Abortion: Samantha Bee talks about Texas Abortion laws

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11139022/samantha-bee-abortion-texas

Ahead of the biggest Supreme Court abortion case in decades, Samantha Bee's Full Frontal on Monday night featured an interview with Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn (R), one of the architects of the Texas anti-abortion law that the justices will rule on.

And Bee showed that Flynn doesn't know the basic facts about how an abortion is performed.

Flynn co-authored HB2, the omnibus anti-abortion bill that has closed about half of Texas's abortion clinics. If it's upheld, it will close even more clinics, and possibly inspire other states to get bolder with their anti-abortion lawmaking.

Bee started off by confronting Flynn about how his bill has forced abortion clinics to close:

Dan Flynn: This was to be sure that we provided health care, safe health care for women.

Samantha Bee: How does removing access to health care increase access to health care?

DF: We're not removing access to health care. We're improving it.

SB: So the intention of the law was not to do away with abortions.

DF: No.

SB: It was just to make them impossible to acquire.

DF: You know better than that.

SB: Do I?

DF: What do you mean impossible? I'll tell you what, anytime you start cutting on people's body you need to have it in a procedure where it can be healthy.

SB: Of course. You don't cut a woman during an abortion, though.