Ready to get started. We have the after lunch session. Vicki and i happen tasked with getting everyone really ready to go. Do not embarrass us. My mom is watching. All right. Im excited to start the second part of our program today. We still have a time of candidates to hear from. I am so, because they are not just articulating how they will protect access. They are talking about expanding it and getting bolding getting visionary. Exactly. Do you feel like you are hearing what you want to hear . [applause] ok. A couple reminders on our ground rules. Make sure our storytellers who are being so brave and sharing arer testimony, that we listening to those folks. Second ground rule. We are on the record, so our hair is right and tight because we are getting good love on social media from folks watching all across the country. Number three, this is a glitter, not shade environment. If youre not feeling moved, you do not have to cheer, but we will save the shade for the ballot box, all right . And forth, be present. As vicki said earlier, our power is in this room. This is a powerful room, yall. Stay with us. We know that we will hear some great stuff today. All right. Lets get started. Your seats. On to our next candidate most recently served as Vice President of the United States of america with barack obama. He became vp after serving in the united eight senate United States senatess 72. Ll and give a good handclap for joe biden. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you so much. Come and sit with us. Please have a seat. Kelley all right. Mr. Biden oh, yes. Vice president biden, we will on in. Ght mr. Biden why does that not surprise me . Kelley you have a long career in politics mr. Biden skip the long part, h uh . Im joking. There was a joke. Kelley a couple weeks ago you came out as a champion for Womens Health when you spoke out against the heideman met which we know disproportionately discriminates against low income people. As president , how would you put forward a federal budget that eliminates hyde . Mr. Biden let me claim what happened. I laid out a Health Care Plans that will provide federallyfunded health care for all women and women who are now denied even met medicare on their home states, you can automatically sign up under an obamacarelike provision for a medicaid type policy that will provide the same services. It became really clear to me that although the height amendment was designed to split amendmentence hyde was designed to split the thatrence, you cannot have with a federal policy. Abide by theonger heideman met. Thats the reason. What else do you want to ask . Thank you so much for saying that. I think you are known as being a straight shooter. There are some voters who may have concerns about your overall support for sexual and Reproductive Health giving your record. A lot of them may be watching on the livestream. What can you say to them so they a champion whore will stand up for sexual and Reproductive Health care . Mr. Biden im not sure about the mixed record part [indiscernible] on . Biden my mic is not i think we lost you. Lets get a handheld just in case. Mr. Biden ok. The best thing i would do as your president , i would immediately extend health care to everyone. The bottom line is for women would have complete coverage and there is no rationale that can be offered that if you are covered by federal assistance you cannot use federal funding to seek Reproductive Health care rights. , the fact of the matter is i would eliminate all of the changes that this president made to or attempted to make for title x. Three, we would be in a situation where i would caught as defined byde kc. It should be the law and theres no reason why the Supreme Court makes the judgment that everyone is worried about with these appeals coming to the Supreme Court. I would codify roe v. Wade. Thirdly, here is the other thing, by the way. What we dont talk much about in the Affordable Care act, we made sure that women, not just your access to reproductive rights, but the fact of the matter is women were treated differently by Insurance Companies. We made a law that said you cannot be charged more for the same Health Insurance as a man. Be aancy cannot preexisting condition. You can go down the line. The reason you guys are so prickly important is it is not just making critical important it is not just making Reproductive Health care available. You are saving lives. Toe is what hope is trying do now. He is not only trying to do with 600 million in mexico city. Assistancebillion of around the world and he is trying to apply mexico city standards to that. Its dead wrong. We are saviors around the world. And look about 10 seconds left or something . Is we aref the matter in a situation where mortality rates for poor women and black 26. 5 , 25. 6 people out of 100,000 who end up dying as a consequence of birth is absolutely absurd. Evenhigher than it is in in countries that are third world countries. So we should be investing a great deal more money in the entirety of how we deal with Womens Health care and making it available across the spectrum. Get nearly do not enough credit, planned parenthood, that you are the ones who are providing for all of the health care for poor women in ways that nobody else has been able to. That is why barack and i fought hard [applause] we have ae president , great member of our audience with a question for you. Our next storyteller served in the u. S. Army as a chemical operations specialist. After completing her service, she returned to her hometown of harpers work to pursue her education can i see . Currently serves on our planned parenthood south atlantic board of directors. Lets hear from her. Mr. Biden ive got to see you. [applause] mr. Biden i want to look at you. Vice president joe biden, thank you for taking