we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. ellison ba
doesn t have anything uncomfortable. they don t want any ideas that could confront them with the realities of history or society. or the weird diversity and the weird various pathways that human life takes. things that do not seem normal to them inside that little bubble that they love to create. they re gonna try to allege a tree legislate against. they ve got a huge majority in the houses. they ve got a governor in billy who s a willing to go out as far in the closing. can we go to see more of. this it s iterating throughout the states. they re doing a lot of copycat bills in various states. once he gets away with it, another state will pick it up. and he states right now have gender affirming care bands. thing is, juanita, the percentage of people who are trans, especially trans kid, is like under 1%. this is like a tiny group of people. but you would think that there was this massive wave of parents deciding i ve got a girl and i would like a boy, or i ve got a boy i would like a
is a disaster for the rule of law, and not only is it disaster for abortion access across the country, but it s actually going to impact all of the rights that we hold dear across this nation because the supreme court is saying that states do not have to follow supreme court precedent, that they do not have to listen to the federal government, and that they do not have to offer constitutionally protected health care, abortions to their residents. to that point, they found two dozen states are certain or likely to ban abortions if roe is overturned, and at least seven states are currently considering copycat bills of texas ban. what is your organization doing to prepare? we work with people who have had abortions and, to be quite honest, are continuing to have abortions. we re working with abortion funds, which are local organizations across the country that are raising money to help
a near total ban on abortion in texas, with many states in the south of the united states poised to lobby for copycat bills, and the most recent development of a decades long trend of chipping away at our reproductive rights in this country. tell us more about those other states. are there any particular areas you re concerned about? the south in particular but, for example, six states already have only one abortion clinic in them so things like cost of travel, lodging, childcare, economic hardship, all of these things are prohibitions on people to access their reproductive care and in december, the supreme court is going to hear another case from mississippi in their 15 week ban and if the supreme court keeps refusing to block these laws then we can essentially see an overturning of roe v wade in this country. you were at the rally in new york, east coast, fairly liberal. how easy it is at for a woman in new york to get an abortion? there s still a lot of difficulties. the primary one
you are watching bbc news. our main story. thousands are marching for abortion rights across the united states as pro choice supporters fear the supreme court could impose further restrictions. staying on that story for a few moments. speaking to a reproductions organiser in new york who attended the rally earlier on in today. give us your reaction to what is happening in texas. it us your reaction to what is happening in texas.- us your reaction to what is happening in texas. it is ust horrific. six-week happening in texas. it isjust horrific. six-week abortion i horrific. six week abortion ban, just to get a sense of that, what that actually means is 85 that, what that actually means is 85- 90% that, what that actually means is 85 90% of people who choose to get abortions do so after six weeks. i6 weeks most people don t even know that they are pregnant so it is an effect total ban on abortion in texas. by total ban on abortion in texas. by six weeks. it is poised to