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ALL: Roe cannot go.

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Keep abortion legal.

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Their body, their choice.

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My body, my choice.

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Their body, their choice.

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My body, my choice.

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RACHEL O'LEARY CARMONA:
We find that our worst

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fears have, in fact, come true.

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This is a full spectrum
of attacks on democracy.

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And it's being waged
on women's bodies.

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And it's being
waged on trans folks

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bodies and attacks
on voting rights.

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This should matter to everyone.

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There's a lot of people who
have been out in the streets

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protesting about abortion,
but what this is striking at

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is our fundamental
right to privacy.

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Our fundamental right
to bodily autonomy.

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And when the GOP gets
in power, what it does

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is it inserts itself into our
homes, into our communities,

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into our bedrooms,
and into our bodies

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themselves to begin to legislate
what we can and can't do.

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And not in service of a
higher political belief

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or a religious
belief, but in service

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of the continued power of
a small group of people

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who can't win the fair way.

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We've been making sure
to take it to the streets

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and to demonstrate that
there is public outcry

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and that this is not
the will of the people.

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This is not a
Democratic process.

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And to make sure to
engage the folks.

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There are a lot of
us who are very loud.

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Women's March is excellent
at raising our voices.

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But there are a lot
of people for whom

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going out into the
streets and protesting

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is not their cup of tea.

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However, they are still
a part of the majority,

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the 80% of people
who do not want

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to see Roe v Wade overturned.

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Who do not want to see the
government legislating who you

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can love, when and how
you can have a family,

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or impeding your ability
to take care of it

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once you choose to do so.

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So I think that when we
get past the barriers

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that the GOP has put to the
people executing their will,

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whether that's at
the voting box,

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whether that's in the streets,
whether that's in town halls

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or school boards
or what have you,

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organizations like
ours can take a breath.

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And until then, we will be
building power electorally,

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civically, in communities
all across the country

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and in every way possible.

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80% of the people that come to
any one Women's March are new.

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And we help to find them
a place to make the change

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they want to see in the world.

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And so we work to expand
and deepen the movement.

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And we're going to continue
to play that role in addition

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to being involved with
specific election races,

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in addition to working
issues around abortion

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and reproductive health
rights and justice.

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And then certainly
working on our own

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convenings that we will have
in order to bring together

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into the base around a direction
moving forward so that we can

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all be kind of walking
down the same road

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towards our feminist future.
- My body.

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- My choice.

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RACHEL O'LEARY CARMONA: The
four anchor organizations

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for the rallies are,
of course, Women's

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March and Planned Parenthood.

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Ultraviolet, which is
a gender justice group.

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And Move On, which
is a group that

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is broadly focused on
progressive activism

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in democracy building.

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So we are convening
a large coalition

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of hundreds of organizations
to gather across the country.

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And we have calls to action
around federal legislation,

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around bolstering
in flaking states.

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More than anything,
we are really

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looking to support the
leadership of local leaders

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in states and particularly those
who are involved in servicing

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clients and providing abortions
to folks who are needing them.

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And so what we want
to do is to make

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sure to raise
consciousness and get

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political consolidation around
these demands that we have.

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Around passing [INAUDIBLE],,
around federal legislation,

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around statewide fights.

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But we also want to
consolidate a base of folks

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around the folks who
are doing the work.

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And making sure that
we center the folks who

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are most impacted, which are the
people in states who will have

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their rights to access abortion
and health care stripped away

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when this farcical
decision becomes

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finalized and is announced.

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And that mainly is folks who
are people of color and poor

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and are already among
the most marginalized.

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The act of galvanizing a
base and consolidating a base

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is critical.

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I think one of the enduring
legacies of the Trump

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administration is just a
lack of faith in institutions

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and a lack of faith that our
government can get it done.

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And one of the things that
organizations can help

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do is provide a political
home, and a place for folks

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to get involved and
actually make a difference.

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And so what we
want to do is have

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this be a moment and the
moment that we believe

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it is, is the time when
the GOP overplayed its hand

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and accidentally found a
way to mobilize a base that

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costs it politically and in
the court of public opinion

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as well.

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We believe that's the moment
that we're in right now.

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And we intend to
move inside of that

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and meet that and have the
health care that we need.

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And the reality is that whether
abortions are legal or illegal,

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the data is clear.

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It does not change the amount
of abortions that are happening.

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But what it does is it
makes abortions less safe.

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Abortion, like having abortions
legalized saves lives.

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Period.
Full stop.

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The end.

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And so that is why abortion is
so critical to be a tent pole

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issue and a specific concern
as we consider these broader

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attacks on a democracy.

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That we need to understand
that abortion is one

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of the galvanizing
issues that will show up

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not just at the
polls, but across

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our entire political spectrum.

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We're in the belly of the beast
and we're here for the fight.

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And we're not having
trouble mobilizing anywhere.

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And that will be the
case for this summer.

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And you'll continue
to hear more and more

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on the mobilization front
as this goes, because this

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is just the beginning.

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