As conservatives, we know that getting an abortion
is as easy as getting a cab in New York City.
Cab!
Roe v. Wade
in some of the most permissive abortion laws
anywhere in the world.
Do you want abortion on demand?
-Abortion on demand... -Abortion on demand...
Yet somehow the liberals complain
that we've gotten in the way of their abortion on demand,
and now they won't stop talking about the state of Mississippi.
While you weren't looking, the governor of Mississippi
is trying to make his state
the hardest place in America to get an abortion.
Now we don't have access
to safe and legal abortion services.
Clearly Republicans are trying to take us back
to the days when women died
from unsafe abortions in this country.
GREY:
So we came to the only Planned Parenthood in Mississippi
to show you just how easy it is to get an abortion.
In what's sure to be
The Opposition's
-All right. -(both grunting)
Shouldn't have packed all these Bibles.
Hey. So, we'd like two abortions, please.
-Two abortions now. -Yeah.
Here in Mississippi, the landscape
-that the politicians have created -Uh-huh.
have made it so difficult
that places like our health centers
can't provide a full range of services.
-Okay, I feel like that was a very loaded no. -Yeah.
That's correct.
THURMAN:
this clinic doesn't offer abortions.
GREY:
States are introducing more bills
to prevent access to care.
Right here in Mississippi,
the state legislature passed a bill
banning abortion at 15 weeks.
I think these laws are tactics to start to chip away
access to what the
as the legal standard in the United States.
THURMAN:
how come there's a clinic right next door?
GREY:
based on the fact that their website
clearly targets people seeking abortions.
We don't do abortions,
and we don't refer for abortions.
-(record scratches) -BOTH:
The building next door is a fake women's health center,
and these centers that exist all over the country
provide women distorted information
and often inaccurate information.
That is, like, the worst prank but, like, the best prank.
It's like
THURMAN:
of these fake women's health centers,
aka crisis pregnancy centers,
than there are Starbucks.
But it's still so easy.
If you're a woman who wanted to access abortion care
in the state of Mississippi, unfortunately,
you'll have to drive to Jackson, Mississippi.
THURMAN:
You know what that means.
BOTH:
GREY:
with a road trip?
Imagine if you were a woman who had a job
GREY:
Or needed to put the children
that you had at home in childcare.
THURMAN:
And the financial resources to drive 100 miles.
THURMAN:
The 100 mile trip
from Hattiesburg to Jackson flew by.
GREY:
get to have an even longer road trip.
Now that we've made it
to the state's only abortion clinic,
we can show you how easy it is to get abortions on demand.
THURMAN:
We are here for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I would absolutely counsel people
that the Lord says all fornicators
have their place in the lake of fire.
And so we are here crying out for people to consider
that we stand before a holy and righteous god.
You want to go back to when abortion was illegal
and no one had abortions.
-Oh, wait. -They had them.
But they were illegal and dangerous
-and they died. -People were dying. Yeah.
GREY:
Well, it's no different than at the Holocaust.
...we could finally go inside
with the help of a clinic escort
protecting women from protesters.
What a breeze.
THURMAN:
to Shannon Brewer, the clinic's director,
about how getting an abortion was so freaking easy.
No, it's not... it's not that easy to get an abortion.
Um, you have to call, schedule an appointment.
GREY:
all you need is an appointment. Then...
You have to speak with a counselor about your options.
THURMAN:
a counselor is legally obligated
to read messaging from the state
designed to dissuade you from getting an abortion.
GREY:
It's a two-visit process.
For (bleep) sake.
There's a 24-hour waiting period.
THURMAN:
to think about the choice they've already made,
it's still pretty on demand.
-Oh, hey. What did you get? -Okay.
I got some water, some fruit snacks,
-oh, and a gun. -Oh, cool.
Yeah, super easy to get here.
Thank God they don't have a 24-hour waiting period.
-Right? -Right?
GREY:
you'll need to take time off work
and spend money on a hotel.
This looks good.
Planned Parenthood wants America to start having more abortions
because that's liberation.
-I like this. Good choice. -Thank you.
THURMAN:
as long as it's a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday,
because those are the only days
they're able to fly in doctors from out of state.
GREY:
'cause this was so smooth.
Just ask this woman, who requested
that we conceal her identity.
She finished getting her own super-duper easy abor...
No, it wasn't easy at all.
THURMAN:
I already have four kids.
Me and my husband did not plan to have any more kids.
Took me two weeks to get the money together.
Within the first six to ten weeks,
it's $600 for the procedure.
When you are ten weeks or even a day over ten weeks,
it's $800, and you cannot do the pill.
You can only do the surgical procedure.
That's kind of expensive.
-Good thing everybody in Mississippi is rich. -Yeah.
No, the majority of women here are struggling
to, you know, make ends meet.
Everything's been stripped away from them.
The childcare has been stripped away,
Medicaid's been stripped away.
All of these things are being taken away from them.
The option to have an abortion is being taken away, also.
In talking to you right now, it sort of sounds like
if we do want to reduce abortions,
maybe we should have better child welfare services.
-Comprehensive health care. -Contraception.
-Better sex education. -Maternity-paternity leave.
THURMAN: Yeah.
(both laugh)
THURMAN: That's crazy. That's doing way too much.
-Just don't have sex. -I don't care about you
-after you're born. -We don't care.
After you're born, it's like, "Go on. Go on."
-Get a job. -Yeah.
I don't... I just don't usually talk to people
this, like, so stupid. I'm so sorry.
GREY:
and you have to deal with crisis pregnancy centers,
closed clinics, protesters, waiting periods,
misinformation, and countless other laws
getting in the way of you helping women?
THURMAN:
to getting an abortion.
But surely there were abortions on demand somewhere nearby.
NEWSMAN: Alabama's governor signed into law
tough new restrictions on abortion clinics...
NEWSMAN 2: Louisiana has just passed
some of the strictest abortion laws in the country.
NEWSMAN 3: Tennessee will be building a monument
to unborn children on state capitol grounds,
and don't even (bleep) try going to Iowa.