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country and what this means for crucial health care. that is not the only -- the president visiting cellmate today to punctuate the ongoing battle over voting rights. one of democratized -- joins us, plus new details in the exclusive nbc news reporting of migrant minors working in dangerous conditions. the department of homeland security is now expanding its investigation. and later, congress poised to investigate george santos for ethics violations, congresswoman -- leading the charge to hold him accountable. is here to talk about. it this is american voices. we begin this hour with the escalating fight over reproductive freedom, shaped by the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. the antiabortion movement now chomping at the bit to further restrict abortion access, even in cases where reproductive rights are protected by law. any day now, federal judges

with a long history of antiabortion beliefs could rule on a lawsuit that aims to block access to abortion medication. the antiabortion group is asking the judge in texas to -- off the mark it -- nationwide. last week, walgreens under pressure, republican attorney general in 20 states made the move to no longer sell abortion pills in those states. that includes four states where abortion remains illegal. the white house now pushing back against this coordinated effort to attack reproductive rights. >> elected officials targeting pharmacies in their ability to provide women with access to safe, effective and fda approved medication is dangerous and just unacceptable. this is all a part of a continued effort by antiabortion extremists who want to use this arcane law to impose a backdoor ban on abortion. >> medication abortion now accounts for 52% of all abortion. a new calling for the new york

times reproductive health researcher rights, anti abortion laws and court decisions often aim to stoke unwarranted fear of the safety of abortion, so, it is important to remember that while this looming decision could be a major blow to abortion access in america, it is -- remains a safe medication abortion option. it is critical that everyone who cares about american abortion access learns about the supersubtle and -- . joining me now, dr. gaza moiety, founder of pegasus health justice's center and nbc -- at nyu school of law. it is good to see you both. doctor moylan, i want to start with you. what should we know about both of these drugs and what would you worry about if misoprostol is pulled from the market? >> thank you so much for having me. what we need to know about both of these drugs is that they are incredibly safe, and they have decades of global safety data for their use of across of

righty of spectrums. it was approved in the united states right around the year 2000, it has been used in europe for a decade or more prior to that. we have thousands upon thousands of patients that have safely used it, not only for abortion care but to manage miscarriages as well. mifepristone combined with misoprostol is highly effective treatments to expedite a miscarriage to. misoprostol is not even fda labeled for use in obstruct tricks and gynecology, misoprostol is used across my practice in all sorts of gynecological settings, so we use it to help in labor induction when someone is about to deliver, we use it for miscarriage management, abortion care, we use it prior to surgeries inside of the uterus when we need access the cervix, so these are drugs that have an extremely long safety record and pulling misoprostol in from the mark it isn't based

in science, it is not based in good health care at all, it is simply about the antiabortion extremists finding new ways to restrict our right to health care. >> listen, it is impossible not to listen to doctor -- and be reminded that what we are talking about here is health care, and that it is not a coincidence that this case is in front of an antiabortion judge at a texas -- what should we know about has merrick's background and how exactly he ended up in the spot? and how the antiabortion movement is working to get these kinds of cases before these kinds of judges? >> well, duck judge because marin was picked by leonard leo for this spot on the texas court that he now occupies, there has been a lot of reporting this week about leonard leo's role in the trump administration, the outsource source for all of those trump nominations, and matthew kaz merrick is one of those individuals -- well the student of the university of texas law school,

he is very conservative, he has some ties to forced liberty institute which is incredibly conservative christian organization that defends religious freedom, he swore when he was confirmed that he would shift from the advocate to being a judge. but he -- when individuals have to file lawsuits for suing conservative causes in court they seem to find their way to amarillo, texas, where judge has merrick happens to be the only judge in the only court house in amarillo. >> coincidental, don't you think? >> there is a lot. of photo shopping there. people know what they are going to get. this is the same judge that invalidated the biden administration's care for transgender individuals, it is also the same judge that invalidated the biden administration's return to mexico policy. this is someone who has been a reliable vote for conservative causes to have national implications, so one single judge in texas is actually

