to your life?

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- [Woman On Phone] Type I Diabetes.

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- Has a doctor ever told you

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that continuing a pregnancy
could cause you to die?

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- [Woman On Phone]
That\'s definitely a risk.

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I was in the ambulance

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probably at least 12 times

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when I was pregnant with my daughter.

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- Okay, and you mentioned
you just lost your job.

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What were you doing for work before?

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- [Woman On Phone] I\'m a tree climber.

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- [Lisa] So you had
insurance through your job

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and that was covering it

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but now you need something in the interim.

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- [Woman On Phone] Yeah,
basically all my savings

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that I had are going towards my insulin

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and making sure my kid is set.

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- [Lisa] Okay.

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- [Woman On Phone] I
want to get my tubes tied

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because birth control is not,

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besides condoms, it\'s not an option

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because it elevates my blood sugars.

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- [Lisa] Any income at all right now?

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- [Woman On Phone] No, I\'m living off

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what I saved from last year.

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- Okay.

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Is anyone in your family able
to help out here and there?

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- [Woman On Phone] My mom bought
me groceries the other day.

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- Okay.

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And do you know where to go?

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- [Woman On Phone] Sorry,
I\'m like super embarrassed.

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- [Lisa] Oh no.

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It just sounds like there\'s
like a lot happening

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all at once, huh?

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- [Woman On Phone] Yeah, it\'s just that

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I don\'t know

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all this upsets me.

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I don\'t even want to do this (sniffling).

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- [Lisa] I hear you.

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And how much money could you put

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towards the appointment so far?

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- [Woman On Phone] I have $100

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and I have enough to cover my rent

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for this coming month and that\'s it.

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- [Lisa] Okay.

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All right, well, we\'re
definitely gonna be able

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to help with a good chunk of it today

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but the $275 you need is a bit more

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than what we have available right now.

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We work off of donations

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so we don\'t always have
all the money available

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to help with everything we wish we could

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but we\'ll do our best

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to help with what you need.

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- Is there anyone in your
life that is hurting you,

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threatening to hurt you,

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or controlling you in any way?

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- [Woman On Phone] Yes.

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- And when you became pregnant,

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did you consent to having sex?

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- [Woman On Phone] No.

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- [Lisa] No?

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- [Woman On Phone] I\'ve been living in

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a domestic violence shelter.

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- Okay, I\'m very sorry to hear about that

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but we\'re gonna try to
help you out today, okay?

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All right, do you have any children?

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- [Woman On Phone] Yes.

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- [Lisa] How many?

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- [Woman On Phone] Two.

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I just went to court for everything

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and I was also granted full
custody of my children.

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- [Lisa] Are your children with you or?

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- [Woman On Phone] They\'re with me.

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- [Lisa] Okay.

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- [Woman On Phone] I
was actually in school

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but I had withdraw.

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- I\'m sorry to hear about that.

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- [Woman On Phone] It\'s okay.

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I\'m just trying not to

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cry about everything.

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And then I just found
out that I was pregnant

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two nights ago.

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I couldn\'t handle any of it.

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- [Lisa] Are you working?

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- [Woman On Phone] No, I collect
Social Security Disability.

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- [Lisa] And how much is that?

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- [Woman On Phone] I get $1200 a month.

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- Okay, and how much money do you have

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towards the appointment?

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- [Woman On Phone] Well
right now I don\'t have any

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so I\'m trying to see

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if I could get the father of the child

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to give me at least $100 or $200

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but when I call,

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he\'s not answering the phone.

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- [Lisa] Yeah, that
sounds really frustrating.

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- [Woman On Phone] Yeah it is.

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- [Lisa] Do you have any way to use

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some of your Social Security towards it?

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- [Woman On Phone] No, I
don\'t have anything left

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from my last check for this month.

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- Okay.

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When does the next Social Security come?

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- [Woman On Phone] On the,

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next time it comes on the third,

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the third of the month of March.

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- Okay, so next Sunday.
- [Woman On Phone] By then,

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I\'m probably gonna be like

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probably three months pregnant already.

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- [Lisa] Okay,

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for your appointment that
you\'re scheduled for now,

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that puts you pretty
close to a price increase

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within a couple days.

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So it definitely seems important

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that we try our best all together

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to try to get you in

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for either a current
appointment rather than waiting

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because the price will
definitely go up soon.

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- Now, I\'d like to yield three minutes

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to the Gentleman from Virginia

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who is the Chair of
the Judiciary Committee

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and a long standing supporter
of pro life, Mr. Goodlatte.

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- During the time the Hyde
Amendment has been in place,

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the most reliable estimates,

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and those of the
Congressional Budget Office,

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are that millions of innocent children

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and their mothers have been
spared the horrors of abortion.

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- The discriminatory Hyde Amendment

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is a women\'s health catastrophe.

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In effect, it makes abortion an option

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only for the wealthy.

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- I am heartbroken

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that opposition to the Amendment

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has become a political gimmick.

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All human beings,

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the born, the unborn,

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the young, the old,

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the sick, the healthy

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are entitle to a government

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that promotes their dignity.

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- Do you care about the
four million children today

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that live off of less than $2 a day

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and live in extreme
poverty and they\'re alive?

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No, you don\'t.

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(telephone ringing)

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- Dammit.

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Women\'s Medical Fund, this is Lisa.

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- [Woman On Phone] I\'m gonna need help.

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I need to get an operation

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to get my child out of my stomach

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because he was diagnosed with

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abnormality

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They said they would do this for me but

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it costs $3,000 to get it done.

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I don\'t have that much,

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that kind of money.

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I\'m trying my best to find a job.

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Everybody\'s saying they\'re not hiring.

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But I\'m a good worker

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and I\'m searching for a job,

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searching, searching, searching.

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I walked around my whole city,

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asking people are they hiring.

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They always tell me to go online.

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Like, not everybody has a computer.

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- I hear you.

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Unfortunately, we don\'t
have enough funds for today.

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But however, I can schedule you

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for a call back tomorrow

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when we\'ll have more funding

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so that you can talk with us

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because I know the help
line is sometimes busy

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when you try to call us.

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So I\'ll put it in so that we can call you.

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Does that sound like a plan?

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- [Woman On Phone] Yes.

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- And you said that there

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was an abnormality,

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it was an anomaly, right?

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- [Woman On Phone] What is that?

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- With the fetus.

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- [Woman On Phone] Yeah.

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- Okay.

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- [Woman On Phone] And they said that

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I have to take him out

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because if I keep him inside my stomach

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then he\'s gonna die anyway.

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- [Lisa] So we\'ll give you
a call back tomorrow, okay?

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At 9:30.

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- [Woman On Phone] Thank you.

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(telephone clicking)

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- It was literally like a second

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before like the shift was over

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and she just called

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and hit with that bomb.

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I feel so bad.

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She said the price was around $3,000.

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I didn\'t get that much
information from her

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because we are out of funds

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and I didn\'t want to keep her on the line

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if we weren\'t gonna help her

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but I definitely,

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sense it sounds extreme,

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I scheduled her for a call back tomorrow.

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So hopefully,

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the counselor that\'s on call can help.

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- [Woman With Brown Hair]
So what\'s really important

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in those cases

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when people can feel really hopeless is to

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encourage them,

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like we can\'t promise

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that all the funding will be put together

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but the worst thing would be for someone

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to hang up and feel like

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there\'s no way I\'ll get the money

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and then never follow up
with their appointment.

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- Right.

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