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And weve cleared the air and my husband and i are fine that its been used. >> lexi, thanks again for sharing your story with us today. >> thank you. >> i really appreciate it planned parenthood president cecile richards will be on "the rachel mad dow show" tonight. ♪ everything kids touch during cold and flu season sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home dont stick around.

Have you felt betrayed in any way by walters life being used and mischaracterized in such heavy and in some ways mischaracterized political debates? >> i was a little surprised at first. not being directly asked. but at the same time, i -- where our lives are in gods hands. my and husband are trusting god and the ultimate perfect plan and if this is happening, we are trusting that he is going to take care of us and use walter for his good. >> so we have reached out the drenter for medical progre...

All right. so we are working with the technical difficulty. we have lexi on the telephone. were working with our control room to patch that through so that we have her properly with us. but again, lexi olver frets is a mother and it was her child that image that has been used in some of these anti-abortion videos. we are going to work on the technical difficulties and get back with lexi here in a moment. i want to check in with francis because the bing pulse question of the day has to do with th...

From the trip to indiana, tired of answering the question as to why are you not pregnant anymore so i wrote my story down not as a way to look for attention at all but as just a go-between so i didnt have to talk to people and continue to relive my nightmare. >> lexi, how many children do you have? >> we have two older girls and this past year we had another little baby girl. >> another little baby girl. you have a beautiful family. i want to warn our viewers that the images that we are about to...

Exposing planned parenthood. so, lexi, let me ask you again. did anyone reach out for permission to use walters picture in the anti-abortion video? >> not directly, no. he pulled it from another article, interview i had done previously last year for the daily mail. >> and so no one from their organization reached out an said well be using this image in an anti-abortion video aimed at defunding planned parenthood or putting planned parenthood in a false light? >> not before it was released, no. >...

This comes after she faced heavy criticism of republicans questioning whether or not the organization should receive federal funding. and were going back to a story that we were talking about just a few minutes ago. its about a woman of lexi olver frets. she is a photographer who never thought she would find herself in the middle of the planned parenthood debate. she is the mother of a stillborn child whose image has been used in anti-abortion videos and lexi joins me on the phone right now. lex...

Image. what do you want people to know about walter ian also about your own views about being pro-life? >> i just believe that every child should have a chance, a chance to be alive, to make a difference. we had so many little lives being lost and thrown away each day and i wish so much that my son was here. we miss him and the short time we had was precious with him. but i know his purpose, his purpose was to help to educate the world as to what a child really looks like. you know, you say fetu...

Thought she would be in the middle of the planned parenthood debate. she is the mother of a stillborn child whose image is used in anti-abortion videos. lexi joins me on the phone right now to talk about what this has done for her and her family and setting the record straight. thank you for joining me. i really appreciate this because it was two years ago that you lost your child. his name is walter. and i understand you had a miscarriage. he was stillborn at 19 weeks and we are very sorry for ...