managing to stymie the entire domestic agenda of this presidential administration. >> to that point, you are in texas and you have texas republicans pushing forward in finding new ways to end abortion access. i am shocked by the fact that this decision happens in texas and it will impact the people of this country but i wonder for you -- being in texas, one, the precarious situations that you find yourself in, i talked to a lot of providers that said i am on the phone with legal, when i need to be making life-altering decisions about care and that is not the person i should be speaking with. i should be laser focused on my patients and i wonder what it tells you about the priorities of lawmakers in your state. >> i think it is important to recognize that yes a lot of what has been happening is happening in texas but this is not a texas problem. the republicans and antiabortion extremists and white supremacist in this country are exploiting the texas system and exploiting the

texas political system to advance a very extreme agenda and really destroyed democracy in our country and you are exactly right, as a physician it is my role to have as many lawyers as i do in constant lee be talking with lawyers and consulting with lawyers about how to care of my community. absolutely not. i went to medical school. i gotta obstruct drinks and gynecology training and i got fed federal training and i advanced abortion care so that i could take care of my community using medical evidence and scientific fact. and my experiences. not to ask a lawyer, a hospital administrator or my state representatives how to provide evidence based care, or really, how to perpetuate propaganda and anti-science information among my community. >> -- pretty different degrees. i want to make sure that we get to this headline that a lot of us followed last week which was a woman in south carolina facing charges accused of self

managing an abortion, 25 weeks into a pregnancy -- at the hospital, where she had a stillbirth. the woman informed the medical staff that she had taken abortion pills. the greenville county coroner's office then purported a trip -- fetus to the police. tell us what to make of this. >> this seems a harbinger of things to come, certainly. again, if abortion is going to be highly regulated as it is in south carolina, this is also going to have ramifications for seth induced abortion, but more particularly, the idea of treating the fetus as a person that could be murdered. for example, it points the way it -- i have always said, since that decision came out in june of 2022, that a state by states -- on abortion could not be the end goal. if you are antiabortion then it cannot be okay for you that it is a right to do it in california new york but not okay in south carolina. you want a total ban on abortion across this country but we are already seeing that

with the effort to limit medication of abortion and we are seeing that with the pressure that is being put on pharmaceutical companies and we are seeing the pressure that is being put on outlets likes walgreens to limit the distribution of medication abortion and we are seeing all of this leading up to some broader movement to denominate the fetus as a person for purposes of constitutional law and that would lead to the legal abolition of abortion across this country. >> doctor -- i have heard now melissa's legal perspective on, that i want to hear your perspective on that possibility, as a physician. i want to hear what concerns you have about having local governments having the power to charge someone for terminating a pregnancy and self managing an abortion. >> yeah. i am incredibly worried about what this means for the health care of the people that i have committed my career to caring for. we know that when pregnant peoples bodies are criminalized, when they fear, for example deportation or arrest for what they do during pregnancy, that they don't seek pregnancy care

and they don't seek prenatal care and this is directly going to impact the health and wellness of pregnancy across the entire country. we want people to be able to come get care. to come get medical advice and to be able to take care of themselves, in whatever way that they need. but the more and more that we associate health care providers with the police state, the more unhealthy all of our communities will become. >> melissa, you referenced walgreens. i just want to come back to that point because in the last hour i spoke with -- two -- to stop selling -- i want to take a listen to what she said. i will talk about it on the other side. >> we have here at walgreens, they are buckling under the political pressure of these attorneys general,'s conservative a attorneys general representing conservative states but states where abortion is still illegal. they are saying to walgreens and other pharmacies around the country that no, you cannot follow the guidelines of the

