course, this document was leaked. just explain the legal situation here, because i don t think this is sunk into enough people how immediate the effect of the court issuing this report ruling could be in a state like yours. yeah, i think you re right. michigan would revert overnight on 1931 law and would make us have one of the most extreme anti abortion laws on the books. that means it would be a felony to receive or perform an abortion. and he s there is no exception for rape or incest. so as governor of michigan, i m a constitutional right to bring a lawsuit to protect the rights of the people of the state. i ll say they believe the task a state supreme court to take that issue of directly. so those are two things that i started about a month ago. i filed this lawsuit because we saw where this was going in the united states supreme court. and we know we had to act to protect women in michigan. i don t know if he s gonna be successful, but i want to use every tool i can and i wil
thank you. as we were just discussing, the central looming question overall this is what can be done. in some states that s a really urgent intentional question because, striking down roe would mean automatically that the same day, returning to antiabortion laws that were in place before roe. laws that are merely 100 years old. how one governors fighting to keep that from happening in her state before roe is officially decided after this.
through the criswell decision. which finds the right to privacy and to the access to birth control. marriage equality. professor tribe, you said reading the draft, you quickly learn that all the rights people have taken for granted, the right to decide who to marry, east birth control, with whom to have sex, endless freedoms will no longer be protected unless you can point to languish in the constitution expressly guaranteeing those rights. or convince five per supreme court justices they are deeply rooted in nation s history and tradition and implicit in the concept of liberty. that is the new task that toledo is proposing this opinion. it s a new tests and it s a test that would turn the clock back. at least half a century. in fact, it s interesting to note that justice alito carefully says that the first eight amendments to the constitution are ones we can look at in order to figure out what are the substantive rights. he convene lee doesn t mention the ninth which specifically sa