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was desperately seeking would have been illegal if this case happened in texas today. a woman found out she was eight weeks pregnant. she fried to find an appointment with the goal of getting an abortion. she thought about the possibility of going out of state but couldn t afford it. the cost of an instate abortion was multiple paychecks. she did get an appointment just hours before midnight last night. when the new draconian abortion law went into effect in texas after our fever dream of a supreme court declined to take action. the law bans abortions after six weeks before most people even though they are pregnant. there are zero exceptions for rape or incest. take that in for a moment. those victims have no way out. think about that. think about that 13-year-old girl raped by her grandfather or
the nation, this law bans abortions before many women know they re pregnant. it also allows private citizens anywhere in the country to sue abortion providers or anyone who assists a woman in texas seeking an abortion after six weeks. it could be someone driving them to the clinic as well. this as the supreme court is set to rule on the constitutionality of another abortion law in mississippi in the upcoming term in october. lots of big decisions coming up. cnn supreme court analyst joan biskupic. joan, not only is it set at six weeks before many women know they re pregnant, but no exception if the mother is raped or a victim of incest. the country received a high point last night at midnight and a low in the abortion wars. roe v. wade and precedent that followed roe v. wade said government could not interfere with a woman s choice for an
afghanistan. we certainly do. congressman, thank you for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. thanks, stephanie. we ve got breaking news overnight. down in the state of texas one of the nation s strictest abortion laws just took effect. it comes after the supreme court decided not to act on an emergency petition filed by abortion clinics in the state. the law bans abortions after six weeks, which is well before many women even know they re pregnant, and with no exception for pregnancies from rape or incest. it allows private citizens to sue anyone, anyone who performs an abortion or who, quote, aids and abets it, anyone, meaning someone who has nothing to do with it. i want to bring in ben russell, our reporter for our affiliate and nbc justice correspondent, julia ainsley. how are people in texas reacting to this? reporter: in terms of a reaction, there are two ways that we can speak to reaction. there s reaction in the clinics
filibuster in an attempt to block a law that banned abortions in texas after 20 weeks. this new law bans abortions as early as six weeks, which obviously is before many women even know they re pregnant. how did texas get here? it s been a year-after-year legislative session after legislative session creep to this. it had already closed over half of our abortion providers in texas. the supreme court overturned that law, but we ve yet to reopen all of them. and so it s already been the case that for many women here in our state, access to abortion has been difficult if not impossible. and a number of abortion providers, supporters have grown