federal, the fda that says that it is state -- to receive medication abortion without making a separate trip to the doctor's office. >> listen melissa, i always sort of, help us think through the legal rationale here, a bunch of corporate lawyers in a room and anna coren france call making a decision about what they, as a company, are going to do. what does that conversation look like? what are the arguments being made there? >> in regards to the arguments that are being made, they are about risk aversion and risk litigation, that comes from the fact that we have these a publican attorney general and all of these other states, many of the states that don't permit liberal access to abortion saying that they are going to sewell greens if their residents leave and go to another state and get that drug from walgreens and then come back to self manage an abortion and so we are actually seeing conservative states being dictating what policy will be in these liberal states by using these -- walgreens as a means of shutting down abortion access.

this goes back to the point i made earlier, we know that majority of my american support wider access -- should exist. in the constitution and it should be constitutionally recognized. this position will or abortions is a sexually -- is a minoritarian position, and now this minoritarian party is not only using its own -- the judges in the courts to do it it, is now using corporate america to do it the. question is, if it is walgreens today, what other drugstore companies are going to be next? cbs, rite aid, target? because this is how you actually closed down abortion access. you don't have to do it legally. you can simply do it by threatening and making good on the prospect of the risk aversion, that these companies have. >> melissa, i always appreciate that you push ahead and tell us what we need to be looking for. this is your first time in the program, i hope you will come back. next, exclusive and disturbing reporting from nbc news micro children laboring in slaughterhouses in this

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security now expanding its investigation into how migrant children, some as young as 13, end up working at slaughterhouses around the country. two officials familiar with the -- homeland security is working with the justice department to determine if a human smuggling scheme brought the children from central america to the u.s.. it is part of an nbc news exclusive investigation. last month, the labor department found that one of the largest food sanitation companies in this country, tackler sanitation services ink, employed more than 102 children at 13 slaughterhouses across eight states. the company paid -- civil fine, and faced zero

criminal charges. this is the labor department describes the following working conditions. listen to this, quote, the children who are working overnight shift used plastic chemicals to clean razor sharp saws. the reporters on the story joins me now. she is the nbc news homeland security correspondent. julia, what do we know about how these kids wound up in this country and how they wound up in these dangerous jobs. ? >> well alicia, that is exactly what dhs and now the fbi are investigating. they think it might be part of a wider human smuggling scheme that brought these children not just to that company you named, to psi that was part of the labor investigation but actually to multiple companies across multiple states. that is what we are learning now. they are looking at how these children obtain the documents that they used to apply for these jobs. oftentimes, as -- employees, they would present themselves with adult i.d.s so that they could get jobs. but the employer, the former

employees say that it was obvious these people who were passing as 25 year olds couldn't have been older than 15 years old. and so the question is, who provided them with those documents? and was it part of an overall scheme that brought children from countries, oftentimes guatemala, to the united states and kind of a pay for play model where the children and their families would have been indebted to the smugglers and forced to work in these incredibly dangerous conditions in order to pay back the smugglers they owed? it is a scenario that the department of homeland security has seen before and they are investigating -- that's the case now. >> i am curious what type of rights, then these, children have? if they have been exploited on their way into this country, if they have been put in dangerous positions, how the u.s. government that handles their immigration cases? >> that's a great question. night right now we have a letter where the labor

department as part of homeland security asked to hold off on any kind prosecution or deportation of these children because they are in central for this investigation and they want to make sure they are protected but unfortunately the children don't always know that. they might be very afraid to talk to investigators. in fact, that is what i have heard so far. -- trying to represent the children say they are having such a hard time talking to them, even though they are just trying to explain their basic rights. basically, these children have been raised in governments where they have been taught not to talk to anyone in the government. they have come to the u.s. where they are very afraid of being deported. and now they are very employers have been -- overnight like we saw in nebraska by labor department investigators. and they are incredibly afraid to talk to anyone and share their story. it is making it a really high hill to climb for investigators that i have spoken with. and also, it just paints the picture of what it is like to be a child or really any undocumented immigrant in this country, working under the radar where you are not

