crowds are gathering in cities coast-to-coast to express their feelings following the five four decision to return control of abortion law to the states but several have already outlawed the procedure under it so trigger laws which will ban or restrict most abortions and roughly half the country in the coming weeks and months. president biden among other democratic leaders are now weighing options to protect abortion rights. there fox news team coverage read alexis mcadams live in new york city on protests across the country. but first to davis he is live at the supreme court where crowds are also gathering. david. [cheering] a consistent presence outside the supreme court. thousands of people out here today but will give you kind of a live look at what we are looking at right now. the majority if not most of people out there potentially all of the people out here today are pro-choice are angry about this decision that came down from the supreme court. i was out here yest
thanks, rachel. all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn t believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, these guys from the 16 hundreds in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. yeah, justice alito, and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be broadly
and the anger, even from house speaker nancy pelosi. this morning, the radical supreme court is eviscerate-ing americans rights. and endangering their health and safety. the republican control has achieved their dark, extreme goal of ripping away a woman s right to make her own reproductive health decisions. because of donald trump, which coddle, at the republican party. if the supreme court, americans they have less freedoms than their mothers. this ruling takes us backwards. and you get a sense of just how far backwards when you listen to what s an nbc news correspondent said when roe was decided back in january, of 1973. from the beginning, abortion has been forced to see this issue as a constant on an individual s choice. abortion is now legal in every state. the basic fight is now over. the basic legal fight was thought to be over. but then they waged a decades long political fight to stack the supreme court. now because of this, political court ruling, about h
took nearly three decades but most significant gun legislation in that time, closer to law as it awaits president biden s signature. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, protests nationwide tonight as the supreme court overturns roe v wade, looking at like pictures from chicago, boston, atlanta and the steps of the supreme court. at least 70 protests in the united states planned tonight as crowds have been growing through the day. some are celebrating, but the vast majority we see tonight are protesting the 5-4 supreme court ruling. we refuse to go back! this decision is an outrage. it s terrifying, more than anything, makes me angry. these people do not decide our life. the decision for many in america already being felt. there are 13 states, i ll show on the screen, that already have what s called a trigger law. a law in place that would ban abortion in the event the supreme court overturned the land mark roe v wade decision
abortion is an emotional issue and liberals are furious. they want you to know that. leave abortion on demand. we will rise up. we will rise up. jesse: thousands of people took off work and took a mental health day or maybe they weren t working to begin with and they started screaming in the streets. that is their right, but it doesn t accomplish anything. it doesn t help anyone the democrat politicians are scaring the heck out of them. the republicans are planning a nationwide abortion ban. you ain t seen nothing yet we will defy them. today s decision on that theory then calls into question other rights that we thought were settled, the right to same-sex marriage. the right to interracial marriage. let s be very clear that the health and life of women in this nation are now at risk. jesse: in other words a vote democrat or die that is the message that they are sending to them across the country tonight. don t worry about inflation, or gas prices, or crime,