and they did, trump appointed three conservative judges. and this week with the leap drop of them condemning roe, asked week, we can see how this is all very likely to shake out. with role gone, minority women will likely bear the brunt of this new upcoming restriction on their health care. not to mention the fact that the draft opinion was written away that could dismantle other rights, things like the right to same sex marriage, the right to contraception, interracial marriage, privacy all of these things are now on the table. the religious right charted this decades ago, in their anger over segregation to build power on the back of abortion, and dismantle the rights they don t care for. and so far, it seems to be working. joining us now is president pro-choice america for eight years, she authored the lie that binds, a book that offers a comprehensive history of the right wing anti abortion movement in america, and its ties to white supremacy.
abortion has always been a popular opinion with the majority. pre roe, when roe went down, and it is today. we don t have the power, what do you do? you resolve to disinformation, which abortion disinformation predated covid disinformation by a lot. it traveled a lot of the same my first impression always goes hand in hand. with robbing women of reproductive freedoms and court capture. we may be at the endgame of court capture, unless we make some radical and dramatic changes, but we re not at the endgame of what this court will dismantle in terms of rights of others that they did not recognize in the original eyes so, let s talk about what happens now and how people who are concerned about this motivate decision-makers at any level whether when you say abortion should be
all of those rights are in jeopardy. let s be clear, one of the things we ve always said, is if you don t have the power for the majority with you, and by the way if the legal right to abortion has always been a popular opinion with the majority. pre roe, when roe went down, and it is today. we don t have the power, what do you do? you resolve to disinformation, which abortion disinformation predated covid disinformation by a lot. it traveled a lot of the same my first impression always goes hand in hand. with robbing women of reproductive freedoms and court capture. we may be at the endgame of court capture, unless we make some radical and dramatic changes, but we re not at the endgame of what this court will dismantle in terms of rights of others that they did not recognize in the original eyes so, let s talk about what
woman foundation. julie, thank you so much for being with us. this story means something very different for you handed us for many people. obviously it affects everybody differently. but you have literally been on the frontlines. you worked with george taylor, who was violently murdered, as part of this fight. what is going through your mind, today, in this week, after seeing this draft supreme court opinion, that overturns roe, or will overturn roe? well, thank you. i must say, when i looked at the draft opinion that came out, and read the opinion i can say that i was devastated, as we re all of us, across this country, who fight so hard for reproductive health care, and access to reproductive health care. it was quite a gut punch. but, one thing, that i feel is
this story means something very different to you than it does for many people. obviously, it affects everybody differently. but you have literally been on the front lines. you work with george tiller, who was violently murdered as part of the fight. what is going through your mind today, and this week, after seeing this draft supreme court opinion that overturns roe or it will overturn roe. well, thank you, ali, for having me on. i must say that when i looked at the draft opinion that came out, and read the opinion, i can say that i was devastated. as were all of us across this country who fight so hard for reproductive health care and who provide access to reproductive health care. it was quite a gut punch. but one thing that i, i feel that is really important for us to remember in this time, is that abortion is still legal,