protected by the law. although these children do have a lot of rights, they are not always aware of what those are. >> you are protected by the law and you are actually afraid of going to the law enforcement officials. how has the company here responded to your reporting, julia? >> so, the company, psi, contracted with a number of meatpacking suppliers across the country, they do the cleaning, they told us that they were complying with the labor department investigation. they have paid the 1.5 million dollar fine. they were issued and they said look, we go by the books. we have run all of the identities we get through even rfi, it is not our fault, basically, if we are duped by a few what they call, rogue and eventual. as although, i will say that we have spoken to this former employees who say it wasn't broken eventual and in fact, it was common knowledge that they were hiring undocumented minors. but of course, the company in this case is saying we had no idea. at least at the top levels. >> i am reminded by lindsay's law ski, who i spoke with yesterday that in as much as

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run for reelection -- let's finish the job. he also took aim at gop culture wars, honoring the struggle in selma. >> the truth matters. , i was standing with the team -- trying to hide the truth. no matter how hard some people try you can't just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know. we should learn everything. the good the bad the, truth of who we are as a nation. and everyone should know the truth of selma. 600 believers put faith in action to march across that bridge. named after the grand -- kkk. they are on their way to state capitol montgomery to claim their fundamental right to vote. late in the bedrock of our constitution but stolen by hate. >> in the fight for voting

rights, no less urgent today, as 32 states debate new restrictions. joining me now, arizona secretary of state adrienne fuentes. adrian you, are on the front lines of this fight. i wonder what stood out for him for you from biden's speech. and just this visual of 58 years later, continuing to be in this fight? >> first, thank you for having me. and what stood out was just as you mentioned, we are still in this fight. there are still americans out there who will call themselves patriots but will work to deny they're furlough americans the right to vote. there are still people out there who claim the mantle of americans and will put their own political party above their fundamental countryman's fundamental right right the people here in the united states died for. a right that we send americans overseas to fight and die for many times. this is an incredible thing and it is really tragic that we

still have to face the sort of a battle but here we are. i am proud to continue this fight, and i am very, very sad that we have to. >> and a big part of that fight is happening in your state and states across this country, arizona among the dozens of states trying to make voting more difficult, which feels like, having learned the long lesson. talk to us about some of the potential restrictions you could be looking at. >> well, many potential restrictions we might be looking at are sort of the same sorts of things that we have seen for a long time. reducing access, increasing the restrictions across the border for a variety of different forms but we are not as a state completely in the dark. we have a lot of hope, our coalition of folks who came from all sides of politics, republicans, independents and democrats alike, rejected a lot of the candidates who would, at least at the executive level,

have pushed this sort of agenda forward, or who would have at least stood by complacently as those deniers would push their plans. so arizona, like so many places across the united states of america, really pushed back. are voters pushback and republican voters pushed back. independent voters pushback and democrats of course pushed back against this sort of nonsense. and thankfully, we are still engaged in that battle. >> part of that battle of course protecting election workers you're, new a.g. struck shooting -- the our democracy depends on the ability of good people to step forward and serve as election officials. what is that then meaning for your work? >> well, first and foremost it is incredibly important that arizona tierney general pushes that forward. i have advocated for strengthening federal and state penalties across threats -- violence against our election

workers. the sea are just regular people like you and me, our incident goals, retirees are, neighbors people who just want to help. i had a fellow veteran, although he was in the navy, i am a marine corps veteran, asked me today how do i help? i really want to -- these are the kinds of folks who need to be protected. because they want to protect our democracy, they just want to serve. and the fact that we have gotten to the place where we actually have to talk about a state attorney working against people who are threatening election workers in this country means we have still got a long way to go. i have hope, i have a lot of hope because there are a lot of good people in spite of our big losses, because we have lofts a lot of experience -- and across the nation but, in spite of that, good folks are stepping up. we encourage folks who want to perpetuate this republic and the democracy that supports it. step up. come on out, talk to your local election officials, top tier secretaries of state. we need help. we need folks who are willing to engage on the ground and

