Thank you for coming to this Important Program and im joined by senator tina smith. Its about the Supreme Court decision about roe v. Wade and puts the russian of abortion back to the states. Senator smith, thanks for joining us today. Senator smith im sorry i cant be with you in person but im glad to have a conversation with you. We have so many questions. For our audience, if you have questions, you can tweet us post live. We heard a little bit about your reaction in the out true in the intro. Its been two days now, three days since this happened. What are your thoughts after her processing this for a few days . Senator smith long before i ever came to the United States senate, i worked at planned parenthood. I came to understand firsthand how people make these decisions about whether or not to continue pregnancy and i so people make decisions with such strong judgment, such good moral judgment. What ive been thinking about a lot is that people who were in the Abortion Clinic friday,
Smith on abortion rights and opposition to the Supreme Court. Hosted by the Supreme Court, this is half an hour. Good morning. My name is lianne out well, im an anchor here watching post liven also coauthor of the early 202 newsletter. Welcome to this really important program. Today i am joined by senator tina smith, a democrat from minnesota on the heels of this Supreme Court decision that overturned roe v. Wade, and now puts the question of abortion back to the states. Senator smith, thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you, lee and. I am really, i am sorry about being with you today and so many ways but im very glad to have a chance to have this conversation with you. I am so glad you are here. We have so many questions, and for audience, if you have questions to, feel free to tweet us at the post live and we will try to get some of those in here. In the intro we heard a little bit about your reaction, outrage, anger. Still a little bit of shock. Can you talk. It has been two
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