with or without exceptions for rape and incest, come up with creative acts over and over so the republicans have to make a record and we can beat them because the american people support having a woman be able to control her own body, and let s take advantage of that. talking about polling showing from nbc news showing a majority of americans, over 50%, believe women should have safe and legal access to abortion. about 40% think that should not be the case. cynthia, you ve talked about what can be done legislatively. let me talk about the judicial piece. julia notes and notes well, the law was crafted, designed to be challenge proof, that s the attempt. i wonder if the crux of the challenge, the vigilanteism, bounty hunter provision, that let s people that don t live in texas or have connection to the patient seeking an abortion sue people who help anyone get an
v. wade. now, what they said is, this is just a procedural ruling in part because of that strange private bounty hunter provision. but it s impossible to ignore that there s an ideological split here. the five justices who said let s leave it in place, all conservatives. on the other side, you have the three liberal justices joined by chief justice roberts. technically this was just a procedural ruling, there s more ahead on this texas case, but you have to look at the signal it sends and it s not a good signal for the future of roe v. wade. no, not at all. and another viewer wants to know, when exactly is the supreme court justified in overturning its own long standing precedent like roe v. wade ? the real answer there is, whenever they feel like it. throughout our history, the supreme court has at times reversed long standing precedent, sometimes for the good, brown v. board of education, sometimes to the bad, it depends on what your