help your fellow citizens vote. >> secretary, i've less than a minute left but i have to asked your -- kari lake lake winning -- vp nominee, and the fact that she has not backed off any of the lies that she touted during the race for governor in arizona. >> i'm sorry, where you're talking about? i don't know anybody of relevance in arizona named kari lake. well, mariah carey thank you so much for that important reference. secretary fontes, i appreciate your expertise. ahead, fairly today in -- object. shows it what it means for the lgbtq community there will come next. plus, santos, student debt and beyoncé. -- has had a busy week at capitol hill. we will talk about that. lk about that. after advil. feeling better? on top of the worlddddd!!! before advil. advil targets pain at the source of inflammation.

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we have to show up. and when you have someone like george santos who lied his way into office deceiving his constituents, and then going on to say oh, i am a part of the lgbtq community, i am gay, well guess what santos? we don't want you. >> fed up with his long list of lies, the lgbtq+ community and congressman george santos's district, they are working to hold him accountable. a group of sentences constituents protested outside his office this weekend demanding he resign from congress. this comes as the house ethics committee opens an investigation into santos. the committee will look into his campaign finances and if he violated any laws. santos is already removing himself from his committee assignments but he has refused calls to step down from office. joining me now to discuss, california congressman robert garcia. congressman, you are leading the push to expel him from congress. i wonder what you expect from this house ethics investigation and what you think in this

construct, true accountability looks like. >> first of all, we are glad to see how the committee opened up the subcommittee to look out for george santos. obviously -- you have federal prosecutors looking into what he is doing, you have election officials looking at what he is doing, our bill to expel him is 36 cosigner's already within the house, this is all moving in the right direction. john santos is a liar, he is a fraud, he has defrauded his constituents, he is not representative of what is happening in the lgbtq community, true accountability would be him resigning today. he is completely fabricating his entire life story, it is important for him to do the right thing and resign. >> you saw the sound at the top of the segment, that protest this weekend at santa's's office, the constituents arguing that he doesn't truly represent the lgbtq+ community. he has aligned himself, as you know, with lawmakers who are aggressively pushing anti lgbtq legislation.

i want, i want to ask what you make of that contradiction. but i don't know, giving his history of lying, that we can even quite call it that. >> i think that is right. first, let's be honest, george santos is cozying up to marjorie taylor greene, who is completely just anti-lgbtq and trans rhetoric and tax trans people all the time. george santos should be a save of himself. he claims, i think, to be gay. and yet does not stand up for the community and teams up with the very worst in the country. at the moment we are, our community is on attack -- we need to stand up for a community, we need to stand up for people, for trans people. he has no interest in doing so. george santos is right now the worst in our country. he, i'm glad he's being investigated, i think -- and move on, he should not be in congress. >> i want to shift gears and talk about the supreme court's upcoming ruling on president

biden's move to forgiveness program. what you think the court is going to do and what you think you are telling who is in your district. >> well look. i was a classroom teacher for ten years before i even was -- in my community, i've been an educator my whole life, i've seen students suffer, ticking up student loans to pay for rent, to pay for food on the table. we encourage kids to go to college and -- get an indication but we don't teach them financial literacy. so, eliminating some student burn which is the proposal on the table is the right thing to do. i have a lot of faith in the supreme court, they have not proved they can do the right thing for working people, for low income people. so well, i am hopeful they do the right thing here and -- the presidents proposal to move forward, i am not hopeful. i think i'm -- organized and fight and we have to pass a vacuum to reform in congress, we are telling -- let's wait with -- hopefully the president will give us more direction once we

