'We have nothing here': AL clinic Director on the lack of abortion access in the South - Velshi MSNBC

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Less than a year after the Dobbs ruling, the American South has largely become an abortion desert – and it’ll become worse when Florida enacts its new six-week ban. The focus has recently turned to the abortion pill mifepristone and ensuring it stays legal and accessible. But, the outcome of the mifepristone ruling may not affect the South as much as people might think. “One thing that I want to make extraordinarily clear about this medication abortion fight is that it does not impact the South,” says Robin Marty, Operations Director for the healthcare clinic West Alabama Women’s Center.

“It is going to not have any effect on us whatsoever because we have no abortion…We have nothing here.” As access to abortion care continues to shrink largely in Republican-led states, the spillover effect it creates will impact abortion-friendly states the most. “This is going to be a flood on all of the clinics that will make a domino effect, that will make abortion extraordinarily difficult, even for people who thought that they were safe.” - Aired on 04/15/2023.

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1. unbelievable how far we have regressed

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2. I remember when Congresswoman Madeline Dean told a tragic story about her mother-in-law

Who grew up without a mother. She had been the youngest of six and when her mother became pregnant again she was told that the baby would be stillborn and that she would not survive the birth. And that's exactly what happened - back in 1930. Back then there was nothing to be done. Now we have medical advances to avoid such tragedies, but Republicans have successfully managed to turn back the clock.