last year Texas past a series a very draconian anti-abortion laws
when you do this did her best to stop them from going into effect but
unfortunately they did
%uh starting in November now we have some %uh the preliminary results all
those laws go into effect
and up primarily is that as these actual abortion providing clinics which also
provide many other services
to women and men in many cases are closing down
they're out the gap is being taken up by these anti-abortion pregnancy crisis
centers
the call until medical clinics although most of them provide absolute no medical
services what so ever
out what in particular is the McAllen Pregnancy Center
which is now gonna play a very important role as community since McCown
actual abortion clinic has been shut down that Macallan Pregnancy Center
release that at last year
showing what they do let's take a look walk-up to McAllen Pregnancy Center
my name is George E known Silas and I represent the center
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this see-saw their the USANA grams in many of the if they don't use them for
medical reasons though they say but just to see the baby
yeah of course it's a way of making the woman feel guilty she is seeking an
abortion site to humanize a fetus or zygote in some cases
ed I have obviously a very huge problem with these pregnancy crisis centers
because
everything they do is extremely deceptive a lot of them have absolutely
no medical training whatsoever
however you walk in and they're wearing white coats as if the real doctors
and then they sat down and made literally live to the women
about what an abortion does to your body so for instance they will say
ok you get an abortion you will develop breast cancer which has been debunked in
study after study
%uh and basis care to women and they force them to have the baby is right-
would be coerced them into having the babies in my opinion
and what I always wonder about is okay so Texas doesn't like the idea of women
having the right to choose
so if you are going to pressure these women into having babies they can afford
what do you think about social services are governmental programs that will help
them raise the children financially right
there again about as well so you really pro-life
I highly doubt it when you're saying that we should use taxpayer money toward
the services for the pro-life but it can be a shitty life that I really care
about the quality other
a nice being a taxpayer dollars that money goes toward these
these billion we're here we're gonna get all that yeah okay let me give you some
numbers really fast before we get into it are commentary
so I i said that that was the problem I see is that because it wanted the
prather the areas the law that was passed was that you have to have
admitting privileges although you don't need admitting privileges
to actually perform an abortion they require it now that's why many these are
closing down
and so here's to many areas of Texas in Dallas to abortion clinics close down
but don't worry you've got seven pregnancy crisis clinics
in Fort Worth to also closed for pregnancy clinics
the Texas Panhandle does not have any clinics that can provide abortions
but it does have four places where the pretend to be doctors three close in San
Antonio to pregnancy clinics
waco the last to close down and their to pregnancy clinics and so these areas you
drive up to 170 miles now
to receive an abortion on yeah and so just give an idea on what how the pitch
themselves are white people would go to these
all these clinics offer free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds which be attracted
to low-income women
whose access to regulated health providers was severely curtailed by
state-mandated budget cuts
in 2011 so easy to the really getting hit on all sides here
the budget is being cut for legitimate services and so people feel that they
need to turn to these alternative sources
%uh help support and as you said since 2005 the state health department is
rerouted
thirty million dollars from actual family planning coffers towards price
discrepancy centers
night bended Texas I've been to Texas a lot going to Houston all the time
dallis right San Antonio also the Riverwalk
very nice very nice that people don't seem that stupid
they seem like a regular people yet they had visited their government is probable
back its Tanner something inside what how backwards can you guys be
and what are the people in those like so there's gotta be smart educated
rich people in all those cities and that is go I guess we risk and I have
care for women anybody that is that so they don't so somebody made to the
budget doctors just don't get together and open up an abortion clinic in saint
but it'll be a in jail
well it was a level ending when the days make this simple rest and where they do
simple day be happy
I think they've been trying to been really trying I think part of the issue
here and you know I'm from Texas
on race live their toes 24 are you from texas or did you just gotta know I
wanted five years ago I was there for five years I i with the for 24 years my
life I
I know what it's like growing up in Texas and yes there are a lot of very
intelligent people
fundamental to this issue is that not only are there a lot of very intelligent
people interact with their love buried religious people in texas
and my biggest concern with this legislation the legislation that led to
the
to these have medical clinics or whatever they're calling them what are
they holding the bag right
pregnant the crisis center aside from what and was talking about which is my
moral
objections to this is that this is a fundamental
First Amendment violation this is fundamentally unconstitutional
putting legislation in place that shuts down
a woman's right to choose shut down abortion clinics and raises these
religiously funded or religiously
up inspire in for my were cross-linked a rather parity and
is in the I think this flies in the face
a secular run governments wise in the face up separating church and state
and more than any other issues that I have with that from a moral standpoint
I don't understand how this is fucking legal well that's all I can say is this
get they have the governorship they have control the state legislature
please don't know but I like how it will see her the federal but he wants to
tuition
but like the old man is in getting involved in in an NBA and the Supreme
Court is not a problem right now gets involved is it something actually makes
it to the Supreme Court where are the cases like you were saying where's the
