thanks for watching. i will see you back here nex weekend at 5 pm eastern. american voices with a latiu undoes starts right now on msnbc. thank you reverend sharpton and happy easter to you. hello very one i am alicia menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion rights from the fal of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed and i abortion federal suspended fda approval of suppressed own, in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said all options are on th table to keep this medicatio available for the millions who need it. well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is available t them not just in a week, but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge in one court and one state 50s approval process for saf and effective medications. we have to s
hours of the morning. and they started letting in patients inside of the mississippi last abortion clinic long before it opened. now they are actively doing abortions and we were able to speak with the abortion providers inside. he said he s been doing this work for 30 years because he believes in it so strongly. that this is the right to health care for women and he came specific to mississippi because there was such a need. he s concerned now after the next ten days because it doesn t go into effect right away in mm mississippi. and there is a ten day period and after that ends what will happen to the women of mississippi. and if you look on a map, you ll see this state is surrounded by other states that have trigger laws. so you ll have to either drive for several hours or get on a plane to get to another state to have access to an abortion. along with those concerns and the procedures that are happening inside of this building that many of the locals here call the pink ho
case, dr. caitlin bernard, the indianapolis-based physician who took care of the young girl, she s been the target of threats and smears including from indiana s republican attorney general, who said he ll be investigating her. none of this is new to dr. bernard, or to many other abortion providers. they ve been the targets of threats for years, back in 2020, doctor bernard stopped offering her services to a clinic after the fbi alerted her employers that a kidnapping threat had been made against her daughter. there is in fact a long history of violence against abortion providers in this country. according to the national abortion federation, there have been 11 murders, nearly 500 assaults, 42 bombings, and 196 artisans directed at abortion clinics and at volunteers since 1977. the threat of violence has been increasing for years. last week, tammy coleman oscar, the director of north dakota s last remaining abortion clinic spoke of the threats that her clinics have recently e
mean the fight is over. but country, in my view. and it does not mean the fight is over. mean the fight is over. but senior republicans. mean the fight is over. but senior republicans, including mean the fight is over. but senior republicans, including former - mean the fight is over. but senior| republicans, including former vice president mike pence and mitch mcconnell welcomed the ruling. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world millions of women across the united states have lost their constitutional right to abortion, after a ruling of historic significance by the country s supreme court. it has overturned a 50 year law that legalised abortion nationwide and it now means that individual us states are legally able to ban it. up to half of america s 50 states are expected to do so and 13 have already passed so called trigger laws which automatically outlaw abortion with the court s ruling. president biden has said it w
because that is the same treatment as a foreign abortion, and they are coming under investigation or prosecution. i think what the president understands is that it is impossible to police a uterus, without the surveillance of pregnancy outcomes, the surveillance of individuals who are pregnant, who stopped being pregnant, whether through abortion, miscarriage, there is a real possibility that red states will set up a kind of dragnet, investigating individuals who are suspected of terminating a pregnancy, suspected of purchasing medication abortion illegally on the internet. it is to the effect of travelling to another state to receive an abortion. there is many legal scrutiny that many women will come under in a red states. i think it is unwise to you it solely as a matter of individual liberty for women who seek to terminate a pregnancy. this will affect so many more people and really put the spotlight on those who are carrying a pregnancy is because the states that ban abor