It's Tuesday, June 7th. I'm Gideon Resnick. And I'm Jesse DeFireis and this is one a day where we are holding Elon Musk to his contract of never purchasing our podcast.

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But first we're going to look at how abortion access is declining on a local level, even before the Supreme Court issues a likely decision that will effectively overturn Roe v Wade.

In states like Oklahoma, for example, which has become the first state in the country to outlaw abortion quite nearly entirely clinics that had previously been serving clients coming from other states like Texas are now quiet. That's according to a story from the Washington Post that will link to that gets into the scenes at some of these facilities.

Meanwhile, money that had been allocated for travel funds to help people get from one state to another with better access is running short in some cases as well.

According to a report in the Dallas Morning News, money that had been designated to help Texans already wasn't enough prior to the passage of Oklahoma's ban.

And now that it's been passed, those people will have to travel even farther in the future, meaning the funds will require more resources.

The report says that in 2019, the National Network of Abortion Funds could only support about 26% of the requests they received.

The issue could be compounded as well because other neighboring states like New Mexico might not have their resources necessary to support and influx of people coming in.

This is all happening mind you while public polling has recently shown that in many instances support for abortion rights has hit new records.

Yeah, thankfully in the midst of this, lawmakers and advocates across the country are devising new ways to protect abortion access as much as they can wherever they can.

People in Austin City Council Member Chito Vella has proposed a resolution to decriminalize abortion in the event that Roe v Wade gets overturned and a trigger law that has been passed in Texas goes into effect.

So Josie, I spoke with Vella about the resolution last week and started by asking him to walk us through what this would do.

The first thing is that it will designate any alleged abortion crime as the lowest priority for the police department, meaning the police should not be focusing on these they should be handling other more urgent priorities before they ever touch anything related to any abortion type crime.

And the second thing that the resolution will do is it will limit the use of city funds for any investigation regarding any alleged abortion crime, meaning that we don't want the police to be creating an abortion crimes task force or an abortion crimes kind of database or anything like that.

We don't want them to be staffing it up, you know, obviously if someone falls a report, we have to take that report, but we don't want really much to be done after the report is made.

And do you have the votes necessary and the support necessary to get this past at this point?

We do Austin City Council is generally speaking very supportive of abortion rights.

We do have to be careful just because we may have some conflict with the state. And so we just want to kind of thread that needle very carefully and try to make a resolution and policies that are as legally defensible as possible.

Yeah, so to that end, how can you legally on the local level on the city level circumvent Texas state laws that are banning abortions?

We're not legalizing it per se. In other words, the resolution is not saying that abortion will be legal in Texas.

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