same-sex marriage, too. and the first gun legislation passed in years. now on its way to the president biden s desk and our nbc news exclusive, one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. his message about the americans captured while fighting in ukraine. what he is now vowing to do. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone where do privacy and personal freedom begin, and where do they end questions that framed an enduring divide in modern american, one many thought was settled nearly 50 years ago when the supreme court affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion today, the court answered that question again, this time in a 5-4 vote taking away what was regarded as a fundamental right. right now, new laws banning abortion are taking effect in several states, just hours after the court overturned the landmark roe versus wade decision leaving it to states to determine whether abortion is legal. justice samuel alito
the mississippi clinic at the heart of today s supreme court decision. we do abortions, and we are proud to do abortions. reporter: even though the days for that are now numbered at the jackson women s health organization the requests are only growing. in ten days, because of the state s trigger law, mississippi s only abortion clinic will shut down for good. i will tell you that any patient that contacts us, we will see them we will make sure we see them during that ten days reporter: but in some states change is already happening. of the 13 trigger law states abortion is now illegal with a few exceptions in at least five of them following today s ruling including missouri, oklahoma, and arkansas, where through tears the attorney general signed the certification late today. restoring to the state of arkansas the authority to prohibit abortion reporter: in wisconsin, planned parenthood immediately stopped abortions following today s ruling the medical director had to break