civil disobedience where the women raising single in Texas
so they would actually work its way through the court system I delay since
November sure those will conduct their newspeople
intended to be a however I'm not outraged that machine that we're talking
about it
like the cards are so tire you out in Texas I mean anything
very very conservative lambs so I should jump in with two thing so what are the
reasons why
this is happening so easily is because when it comes to hospital admitting
privileges
oftentimes these hospitals will deny other admitting privileges to the
clinics
because they have religious views themselves or their religious views will
shut down these clinics anyway
%uh but I did make a point about the federal government not getting involved
that's actually
untrue %uh at some point a few years ago
the federal government told you know Texas we're not going to give you
any funding for Medicaid if you refuse to take that money and put it into the
abortion clinics right
but at in the end it didn't matter because they successfully pass that
legislation that shut these clinics anyway
and that's a great thing about Texas to is texas has a really thriving economy
like Texas as a whole is probably the state that the best position
deny federal funding even during the huge like market crashed during the
finance bubble Texas was minimally affected compared to a lot of other I
housing market and their depend able to insulate themselves in that way
unfortunately you still can't violate the United States Constitution
fortunately it you can be able to: and up
yeah fortunately got done poorly protected so hopefully what we'll see is
I mean that the legislative process and
the judicial process unfortunately is very slow in this country and we've got
to the president's that
by people actually taking course cases table to set the spring practice to a
Texas elect ann richards
and then just go to the dark ages how that have been remaining Richards was a
lot mile
democrat you mean I'm in the best sense def and
and then it's just been dark ever since then right it's been george bush in
repairing & like
I think the mayor of Houston was on LGBT
yeah we heard Katie that where we've seen kinda polite
in Texas you know we know that often is it alright then well community
well let's bear in mind though we've got this he said you've been to the city is
that the true but if you go out into the rural areas of Texas like
you go camping in Bandera very different than Austin elected gun barrel city
that the good one there's another one called white settlement not live no
like yeah entire there's a nice entry up there I go ahead and make your head
yeah but but hey they don't know about that I
and then I can say from my time in Austin I remember driving down at
35 and seeing the prices Pregnancy Center billboards
and like I i even back then I had an idea of what the actual objective those
places are
but just given ideas and is our perception what these places are trying
to do
the national institute a family life advocates were setting up the
these places across the country says ultrasound which they push opens a
window to the wall where the mother is first introduced her unborn child
by allowing this connection to happen medical clinics
experienced dramatic increases in the percentage the patients that she was
life
so when you shut down a clinic that provides abortions but also breast
cancer screenings St treatments and things like that
you not just hurt women in terms of their overall health but your entire
mission is different
and medical clinic is there to solve people's health problems and to keep
them healthy
this place is just there to provide religious propaganda and even in their
advertisements you saw
they had people praying and they had crosses and for a person a young person
who gets pregnant accidentally in an austin and sees the billboard and finds
out though maybe there's no actual abortion clinics around I can go there
to be the same sort of thing
and they walk in there and they find someone in a white coat who lies to them
about their fundamental role in that person's life
who takes a min to put the Rosary in their hands I don't want a person going
into a clinic in seeing across
or keron or the hammer of Thor it supposed to be a fucking medical clinic
where you can receive medical care for the problem you have yeah
and I and i think that that hopefully these cases that you've alluded to a
common hopefully we'll get to the Supreme Court
and hopefully the Supreme Court won't be overwhelmingly are conservative and how
the
evaluate these laws but we're still potentially a long way away from there
and
I feel bad for the people in texas we're going to be irreparably harm for the
rest of their life by this law
it doesn't matter if in a year or two years the Supreme Court changes that
it's unreal now and if you get pregnant accidentally now
you're gonna be affected by an even even in Austin where they said okay if you're
gonna have one is cry skunks you have to put up a billboard or sign outside that
says you don't actually providing medical care
well judge looked at it and said well we'll consider it but while we're
considering that they don't have to do it right as they think that that
violates free speech
yet which is absolutely insane I mean and
a huge issue here huge secondary consequence of this is that women are
gonna go into these clinics
women who are low income who are low information
I'm individual here and they're going to get an ultrasound
non diagnostically it's only gonna be there to show them you have life inside
a view
and they're going to oftentimes I would
here assume okay that means that I have a baby my baby maybe they're convinced
to keep the baby will my I see my baby it has a heartbeat it's probably say
they may be less likely to get prenatal care
they may be less likely to follow up intake air bed infant because they're
going to a place
that is sure rating as a medical clinic but not actually offering any medical
care
yeah they're huge ramifications to that to going to a place that pretends to
have some sort of medical credibility and they have none whatsoever
and it's amazing to me that public funds are going to these organizations
you know even considering their religious %uh slant even considering the
fact that they're just
doling out propaganda as if it's true yeah thirty million dollars have state
health department funding has been a real routed
from for family planning into these crisis
pregnant female those ultrasound machines are not cheap nothing clean air
saving money by not receiving any actual training
and I'm not right