be apparent. every child in this country should be and every person should be a fundamental liberty to make this decision. and for the supreme court to lecture single moms like me, women who are being faced with the risk of maternal death from pregnancy, this is a fundamental assault on freedom. and i feel mostly tonight s anger, and a deep sense of sadness that my daughter betsy, and my sons luke and cole live in a world with less freedom than i did, my mother, or my grandmother, that is a terrible setback for this country. it is, and will be living in a world or we become one of we will be the 25th country that have this kind of outlawing of abortion and recent part of the country, if not more. and it is not a distinguished list of countries that we are joining in that. and that is where some illegal things we belong. and he does not get to make this decision. i want everyone to read this.
i m using a term in that article that is from the scholarly literature. it s actually won those developed by scholars who are certainly not conservative scholars, who take a more progressive approach of the constitution. and, again, as richard fallen from harvard side, roe is not a super president because calls first overruling has never ceased, but that doesn t mean that russian be overruled. it just means that it doesn t fall on the small handful of cases like marjory versus medicine, that no one questions anymore. senator smith, tonight, the current has been pulled back on what those justices actually do think about roe v. wade. well, my colleague from minnesota, senator klobuchar, was getting at something really fundamental, which is it roe v. wade has been law in this country. it is been subtle as a constitutional right for people to access abortion for decades. and yet, we all saw now justice tanya barrett justice have a no,
birth, resonates for entire life and for generations in terms of your opportunities. yes, and this is a historic night rachel, we are going to proceed with a coverage that you just let us into, last hour, social riches is gonna join us, she s been in this struggle as long as anyone. we re gonna be joined by others who have been with this issue for a very long time, legal experts. this is something we ve never seen, it is the removal of a constitutional right. we are sitting here feeling it removed by a minority-controlled government. yeah, get to it lawrence, thank you. thank you rachel. we are now joining a list of 24 countries. we will be the 25th country, in which abortion is illegal, either in part of the country, because of the states, or eventually in all of the country if republicans control the senate and the house, and they have a republican president to sign a federal law,
countries in maternal mortality, what this means when you drill down, in mississippi, alabama, louisiana, texas, is that it s a death sentence for lots of black and brown women. kelly alyssa, mike if justice alito, if it was up to him to sign the opinion, and he took the opinion for himself he does have one woman on the court on his side when he could ve assign the opinion to. he could ve looked at this decision and said, well, this is really a decision about the reproductive rights of women in this country. i m going to ask justice barrett to write it, as the only woman supporting this decision. yeah, lawrence, a lot of us thought that justice barrett had this opinion for exactly that reason, don t forget that was expressly said that she was been held over, when judge kavanaugh was selected, because they wanted to have a woman replace ruth bader ginsburg, so
pregnant, and then i m on a baby, she could not talk to her mother, her sister, her friend, her teacher. anyone, because under the bounty system that the republicans have designed in texas saw any of those people can be turned in to the authorities. we are leaving young and not only young, vulnerable people, vulnerable women across this country, on their own. and there is really, it is unspeakable. and something that i know you, know we talked about on the show before. abortion didn t begin with roe v. wade. abortion existed long before roe. it has existed for all of eternity. it s simply before role, it was illegal, and it was unsafe, and young healthy women died routinely. i heard this from planned parenthood doctors all the time. young healthy women died in emergency rooms across this country. i cannot believe that is what the republican party wants to