Daca. And state funding for lives that occasion. Watch on cspan host joining us this morning, Catherine Glenn foster, ceo of americans united for life. There are support there are potential Supreme Court challenges for roe v. Wade in the upcoming term. Tell us for tell us about americans united for life. What is your main mission . Guest we were founded in 1971, two years before roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide. We were founded to work in the statehouses and in congress. Educating people about the facts about abortion and the law about abortion. So you guys have been fairly busy, i assume, with the statehouse efforts to change abortion laws across the country. Guest we certainly have. So many lawmakers are relying upon bills related to abortion and other life issues, and also turning to us for testimony and other support, both passing and defending prolife bills. Host must be a fairly Big Organization with people spread out across the country, working on this legislation . Guest we travel the country, absolutely. Crisscrossing the nation so often, it seems we are all in different places at the same time. Host at americans united for life, how do you get funding . Guest we are nonprofit, so we rely on the support of donors across the nation, people focusing in states coast to coast who care about life and want to ensure that mothers, women and girls, are supported as well as the children in the womb and throughout life. Comfortable feel you come to this issue with a , very personal story, if you feel like you would like to share that. Guest sure, absolutely. I came to the Prolife Movement, i came to americans united for life because of my story. When i was 19 years old, i found myself unexpectedly pregnant, and i turned to the internet, as we so often do, and looked for answers, and what i found out was unfortunately really just one sided it was an abortion facility. I made an appointment. But nothing that i experienced, either in the lead up to that saturday or behind those doors restored my choice. There was never a where i felt like i was point making a fully informed decision that was in fact my choice. Behind those doors, over and over, my choice was stripped away from me. My autonomy was stripped away from me. I worked to ensure that other women and girls are not in the same position that i was. Yeah, we talked about your legislative efforts with aul, but what about other women in positions that you are in . You work with those women . Guest sure. I have worked with so many women through the years, in so many cases who are in situations like myself. Many of them, when i have been able to converse with them, to offer counseling and support, so many of them end up choosing life. The ones who do not, whether they they know about the full range of options, parenting or placing a child in a loving home through adoption, they still need so much support and help it and having been there, i can have that conversation with them. I have heard so many stories like my own, stories where other women were denied informed consent or denied information, were denied choice. Host Catherine Glenn foster is with us talking about some of the legal challenges coming up on the Supreme Court. We welcome your calls and comments. The lines for republicans, 2027488001. For democrats, 2027488000. For all others 2027488002. ,you can text us, 2027488003. Earlier this year, the Trump Administration changed the rules regarding the title x program. Explain that to us. And how your organization reacted. Guest we were very pleased to see the change because it ensured that abortion facilities will not be using that same funding pool from title x. What we saw was that abortion facilities would be taking title x funding and then using it for referrals to abortion facilities , which in so many cases were connected. By ensuring that both physically and financially these facilities are separated, we are able to take away some of those layers, where women find themselves in situations without Health Care Centers as well for broader reproductive issues . Guest we definitely see that most abortion facilities do pair Family Planning type facilities and other limited health care. Host what is the state of womens access across the country to those kinds of facilities . Guest to abortion facilities . Host or Reproductive Health centers. Guest absolutely, there are Reproductive Health centers and communities throughout our nation, and familyplanning facilities, thousands upon thousands of organizations in communities in our backyards. So that we can access Family Planning and contraception services. Host i wanted to play for you the ad released in february after that and get your thoughts. The trumppentz Administration Just issued a new policy blocking access to Birth Control and cancer screenings at planned parenthood. This is going to be devastating for womens health. Women need care and they should be able to access it. Dr. This could leave women at risk. A lot of people would be lost. This administration should not get to decide what happens with my body. Host Catherine Foster, your thoughts. Congress original intent when they passed title x was in fact to ensure the separation of these facilities, the familyplanning facilities from abortion facilities. And so, given that, these facilities have not been following the intent of the law all