
Study on contraception, Housing Covenants law, Trump trial opening statements
Season 2024 Episode 81 | 27mVideo has Closed Captions
Study on contraceptives, housing convenants law, opening statements in Trump's trial
Study on contraceptives and contraceptive use following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, a new bill is heading to the governor's desk that would remove all discriminatory covenants against minorities in titles of homes, opening statements were made this morning in former president Donald Trump's trial.
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Study on contraception, Housing Covenants law, Trump trial opening statements
Season 2024 Episode 81 | 27mVideo has Closed Captions
Study on contraceptives and contraceptive use following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, a new bill is heading to the governor's desk that would remove all discriminatory covenants against minorities in titles of homes, opening statements were made this morning in former president Donald Trump's trial.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> COMING UP ON ARIZONA HORIZON OPENING STATEMENTS GOT UNDER WAY IN THE HUSH MONEY CRIMINAL TRIFLE TRUMP ANALYSIS AND TONIGHT A NEW LAW ALLOWS HOMEOWNERS TO REMOVE RACIST HOUSING DEEDS AND A REPORT SHOWS HOW THE DECISION ON OVER TURN ROE V WADE IMPACTED REPRODUCTIVE CARE THAT AND MORE ON ARIZONA HORIZON.
>> I'M TED SIMONS THE SUPREME COURT REJECTED KARI LAKE AND MARCH FINCH EM'S LAWSUIT.
LAKE WHO LOST IN 202 AND FINCHAM LOST THE SECRETARY OF STATE RACEMENTS THE COURT TO HEAR THE APPEAL AFTER A JUDGE DISMISSED THEIR CASE CALLING RIGGED VOTING MINUTES A FRIVOLOUS COMPLAINT AND ORDERS SANCTIONINGS.
NEXT STEP THE NINTH CIRCUIT A AGREED WITH THE LOWER COURT NOUT SUPREME COURT REJECTION PUTS AN END TO THE 2 YEAR LEGAL EFFORT.
>> SUPREME COURT TODAY HEARD ORAL ARGUMENTS TO AFFECT HOW COMMUNITY TREAT PEOPLE HOR HOMELESS.
OREGONMENTS TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO SLEEP ON OPINION LAND.
SUCH AN ORDINANCE AMOUNTS TO CRUEL PUNISHMENTMENT IN THE KEY QUESTIONING FOUND IT SKEPTICAL THAT THE ORDINANCE I HAVE LASTS THE INSTITUTION.
>> MUNICIPALITIES ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH HOMELESS ISSUEERS WATCHING THE CASE AS ARE ADVOCATE FOR HOME AND WILLS UNSHELTERED >> JURY IN THE HUSH MONEY TRIAL AGAINST TRUMP HEARD THE CASE STARTING WITH OPENING STATEMENTS WITH PROSECUTORS SAYING TRUMP ENGAGE IN THE SEC SCANDAL.
WITH CLAIMS TRUMP DID NOTHING ILLEGAL THE TESTIMONY STARTED WITH PROSECUTORS CALLING ENQUIRER PUBLISHER CLAIMED WAS INVOLVED IN CONSEEMING DAMAGING STORIES INCLUDING A PORN STAR ACCOUNT WITH AN AFFAIR THIS TRUMP HADMENTED KEEP SECRET.
A FEW MINUTES BEFORE COURT WAS ADJOURNED FOR THE DAY.
>> AND FOR MORE ON TODAY'S OPENING STATEMENTS AND START OF TESTIMONY THE TRUMP CRIMINAL TRIAL WE WELCOME FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY THE PARTNER GOOD TO SEE YOU THANK YOU FOR JOINING US >> THANK YOU, TED.
>> OPENING ARGUMENTS BEFORE WE GOAT WHAT WAS HEARD AND SAID.
THERE WERE TWO OBJECTIONS DURING THE OPENING ARGUMENTS.
I MEAN HOW UNUSUAL.
YOU DON'T HAVE OBJECTIONS DO YOU?
