what s happened now after they put three members on to the supreme court in a highly partisan way under donald trump, we now have a we now have a supreme court that has refused to act on a texas abortion ban that has now been in effect for nearly three months and literally this court has done nothing. this is the concern about this is widespread. it s far beyond mississippi. it s far beyond texas. because people around the country are realizing this could happen anywhere, and it could happen everywhere. but make no mistake about it, this is a right that people everywhere have regardless of political party. what i don t think the republican party understands is that with an 80% of americans believe that the people who should make decisions about pregnancy are people who are pregnant, not the federal government, not politicians, and so the opportunity, you know, in the voting booth and in the
like, take us to the state-by-state story. what happens if the supreme court ends roe vs. wade as we know it? how does that impact different kinds of states and what would congress be able to do, if anything, about it? thanks a million, jason, for having us this evening. first, it will really deny people s right to access an abortion, and it begins to actually erode and really take away and end roe vs. wade. people have a right to make their own healthcare decisions. people have a right to make their decisions as it relates to having an abortion or not, and so what we re trying to do in congress, and we passed in the house the women s health protection act, which would put into law, finally, abortion access and also the right to a safe and legal abortion. you know, this is an issue also about equity and barriers. low-income women, primarily women of color, people of color, are denied access to the full
and the only way to stop this tide is to enforce these measures. and it does have significant equity. not just in terms of who s getting tested and who s getting the vaccine. but if you think about it, there are a lot of teachers that aren t going to work because they re not vaccinated. there are police officers and firefighters not going to work because they re not being vaccinated and if you have an entire political party doing everything in its power to essentially enable that, then you re going to have significant lapses in a lot of public policy areas. just think about the fact if you have a lot of teachers not going in to teach, how does that affect african american students, what is the disparate effect on them? and whether it s crime, criminal
the nearly 50-year-old decision of roe vs. wade, which said a woman s right to an abortion, up until fetal viability, is protected by the u.s. constitution. the case the high court will hear, dobbs vs. jackson women s health organization, essentially outlaws abortion after 15 weeks, much sooner than what is established in roe. noting this case is significant, the new york times describes it as, quote, setting the stage for what could be the most consequential abortion rights ruling in decades. the times adds, quote, if the justices were to approve the law, roe s viability standard would no longer be the law of the land, unquote. the clinic at the center of this case is the only abortion clinic left in mississippi, the only abortion clinic left in mississippi. and another piece in the times explores the challenges currently faced by the doctors and patients there. from that reporting, quote, although the jackson clinic s survival hangs in the balance, it has never been busier. in
country. such views routinely expressed in war like or revolutionary terms are often intertwined with evangelical religious ferver as the most animated republican voters increasingly see in themselves as participants in a struggle if not a kind of holy war to preserve their idea of american culture. if we are not honest about what is at the core of this, then we cannot get to the place where we can actually begin to fix it. that s exactly right. white supremacy and attitudes are at the heart of this. we need to start thinking and talking seriously as a country about domestic terrorism. we don t like to talk about that. we like to say it, sweep it under the rug. never happen here, but it is happening here. i have to say i was an african