committee is holding a hearing on the implications of the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. this is live coverage, here on c-span three. if you like to submit materials, please send them to the email addresses previously distributed to your offices. we will circulate the material to members and staff as quickly as we can. before we start, i would like to warn the members that because we have full 12:30, i will have a tight gavel, five minutes on the dye. i will now recognize myself in an opening statement. what is the meaning of freedom in america in 2022? this is the question that we as a society must confront today in the wake of the supreme court is appalling decision in dobbs versus jackson women s health organization, which eviscerated the constitutional right to abortion, and laid the groundwork for a radical reshaping of our fundamental liberties. as we reckon with the consequences of this decision for women s health and individual liberty, we must also consider w
states we are going to show you them shaded in purple on a map that the pro-choice gutmacher institute says are certain or likely to ban abortion based on currently in books or transient states but that is just the effect today of the supreme court s 5-4 decision. what happens tomorrow and months and years from this moment? that, we don t know. in fact, many democrats tonight are expressing concern that the decision could provide legal justification to overturn other rights, secured by supreme court precedent. including those covering contraception and same-sex marriage. and they have reason to be concerned after justice clarence thomas suggesting doing just that today as well. this is what justice thomas wrote in a concurring opinion, quote, for that reason? future case, we should reconsider all of this court s substantive due process precedence, including griswold lawrence, and obergefell. he continues because any due process decision is demonstrably erroneous. we have a
politics nation. the focus on scotus. afua right now the conservative members of the supreme court are signaling that this court will not be moved by the times in which we live, but driven by history regardless of how distant. and yesterday, as expected, the court issued its five for conservative majority decision to overturn roe v. wade. in doing so, up ending 50 years of federal protections for abortion rights. in response, this weekend, our cities are erupting in protest. here in new york, los angeles, atlanta, and in washington, where abortion rights supporters and opponents have surrounded the supreme court for the second day. but also they re protesting in more than a dozen red states, cleared by the decision to enact trigger laws banning abortion. six of which have already done so in the days since the decision. three others set to join them in the next few weeks. well gun advocates in those states and elsewhere are hailing another of the courts decisions, this week, t
roe v. wade is overturned. the hill with the supreme court we will decide them. bounces against the justices did not win. good evening breaking tonight history from the unit s supreme court justices voted to overturn the landmark v wade decision in today s ruling and nearly 50 years of federal legal protection for abortion they re willing says that there never was a right to abortion in the u.s. constitution and it returns the authority to regulate abortion to the states. many of those already have restrictive laws, others have passed laws that were triggered by today s ruling. still other states are taking steps to protect abortion rights following the decision. security around the u.s. supreme court is tight tonight as crowds have swelled throughout the day precautions are being tinkered and abortion facilities across the nation. at some clinics are sitting down. political reaction as you heard some of it forming long predictable lines are visibly angry president jo