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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 our insurance provider to ensure that no matter where an employee lives, they will be able to access a...

Banning aboortion is not going o stop abortions and prevent unplanned pregnancy. and so for months now, because of sb-8 in texas. we've been helping people find their way from texas when they're denied care to our clinics in other states where we're 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 we're navigating during the pandemic who are now forced to travel thousands of miles to get a safe and legal abortion in this country. >> and in addition to this overturning of roe v. wade, i wonder how concern...

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 they're 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 women's rights, but at the margins when you have this sort of fear and uncertainty and risk, it can't stand on the exercise of rights, and that's one of t...

That's 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 haven't democrats? will it change? >> i don't think democrats were prepared to mobilize. case in point you loo...

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, kavanaugh's home or something like that, but let's 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 people's lives. your thoughts. >> look, absolutely. as senator whitehouse just indicated. planned parenthood ...