>> THAT IS UNUSUAL IS THAT THESE ARE OPENING STATEMENT IN WHICH BOTH THE PROSECUTION AND THE FENCE RELATE WHAT THEY EXPECT THE FACTS TO BE NOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO ARGUE YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO CONVINCE THE YOUR THAT WHO WE HAVE FACTS AND HERE OTHER IN REFERENCES YOU DRAW AND THE DEFENDANT IS GET.
THE PROSECUTION ARE NOT GET SAYS THE DEFENSE.
>> THE PROSECUTION WAS CAREFUL TO ADHERE TO THAT RULE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE TALK ANYTHING WHEN WE EXPECT THE FACTS TO BE AND THE EVIDENCE TO SHOW.
THE DEFENSE CAME CLOSE TO THAT LINE AND KROSDZED CROSSED TO THE WORLD OF ARGUMENT.
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S LAWYER SAID, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY MR. TRUMP IS LIKE ME A FATHER AND HUSBAND.
IDEA IS YOU ARE TRYING TO CONVINCE THE JURY YOU FIND I'M IN ANY WAY APPEALING OR LIKEABLE, SOME OF THAT WILL RUB OFF ON MY CLIENT ABOUT YOU WILL HEAR UNPLEASANT FACTS.
TO SIGH I'M LIKE MY CLIENT IS IMPROPER ARGUMENT.
NOT ALLOWED.
HERE THE DEFENSE KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DEGREE.
POPULAR FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS AN EXPERIENCED FORMER CAREER PROSECUTOR.
HE KNOWS AND KNOWS THIS IS A WAY AS THEY SAY TO THROW THE SKUNK IN THE JURY BOX.
SOUNDS LIKURE POISONING THE JURY.
LOOKING FOR A PERSON TO FIND RECENTLY DOUBT.
PROSECUTION HAS TO PROVE THEIR KACHLS ALL TRUMP NEED SYSTEM ONE.
>> SAY THEY ARE THROWING THE SKUNK AND UNRINGING THE B.
ARE THEY GOING TO KEEP DOING THIS?
>> WE SEE THROUGHOUT THIS TRIAL THIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY IF WHAT WE SAW TODAY IS AN INDICATION WE'LL SEE WILL PRESS THE ENVELOPE AND CONTINUE TO MOVE BEYOND THE NORMS FOR DEFENSE.
AND THAT'S NOT UNUSUAL IN THE OTHER TRIALS.
YOU THE CARROLL CASE.
THE FEDERAL JUDGE THERE TIME AFTER TIME HAD TO REMINDS MR. TRUMP'S LAWYERS HOW TO CONDUCT SDMEMGZ WHAT WAS APPROPRIATE.
YOU HAVE A CLIENT WHO WANTS PRESS THE ENVELOPE IN HIS LIFE.
AND I EXPECT HE IS ASKING LAWYERS TO DOT SAME IN THEIR PROFESSION.
AND THE MORE YOU PUSH AT THIS TIME MORE OBJECTIONS THERE ARE THE MORE LIKELY WHAT?
THIS CASE COULD BE THROWN OUT OUR SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN AND THEY WOULD RETRY IT WHICH MEANS A DELAY.
WHICH IS WHAT HE WANTS >> IT IS AND HERE IS THE PROBLEM THERE IS A RULE THEY TEACH YOU IN LAW SCHOOL AND WORKS LIMP BUFFER MAKE AN OBJECTION THINK ABOUT, IS IT OBJECTIONABLE AND WHAT THE OTHER SIDE SAYING HURTFUL OR HARMFUL.
I DO NEED TO MAKE AN OBJECTION?
EVERY TIME THE PROSECUTION STANDSES UP AND OBJECTS THE FEAR IS THE JURY THINKS OR WILL THINK THAT SOMEHOW WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP EVIDENCE FROM THEM THEY SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO HEAR.
>> A BALANCE FOR THE PROSECUTION TO PLAY AND THE, END OF THE SPECTRUM.
WHAT MAKES THE CASE INTERESTING IS THIS IS A CASE LIKE THOUSANDS THAT TAKE PLACE ALL THE TIME.
THE DEFENDANT IN CHARGE BY PROSECUTORS COMMITTED A CRIME.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT IS THIS IS A FORMER PRESIDENT WHO SITS IN THE DOEKT AS THE DEFENDANT.
