your vote, you can act. you can have the final word. this is not over. we went off the air at 10:00 a.m. on friday, and ten minutes later, this. this is an nbc news special report. . we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in decades. the monumental ruling by the supreme court finally handed down more than a month after that unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggesting the nation s highest court was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 roe v. wade case. the nation s highest court ruling 6-3 to uphold the mississippi abortion ban being challenged. chief justice john roberts supported that, but stopped short of overturning roe. that vote was 5-4, ending the constitutional protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. the results follow decades after opponents of abortion made possible by three appointees to the high court by former presidential donald trump. the ruling reversed planned parenthoo
michael, and michigan state senator, mallory mcmorrow as the issue of abortion heads back to the states where the battles are being waged. professor, let me begin with you. i must say, it is stunning to all of us, but i suspect even more stunning to those who have studied constitutional law, as you have, to teach constitutional law. in 2022, we have a supreme court that takes away a right that over 70% of americans wanted to keep, that s been in effect for 50 years, and went on to say, we re coming after contraception next, gay marriage next, i don t think there s been enough reporting of this, even saying they re coming after what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedroom. let s say this again, this