legislations to support reproductive rights world will also get on the floor. at the end of the day, if a famous republican were to get up and say, they don t support or trust women, they should have to stay on the floor and say it and blame why. i don t disagree. just curious about your republican counterpart. have you had a chance to have conversations about this? we have learned over this past year, that if we needed this lesson, i don t think anybody did, it is about women s lives. women in real time are either risking their lives, they have pregnancies with fetal abnormalities, or they are being forced to give birth to stillborn babies, or babies that suffer and die shortly after birth, and they are being sterilized, because they cannot have the care they need. do they confront those realities in conversation? no, and i will say this,
six weeks is when a fetal heartbeat can first be detected. the ban includes some exceptions for medical emergencies if the pregnancy as a result of rape or incest and for certain fetal abnormalities. abortion providers in south carolina are already challenging the new law. near total abortion bans have already been enacted in most other southern states. in a statement yesterday white house press secretary called south carolina s ban, quote, extreme and dangerous and reaffirmed the biden administration s commitment to protecting reproductive rights. now, nbc news has learned from officials at the department of justice that they are investigating whether expensive gifts were given to new jersey senator bob nunen dez and his wife, specifically a mercedes-benz, a luxury apartment in washington, d.c., money and jewelry. that s all according to sources familiar with the matter. investigators are interested in whether the gifts came from the
individual women. 25 states in the u.s. now have moved to restrict abortions since the overturning of roe last june. and 14 of those states have basically banned abortions at six weeks. you don t know whether you re pregnant. many women don t know whether they re pregnant in the time frame that south carolina is giving them. south carolina had actually been a place where women could go in the south. many of the states that have banned or restricted abortions have been in the south, and they need to go to other states. south carolina had been something of a safe haven. so for a woman in florida, for example, we ve spoken to women who have had pregnancies that went wrong, who have had fetal abnormalities. who risked something like sepsis. they have to go somewhere else to get an abortion. they were going to south carolina. now they can t do that anymore. it s going to put a lot of pressure on the state of virginia and abortion providers in virginia. virginia now remains really one of the
and that s why it was important to return it back to the state because the country has never had to deal with the politics of abortion and america s abortion policy is radical compared to the european countries. most european countries are 10 to 12 weeks. that s where they are. they have exceptions that allow abortions. the florida law has exceptions as well. i ll do more on abortion here in a few minutes. byron donalds, republican from southwest florida, thanks for coming in. thank you. speaking of abortion, the super majority pushed a ban of 12 weeks. the new law bans abortion after 12 weeks and requires patients to meet in person 72 hours before the procedure and includes 20-week exceptions for rape and incest and a 24-week exception for life-limiting fetal abnormalities. and joining us now is the governor of north carolina, governor roy cooper. governor, welcome back to meet the press. good to be with you.
democrats tried to stall that process. the bill would ban most abortions after early cardiac activity is detected. a time before many women even know they are pregnant. there are a few exceptions, fetal abnormalities, the health and life of the mother and exceptions up to 12 weeks for cases of rape, incest and/or unwanted pregnancy. good morning. are there other legislative options left for democrats? is this it? looks like this is it. unless the republican-controlled senate unexpectedly reverses course once it gets the house bill. that seems highly unlikely. the one option they did have, poppy, in the south carolina house was to delay passage of the six week abortion ban. given that republicans have a soup mare jort, it was inevitable that this simple majority it was inevitable that they would debate for two days. this is a contentious issue