appa appalling. the repeal of roe would impact women across the u.s. immediately. yeah, patchwork of old and new state laws would go into effect and could lead to some confusion. cnn s jessica schneider explains. we want to outlaw abortion in the state of oklahoma. nearly two dozen states are on the brink of banning abortion, and it will happen almost immediately if the supreme court overturns roe v. wade. 13 states have trigger laws, abortion bans that will go into effect once roe is off the books. nine states have so-called zombie laws, abortion bans that were never repealed once roe took effect in 1973. these bans would go back into effect if the conservatives on the court eliminate that constitutional right to abortion. that very moment prosecutors around the state could begin prosecuting doctors and i would argue potentially women as well. michigan s law makes no exception for rape or incest,
rural, urban, suburban, and i speak about this issue everywhere, even before, of course, this document leaked out of the supreme court, and i will tell you that the republicans running against me on this outrageous position of banning abortion in pennsylvania, they are wildly out of touch with the electorate here in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. absolutely out of touch and that s what i said before, the stakes couldn t be higher and the contrast could not be clearer. i think democrats need to lean in on these issues, and i think it is clear that the battle will be in the states and yoesht shy away from having this conversation from any community anywhere in pennsylvania. anyone we ve spoken to in the last two days feels that republicans won t stop with overturning access to reproductive health care, that
would ban abortion immediately, and we expect that ultimately that number would be more than half the states, because many republican controlled states would ultimately ban abortion. significantly the states that would ban abortion are all concentrated geographically, so they would either be in the south or midwest of the united states, which would make it exponentially harder for people in those states to actually access the procedure. and i should say with banning abortion , it is a very broad term, but i think it can mean very different things to different people. it could mean.at different stages of pregnancy for example, or it could mean different cases, i just want to make that clear to our viewers as we talk about it in those terms. absolutely, and can include what we might view as contraceptives too, there was a debate in the us in recent years about what many viewed as abortion inducing drugs , which includes what others view as common contraceptives such as emergency contra
pressure, it really hasn t acted that way. the court has rarely strayed too far from political popular opinion, but that doesn t appear to be where this court is heading. this court does not seem to be concerned about the political backlash we may see from the reversal of roe, and that tells you the court may do much more than reverse roe, that may be just the beginning. so you believe that the supreme court could reverse roe v wade? i believe the supreme court will reverse roe v wade. i think it is quite likely the court will do this in 2022, and if not, a year or two down the road. there is almost no chance that this supreme court would do anything but reverse roe v wade. for people who have been not followed roe v wade, that case from the 1970s, i gave a synopsis there about when it legalised abortions nationwide, but if this were reversed, would that affect every state within the united states? it wouldn t have the effect of banning abortion nationwide, it would have the effect of
upon the next, but hopefully this will be the last year for the march for life, and hopefully we see the court case overturned. i have hopes that it will be dissolved, i have hopes that we are hoping that there will become a day in - the united states that i the unborn are protected in the womb - of their own mothers. the value of the human life is not there anymore. we want to give a witness that actually it is, you know, every life is a gift, is a gift from the lord. earlier i spoke with mary ziegler, a law professor at florida state university and author of abortion and the law in america: roe v wade to the present about whether public opnion had changed since that landmark case no, the polling data really haven t changed. this is really a story about the transformation of the us supreme court and i mean that notjust in the sense of, there are now six conservatives on the court, although that is obviously true. there are different kinds of conservative judge in the united states. h