that the government has the power to make a decision about a man s body? i thought you were asking about medical procedures unique to men. i ll repeat the question. can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body? i m not aware thinking of any right now. interesting. right? considering what just happened. harris said she was shocked when the high court overturned roe on friday. she sat down for an interview. mad dam vice president thank you so much. for having me here. you were on a plane when the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. i was. as the highest ranking woman ever elected in u.s. history, what was going through your mind at that moment? well, so i was on air force 2
he is the one who led the charge to say that the second amendment pr protects individuals to have weapons. he has talked about how roe should be overturned since the casey decision in 1992. when she says that those three decisions should be overturned, i think he means it. i don t know that he has five votes at this point. i think the three cases he talked about, contraception, same sex marriage and what was the third, i m blanking. consensual sexual activity. i think the one that is in greatest danger is same sex marriage. because with the invitation from the supreme court, i think there will be at least one state that says you know what, we re going to outlaw it again. we never agreed to it. it was forced by us on the supreme court. we re outlawing it again and create a test case.
overwhelming rejection, i don t think it has much significance. do you think the court, i want to get the exact thing that people are telling me. they say that scotus is now firmly in the hands of white christians the premises. religion based bigotry prevails. that s a settlement. what you think? that s not the way i like to talk about the court. i do think the court is in the hands of extremely conservative republicans, who have a very specific agenda on lots of different issues. including, limiting the regulatory powers of the government about climate change. that s a decision that is due on wednesday that is maybe as earth shaking and importance as dobbs is.
opposition to roe v. wade was in the republican platform in 1980, when ronald reagan won the presidency. but antiabortion proponents were disappointed with reagan appointments to the supreme court, who ended up supporting roe v. wade. mary ziegler rights, so, anti-abortion groups set out to ensure that different kinds of justices would sit on the court, justices who would be logically consistent and indifferent to popular opinion. clarence thomas who joined the court the year before the casey decision, stood out as a model for this new kind of justice. he seemed like the kind of judge who would stick to his principles no matter what the american people thought of him, and who even delighted in the hatred of his opponents on the bench and in congress. that was the kind of justice who would put an end to roe. joining us now, legal
carolina. a federal judge allowing the state to ban abortions beginning around six weeks. that makes at least 10 states that will band or have severe restrictions. another fort teen were banned with certain or likely. nearly half of this country, a right that americans have had for almost 50 years, is vanishing. outrage is growing over a court that seems to be out of step with a majority of americans. 6 anton, disapprove of the court s decision. what happens to millions of people in this country that no longer have faith in the highest court of this land? vice president kamala harris in her first video since the decision. worried that the justices on the court could take away other rights. the right to birth control.