should have a choice on what she does with her body but they re making that woman a criminal and a demon or devil for taking control of her life and that s just unbelievable. it s just unbelievable. and melissa, your mother, she expressed regret for switching sides in her later years and doing work for the anti-abortion movement and she called this her deathbed confession. talk to us about that. why was that important for her to say at the very end of her life? like i said, i told a lot of people before, she was they condemned my mom for years for taking the role that she did, but also because she was her lifestyle and the way she lived. they wanted her to change. and that s just not that s not who she was.
they would have already fixed it for the women that needed these things. they re saying in places that they re going to fix it for the women that do decide to have those kids. they would have fixed it before if we could. so we need roe, we need that autonomy. we need that for ourselves to be able to choose what our lives are going to be and how we re going to live our lives. and we need doctors and the women that it affects to be able to talk and take care of that, and nobody else should be involved. it should be that woman and that doctor and her family. and melissa, i m sure you know this, 13 states have so-called trigger bans, these are in place that would almost immediately enact near total bans on abortion if and when roe is struck down, perhaps in a few weeks from now. before roe your mother sought an abortion when she was 22, single and pregnant for the third time, but it would have been illegal
Her real name is little known but her pseudonym, Jane Roe, is synonymous with abortion access in the United States, a topic once again in the spotlight with the Supreme Court seemingly poised to overturn…
with them from one borough to another. it s certainly something you see on a regular basis, demonstrations, but a lot of passion out there. thank you both. my next guest is the eldest daughter of the woman immortalized jane roe. melissa mills joins me now. melissa, thank you for being with us. we really appreciate it. later in the show we re going to be talking with someone on the opposite side of this issue but wanted to get your reaction on what we re seeing on the streets of the u.s. today. i have to ask you, melissa, if your mom were alive today, what do you think she would say about the women out there marching for the same rights that she was fighting for 50 years ago? she would be so happy to see all of it, and she would be so happy to know that people are fighting back and they don t want to let go of their rights.
and, you know, now we see why we had that and all the trouble that it was before to get that. and people are realizing now what we had that we might not have that, and it s crazy. i m glad people are going out and taking you know, taking an active voice and i hope people start voting and they see where women need to be, not where we shouldn t be, you know. melissa mills, thank you so much for taking time with us, we appreciate it, talking about your mother, thank you so much. thank you. appreciate it. thank you. and as we go to break, some live pictures to show you of the protests happening all across the country. there you are looking at washington d.c. we were talking to shimon prokupecz about this a few moments ago. abortion rights activists making their voices heard in the wake of that supreme court leaked draft opinion. we ll check in on that, show you