know what the actual courts will rule. >> republican colleagues in the house plan to start sharing a message on the run, we have new reporting from the new york times that reads quote, determined to take their message directly to voters at a time when they are hard-pressed to get anything concrete down on capitol hill, house republicans are increasing the budgets of their congressional committees. and going out on the road, planning a busy schedule of field hearings in all corners of the country aimed at promoting their gender outside the bell way. i want to know what you expect from these field hearings. what do you think they will look like? >> what agenda? i mean, the truth is this is a -- republican caucus right now. we have seen the judiciary hearings, we have seen these, i am on the oversight committee and i have seen the conspiracy theories that they are expanding every single day, it is all laptops, hunter biden and random conspiracies across the government, there is no agenda for the -- people, whether they take their hearings on the road or whether they are doing them in d.c. i, think the american people can see directly through the fact that they are not getting anything done. it is a shame, they would

rather go out on the road of course, and not focus on the issues. i -- care about, i'm and not these random conspiracy theories that we are talking about. >> we've talked about some really critical and important things. but now i want to talk about the real reason we are here. on wednesday, you honored beyoncé on the house floor as we kick off -- >> she is an icon. she is a legend. and she is now and forever, the moment. i want to celebrate none other than who i believe is the undisputed queen of pop and r&b, beyoncé knowles carter. i will never forget the time i saw destiny's child perform for the very first time. it was life-changing for me. and the way i experience music. i became an instant fan then kind of been a huge fan ever since. beyoncé is also a role model for millions across the country. she stood up for voting rights, for feminism, for women and girls from, i'm a community, the lgbtq+ community. for my generation, and so many

others, she simply is the greatest of all time. her story is history. >> okay. i talk a lot on the show about politics, capital p, and top politics lower case p. i think very often we overlook the lower case politics even though they are the politics that we live in our day today to lives, the politics that shape our society and to me the speech was political. in many ways. there is a real choice on your part to go on the house floor and spend the time making that ode to beyoncé. why did this feel relevant and critical in this moment? >> absolutely. the first time as we are celebrating the end of black history month and the beginning women's history month xi, is an icon for so many people in our country and around the world. millions, we celebrate great americans all the time. sports heroes, political heroes. but just so many folks, beyoncé is also a hero. she speaks to a generation of folks, she speaks to people that really look to her as a role model and as a leader. what she has done for women's

rights, voting rights, for so many others. she is just really important. and it is important for us in d.c. to know that there is a whole contributor, especially folks that admired's incredible women, i being one of them, she deserves to be honored. and especially in that moment, where so much rights for women, for black americans and for civil rights and voting rights are being attacked, we should be uplifting folks like beyoncé. i am really proud of -- her, besides the fact that i am a huge personal fan, i admire the work she has done for this country. we should honor that. >> congressman robert garcia, as always, thank you so much for being with us. coming up, america lost a war for disability rights this weekend. my thoughts on the legacy -- but first we, we'll look at what else is ahead on msnbc. >> hey there. i'm ayman wilkie dean tonight at nine eastern on ayman. i will be joined by democratic congressman greg ks are to discuss the chaos unfolding -- law oversight committee. and get his reaction to the

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is officially law. governor nerve bill -- criminalizing drag performances spot -- or anywhere visible to children. is nbc's antonia hylton shows us, it's just the latest state to target the rights of lgbtq americans. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for 24 years, -- in jack. shows >> are you already for a fabulous show? >> as a trans woman from rural tennessee, deede says drag gave her an outlet in a community, but that community is now on edge. >> it is definitely very scary. i definitely always get our security to walk us through the car now and i never did that before. >> this week, tennessee became the first state to pass a law that will restrict drag

