good evening, everyone. welcome to a very, very special edition of the reidout, live from the flying saucer draft imporium in ft. worth, texas. we re now just two weeks away from the midterm elections and the stakes could not be higher for the lone star state where everything from school board elections to the race for governor is dominated by the struggle to define what america is and who america stands for. texas is arguably the center of the u.s. culture wars. the red state that might be getting a little less red here and there where the consequences for this year s election are at a fever pitch. this is where the high-stakes abortion conversation we re all having right now began. when texas passed its bounty hunter abortion ban before the supreme court reversed roe v. wade. voting in texas is so restricted and anti-voter laws so effective, folks have dubbed it jim crow 2.0. more books have been banned from school libraries in this state than any other state, and this
their nuewspapers tomorrow reflect the shift. it reads roe overturned. the subway said what the u.s. supreme court abortion decision means for ohio. the miami herald in mal, the end of roe v. wade means anger, fear, and praise for a land mark ruling. already the ruling has had a huge impact. more than a quarter of states have so-called trigger laws that ban abortion. those in arkansas, kentucky missouri, oklahoma, alabama, sol south dakota banned abortion. idaho, tennessee, north dakota ban after 30 days. texas is expected to ban sometime after that. and then there are 12 other states, we ll show you those shade in the purple on a, on a map that says are certain or likely to ban abortion based on some combination. laws previously on becomes or political trends in the states. that s just the effect today of the supreme court s 5-4 decision. what happens tomorrow? and months and years from this moment. that we don t know. many democrats tonight are expressing concern that the d
states we are going to show you them shaded in purple on a map that the pro-choice gutmacher institute says are certain or likely to ban abortion based on currently in books or transient states but that is just the effect today of the supreme court s 5-4 decision. what happens tomorrow and months and years from this moment? that, we don t know. in fact, many democrats tonight are expressing concern that the decision could provide legal justification to overturn other rights, secured by supreme court precedent. including those covering contraception and same-sex marriage. and they have reason to be concerned after justice clarence thomas suggesting doing just that today as well. this is what justice thomas wrote in a concurring opinion, quote, for that reason? future case, we should reconsider all of this court s substantive due process precedence, including griswold lawrence, and obergefell. he continues because any due process decision is demonstrably erroneous. we have a
this has been a horrible day for us in our clinic. not only do i care about my patients but everybody, every member of my staff really cares about our patients. so first we all cried. and then we had to gather ourselves to decide how we would take care of these patients and what to do. i was hesitant to take this interview today because i didn t know if i could get through it. we divided the patients up. those we had already started to care for, who had already received medication and we felt it would be malpractice not to complete their procedures, we put them into one room. we took people who were here for first visits. we had about 15 people who had come for first visits and some had traveled from as far as texas. we put them into another room. the people who signed in thinking they were having procedures today, who we had not started, that we could not care for, we put them into a separate room and we talked to them all separately to let them know what
performed abortions there. dr. robinson, i appreciate you being with us tonight. should i now refer to you as a former abortion provider in alabama? well, thank you for having me. i still refer to myself as an abortion provider. we still have a lot of thinking to do around how i will continue to provide the care if. my patients need. but that is very essential to who i am. and what matters to me. so please still refer to me as an abortion provider. i refer to myself as an abortion provider. i was talking to one of may colleagues earlier today and i said it was very hard, how many i care about my patients to sit in front of them right now. and i m having to think and think about what it is that i can do for them because of the state that i m living in, and the state that they re in. you know, i know how to provide care. i m a physician. i don t know a lot of the legal ins and outs.