my question. Mr. Biden thank you for your service, by the way. [applause] i live in West Virginia. Im a veteran. Im a single mother. Im a Community Organizer. Im also one of the one in four women in this country who have had in abortion. I have had three abortions from the only clinic that provides Womens Health center, and every single one of those abortions was necessary for me to survive. I spent five years in an abusive marriage with a man who was assaulting me. I was also sexually assaulted in tricare doesnd not cover Abortion Health care for military survivors. My bodily economy is precious to and that is why i am here my bodily autonomy is precious to me and that is why i am here telling you the most personal story of my life for the first time. When my husband was three months old, my husband and i were separated. We shared the house to pick up my belongings and my sons belonging. At that time, i had a protect order in place. He was not supposed to be there, but he was and he assaulted me. My Birth Control failed. I became pregnant. I had two more pregnancies after my Birth Control failed me. Before i found a method that work for my body. As i healed from the trauma of my marriage, being sexually assaulted in the military, raising my son by myself i went to college so i could build up the best life for us. , ihout access to abortion would not of graduated college. I would not i would still be on medicaid and food stamps today. I would not have sought treatment for my ptsd, my anxiety, and my depression, and i would not be the person i am today. I could not turn to the v. A. For the care that i needed. Byabortions were covered medicaid funding. I could not have afforded them on my own. But amendment one passed in West Virginia last year, denying the right of West Virginia women to decide what to do with their own bodies and now because a beehive amendment, women in West Virginia who rely on medicaid because of the Hyde Amendment, women in West Virginia rely on medicaid may have to forgo their bills to a for the care they need. I have met some of these women. I have fought for some of these women. , their pain isou real and their experiences are real and it would break your hearts. Across the country, generations of women in situations like mine have suffered because of the Hyde Amendment, because it is in place. My mothers generation. Young women and girls today. , Vice President , how are you going to expand access to sexual and Reproductive Health care, including abortion, to ensure that people like me, veterans like me get access to the care that they need . Mr. Biden first of all [cheers and applause] mr. Biden a lot of you women, maybe a lot of you men, do not realize what incredible courage it took to stand up and say that. I wrote the violence against women act in the first place, and i wrote it because of what i have seen, what i understand happening, going into neighborhoods and communities it knows no color, it n knows no bounds, it knows no ethnicity for you to stand there and recall that, it brings and itback immediately brings it back hard. I compliment you for your courage. Across the board, what we have to see is all that you said changes. The idea that we still have in the military, the idea that we still have in the military the failure to deal with Sexual Assault and rape is outrageous. Number one. Your former husband should be in jail. Your former husband should be in that is whye we change the law, we ordered an orderou violate your automatically operated. Number three, the notion that ratee in the world who is is denied access whether you are in the military or not is simply wrong. Its wrong. And number four, you should have you should have access to an affordable and v. A. U dont have it the benefit to have including your health care cover your circumstance, should cover it, right now. We talked about that. We tried to move that. But heres the deal. The bottom line is we have to vastly expand the federal government cannot dictate to a state after the violation of a constitutional amendment or federal law that applies to them how many clinics are available in every state, so what we have to do is we have to provide the access to increase the funding which we fought to do, for planned parenthood. Planned parenthood and other organizations, they find people referrals. If its a referral, the woman would be able to get that referral with the transportation being paid for, the process being paid for, behold the the the point is we have to expand, particularly for women who dont have insurance, poor women, who are and by the way, we have included this also for transgender women. We have to do this no, no, i really mean it. I dont think we think of that very often. 10 transgender women have been killed just this year. , what i love to do, if you have time after this to talk to me personally . No, i really mean it, because i think i can directly help your personal situation as well. But the answer is there should be no limit at all. Getting thearly right reproductive care in terms of Birth Control. I mean this is like, come on. This is the 21st century. So, anyway that i answer question . Did i answer your question . Here, she would say, god love you, dear. Sayook a lot of courage to what you said. Theres women who are here i am not going to ask for a show of hands women here who have been abused, who have been victims of abuse and you know how hard it is to stand up and say it. It all comes back when it happens that moment. Thank you. What branch army . What was your rank . [indiscernible] mr. Biden all right. My son was a major in the United States army. The one who died. He was decorated. Beau,ttom line i said, you are a major now. I said you are a field grade officer. Dad, im in the army. It aint majors. Did i answer your question . Cany