And I couldn't get a single Republican interested in these very low cost interventions that can dramatically improve survival for the babies. And the Republicans were just not interested. Abortion bans are here for one reason and they kill women. ProPublica has already announced that abortion bans. They have found seven instances that are verifiable where women would be alive today if that abortion ban had not been on the books. And I think about these women who, you know, many of them spent their final days on earth desperately knowing that they needed an abortion, desperately trying to find somebody who would provide it for them, failing and then dying. (20:06–20:17)
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