performances on public property. or, anywhere child could see them. conservative sajak shows expose children to sexually suggestive content while performers here say the law is discriminatory and feels designed to push the back of the closet. >> i absolutely hate it. because, i can't be myself anymore. i have to be what they think i should be. >> -- argues this law isn't meant to target the lgbtq community, it is about protecting children. >> are you trying to send a signal? of >> course not. >> sometimes of communities, some types of people are welcome here in tennessee. the >> only signal i'm trying to send is that you shouldn't be doing sexually graphic, shouldn't be simulating sex acts in front of children. >> a lot targets performances that are harmful to minors, but doesn't say how performances will be determined to be harmful or sexual. >> who is going to decide what is sexually explicit, what is inappropriate? >> the same way any lies and forced, their law enforcement are, district tierney's in the same way any prosecution of any criminal offense. >> ken peters is a pastor and

apparent. he organized demonstrations in support of this law. >> i think it is ridiculous for folks to think that we christians shouldn't push our values and our ideology just like the lgbtq movement has a right to push there's. we christians feel targeted. i know they might feel targeted, from the situation, that is really -- we feel like our lifestyle and our culture -- >> most lawmakers agree with you. how could you feel targeted? >> we feel targeted in the country as a whole. maybe not in tennessee. that is why we moved here. >> across the country, similar laws are in the works, with conservative lawmakers in at least 13 other states advancing bills to restrict drag. for deede, tennessee is home. her family is here. so she says her only option is to stay and fight. >> any kind of any discriminatory bill like this, they are trying to bully you. we are a very, very strong community and so we are not going anywhere. >> you are the majority.

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one that literally changed the lives of millions in this country for the better. her name was judy human. she was widely regarded as one of the -- disability rights movement and as recently unless the 1950s -- physical disability in this country were considered quite literally in the way. -- humans principle blocked her from entering the school because he felt she was a hazard. years later, the new york court refused to give her teaching license because they were afraid she couldn't evacuate children from ablaze. devices like these were the norm just a few generations ago and some of them persist today, but for heumann they were unacceptable so she fought back. becoming the first teacher in new york state to have a wheelchair and organizing protests -- rehabilitation act that managed to shut down traffic in manhattan. launched a nearly month long sit-in at a federal building in san francisco to get that same act. enforced her contribution to national disability rights are

immense, she founded the berkeley center for independent living, independently the big movement and the world institute of disability. she served on the board of the disability rights education and defense fund, human rights watch reese save the children and a handful of other organizations, and she held cabinet positions under three u.s. presidents. eventually becoming the first director for the department of disability services. all of this heumann did with purpose and on inspiring humility. but -- crypt camp, profiling a summer camp in new york for children with disabilities. whether it was through that documentary, or onstage for a t.e.d. talk, heumann had a unique ability to challenge assumptions while inspiring others to see her fight as their own. >> i was learning as my friends were, and people i didn't know around the country, that we had to be our own advocates. that we needed to fight back.

people's views. that, if you had a disability, you needed to be cured. that equality was not part of the equation. and we were learning from the civil rights movement and from the women's rights movement, we were learning from them about their activism, and their ability to come together, not only to discuss problems but to discuss solutions. what -- the disability rights movement. i would like to see by a show of hands how many of you have ever broken a bone. and then i would like, when you leave today, to maybe write a couple of sentences about what that period of time has been like for you. because frequently i hear from people, you know, i couldn't do this i, couldn't do that. people talk to me differently. they acted differently towards me. and that is when i see, and other disabled people see, in flashing letters.

but we, you in this room, people listening and watching this ted talk, together or we, can make a difference. together we can speak up for justice. together we can help change the world. >> what a life, what a legacy. judy heumann, thank you. that's it for today in this weekend, i'm alicia menendez, i will see you back next weekend for more american voices. i'm also going to be on the 11th hour tomorrow if you want to hang out with me there. but for now, i handed over to mehdi hasan, whose book came in the mail. congratulations mattie. s mattie if you've got a signed copy, oh -- if not, i'll make that work. my hand has signed so many books this week. >> humble brag, but i'm not talking to you, i'm not looking at you, until i finish the book and learn how to win an argument. >> okay, let'