America s men for one minute. imagine you do not have authority over your own body for ten months. it is barbaric, it is inhumane, it is unacceptable. and i hope every human being in this country understands that when you take away a woman s right to make her decisions about her health and well-being, she s no longer a full citizen. welcome back to state of the union. i m jake tapper. that democratic senator kirsten gillibrand of new york reacting to that leaked draft of the supreme court opinion on abortion. democrats have been warning about this possibility for decades, frankly. the question is, is there anything lawmakers can do to stop it? senator gillibrand is joining us now. first of all, senator, happy mother s day. we appreciate you taking the time. you heard tate reeves say, if this stands, mississippi will ban all abortions in the state with exceptions for rape, only if someone is prosecuted and
According to politico which obtained the draft and broke the story. while not final, the stakes of this decision have already spurred protests and celebrations across the country. and a new debate in washington. between those who want to nationalize the right to an abortion and those who want to ban it everywhere. new cnn polling shows a vast majority of the public, two-thirds, do not support overturning roe v. wade, but so much remains unclear what the final decision will actually be. what will happen in each state if the constitutional right to abortion is removed, if the supreme court overturns roe. right now there are 19 states that had abortion bans on the books before roe was decided or have passed so-called trigger laws that will ban abortion and snap into place if roe is overturned. let s begin with the governor of the state at the center of this supreme court case. republican tate reeves of mississippi. governor reeves, thank you for joining us this morning. mississippi is one
There is nothing in the u.s. constitution that precludes individual states from regulating or restricting abortions. and that s the ruling that the court should make. but again, all we have is a leaked draft. we don t have a final no, i agree. i agree. but just to be clear, the state of mississippi, you re not going to then target iud or plan b, which are methods of birth control that might not allow a fertilized egg to be implanted? this is not a theoretical construct, this is not the state of louisiana, which is a neighboring state, not your state, but they re talking about not only criminally charging girls and women who get abortions as, you know, as being committing homicide but they re also talking about defining the moment of conception as fertilization, which would theoretically, if this were to become the law of
That has a trigger law passed in 2007 that will ban all abortions except in cases of rape or in cases where the mother s life is at stake, with no exceptions for incest, if roe is overturned. this would require the state attorney general to certify that roe v. wade is no longer in effect. if the court rules as expected, is mississippi going to implement that trigger law and make all abortion except in those two narrow circumstances illegal? well, thank you for having me on this morning, jake. happy mother s day to all the moms and grand moms out there, including the first lady of mississippi, miss elee. mississippi has a trigger law in place, it was passed in 2007. that trigger law will go into effect if the draft opinion, which has been a bit of a bombshell this entire week, from a national conversation and political discussion, but, yes, our trigger law will go into effect. it does have an exception for rape. it does have an exception for the life of the mother. as this country s