from s&p sea world headquarter here in new york welcome to alex witt reports we begin this hour outside a serving court in washingto d.c. there you see protesters gathering, it s happening today, over the next few days as th showdown over reproductive rights returns to the nation s highest court. mifepristone, the drug at th center of this legal battle, remains available to women across the u.s., at least unti wednesday, while the court way the latest gop led efforts t ban the drug a new reaction this hour t comments made at the nra convention, including donald trump s remarks that mas shootings are not a gu problem. here s what to advocates for reform told my colleague jonathan capehart. camilla congress, and to se the cowardice from my go colleagues is just gross everyone is too comfortable. we walk around with our suits, we talk to our donors, w raised all of this money, an then we go on banded kne pandering to the nra are you kidding me the united states o america s o
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the war on lgbtq rights, house republicans vote to ba transgender students fro women s sports teams congress woman, ramallah jayapal will be here with he reaction and on the run, congressma george santos launched his reelection bid, but he already has a republican challenger, colin curry. will join me live. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. americas unrestrained gu culture, the rising levels o fear and division, have made for a deadly week. two texas cheerleaders wer shot after one of the team mistakenly entered the wrong car in a parking lot caitlin gilles, a 20 year ol woman was shot and killed afte the car she was in drove up th wrong driveway the 65-year-old homeowner said he feared for his life, even though neither she nor her friends ever left the car. 84-year-old, andrew lester shot 16-year-old, ralph yarl through the door after the teenager rang hi doorbell ralph mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his little brother s harmless mistakes wit
this that s what you re asking me, there is another medicatio drug called misoprostol. but we call the abortion dru is a combination o mifepristone and - we saw proselytize not part of this case, and so, providers across the country were alread ready to pivot to a misoprosto only protocol. the really scary thing about this case is that, even states that have codified access to abortion, like michigan, and that - california, cannot escape this ruling this is about the fda authority, it s not about th constitutionality of abortion. this court has said that i they sent this issue back to the states, but it s backe away for opponents of abortion to get to abortion access, because mifepristone is th most popular abortion drug i the company. 50% of abortions back door way of gettin abortion ban 61% of republicans ar opposed to it. it s wildly unpopular. 51% of republicans oppos
until at least wednesday joining me now is rebecca professor law at york la school also former assistant district attorney of manhattan d.a. s office good to see you again, rebecca let s get into this because i curious, is it just buying tim for the supreme court to examine all the issues in th case where does it offer an indication of how the cour might rule it doesn t really offer any indication of how the cour might rule this is really a question of what is going to happen in the interim while this issue makes its way up through the courts. as you are just talking about, the case in dobbs, supreme courts last pronouncement on abortion rights, the court clearly said, this is an issue that ought to be decided by ou elected officials so the fallout that you were to speaking about is what was expected having the court way back in o a national issue, on the acces to this abortion dru nationally, it is, again something that was probably no