along, they still have a number of options. They can stop providing abortions. They can separate out these types of services. There are a number of different options they have chosen. Instead, they for the most part chose to back away from title x funding. Host we have calls waiting period 2027488001 for republicans. Democrats, 2027488000. For others, 2027488002. Good morning to brian in ashburn, virginia. Caller thank you for taking my call. Governe right to life the testimony as well . Guest there are so many different perspectives out there. I think we can personally say that many of us in the Prolife Movement to oppose the Death Penalty. Across the board. There are others who certainly are open to the Death Penalty on some limited grounds. There is a wide variety of opinion, but i think the Prolife Movement generally recognizes that every human valuable,nique, is and that every single human being deserves to be welcomed in life and protected by law. That is what we are working toward. Dannyhere is denny from georgia come on the democrats line. Caller how are you doing today, ms. Foster . Guest very well, thank you. Caller i really want to speak a little bit about impeachment. With prolife, to stay on subject what do you think some people are not looking at when it comes to speaking about prolife . What issues do they need to Pay Attention to that they may not be thinking about . Host we will leave your question there because we talked about impeachment earlier. Catherine foster. Guest there are so many different aspects about this that americans simply are not aware of. Are not aware that emanation that our nation is one of the most radical nations in the world for abortion laws. Know theicans do not extent to which roe v. Wade legalized abortion in america, really all nine months for virtually any reason. They dont realized what happened. Behind the closed doors, the conditions in these facilities, in so many cases, and the lack of informed consent, which i experienced when i asked to see my ultrasound that they were already performing. I said let me see my ultrasound, medical records, and it was denied. Sot is the kind of thing Many Americans do not know. As americans learn these things, as americans start viewing more ultrasounds, learning about the science and technology and the advances we are seeing in our world today, so many more are increasingly prolife. Whether or not they call themselves prolife, they support basic restrictions, whether it is opposing lateterm abortions. We conducted a poll a few months ago and found that 80 of americans overall, two thirds selfdescribed prochoice americans, opposed lateterm abortions. They favor protections when it comes to informed consent, favor protecting women from unsafe, unsanitary conditions in these facilities. Host that caller was from georgia. I want to get your reaction from the judges decision yesterday. A federal judge handed blocked it blocked georgia separate restrictive law from going into effect. Tep at the the first se law makes its way through. Onceaw bans most abortions established by the Supreme Court ruling of roe v. Wade. What are your thoughts on that decision by the judge . Guest first of all, i would point out that when you look at states like georgia or alabama, you cannot understand what is going on in those states without also understanding what is happening in new york or virginia, where we saw the governor essentially defending infanticide, saying that, in fact, if a child was born alive during the course of an abortion the child would be kept comfortable while the doctor decided what to do. Both sides of the abortion debate are taking a look at and the Supreme Court are taking a look at the polling and the shifts we are seeing toward protections when youre talking about specific polities, and specific policies, and are looking at the abortion rate, which is the lowest it has been since roe v. Wade. Just last week i was on a stage with catherine colbert. She is the lawyer who argued a case in 1992 that upheld the fundamental rulings of roe, and she said outright that this is the court that will not overturn roe. So advocates on both sides of the debate are laying groundwork. We expect most states, post roe would be more gray state. Will. Ple, if you and have some protective laws but not go as far as new york, would not go as far as georgia. It is a 50state effort, but that is what we are seeing. When it comes to georgia, we are seeing that the federal bench is responding in the way that we might expect that they would when facing some of these new laws. Whether there is progress being made and we expect that the court will open the doors to these kinds of laws going forward. Host i want to touch on the Supreme Court. The cases that are coming up this is a baseline, the decision in 1973, roe v. Wade protected a womans right to abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. One of the cases coming up, fox v. Planned parenthood, in kentucky, challenging the 2016 law that requires a woman to have an ultrasound and gives the hearing thetion of heartbeat and seeing the image. Guest lets be clear, ultrasounds are being performed. They are happening at abortion facilities and they should be, because without them, the facility does not know what kind of procedure to perform, whether the pregnancy is ectopic or not, and they do not know how much