THE PROSECUTION CAN'T AND PROBABLY WILL NEVER MOVE TO DO WHEN THEY COULD DO IN ANY OTHER CASE SAY THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY GONE SO FAR WE THINK THE TRIAL NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE ALL OVER.
START BACK, GET A NEW JURY AND BEGIN THE OPENING STATEMENTS BECAUSE, TRUMP WOULD LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN TO SEE A DELAY IN THIS TRIAL >> IF THAT IS -- THOSE OTHER SCHEME ATTICS AND THE LAN AND THE STRATEGY.
AND IT IS THAT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE THINGS USUALLY SEE.
DO WE EXPECT THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE AS WE GO ON WITH TESTIMONY?
WITH EVERYTHING THIS IS INVOLVED IS THIS JUST NOT GOING TO BE YOUR REGULAR TRIAL.
>> NOT GOING FOOTBALL A REGULAR TRIAL THE DEFENDANT IS FAR FROM ANY REGULAR DEFENDANT.
THE TEST IS NOT FOR THE LAWYERS BUTT JUDGE TO SEE WHAT CONTROL HE CAN EXERCISE.
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF THIS CASE.
>> OKAY.
AND I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE GAG ORDERS.
TRUMP IS GOING AFTER THE CASE AFTER THE COURT PROCEEDINGS OUT THERE CRITICIZING PEOPLE AND TALKING ABOUT A WITNESS.
MICHAEL COHEN AND YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT YOU THEIR IS SUPPOSED TO BE A GAG ORDER THERE IS A HEARING TOMORROW REGARDING PREVIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT BREAK THE GAG?
WHAT?
WHAT POINT DOES HE IS HE -- GIVEN MESSAGE THE SERIOUSNESS TO KNOCK IT OFF?
>> AGAIN HAD IS AN EXTRAORDINARY DIFFICULT CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION AND THE JUDGE WHO HAS TO CONTROL THE ENVIRONMENT.
IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER DEFENDANT AND THE DEFENDANT WERE TO HAVE THREATENED WITNESS THE JUDGES FAMILY, MADE IT RISKY FOR PEOPLE TO DO THEIR JOBS, THAT INDIVIDUAL MAKING THE THREATS WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN CUSTODY.
THAT'S A SIMPLE WAY TO VIEW HOW IT IT IS THINGS OCCUR WHEN YOU CONFRONT THE JUSTICE SNS THAT WAY.
HERE, THE LIKELIHOOD HE WILL BE TAKEN IN CUSTODY IS SLIGHT.
MECHANICS MAKING THAT HAPPEN WOULD BE CUST.
HOW DO YOU PROVIDE SECURITY DETAILS.
>> FOR A FORMER PRESIDENT IN CUSTODY WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
CAN HE APPEAR IN COURT?
THERE ARE DIFFICULT PROBLEMS THE THREAT CAN'T BE INCARCERATION BUT MONEY.
AND FOR A PERSON WHO IS A BILLION AIRA THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY IS NOT A PENALTY.
WE HAVE TO SEE WHAT THE JUDGE FASHIONS TO KEEP THIS DEFENDANT FROM THREATENING OR CAUSING A RISK OF HARM TO THE WITNESS >> NOT A SIGNIFICANT PENALTY AND HE WILL NOT PAY IT AND SPEND THE LIFETIME TRYING TO FIGHT THAT.
I THOUGHT ONE THICK INTERESTING THEY ARE MAKING HIM TO BE A VICTIM WE UNDERSTAND THAT.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG.
NOTHING WRONG IS INFLUENCING THE ELECTION IT IS CALLED DEMOCRACY.
OKAY.
NOTHING WRONG.
AND YET THEY STILL DENY THERE WAS AN ENCOUNTER WITH STORMY DANIELS.
WHICH WAS COVERED UP ALLEGEDLY, TO GET TO THE ELECTION.
IT IS -- AM I SEEING A CIRCULAR LOGIC?
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT ARGUMENT?
>> YOU POINTED OUT TED, THIS IS A GOOD DEFENSE TACTIC.
YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE ONE JUROR WHO WILL EMBRACE SOME THEORY YOU THROW OUT AND WOVRN COULD BE THE OTHER ARGUMENTS THAT WAS MADE THIS IS A CASE ABOUT 34 DOCUMENTS AND PIECES OF PAPER.
THAT WERE THE 34 FALSE BUSINESS FILINGS THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT MADE.
THAT TRIVIALINGIZATION OF WHAT OCCURRED IS SOMETHING THAT SOME JUROR MIGHT HERE DRAEKTED AND THE ONE JUROR THAT HOLDS OUT FROM THE GUILTY VERDICT.
SO, CIRCULAR YES, BUT THE LOGIC FROM THE DEFENSE SIDE IS ONE IS THAT WORK IN THE OTHER CASES AND COULD WORK HERE >> THROW IT OUT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
ARE WE REWRITING THE RULES FOR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION OF EXECUTIVES.
OF PRESIDENTS IN THIS COUNTRY?
>> WHAT I WOULD SAY THAT IS WE HAVE NOT CHANGED OVER TWO 20 YEARS IT HAS BEEN THE LAW AND THE SPORT WILL RULE ON THIS THE PRESIDENTS DEPONENT ENJOY BENEFITS THAT YOU AND I WOULD NOT OTHERWISE ENJOY.
THE PRESIDENT HERE IS BEING CHARGED WITH A CRIME THAT OCCURRED OUTSIDE OF HIS TIME IN OFFICE AND A PERIOD OF TIME IN OFFICE AS FORMER PRESIDENT NIXON COULD HAVE OR ANY OTHER FORMER PRESIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN AND A FUTURE PRESIDENT.
>> THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT THAN YOU AND I >>.
NO DIFFERENT WAY THE COURT IS THE PROCEEDINGS.
>> THAT IS DIFFERENT >> PAUL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ANALYSIS WE APPRECIATE IT.
>> THANK YOU.
>> GOVERNOR HOBBS SIGNED A BILL ALLOWS HOMEOWNERS TO REMOVE RACIST LANGUAGE FROM THEIR HOUSING DEEDS.
THEY HAVE LONG UNENFORCEABLE BUT INCLUDED IN OLDER HOME IN THES VALLEY >> DIANE JOINS US FOR MOROR THIS.
GOOD TO SEE YOU THANK YOU >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH IS TALK TO ME ABOUT THE THINGS.
I HEARD THERE ARE OLDER HOMES IN PHOENIX AREA.
THE PLACES THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOREVER.
THEY ARE FULL OF THE THINGS.
MINE, TOO.
>> MINE, TOO.
>> WOW >> BUILT IN 1930 >> PRIOR TO 1948, THE RED LINING WAS PROM NANLT UP IN 1968.
MANY HOMES AND SUBDIVISIONS HAD THESE COVER THENS.
MY HOUSE CAN ONLY BE SOLD TO A CAUCASIAN.
NOT BE SOLD TO ASIANS, MEXICANS, JEWS.
YES THEY ARE LITTERED THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
IN 1948 THE SUPREME COURT SAID THE COURT WOULD NOT ENFORCE THE COVENANT BUT ARE CONTINUED TO PUT ON THE VOTE SINCE 68.
>> NOW YOU LIVE NOTHING A HOME AND CURIOUS AND YOU LOOK AT THE DEED IF YOU HAVE NOT LOOKED NOW YOU SAY, WAIT.
THAT IS LIKE THIS.
WHAT DOES THIS LAW ALLOW TO YOU DO.
>> THAT HAPPENED PEOPLE DID NOT LOOK AT T. WE DID NOTED KNOW THIS.
WHAT IT ALLOWS TO YOU FILE A SIMPLE PAPER IT IS -- INCLUDED IN THE BILL AND IT IS 2 PIECE OF PAPER YOU FILL OUT YOUR NAME AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.
SAY, I WANT TO AMEND MY DEED TO REMOVE THE ILLEGAL RESTRICTIVE COVENANT.
AND YOU RECORD IT FOR 30 DOLLARS.
THAT'S T. IF YOU LIVE IN AN HOA OR PLANNED COMMUNITY YOU CAN DO IT BY GOING TO THE BOARD OF THE PLANNED COMMUNITY AND ASK THEM TO DO IT.
