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Circulated as we speak. i feel confident that they will get the number of signatures required to make the ballot. and voters in michigan will have an opportunity to pass this ballot proposal which will codify roe into our state constitution, which means that abortion as of the moment, the certification of that the election results, if it passes, roll will -- constitution, and abortion, birth control, ivf, all of it will be legal in michigan. >> michigan also has a decades long marriage ban -- where does the supreme court mean for the lgbtq community? >> it's the seventh anniversary of obergefe...

And she joins me now. téa, i am just really struck by your clarity and choosing to tell this story. clearly, well before roe fell. so i want to know, first, what drew you to the story, why you want to tell. it. you were seeing thousands of restrictions -- and we began production in earnest after brett kavanaugh was confirmed to the supreme court. the writing was on the wall. it was clear that roe was going to be overturned. it wasn't a matter of, if it was just going to be when. and it felt like this story, this really dramatic story could give us a window into the future. which is actually n...

Place now are actually more punitive, more restrictive than anything that existed in the air of the genes. there's potentially criminalizing people for -- to get health care. incentivizing bounty hunters. that wasn't a thing in the pre roe era. no exceptions for rape or incest. even the most draconian laws back then had exceptions. so it is pretty stunning. yes, there are technological advances. we have medication abortion, which is a huge and liberating thing. but we are seeing many states restrict even that. so, it's not only dangerous for the doctors and the people who aid people in getting...

The lgbtq community, and would protect lgbtq people from discrimination and matters of employment, housing and public accommodations. it's based on the proposition that they be fired, evicted, denied -- simply because if we are whom you love. so moving the equality act forward as we've done in the house should be the highest priority. >> it strikes me, representative alexandra or casual cortez sort of framed what is happening with the supreme court as both a crisis for reproductive rights, but also a crisis for our democracy, the fact that you had two supreme court justices joining the confirm...

Attorney general of north carolina announced friday morning that, you know, we should be enacting pre roe law which would criminalize abortion immediately. so we were forced to halt services on friday when we should have that extra 30 days to continue to provide care. you know, aiding and abetting abortion is a part of that and does that make us criminals for providing good medical advice of just giving alternative states. i will tell you that right now that's exactly what we're doing because we see that as within our right at the moment. >> you are counseling. you are giving people informatio...