Bill Cassidy

So you've got to have humanity here.

And the humanity is that some coercive person that was emotionally bullying or physically bullying the woman who was pregnant made her abort, as opposed to her visiting a doctor and the doctor speaking to her and saying, do you really want this?

Wait a second.

It doesn't seem as if you do.

Wait a second.

They're making you take it?

That's what you lose when you eliminate the requirement for that in-person visit.

That it's safe.

And it's interesting, in their argument, they kept implying that this was telemedicine.

And we kept pointing out, no, we're speaking about signing up on a website.

There's nothing tele about it.

Venmoing $150 and getting the pills in the mail.

So one thing she suggested wrongly is that Louisiana would not allow the appropriate use of the drug to help a woman after she's had a miscarriage.

The Louisiana law is that specifically you may take this medicine when it is appropriate addressing the issue of a miscarriage.

It was also raised as if somehow we were suggesting that even if a woman's health was at stake, that we would not permit either these pills or something else to be done to make sure that the woman could survive the illness.

That's also not true.

The specific example from North Carolina, we pointed out that was not the case.

We kept coming back to, this is not just like taking the Tylenol.

that the in-person interview would be the way to address this and that there are people being coerced.

And one way to address that is to require the in-person interview.