Senator Cassidy, the help committee, which you're the chair of, has a hearing here tomorrow in this very room on protecting women from abortion drugs.

In April of 2021, the Biden administration's Food and Drug Administration stopped requiring that the abortion drug be dispensed to women in person.

Now, what message do you hope that this hearing tomorrow will express to the Trump

FDA about the abortion bill? We need to rehumanize the issue. During the COVID pandemic,

the idea was, at least the rationale was, that a doctor or patient visit would not be needed

because of the threat of exposing someone to COVID.

Okay.

That's passed.

And the people who advocate this relaxed policy try and minimize what's going on and the potential

negative impact of these pills.

Well, what's going on when a child is losing his life? That's number

one. But let's just take it from the perspective of the mother. Not having an inpatient visit,

which right now the Biden administration says you don't have to. Not having an inpatient visit

means that it's possible that the woman has an ectopic pregnancy if she takes the pill that that can threaten her life

when her tube ruptures. It's possible that she's gone too many weeks past the time when she

should take the pill because it's only, I think it's 11 weeks or something like that. She could

be past that date. And it's possible she's being coerced into taking it.

Tomorrow, the Louisiana Attorney General will testify about two cases in which the woman did not want

to take the pill. But somebody who had emotional control over her, forced her to take the pill,

watched her take it, and made sure she swallowed it, and then she aborted. And she lives with that regret. Now, I just got off

of an airplane, and I noticed in the bathroom, there's a sign that says, if you are being trafficked, call this number, tell a flight attendant.

That young woman who's being trafficked, there's a concern for her.

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