THEY DO DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCEDURE OF CHANGING THE CCNR.
BECAUSE IT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL.
>> BUT THIS SUGGESTS THAT BEFORE SIGNING THIS LAW, IF I HAD A HOME THIS HAD THIS COVENANT, I COULD NOT AND I DON'T WANT IT THERE I DON'T LIKE IT.
I COULD NOT DO ANYTHING?
>> EXACTLY THAT IS HOW THIS STARTED.
A PROSECUTE FESZOR WHO MOVED HERE AND PURCHASED A HOME AND SAW IT IN THE DEED AND SAID.
WHAT IS THIS?
AND HE CALLED THE REAL ESTATE AGENT.
HE WAS MARRIED.
COULD NOT BE NEGROES HIS SPOUSE WAS BLACK AND THEREFORE CALLED THE REAL ESTATE AGENT AND SAID WHAT IS THAT.
IT IS OUT DATED AND CAN'T BE ENFORCED.
I DON'T WANT IT IN THERE THERE IS NO WAY TO GET IT OUT.
HE CALLED THE TUCSON NAACP AND ASKED CAN YOU DO SOMETHING?
THEY CALLED ME.
HERE WE ARE >> INDEED >> HOW MANY HOMES?
BEFORE WE GET THE NUMBERS.
WHAT AREAS OF TOWN ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE?
>> WELL, TWO AREAS.
PRIMARILY THE DOWNTOWN WHICH HAS OLDER HOMES AND BUILT LIKE MINE 90 YEARS AGO.
THE OLDER HOME AND IT IS SUBDIVISIONS THAT ARE SPRINKLED IN THE OUTER LYING AREAS THAT RECALL BUILT BEFORE 1968.
REMEMBER IT IS ANYTHING NEW ARE THAN 1968.
SO IN TUCSON HE DID A MAPPING OF THE HOMES IN TUCSON THAT HAD THIS ON IT.
AND FOUND AREAS WHICH WERE PREVALENT AND THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND THEN THE AREAS OF OLDER SUBDIVISIONS.
>> OKAY THAT'S WHERE YOU WILL FINDS AND HOME ORDINANCE GO AND HAVE THIS DONE SCRUBBED CLEAN AND OVER AND DONE WITH?
>> IT IS IN THE SCRUBBED CLEAN >> FROM THE DEED?
>> NOT FROM THE DEED >> I THOUGHT YOU COULD REMOVE IT.
>> NO BECAUSE OF CHANGE EVER TITLE YOU CAN'T REMOVE IT AND DEED WILL NOT BE REPRINTD THAT WAS COST, THAT IS A PROBLEM WHEN THEY DID THIS IN CALIFORNIA.
SO IT WILL BE AN AMENDMENT TO THE DEED.
>> A.
>> IT WILL NOT BE YOU WILL NOT GET A NEW DEED YOU WILL HAVE AN AMENDMENT AND BE ON THE RECORD.
SO THE, REASON THAT THIS REMAINS WAS FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH >>.
OH , >> HISTORIANS CAME OUT WHEN WE WERE WORKING AND SAID WE WANT IT TO REMAIN IN THE DEED FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES YOU DON'T WANT 100 YEARS FROM NOW THEY THEY NEVER DID THIS INTERESTING.
WE DID DO IT.
>> YOU THINK THERE WOULD BE OTHER WAYS TO DO THIS RESEARCH APPARENTLY NOT.
>> YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE PIECE OF PAPER.
IT IS AM NOT REMOVE FROM THE PAPER THERE IS AN AMENDMENT PUT ON IT THAT IS RECORDED.
>> SO IF THE SMITH FAMILY IS SELLING THEIR HOME AND GOT THE DEED I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TONG I FWHAUT BECAUSE I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE AN AMENDMENT SAYING THE SMITH FAMILY UNDERSTANDS AND THEY WANT THIS OUT.
>> YES.
>> WAS THERE ARGUMENT AGAINST THIS LEGISLATION?
>> NONE.
>> I CAN'T IMAGINE ANYONE SAYING THIS IS NO GOOD >> EVERYONE WAS FOR AT THIS TIME THE LAND TITLE AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS FOR IT EVERYBODY WAS FOR IT THEY WANT TODAY THEMSELVES THEY DID NOT WANT THIS IN THERE.
