very good thursday morning to you . i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. this just in to cnn, important news for the u.s. economy, the nation s gross domestic product, how much the economy grew or shrank, declined less than previously thought in the second quarter of this year. revised up from negative .9% to negative .6%. it may not sound like much. it shows our economy is shrinking. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now with more. we often have seen revisions like this, with jobs figures, sometimes in both directions, sometimes in a positive direction, what is the significance of the revision here? it means the economy is less lousy in the second quarter than we thought, and in fact consumer spending and corporate profits were stronger and that is an underpinning here of the u.s. economy. you look at quarter by quarter by quarter, you see two quarters in a row of a shrinking u.s. economy. but shrinking much less in the second quarter than the fi
difficult decision that a physician in the moment must make an exactly perfect decision that the life of this mother was in great danger, and then is put in the defense the defensive position in court of trying to say i have to prove that i was right about that, in a momentary decision when other people may have months and months to say no, we determined you were wrong about that. texas had a different outcome there, it is now punishable felony in texas which could be life in prison if somebody performs an abortion to save the life of a pregnant person. the argument there is that this is just not a decision they re going to accept in the court. there are concerns there because life in prison, plus a $100,000 civil fine, potentially, even some of the county attorneys general, those groups are starting to say we re not sure that this really will work, or this can really be done this way. bottom line is it is stepping up