s reproductive care from state to state, and how it could influence the 2024 race. as the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening. once again, i m stephanie ruhle. in less than one hour, it will be one year since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. revoking the constitutional right to abortion that it had established. that decision coming from the conservative majority on the high court. the latest nbc news poll shows 61% of registered voters disapproved of that very decision. in the years since that ruling, abortion has been banned, or made unavailable, in more than a dozen states. and it is severely restricted in nearly ten others. today, president biden signed an executive order to expand access to birth control. his administration s latest effort to protect reproductive rights. late this afternoon, biden and vice president harris spoke about those rights. we stand for the freedom of every american, including the freedom of every person, everywhere
supreme court overturned roe. the impact we ve seen on women s reproductive care from state to state, and how it could influence the 2024 race. as the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening. once again, i m stephanie ruhle. in less than one hour, it will be one year since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. revoking the constitutional right to abortion that it had established. that decision coming from the conservative majority on the high court. the latest nbc news poll shows 61% of registered voters disapproved of that very decision. in the years since that ruling, abortion has been banned, or made unavailable, in more than a dozen states. and it is severely restricted in nearly ten others. today, president biden signed an executive order to expand access to birth control. his administration s latest effort to protect reproductive rights. late this afternoon, biden and vice president harris spoke about those rights. we stand for the freedom of every
contraception for women that just fear for access. as you just heard from the reporting, it s not just access to ob/gyn care, and women s health. i think people are really not thinking about all the preventive services and primary care we touched on. cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening. so many things that dr. jenn lincoln and my own colleagues and myself do in our clinics. that access has been restricted, again, not in just those severely restricted states. but all across the map. i shudder to think about what we haven t seen yet. but we know, are coming, not just the increase in maternal deaths. stephanie, we knew that from 19 74 to 2016 we saw 6% increase in suicide rates in states that had the severe restrictions. there s no reason to think that those statistics will get worse over the next several years. pam, from state to state, how confusing is it for women, for health care providers? i think it s very confusing.
reporting, it s not just access to ob/gyn care, and women s health. i think people are really not thinking about all the preventive services and primary care we touched on. cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening. so many things that dr. jenn lincoln and my own colleagues and myself do in our clinics. that access has been restricted, again, not in just those severely restricted states. but all across the map. i shudder to think about what we haven t seen yet. but we know, are coming, not just the increase in maternal deaths. stephanie, we knew that from 19 74 to 2016 we saw 6% increase in suicide rates in states that had the severe restrictions. there s no reason to think that those statistics will not get worse over the next several years. pam, from state to state, how confusing is it for women, for health care providers? i think it s very confusing. there have been studies and polls that show that women in many of these states don t know