ripa more time we hear it one more time for peshka . Of applause for Vice President joe biden. Mr. Biden is it ok if i go and see her . They will bring her around. Mr. Biden thank you very much. And by the way, whether you vote for me or not, vote vote, vote, vote weve got to take it back thats right. Our next guest currently serves as governor of Washington State and is a former member of congress, jay inslee. Please give a warm welcome to governor jay inslee. All right, come on, you all. All right. This is a good crowd. Governor inslee they look pretty convinced we are right. We are right. I believe that. All right, lets dig right in. Governor, you come in with the unique perspective as one of the only current governors in the race and your state provides medicare enrollees with abortion coverage as well is a suite of other Reproductive Health care. Why did you think it was important for your state to provide access to abortion for medicaid enrollees and du believe that access should be provided at the federal level. At the federal level . , it should bees provided. This is a fundamentally simple principle. Thelieve the last 30 years, first day today and every day, i fundamentally believe that Reproductive Health care is health care, full stop, period. Fundamentalthe thing. Secondly, i believe today we have to recognize and i wish it were not so there is a fullscale, national concerted effort to deny women the right of freedom and fundamentally, we sing this is the land of the free and the home of the brave. That means we need people to stand up to protect the freedom interests of women, not to allow donald trump to get behind a woman between a woman and her doctor. This is a freedom interest and there is no reason you should deny a woman of freedom interest depending on her zip code or her financial circumstance. So, yes, no question about it. This should be available. But we want to expand access across the board. I am proud to say that we have one of, if not the best to maketive parity acts sure that someone has access to reproductive services. This is very, very important. As we expand health care and we are doing that in my state we want to make sure that that is covered and that is happening. By the way, the whole thing we are talking about is wrapped in our effort to expand health care so we have universal health care. Or everyone we have to be committed to that principle. We have adopted the very first public option for state health care . That is now the law in the state is now theon that law in the state of washington. There are multiple challenges. Conscience laws the conscience we should be concerned about is the United States constitution. This is a constitutional right. And if you have a conscience in this country you ought to respect that constitutional rights, and if you have a problem with it, perhaps you ought not to be in that business. Everybody in the business of health care ought to provide reproductive services. That should be an american principle. And we have fought for that. We are winning these things. Hope we get in injunction same. We did not quite get it a couple days ago. Has been a longtime interest of me and my wife. Service inpublic 1988, trying to build a school. One of the first things we thought about was how to think about this issue. I represent a very republican, rural, agricultural area and we knew this was going to be at that time difficult to live a difficult issue. But trudy and i decided this was court to who we are. Ad irannot the first was sitting in an old leather chair my wife bought me, looking into the camera and telling the people, if you elected me i would stand up for choice every single day and i have done so and this is something we need to have consistency on because we have to be warriors for this freedom. There is no middle ground on this. This is a constitutional right. We have to stand up 100 . You so much, governor. This is about real people. I am so excited to introduce you to one of our committee members. You may renee bracey sherman. Yes, you can stand up for renee. Her work has elevated the conversation about abortion experiences using creative and Innovative Strategies that center the experiences of people color. I am excited to hear from renee. Gov. Inslee thank you very much. Hi, governor in flickery can slee. L you j governor in can i call you jay . Gov. Inslee yes. Dont call me late for dinner. [laughter] abortion. E i had an i plan to take precautions, but i knew if i ever got pregnant, and i wasnt ready to parent, that i would have no abortion. A few years later, i was between paychecks at my retail job and i could not afford the copay on the Birth Control pill, which i was now getting through my parents insurance. My toxic exboyfriend refused to use a condom, so i became pregnant. Right away, i knew i wanted an abortion. I immediately scheduled an appointment but had to wait nearly week. I tried to cause a miscarriage in the meantime, it still i was lucky. My independent Abortion Clinic was 15 minutes away from my home and as you know, thats not the case for so many people today. I panicked because i could not use my Health Insurance because i was not ready to tell my parents. A minute also bars the dependence of state employees from using insurance for abortions, and at the time, my dad worked at a state hospital. Not know about the chicago abortion funds and funds like them across the country that raise money to help people pay for their abortions. Fornow im an evangelist abortion funds. My procedure was quick and wonderful. It was some of the best and Kindest Health care i have ever received. Woman i amal lack proud to stand here in front of you and tell you my abortion story and work in service of women and transgender people who need abortions every single day. I am not ashamed of the