I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

The Battle of Women's Health and Reproductive Rights with Planned Parenthood President, Cecile Richards.

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

I feel like what's happened is somehow politics has gotten involved now

in such a way that women just aren't able to access even basic health care in America.

99% of women in this country use family planning.

I can absolutely guarantee you what they don't want is politicians

making the most personal private decision that women and their families make.

There has to be in this country

a public health care system that will ensure that women can get access to the care that they

need regardless of religion. Thanks for joining us. In the 40-plus years since the Supreme

Court affirmed a woman's right to an abortion with its Roe v. Wade decision,

conservatives and the religious right have crusaded to overturn it, sometimes peacefully, sometimes not.

Thanks to a sustained legal strategy in particular, which includes achieving a Supreme Court majority of

five conservative Catholic men, all appointed by Republican presidents, they have been inching

towards success. This session alone, the Court limited health insurance coverage for contraception

and made it easier for protesters to demonstrate outside abortion clinics. Meanwhile,

several states have already passed regulations that effectively restrict access to safe legal

clinics. More than half the American women of reproductive age now live in states hostile to

abortion access. Let me repeat that. More than half the women of reproductive

age now live in states hostile to their constitutional rights. In Washington, Senate Democrats

have introduced the Women's Health Protection Act to counter those state and local restrictions

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