Welcome back to Inside the Hive. I'm Emily Jane Fox. I am here with Cecil Richards who

needs no introduction, but she is the co-chair of American Bridge. She is the former president

of Planned Parenthood, a lifelong supporter of the cause. We're just so grateful to have

you here, Cecil. Welcome. Yeah, no great to be with you.

Well, there's no voice that we wanted to hear from more than you this last week. I'm

just wondering in the week since we heard the news about Ro, what your feeling has been.

I guess Emily, like a lot of folks, I vacillate between quite hot anger and despair because

I'm from Texas and have spent the last several months deeply in touch with people there.

I know already what it looks like to live in a country or a state where you can no longer

get access to, not only not get access to safe and legal abortion, but even make fundamental

decisions about pregnancy. I mean, we've seen everything in Texas from young women being

thrown into jail to folks not being able to talk to a high-risk OBGYN about a very complex

pregnancy and everything in between. I don't believe that's the country that Americans

want, but we're going to have to fight like hell to restore this right. I want to talk

to you about that. What from the time that you have spent in Texas? I know you are from

there. Your mother was governor of the state, and I know that you've been doing so much

work there over the last few months. What have we seen in Texas over the last year that

is a preview of what has to come in at least nine of the states who have changed their

laws since last week and the many states who are considering changing their laws in the

coming weeks? Well, of course, first we begin to see people rushing in the minute they

thought they even might be pregnant, because of course the Texas law has been that you

can't get a legal abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and just create a sort of wholesale

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