‘Nothing Is Going To Be Off Limits’: CEO of Democracy Forward Decries SCOTUS Attacks On Abortion

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CEO of Democracy Forward Skye Perryman joined Maggie McGrath on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decisions on abortion.

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00:00 Obviously, each Supreme Court case is different. Each state legislative decision is a little bit

00:05 different. And, you know, every scenario, you had the Alabama IVF that also happened.

00:10 But what I'm wondering is, as you let's focus on the Supreme Court, as you look at the arguments

00:16 made and the questions asked in the Miffy-Preston case, and as you look at the arguments made and

00:21 the questions asked in the Idaho case, what has that told you about that, about this court? And

00:27 what does that tell you about what the state of abortion care will look like in a month or two

00:34 when the court issues its decisions? Right. So we don't know what the court's going to do,

00:38 but we certainly have seen, we have certainly seen justices, including justices, for instance,

00:45 that were behind the Dobbs decision, entertain questions that are very concerning, questions

00:51 that come from an extremist perspective that are not based on medical reality, that are not based

00:56 on facts and evidence, and that are not based on the basic principles of women's health care.

01:00 So we are seeing that, and it's highly concerning. What it means is that we can't take our

01:07 reproductive health care access for granted. Dobbs showed us that, to the extent that there was any

01:12 doubt. The Dobbs decision showed people that. But this says that this fight is going to go much

01:17 further. And yesterday, to have to hear the Solicitor General of the United States,

01:24 you know, passionately and very competently defend a federal law that has been on the books since the

01:30 80s that protects people who need emergency care. It's highly concerning. So I think,

01:38 you know, the fight is not going to be over. And regardless of what the Supreme Court does

01:41 in these decisions, we are seeing such an influx, whether it is in state Supreme Courts, whether it

01:49 is in other courts or in communities, we are seeing such an influx of attack. Nothing is going

01:54 to be off limits. You've already seen the attacks on IVF. There are attacks on contraception. We

02:00 have seen writings from Justice Thomas suggesting that he wants to reconsider contraception access

02:06 altogether. And so I think that, you know, what it tells us is this is an important issue that

02:11 we all need to be paying attention to, and that we need to be using our lives and our tools that

02:16 we have in order to bring about greater access. >> When we think about the extremists on one side,

02:24 the people who are bringing these cases to the court, you referenced everything's on the table,

02:31 and there's something called Project 2025 that ties into all of this. What do our viewers need

02:37 to know and understand about Project 2025? >> Well, Project 2025 is an effort that I think

02:45 around 70 organizations have joined, including organizations such as ones that have not

02:52 supported women's reproductive health care access. It is bankrolled by the same moneyed interests

02:57 that bankrolled the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And it is a plan that is being set forth and

03:03 documented for how the federal government should operate or how the extremists want to shape the

03:11 federal government in a world where there is a presidency or a legislative session where there

03:18 are people that do not support democracy. And so what we are seeing in that plan, which is about

03:23 900 pages, your viewers don't have to -- they don't have to read it. You can go to democracy4.org

03:30 and we have some resources to learn more about it. But where women's reproductive health care

03:34 is concerned, we are seeing blatant attempts, really clear about the intent to roll back

03:43 reproductive health care access more to enforce Victorian-era laws that would criminalize

03:48 medication abortion, that would seek to criminalize -- potentially even, you know,

03:54 so -- yeah, that would seek to criminalize this care. And so it's very concerning.

‘Nothing Is Going To Be Off Limits’: CEO of Democracy Forward Decries SCOTUS Attacks On Abortion

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