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Creates an at mos fear in which violence like this might happen? >> first of all, i think we can't tolerate the kind of talk that leads to this kind of societal behavior in the first place. with that much said, we see 73,000 patients in wisconsin every year. 97% of what we do is pro ventive. it's basic women eats health care. it's pap smears. it's std testing. it's birth control. and what i would really like to see those who oppose abortion focus on is what we do to prevent unintended pregnancy and support the activities that are both based in medical fact as well as common sense that good sex...

Of planned parenthood. betty, good to have you on. here is the national reality for everyone who may not understand what planned parenthood does and this was checked by po litti-facts. so only 3% of the services are abortion-related, so how big of a negative is this for your women in the state individually and then we can talk about it on a national level from there. >> well, it is a huge concern for the state of indiana, because as many as 22,000 of our most vulnerable are at risk of losing their medical home across state at our 28 locations. and what we are talking about here is basic preven...

Does it just become law? is it left to stand? is there any way to see how this ends other than that? >> well, you know, if it's not challenged, then, yeah, the law does stand. unless you can take it to court and get a preliminary injunction or an injunction against the enforcement of it, yeah, the law would stand. and here's the thing. this hostility to women's abortion rights doesn't stop with abortion. what we're seeing across the board really is hostility to women's reproductive health care rights. we just had a fight in which the extremists in the house of representatives and in congress t...

Million women and men every year. right? these are family planning clinics that don't provide abortions, that provide contraception, pap tests, mammograms, std testing and treatment, hiv/aids testing. what's happening is that as abortion -- as anti-abortion laws gain more and more traction, we're also seeing attacks on all of the other aspects of women's reproductive health. and frankly, defunding the family planning clinics is a public health nightmare in the making. but we're seeing these attacks across the rereproductive health rights. >> terry o'neill, thank you. i feel like i've been scre...

These are family planning clinics that don't provide abortions, that provide contraception, pap tests, mammograms, std testing and treatment, hiv/aids testing. what's happening is that as abortion -- as anti-abortion laws gain more and more traction, we're also seeing attacks on all of the other aspects of women's reproductive health. and frankly, defunding the family planning clinics is a public health nightmare in the making. but we're seeing these attacks across the board on our reproductive health rights. >> terry o'neill, thank you. i feel like i've been screaming into the wind on this on...