And then those families will let us know what they need. Some of them don't need any help, but some of them need help babysitting. You know, women, we know every now and then it's just good to have somebody who's going to take your kid so you can breathe for an hour, right? (Laughter.) I mean, we laugh but, yeah -- Amen. (Laughter and applause.) And dads, too, because we have fathers who are raising children alone.
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And that's true for all of you. You all have the vehicle to tell stories that just pull people in. And if we think again about that year-long goal -- that in the end this isn't just about the story, but it's really about having the men and women and their families who serve our country feel the gratitude every day from a grateful nation -- if we can say we've done that, and if we set this foundation not just for today but forever, regardless of who the President is in office, that this is a part of who we are as Americans lifting these families up, if we are all a part of that, and I know this group is more than capable of doing that, then we've been successful.
Since then, there's been this kind of war in the legal academy between one camp that says, yes, it's true, here's all this evidence. Look at Ginsburg, look at O'Connor, look at women judges, women think differently. And this other line of reasoning that goes, no, we're all the same, you know, let's not generalize, and certainly, let's not say women are sensitive and fuzzy and men are rigorous and serious.
CONAN: And it's interesting, Dahlia Lithwick, you were building on what Vicky was talking about by saying, you know, not all that long ago, those kinds of differences were used as an argument against appointing women to jobs just like this one. And now, in large measure, they're regarded as strengths.
What I say about women who can't make their way to find safe abortion care is that generally, they fly under all the radar. They're voiceless and faceless women. They're not the folks that are being lobbied for, and it's very hard to track them or understand what's happening to them.
So we end up with women having no education, no contraception. And what are they supposed to do? Abstinence seems to be the answer. But then that makes no sense at all to me, because like I said previously, men are sexually active. Who are they sexually active with? So again, it's an incredible double standard. And women and children are suffering.
It's funny, because a lot of people think that it's just so sad, so tragic when women have an abortion. But you know what is even more tragic is when women can't access an abortion. The women that we see here that really suffer in this clinic are the women who are too far for us and that have no recourse. That's the really sad case.
In [my state], when they passed the 24-hour law, the state believed that women were not being told what they were doing and they were not being shown all the information. The state believed that if women just saw the pregnancy, the fetus developing, that it would stop all abortions. And it didn't.
If Roe was overturned, there would be no abortion services in this part of the country, and I don't know what poor women would -- well, I know what poor women would do if Roe was overturned. They would go back to aborting themselves, or they would go back to the Red Rubber Catheter Lady who inserts a catheter in a pregnant uterus and leaves the woman. And it's so senseless, because this is basic human health care. 2ff7e9595c
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