to charge the woman. Ultrasounds are being performed. Those are our medical records. Speaking as a woman who has been in those shoes, who has been lying on the table getting the ultrasound and has asked to see it and been denied, i fully support this law because it is a part of our informed consent. I believe that woman women should have the right to see it so we can know what is that thing in our womb . Is it a clump of cells, is it something remotely recognizable as a human being, as a child . And so many women i have spoken with who have seen either their own ultrasound or other ultrasounds from the same gestational age years later in so many cases, that is when they feel that regret because they suddenly understand it hits them, this is what i chose. Had i had that information, i would have chosen so different. Host we will get back to calls here. Richard, you are in North Carolina on our republican line. Good morning. Why is no attention paid that most abortions were formed in this country against the Africanamerican Community . Get hardly no we attention paid to that fact . It is a huge fact that millions of abortions have been applied to the Africanamerican Community. And if she wants to bring some real attention to that fact, she should raise that issue. The Africanamerican Community is suffering greatly from all types of abortions, and the White Community has remained silent about this. Host ok, richard. Guest absolutely agree. Americans united for life works closely with the Africanamerican Community to raise awareness of that fact. I would just say that there is hope for greater awareness in the future. There was a Supreme Court case just this past term that dealt with what we call a prenatal thatscrimination law, considers race as other factors, down to genetic diagnoses. Opinion,homas, in his in his concurrence, wrote extensively, about 20 pages, writing on the eugenics history of abortion in america, and it is powerful, powerful reading. I would strongly recommend both you and all of the other viewers to take a look at that, read Justice Thomas words. It is a learning experience. Host lets hear from andrew next, oh, city, democrats line. Caller thank you for having me on. The problem with the way that people actually look at this that are sitting at home right voice, andng to my probably including your guest, is they look at abortion and how to solve the idea of having no abortions or less abortions is to control the courts or control government. Many of those people vote republican. But i would challenge all of them to consider a couple of important things. They vote republican because they think they are going to fight for laws that will reduce abortion, but the truth of the matter is, we have to look at the main driver of abortion. The main driver of abortion is poverty. You have got three people in america right now owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million people. Republicanst the voting record, they vote down minimum wage increase, they vote down health care for all. They vote down paid sick leave. They vote down affordable housing. If you are for singapore women to have a baby, you give her no support if you are forcing a poor woman to have a baby, you give her no support host that is andrew from oklahoma city. Of the key is one reasons why people may choose financialthings like issues, relationship issues, not feeling ready to have a child, all issues where we as a community, as a nation, can and must come alongside women and provide support. So states increasingly are not what weat only passing might think of as the prolife law, certainly they are doing that. Looking at the latest science and medicine to do that, but they are also looking more holistically at outcomes and how to improve Lifelong Health care outcomes and life outcomes for a mother and child. So increasingly, we are seeing that, and it is encouraging because what it is is renewing the conversation about the ethical and moral law of abortion. What abortion is, the extinguishing of a human life. Host nine states have bet have passed bills to limit the procedure this year. A headline from may of this year. Lets look at another case coming up before the Supreme Court. Vs. E medical services llc f why did this law come about . Guest taking a quick step back americans released united for life, a report that found that 46 states introduced prolife bills this year, a total of 58 bills passed in 22 states. We are seeing momentum here. Beforerticular law is up the court. The court is considering it, considering hearing it this term. It is a law that is important because we know from so many government reports that we have seen, from so Many Health Care emergency reports, that women can sometimes experience women are sometimes in emergency and need emergency care. So this kind of law makes sure that women get the medical care that we need. Aul legislative report, 58 lifeaffirming laws from their report saying that we are signed into law across 22 states. In the addition in the event that roe v. Wade is underage in the event that roe v. Wade is under turn is overturned. From leesburg, virginia. Caller good morning. The gentleman who called poverty, he is advocating socialism. I had to say respective i have to say respectfully it doesnt work. As a young conservative, i am in a position where i think a woman should choose her best