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Restrictive abortion ban known as sb-8 at the time were -- these were not going to be limited just to texas. and so we really wanted to come out with a benefit that would be forward-looking and that would recognize that our employee base is remote and distributed across all 50 states. and they all deserve to be able to get the health care that we want to provide for them. and it should not be contingent on which state they live in. when we came out with this particular benefit, we worked with ou...

Banning aboortion is not going o stop abortions and prevent unplanned pregnancy. and so for months now, because of sb-8 in texas. weve been helping people find their way from texas when theyre denied care to our clinics in other states where were able to help thefl travel and get the care that they need. this is working parents who are nov navigating childcare and jobs and everything were navigating during the pandemic who are now forced to travel thousands of miles to get a safe and legal abort...

In alabama, you might want to try to criminalize efforts by your citizens to go to other states to obtain abortion services. and what all of this does, jose, it creates this environment of fear and uncertainty. and people who are concerned that perhaps alabama could prosecute them if theyre in states like california, might become less clear about helping. i think that there will remain a strong contingent of people who will be supportive of womens rights, but at the margins when you have this so...

Thats been disaaffected by whether biden acted too centrist or people are upset about inflation. young voters can be turned out on abortion. liberal, college educated women, some voters of color may be able to turn out on abortion rights, but this particular group of swing voters told us, they all -- a panel of 13 people, they all supported abortion rights. zero of 13 said it would be the decisive reason they voted. >> for 50 years republicans have mobilized effectively on issue. why havent demo...

Against the theft of these rights that is the crime, not the theft of the rights. they want to us look away from that and to pay attention, to you know, women who are sitting outside with candles outside of, you know, kavanaughs home or something like that, but lets put the numbers back up against. the amount of violence associated, this shift, this belated shift by the religious right to make abortion their manish u, it has come with violence and at great cost, including the cost of peoples liv...

Six weeks. i mean, you testified in congress about the harmful effects about the new law in texas. i mean, how has abortion access been transformed in your state? >> i mean, sb-8 is radical and extreme and so wrong and its already harming so many people here in texas. and, you know, a lot of people are having to leave the state to access basic health care, that is their right th, that is something they deserve. ive been one of these people in the past, you know, ive had two abortions and ive had...

Oklahoma, arizona, idaho, texas, and wyoming have also restricted abortion access this year. what impact are these new laws having across the united states? >> so all of these laws were started by texas, right. by governor abbott, who, in august, beginning of september, had this bill sb-8, which was this completely crazy bill that banned abortion after six weeks. and every one, smart people thought the supreme court would overturn it because it was outside the norm. but instead what happened, wh...

Danger of grooming our children, and how dangerous is a road for the gop to go down? >> this is an amazing attack. its very old school. in the 60s and 70s, we saw this attack where you attack lbgtq people as being somehow a danger to people. its historical, and so its is terrifical, but its not real. republicans have had a lot of success with this supreme court, right? with sb-8 in texas, they were able to really outlaw abortion. and so they see that they can kind of do whatever they want, as lo...

>> and its the bashing that is the problem. it feels like we have gone back in time. molly, the republicans have successfully turned floridas dont say gay law into campaign on the right to demonize gay teachers. are we back to the days of thinking any gay adult is in danger of corrupting or grooming our children, and how dangerous a road is this for the gop to go down? >> this is an amazing attack. its very old school. i mean, in the 60s and 70s, we saw this attack where you attack lbgtq people ...

Know about texass sb-8. but that provides a civil remedy against women who help woman to obtain abortions. even that doesnt go so far as to attack the woman who obtains the procedure. this is really unexpected and its hard to put an innocent reading on to this prosecution. this is the sort of step thats designed to chill the exercise of womens rights by putting them in fear that if they do so, they can be subjected to prosecution, to exposure, to shame, and ridicule. >> the local d.a. said it wa...