three facilities at the end of next month. each of the facilities provides health and family planning services to women in the gulf coast region of the state, and those facilities will be shutting their doors. many more facilities are not expected to be far behind. joining us now for the interview tonight, amy miller, the founder of while women s health. she currently operates five clinics in texas. amy miller, thank you for being with us tonight. it s nice to have you here. thank you, rachel. it s delightful to be here even under the circumstances. i cannot imagine that it was a huge surprise to hear the plan the parenthood announcement today about three clinics closing. do you expect we ll be hearing about a lot more clinic closures in texas in short order? yeah, i m sorry to say that was the whole design of this law in the first place. i mean, they ran it under the guise of health and safety for women. really it was a strategy, very well thought out on their part to close down
gosnell trial and other atrocities. these organizations are bringing in this trial which we ve covered as well. a doctor who is charged with multiple counts including killing children who showed signs of life after terminations. so they ve somehow conflated the president s appearance at planned parenthood with this grisly trial in philadelphia. and they re not related. planned parenthood is in the business of safe, legal health care. what gosnell is accused of doing is illegal and an atrocity and unsafe care. the more that planned parenthood gets people access to health care, safe abortion care, the fewer gosnells there are in the world. what about the president telling that organization that he would fight any legislation that would be proposed, or a plan to restrict a woman s access to abortion and contraceptives. unfortunely, most of the action is taking place at the state level. president obama did mention some of those policies including in