choice. I dont think a man has too much to say, and that is just my opinion personally. At the same time, if an individual does not want to support that program with taxpayer dollars, they should not go toward that. Just like a case several months ago i heard on cspan about a does notre a gentleman have to pay their dues into union fees if they do not support that union or the political candidates that the union supports. I do think that is a reasonable position to take, but i just want to make that comment. Thank you. Guest sure. Abortion is a divided issue in our country still. Most americans support rollbacks, but it is certainly a divided issue. It is an issue where we should not be extending our valuable limited taxpayer dollars on that when we could be working with our dollars to support lifeaffirming options for women. Host lets hear from newport news, virginia. This is doug on the independent line. Caller yeah, im not for or against abortion. Youre one caller who said that you need to vote for Bernie Sanders because you will get Free Health Insurance and stuff, that is a joke. It will never happen. Who is going to pay for it . Is, the newsng needs to understand proper etiquette it is not donald trump, it is president trump. Host i do want to ask you about efforts in the house, certainly some in the senate, on the boerner life the born alive abortion protection act. Exercising the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an attempted abortion and doctors who fail to comply will face a fine or up to 10 years in prison. Guest we have been very invoice of we have been very involved in the bornalive abortion survivors protection act. This is a greater recourse then the 2002 bill on born alive abortion survivors. Andould provide a remedy, sure that all employees of the facility are mandatory reporters. That children are transported to hospitals. It would save lives. We have seen efforts throughout the year from the time it was january,roduced in introduced in the senate, in the house, a february companion bill. And the hearing that we saw a few weeks ago, where we heard from Healthcare Providers themselves on the need for this, heard about their stories, about the times that they did encounter children born alive during the course of an abortion and how they reacted. This is a bill that is needed. And we are expecting that sooner or later it will pass therein but in the meantime, in states like new york, expanding abortion law where increasingly we do need a bornalive protection act. Governor northam in virginia explaining why we need this federal bill. Even in North Carolina, where born alive sailed this year. Host quick news from virginia. Has upheld age virginia law requiring women to undergo an ultrasound and wait at least 24 hours for having an abortion. A couple more calls here. We will go to mary in cambridge, massachusetts, on our democrats line. Believeyes, i cannot this woman who is devoting her around. Jerking women when i was 17, a friend of mine, someone i knew, died during an illegal abortion. , and he real doctor knew what he was doing, but they she forgot and ate before she went, and he put her under and she choked to death. The other person that i noticed, a girl named becky bell, a 16yearold, about 20 years ago, instead of telling her parents she was in someplace like kansas , out west, where it was very hard, so the clinic could not take her because she was 16. Planned parenthood could not take care. She ended up in the hands of an illegal abortion, as millions and millions and billions of women over the centuries have done. Host Catherine Foster . Guest first, i would just say how devastating that is to hear what happened to your friend and the other young girl. You know, we have seen the pain that can be caused by abortion and the devastation. I would look to the government reports themselves, the inspections that we have seen of abortion facilities. Right there in virginia, just a mile or so from where i am now, we saw that there was one facility, where they were reusing the same sponge to sterilize instruments, four weeks straight without sterilizing the sponge. Things like blood residue and just horrible unsanitary conditions. We are also hearing the stories of women who have been injured, who have been transported to the hospital, emergency situations, who have even died during the course of supposedly safe and rare abortions. This is a situation where you would think we could all come together and say, ok, well, during our current abortion and casey, we are at least ensuring that these facilities are being treated the same as any other outpatient medical facility. Sadly, we are seeing abortion againstes fight back basic healthcare standards. Callat is an area i would on the abortion facilities and the abortion industry to join with us to clean up their act and ensure that women and girls are not being harmed in that way anymore. Host we could not get to all the Supreme Court cases coming up in the next term, but Catherine Glenn foste these bands washington journal cspans washington journal coming up friday morning, Robert Weinman discusses conflicts of interest among family members of politicians. And then josh talks about the politics surrounding the impeachment inquiry surrounding president trump. Join the discussion. Next, the debate about conservatism in the age of with conservative