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Period. in some states, they want to make it almost three days that makes it a very difficult process for a woman who access this health care. >> also this way of erecting a whole layered set of obstacles, right, off waiting period and mandatory conversations with the doctor and then you have trap laws and -- >> exactly. and the more that happens, what's really interesting to me, is the more support for abortion rights increases in this country. these absolutely outrageous attacks, the trap laws, the transvaginal ultrasound laws, the admitting privileges, which is about to shrink louisiana's a...

Toward something that doesn't really look like a constitutionally guaranteed right but instead to kind of a federally, you know -- a federalist decision by the states about whether they will allow it or not. >> well there's no question that states across the country, especially in the south and midwest, have passed very detailed restrictions that have made access in some areas almost impossible. this so-called trap laws that targeted regulation of abortion providers, requiring doctors to have admitting privileges the local hospitals when many of the doctors that are providing abortion services...

Not just as a lawyer, but as a woman and as a citizen. but through the work of organizations on the ground such as the new orleans abortion fund, the students for reproductive justice, the med students for choice, the legislative agenda for women, and then louisiana women have also reached out to national organizations like the center for reproductive rights, the national womens law center, the national partnership for women and families. and if people would like to submit public comments, they can go to this is personal.org. which is a project of the national womens law center. and they're ga...

Million women in texas. trap laws, framed as making it more safe for women really just defacto end your constitutional right to abortion. >> terry, it's interesting. mentioning wendy davis, as zerlina just did. one of the other issues that republicans have is not just policy but tone. whether or not people agree with the idea of abortion being legal, the idea that she's being called abortion barby, the way she is talked to and talked about by republicans, is an issue. how does that strike you, leading oon organization that is by and for women, that she is being dismissed as a barbie doll? >> t...

The attacks on wendy davis are clearly misysogenistic and i thk that will back fire against the republicans. it's happening in texas. yes, you have tens of millions of women who are affected by these trap laws, anti-abortion laws. you have hundreds of thousands of women who have been mobilized by this outrageous attack on women's access to basic health care. and what's happening is that the more -- this is really interesting, i think. the more the republicans go after birth control, right, which they're doing this in the courts right now. it's not really out there in legislative -- as a legisl...