which turned out to be not be bad idea i mean, yeah, really. there are good investment you will see in this job? you have to cover a lot of the person who sometimes you get little moments of levity. when someone told me on my staff that steve bannon ha been apprehended by postal service inspectors on the yach of a chinese billionaire i connecticut, i was like, okay. this is one of the good stories. yes you enjoy that, all the way home, my friend. thank you at-home for joinin us this hour in december it was about parental rights. a federal judge in texas ruled that a grant program designe to provide birth control t kids from low income familie was unconstitutional because that program violated parental rights the judge wrote, the court finds no compelling government interest justifies dependenc disregard of plaintiff parental rights in this case in november, it was abou discrimination on the basis of sex. that same federal judge signed with lawyers associated with
named matthew as merrick, could rule on a case that seeks to upend access to a key component of medication abortion nationwide. that is a drug called the fda approved for use in september of 2000, and since then, it has been used safely by about 5 million people in the united states alone. typically, in tandem with another truck called now, works mifepristone by blocking the production of a hormone that s needed for pregnancy. and then it begins a miscarriage, and the two drugs when used together, they re about 99.6% effective at terminating a pregnancy or completing a miscarriage and they are safe. if you don t want to take the word of the 5 million people in america have taken that drug, you can look into decades of research that show the risk of complications that mifepristone is less than 0.4%. that basically means that it is safer than tylenol and viagra. it is so safe, in fact, about as of 2022, more than 54% of abortions in the united states happened with these pil
those drugs could be on the chopping block, courtesy of a texas court, where a trump appointed u.s. district judge, named matthew kacsmaryk, could rule on a case that seeks to upend access to a key component of medication abortion nationwide. that component is a drug called mifepristone. the fda approved it for use in september of 2000, and since then, it has been used safely by about 5 million people in the united states alone. typically, in tandem with another drug called misoprostol. now, mifepristone works by blocking the production of a hormone that s needed for pregnancy. misoprostol then begins a miscarriage. and the two drugs, when used together, they re about 99. 6% effective at terminating a pregnancy or completing a miscarriage, and they are safe. if you don t want to take the word of the 5 million people in america who have taken that pale, you can look into decades of research that show the risk of complications that mifepristone is less than 0. 4%. that basicall
across the world marking the brutality of russian aggression, as the fight for democracy continues. then, how one lawsuit in texas could overturn access to across the nation for abortion pills. what the consequences could look like and our friday night cap is in-house, breaking down the major headlines and biggest winners of the week as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening in ukraine, where it is now six a.m. on saturday morning in kyiv. a deadly and brutal war is now entering its second year officially. february 24th, 2022 was day one of russia s unprovoked invasion. for the past year, ukrainians have endured relentless attacks from russian forces. thousands of people have been killed and injured. millions were forced to leave the country, while entire communities were destroyed. today, president zelenskyy marked when you re of war with a ceremony honoring those who have died fighting to defend ukraine
welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brian hooper ahead on cnn newsroom president joe biden is expected to announce his officially running for a second term next week ahead. we ll look at what led to his decision, plus with sudan on the brink of all out civil war, one side announces yet another ceasefire to coincide with the end of ramadan. but there s no guarantee the fighting will stop and as nato s top leader visits kiev presidents, lynskey says it s time for ukraine to join the alliance. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. well, what has long been an open secret will soon become official. us. president joe biden is planning to seek a second term is advisors say the campaign launch is expected to happen as early as next week, likely on tuesday , biden is already the oldest person to serve as president and would be just weeks away from his 82nd birthday. should he win a second term. the qu