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hello, everyone. this is don lemon tonight. thank you for joining us. we have been watching the cnn global town hall coronavirus facts and fears, and we ve got a lot more coming on the omicron variant, now detected in this country. but this is boy has this been a momentous day in washington. a day when the supreme court heard arguments in the case that could roll back the right americans have had for nearly 50 years. the court seems ready to green light a mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks with no exception for rape or incest. it s one of several laws passed in multiple states intended to get the supreme court to hear a direct challenge to roe v. wade. the president of the united states, joe biden, reaffirming his support for roe today. what is your reaction to the supreme court heard the abortion today that justices signaled they re on the verge of major changes to abortion laws in the
there is no right to privacy, there is no equal protection considerations and due process and liberty fairness issues here just because what, it s a woman and not a man? and it really blows out of the water any credible notion for me that when you have these confirmation hearings and supreme court justices give the script that essentially says i m not prepared to talk about an issue that may come under. it s settled law. that all sounds a lot like, to quote the president of the united states, a bunch of malarkey if you have every intention to disrupt what your own precedent already says only because there is new people on this court. nothing else has changed. and speaking of that idea of precedent, nia, and what they have said before, this is brett kavanaugh, what he had to say during a senate confirmation hearing. listen to this. what would you say your position today is on a woman s right to choose? as a judge as a judge.
majority is prepared to uphold mississippi s law banning abortions after 15 weeks. the question is will they toss out roe v. wade all together? you know, it s always difficult. we try to retain that glass half full thought process about trying to read the tea leaves. sometimes the judges ask questions with a guide toward how they ll rule. other times not so much. but thing is a clear indication of how they are leaning already. the question here really is whether they are prepared for the pushback and the fallout of disrupting a 50-year precedent. remember, people order their lives, frankly, around supreme court precedent. while it s true there are some instances while supreme court precedent has been overturned, i point to of course separate but equal that was obliterated down the road with good reason. this is not one of those instances. nothing fundamentally is changed in terms of the law, in terms of the rationale other than the actual composition of the court. and there are some
enough time? reporter: justice alito seemed to want to go further. the fetus has an interest in having a life, and that doesn t change, does it, from the point before viability to the point after viability? reporter: u.s. solicitor general elizabeth prelogger, who argued the case on behalf of the federal government warned about the dire consequences of overturning roe. nearly half of the states already have or are expected to enact bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, many without exceptions for rape or incest. women who are unable to travel hundreds of miles to gain access to legal abortion will be required to continue with their pregnancies and give birth with profound affects on their bodies, their health and the course of their lives. reporter: the court s 6-3 conservative majority appeared poised to uphold the mississippi law, but it was less clear if there was a majority to end the federal right to abortion. a key vote, justice cavanaugh