your vote, you can act. you can have the final word. this is not over. we went off the air at 10:00 a.m. on friday, and ten minutes later, this. this is an nbc news special report. . we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in decades. the monumental ruling by the supreme court finally handed down more than a month after that unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggesting the nation s highest court was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 roe v. wade case. the nation s highest court ruling 6-3 to uphold the mississippi abortion ban being challenged. chief justice john roberts supported that, but stopped short of overturning roe. that vote was 5-4, ending the constitutional protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. the results follow decades after opponents of abortion made possible by three appointees to the high court by former presidential donald trump. the ruling reversed planned parenthoo
michael, and michigan state senator, mallory mcmorrow as the issue of abortion heads back to the states where the battles are being waged. professor, let me begin with you. i must say, it is stunning to all of us, but i suspect even more stunning to those who have studied constitutional law, as you have, to teach constitutional law. in 2022, we have a supreme court that takes away a right that over 70% of americans wanted to keep, that s been in effect for 50 years, and went on to say, we re coming after contraception next, gay marriage next, i don t think there s been enough reporting of this, even saying they re coming after what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedroom. let s say this again, this
hypocritical, it s situational ethics. guy, the question is, again, what do those who are opposed to this hypocrisy do, and let me just also ask you, what about a state like wisconsin, a state that now, i guess, abortion is illegal now in wisconsin. what s the impact on races up there? i mean, that s not alabama. that s not mississippi. that s wisconsin. what s the impact? first, if i could also just say, the only difference between what clarence thomas said and what alito and gorsuch and the rest said is that thomas just said the quiet part out loud. that this is not about legal consistency, this is not about anything other than power. the reason why republicans refuse to do what they need to do to secure the vote, protect the electoral college counting is because of power.
center of their faith when the fact is that when you and i were in high school, baptist church was pro choice, was really until 1979, 1980. this is all political. and yet you have a generation, and i will say brain washed, brain washed, that don t understand that it took almost 2,000 years after jesus birth for abortion to suddenly become a center piece, 1979, 1980 redo of what christianity is, and yet you look at the map, you look across the bible belt, and like claire said, there are extraordinarily extreme provisions that could put victims of rape, victims of incest if they don t follow the
needles and wire hangers into their wombs, to thread catheters through their cervixes and fill them with lysol or scalding hot water or lye. when we made abortion legal, we decided we weren t going to let that happen anymore. we were not going to let one more woman arrive at a hospital with her organs rotting inside of her. we accepted that we might lose that growing baby but we were also not going to lose that woman. mara, kaitlyn s piece is so searing and so strong, but it brings to light a reality in america. this is not just something that happens once in a while. this is a reality across the board that s come back to us now. i mean, this is the reality