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Of course Kavanaugh is going to overrule Roe v. Wade. They’ve got four votes already who are willing to uphold a Texas law that was just a sham law intended to shut down abortion clinics. Kavanaugh is going to be the fifth. He has criticized Roe v. Wade. He said that it was a freewheeling decision. He wrote an opinion just last year that took a very aggressive posture, said that the Trump administration could literally imprison women to delay their ability to have an abortion… There’s two Republican senators—Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski—who claim to be pro-choice. And at the very least, they want to have deniability if they vote for Kavanaugh. But there’s no deniability here. This guy is the fifth vote to overrule Roe v. Wade, period.
Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress on Trump’s nomination of right-wing Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Yesterday we spent the show looking at Kavanaugh’s record—watch or read the coverage here.
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A startling new documentary, “Trapped,” addresses TRAP laws—Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers—and their impact on abortion providers in the South. 

We spoke with Dawn Porter, the director of the film; Dr. Willie Parker of Jackson Women’s Health, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi; and June Ayers, owner and director of Reproductive Health Services in Montgomery, Alabama.

Watch the full interview here.

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In the past, we’ve just been on defense constantly — just defending a woman’s right to choose, a woman’s right to privacy, Roe v. Wade. Well, now it’s about time we take the offense.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), lead sponsor of a bill to expand insurance coverage of abortion. Watch her interview on Democracy Now! today.
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[The Congressional bill banning abortions after 20 weeks] sends a chilling message to women and doctors that Congress is ready to intervene in the most personal, private medical decisions that women make.
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Watch her interview on Democracy Now! today.
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Women’s pregnancies are now becoming the subject of policing, prosecution, and severe sentences in an age of mass incarceration.
Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. She appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the case of Purvi Patel, who became the first person in U.S. history sentenced to prison for feticide for what the state said was an attempt to end her own pregnancy. 
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We have women who call us and are simply asking, ‘So is abortion still legal in Texas?’
Jeffrey Hons, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood South Texas, on the impact of the new anti-choice law that effectively cut abortion services in large swaths of the state. Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today.
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As Oklahoma enacts a law that could close all but one abortion clinic in the state — and Louisiana is poised to follow suit — Democracy Now! looks at the legacy of Dr. George Tiller, who was assassinated five years ago this past weekend. Tiller was one of a handful of doctors providing abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy. He braved constant threats, a firebombing at his clinic and an assassination attempt that left him with gunshot wounds to both arms. On May 31, 2009, anti-choice extremist, Scott Roeder, entered Tiller’s church in Wichita, Kansas, and shot him dead. Watch video clips of Tiller speaking in his own words.

Democracy Now! interviews Dr. Cheryl Chastine, who travels from Chicago to Wichita each week to provide abortions at Tiller’s former clinic, which reopened last year. Requesting to remain anonymous over safety concerns, Chastine discusses the obstacles to abortion access in Kansas and responds to the threats and harassment she and her colleagues face.

“I get up in the morning and there are patients that need me,” Chastine says. “If I allow myself to be deterred from doing this work, then I am allowing a victory for terrorism.”

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