IT HAD NOT HAPPENED >> LAST QUESTION.
TUCSON AND PHOENIX ARE THERE OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
IN EVERY CITY.
>> EVERY WHERE IN THE STATE.
>> OF COURSE HAD THEM IN FLAGSTAFF.
>> I'M SURE THEY DID.
>> EVERY WHERE.
>> WELL, GOOD WORK THERE.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT.
THIS IS A VERY ENLIESNING THANK YOU >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
>> REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH A FOCUS OF CONCERN SINCE SUPREME COURT OVER TURNS ROE V WADE LAST SUMMER AFFECTS OF THE DECISION HAD ON ALL ASPECTS OF REPRODUCT OF HEALTH CARE.
WITH MORE ON THAT R. WE WELCOME BREE THOMAS CEO OF AFFIRM.
WELCOME TO ARIZONA HORIZON GOOD TO HAVE YOU.
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
>> THIS REPORT TALKS ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE AUTONOMY.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IT IS >> ABILITY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO SELECT THE TYPE OF HEALTH CARE THEY WANT.
MEANING DO YOU WANT STERILIZATION.
BIRTH CONTROL BILLS ANYTHING IN BETWEEN.
I WOULD BE AIL TO ACCESS THE METHOD I WANT TO USE >> REPORT LOOKED AT IMPACT OF OVER TURNING ROE V WADE ON THAT ASPECT OF HEALTH CARE.
>> REPORT START IN THE 2019.
WE WERE LOOKING AT IMPACTS OF NEGATIVE POLICIES FROM THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION AND WE WENT TO COVID.
AND WE RAN IN DOBS.
WE LOOKED AT ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTION IN THE 3 POINTS >> OKAY.
AND THAT WAS >> GENERAL HERE WHAT DID THEY FINDS?
THEY FOUND THIS IN ARIZONA SPECIFICALLY.
5% OF WOMEN INCREASE OF 5% WERE NOT ABLE TO ACCESS THE METHOD THEY WANTED.
THAT THE QUALITY OF CARE WAS LESS THAN IT USED TO BE.
AND YOU KNOW AFTER DOBS PEOPLE STRUGGLED GET THE METHOD THEY WANTED >> INTERESTING.
ONE TYPE OF REPRODUCTEF HEALTH CARE RESTRICTION CAN IMPACT ALL SORTS OF HEALTH CARE.
>> RIGHT.
>> CORRECT.
YOU KNOW IT IS -- YOU THINK THIS DOBS AROUND ABORTION POLICY WE ARE TALKING CONTRACEPTION AND TALKING ABOUT YOU KNOW RESTRICTING ONE PIECE OF THIS PROGRAM CREATES ALL OF THE AFFECTS.
>> THE RIPPLE AFFECTS AND TARGETING ABORTION IMPACT HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS OVER ALL.
>> CORRECT.
SO, YOU KNOW PEOPLE ARE NOT DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY CAN GO TO GET THE CARE THEY WANT THEY ARE CONFUSED THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND THEY CAN ACCESS CONTRACEPTION AND GET STRUG THEY'LL WAY.
>> ARIZONA WAS INCLUDED WITH OTHER STATES.
>> CORRECT.
>> YES.
>> YEA.
WOO IOWA, WISCONSIN AND NEW JERSEY.
DID ARIZONA STAND OUT OR WAS IT COMBINED >> IT WAS COMBINED ONE STATE'S EXHIBIT ARIZONA SCORED WORSE THAN THE OTHER 3.
NEW JERSEY WAS THE CONTROLLED GROUP.
WISCONSIN AND IOWA AND ARIZONA THE OTHER POLICY CHANGES WERE MADE.
THAT'S WHERE THE 5% OF WOMEN NOT ABLE TO ACCESS THE METHOD OF CONTRACEPTION >> AND THOSE ARE BARRIERS.
>> CORRECT.
>> YEA.
>> AND IT IS SEXUAL ACTIVITY DECLINED.
>> ACCORDING TO THE REPORT AND THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN CONDOM USE.
