What Next - Is Planned Parenthood Stepping Up?
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🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the end of Roe – a historic decision that’s led to long lines, clinic closures, and a flood of abortion bans across the country. Planned Parenthood has always been in the political crosshairs… but now, their role is arguably more important than ever. What does America’s largest abortion provider look like in the post-Roe era? We sit down with its CEO to find out.
Guest: Alexis McGill Johnson, CEO of Planned Parenthood
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| 0:00.0 | Alexis McGill Johnson says she spent her last year on the road. |
| 0:11.0 | How many states have you visited? |
| 0:12.3 | Oh my goodness. |
| 0:13.3 | I wish I had a number off the top of my head. |
| 0:15.1 | I've been quite throughout the South. |
| 0:17.5 | I've been to Missouri. |
| 0:19.7 | I've been to Illinois. |
| 0:20.9 | I've been to North Carolina. |
| 0:22.5 | I've been to Texas. |
| 0:24.8 | Each one of these trips took Alexis to a different abortion clinic. |
| 0:29.2 | She's the president of Planned Parenthood. |
| 0:31.6 | So this cross-country trek is just one of the ways she's been trying to understand the impact |
| 0:37.2 | of what happened a year ago when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. |
| 0:43.7 | Everywhere I go, band states, you know, the first thing you hear when you walk into a clinic |
| 0:49.7 | is the silence. |
| 0:53.7 | Like the lack of access that is happening when you are in certain parts that have been |
| 0:58.7 | set up to provide the care they're able to. |
| 1:04.8 | Are they literally empty? |
| 1:06.3 | Like the phones aren't ringing? |
| 1:08.1 | No, I mean, it's like you go into like a recovery room that you would expect to be, you |
| 1:14.6 | know, filled with patients and you, it's empty. |
| 1:20.4 | I wonder if in some ways you've kind of seen a tale of two clinics. |
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