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Alabama. alabama state senate joined the statehouse by passing purposely impossible to achieve standards for abortion clinics in alabama. they call these trap laws. they're laws that put new regulations on clinics specifically for the purpose of shutting them down. the trap law in alabama passed through the statehouse earlier this year, state senate passed it yesterday, which is why these people, hundreds, were at the state capital protesting against that anti-abortion bill. this is alabama. now the bill is going to the republican governor who has said he will sign it. we watched this same tac...

Working on hiring more. for four years, george tiller's murderer got what he wanted by murdering george tiller. this week with the reopening of that clinic in wichita, he stops getting what he wanted by murdering george tiller. that's what's going on in kansas. here is what's going on in alabama. alabama state senate joined the statehouse by passing purposely impossible to achieve standards for abortion clinics in alabama. they call these trap laws. they're laws that put new regulations on clinics specifically for the purpose of shutting them down. the trap law in alabama passed through the st...

Agenda is to challenge roe versus wade directly. it's pushed by a wing of the anti-abortion movement tired of waiting and chipping away. the trap laws are chipping away without really admitting the ultimate goal is to ban all abortion. this puts it out on the table. >> to the point of the chipping away point, it's not just north dakota. these laws have been showing up in arkansas. mississippi, obviously, the fetal heart bill was -- heartbeat bill was defeated. but these states, i mean, these lel legislatures, we've seen them come back this next legislative session and try again and again and a...

>> in terms of what's going to happen on the ground in virginia, what do you see as the outcome here? we've talked to people who are observers of how t.r.a.p. laws work and are designed to work. in mississippi we saw regulations targeted in which the people sponsoring that legislation openly admitted they were trying to ban abortion in mississippi by shutting down all the clinics. is it clear that that's what they're trying to do in virginia and do you think that's going to be the effect of these laws? >> absolutely. i think it's very clear that that's what they're trying to do. again, when th...

Who spent a lifetime as an antiabortion activist and his attorney general who also spent a lifetime as an antiabortion activist, these two aggressively have engineered a meeting of the state's health board that happened today. they aggressively engineered that meeting toward a decision that could have the effect of shutting down most of the abortion clinics in virginia. last year, bob mcdonnell signed a new law calling for special regulations just for abortion clinics. targeted regulations designed to make it economically impossible to operate an abortion clinic in the state of virginia. it's ...