INTERESTING HOW YOU ARE ABLE TO DLINIATE THE PIECE IN THES REPORT.
>> I SEE HIGH QUALITY CARE AS YOU MENTIONED DECREASED FOR EVERYONE.
MOST LOW FOR ARIZONA BUT EVERYONE INVOLVED.
>> YES THE 3 SEATS AND ARIZONA SPECIFICLY.
>> YEA.
SO POLICY DECISIONS WHERE DO POLICY DECISIONS AND POLICY FIT IN THIS REPORT?
>> SO, WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT WE THOUGHT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WAS GOING TO DO A GAG RULE ON THE TITLE 10 PROGRAM.
WHAT I RUN EXAMPLE THOUGHT WOULD NOT BE TIEBL REFER FOR ABORTION CARE THAT WAS THE INITIAL PART OF THE STUDY AND I SAID IN COVID PEOPLE WERE NOT GOING FOR CARE PEOPLE WERE NOT GOING TO THE DOCTOR.
AND PEOPLE GOT CONFUSED >> TITLE 10 AND GAG ORDER, WHAT WAS THAT?
>> IN 2020, 2019, TRUMP ISSUED A RULE NOT ALLOW OUR SYSTEM TO REFER TO ABORTION CARE.
IF YOU CAME IN AND HAD A PREGNANCY OPTION, COUNCILING, VISIT I'M PREGNANT WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS YOU TALK ABOUT ADOPTION AND KEEP AND CAN ABORTION.
AND UNDER TRUMP WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO DIRECT PEOPLE TO ABORTION CARE >> INTERESTING.
YOU MENTIONED COVID HOW MUCH DID IT GET IN THE WAY >> A LOT AND I THINK WE WILL SEE THE RAMIFICATIONS WHEN WE LOOK AT UPON ST I TESTING AND TREATMENT WITH THE RATES -- COME OUT FOR 2022.
MARICOPA COUNTY HAS A SYFILOUS PROGRAM WE ARE SEEING THE RAMIFICATIONS OF NOT GOING TO BE TESTED.
WHY IS ARIZONA DIFFERENT FROM NEW JERSEY AND IS UNDER CONTROL IT IS DIFFERENT.
DO WE KNOW WHY ARIZONA IS NOT FAIRING WELL IN THESE THINGS >> ONE REASON WE DON'T HAVE SEC EDUCATION.
THERE IS ABSENCE IN THAT AND THE PARENTS NOT A HEALTH COURSE IN A LOT OF SCHOOLS WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT REPRODUCTION.
HEALTH AND HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.
IN THAT WAY THAT LEADS TO MISINFORMATION.
LEADS TO PEOPLE LOOKING ON THE INTERNET FOR ANSWERS AND THOSE ARE TRUE AND SOMETIMES NOT >> AS FAR AS REVERSING THE DAMAGE, SEC SENSION ONE IDEA.
OTHER IDEAS.
>> I THINK TALKING CLEAR AND CONCISELY TO FOLKS HOW THEY ACCESS CONTRACEPTION WHAT CONTRACEPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE.
WE HAVE WWW.SEXFYI WHERE YOU GET THE SERVICE.
OUR SERVICE ARE FOR LOW OR NO COST PEOPLE ACCESS THOSE OR USE HEALTH INSURANCE.
AND TALK TO PROVIDER WHAT METHOD THEY WOULD LIKE >> LAST QUESTION WITH THE ARIZONA SUPREME COURT AND RULING HOW DOES THIS FACTOR IN TO THIS.
>> HAS A CHILLING AFFECT ON ALL REPRODUCT EVERY HEALTH CARE.
OBVIOUSLY, ABORTION CARE ACCORDING TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL END ON JUNE 8, SHE SAID.
SO THAT WILL BE ENDING THEN AND WE WILL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW TO ACCESS CONTRACEPTION.
THAT WILL BE THE NEXT LINE OF DEFENSE IN TERMS OF CARE FOR FOLKS.
I THINK TELL CONTINUE TO BE CONFUSING >> BREE THOMAS FROM AFFIRM.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
APPRECIATE IT.
>> AND THAT IS IT FOR NOW.
I'M TED SIMONS THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
YOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING.
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