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With issues. >> i think we need to connect reproductive rights with justice. preventive health care, thats an economic issue for women and families. thats not just a women only issue. as you broaden it out and talk about how -- making sure i have access to birth control so that i can have control over my destiny, going to college and not getting pregnant when i dont want to, thats an economic issue for women and families. also, we need to do a better job as democrats to explain what trap laws ar...

Preserved for them. >> crystal, here is a george w. bush judge looking at what this lu legislature did and saying that it cannot stand. >> yes. and the piece that you highlighted that it was an undue burden, that is the judicial standard and what this judge found is that with a third of abortion clinics in texas likely to close as a result of this law, and no medical reason to require abortion providers to have admitting privileges, it just couldnt stand. what they call these laws is trap laws. ...

Have access. thats a good thing. also kind of getting rid of those trap laws which i know youre dealing with in ohio that actually, you know, impose all kinds of crazy regulations that basically have nothing to do with patient care and everything to do with trying to get the clinics to close down. how do you think this battle is going to shake out in ohio? >> well, im hoping that the courts will side on behalf of women. and jess is absolutely right. this is really about personal liberty and free...

These laws completely bypass the complex constitutional questions and the supreme court has grappled with in its roe decision, a bit of policymaking magic, completely undermining preefsey rights without engaging the courts privacy rights at all. laws that in practice would ban abortion after 20 weeks are dressed up to mask claims of fetal pain, laws passed under guys of standardized building codes to make abortion facilities safer. texass version of the law, commonly known under the fitting acro...

Agreement, t.r.a.p. in ohio law. now the other clinic in toledo. the last remaining clinic in toledo is getting shut down, too, by the same law. you hear people talk about t.r.a.p. laws. this is the kind of t.r.a.p. they mean. require a clinic to have something, and then ban them by law from having it. and you shut it down because they dont have it. this is how republican legislators and governors are banning legal abortion in our country whenever theyre in power, roe v. wade or no roe v. wade. ...

Mccrory. this is governor pat mccrory after having won that election. sb-353 there is the abortion bill with the trap provisions. regulations so strict it is impossibly expensive for abortion clinics to comply, so they have to shut down. thats the whole point of t.r.a.p. laws. thats the point of this one. no matter how many times they want to put the words health and safety into these bills, they are about shutting clinics down. this bill will probably shut down 15 of the 16 clinics in the state...

And only, what, 14 of them performed abortions. the rest of them were only doing family planning and theyre closed anyway. and these trap laws, are closing clinics all over the country with regulations like hallways wide enough for two gurneys passing side by side, never mind youll have two gurneys closing side by side in a little abortion clinic. theyre making rules so outrageous clinics cant abide by them. >> there seems to be awareness of how danger this is politically. this is just yesterday...

Tightening abortions. they make clinics meet the same standard as ambulatory standards. scott walker required them to have hospital admitting privileges as well. in ohio, john kasich signed a measure requiring abortion clinics to establish agreements with emergency hospitals. north dakota, alabama, mississippi, missouri, tennessee all passed new restrictions in the last two years. lawsuits stalled implementation. pro-choice call those attempts targeted restriction of providers, trap laws. in con...

Looked at the overall impact. this is what republican governors and republican legislators have done across the country. all the trap laws that use state regulations to shut down the clinics, these are the impacts. you dont let anybody tell you that governing doesnt matter. where republicans have taken the reins of state power across the country, they have used it single mindedly to shut down the clinics just since the last election. and it is not like we didnt have a national fight in the last ...

We have been covering this state by state, as this has been happening this year. first in mississippi, then in north dakota, then in virginia, and almost everywhere where republicans have control. but if you stop looking at it per individual states, it is a pretty dramatic thing that is happening to american women right now. if instead of covering it state by state you put it all on the same map, look at what republicans have said just since the november elections. this covers the number of clin...