morning. a lot going on. yeah, there is. we have important new developments after the murder of eight people in georgia. six of them asian women. asian-americans on edge in the u.s. and you can understand why. authorities are noting the suspect claims the shootings were not racially motivated. but he says were the result of sexual addiction. a sheriff s deputy facing backlash for this description of the suspect s frame of mind. he understood the gravity of it. and he was pretty much fed up and had been kind of at the end of his rope and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. also new, russia responds to president biden calling vladimir putin a killer. mr. biden s comments were labeled as unprecedented. we ll have much more from the white house on that in a moment. but we want to begin with natasha chen with the very latest on the georgia investigation. good morning. reporter: good morning, erica. we re in cherokee county where the suspect is
women are being disproportionately targeted for abortions. we re joined now by heidi williamson, women s health advocate and national policy director for sister song and catherine davis of georgia right to life. let s start with you. what s wrong with this? well, first off, the mere association of the up born and the born with endangered animals is absolutely unacceptable. black children, whether born or unborn, are not animals, they re not exotic, they re not wild creatures meant to be collected or exoticized. we stand in opposition of that point first and foremost. and then second of all this campaign completely oversimplifies the experiences of black women in the state. women face an array of challenges everything from sexual abuse, sexual violence