the supreme court this week leaving in place a near total ban on abortion in texas and limiting challenges to the law in lower courts. the center for reproductive rights president calling it, quote, one of the most disgraceful decisions in supreme court history. essentially the supreme court said we can t sue judges, we can t sue clerks. we can t sue the attorney general. we can t get the lawsuits blocked and the lawsuits are what are making it impossible for the clinics to open because this law allows anybody to sue anywhere in the world against the clinics in texas. the supreme court is basically cut off the most effective way to get this law blocked statewide. around one in ten women of child bearing age live in texas, and their average drive to an abortion clinic is 14 times longer under the new law. joining me now democratic
word here. no, i think that s right. and if you look at the reasons a lot of women get abortions, they re economic reasons. some of these women already have kids. so they know about the burdens of parenting. a lot of these women are unmarried as well, and that is across all socio-economic and racial lines as well. you had one of the people fighting to overturn roe v. wade said well, listen, society is set up now where states help people, help women with child care and they get leave. they don t get paid leave, right? if you work at the winn dixie in mississippi and you become pregnant and you need to take time off because of your health during that pregnancy or when you have the baby, your employer is having unlikely to give you paid leave to take care of that child. so this is there is a real fundamental misunderstanding i think of the ways women go about their child bearing decisions and sort of the dilemmas they face when it comes to abortion. nia, laura, thank you so much. i
you have the baby, your employer is having unlikely to give you paid leave to take care of that child. so this is there is a real fundamental misunderstanding i think of the ways women go about their child bearing decisions and sort of the dilemmas they face when it comes to abortion. nia, laura, thank you so much. i appreciate it. thanks, don. there is news tonight from the january 6 committee, moving to hold a former doj official in contempt while giving him one last chance to cooperate. but if he wants to plead the fifth, he ll have to do it in person, over and over. ht to me.. with service i could trust. right, girl? singers: safelite repair, safelite replace.
yes, a few points if i may your honor. first, of course, those very same arguments were made in casey, and the court rejected them. saying that this film blows off occult disagreement can be resolved in a way that a woman has no choice in the matter. and second, i don t think it will be a neutral position. the constitution provides a guarantee of liberty. the court has interpreted that liberty to include the ability to make decisions related to child bearing, marriage, and family. women have an equal rights to liberty under the constitution, your honor. and if they re not able to make this decision, the states can take control of women s bodies and force them to endure months of pregnancy and childbirth, then they will never have equal status under the constitution. if women are not able to make this decision, if states can take control of women s bodies and force them to endure months of pregnancy and childbirth, then women will never have equal status under the constitution. back
pregnancy. poor women who are twice at likely to be delayed in accessing care, and young people or those on contraception, who take longer to recognize a pregnancy. the court should affirm. counsel, i just have one question. i assume from your brief, you re relying on an autonomy theory? both bodily integrity and the ability to make decisions related to family, marriage, and child bearing, your honor. shortly some years after we decided casey, we had a case out of south carolina, i believe, involved a woman who had been convicted of criminal child neglect, because she ingested