americans should care about. independent of the choices they would personally make for themselves, right? this is fundamentally about freedom. the right to make decisions about your own life, and your own body. this is a foundational principle for our country. we are founded on the notion that government should, at some point, stay out of people s business. joining us now, nancy north, the president and ceo of the center for reproductive rights. a year since the fall of row this added a, take a big step back for me. tell me where you think we are today, in the fight for reproductive rights. let me just start with today. police. which is the first lady, sitting around the table with four women who ve had pregnancy crises. had to have abortions what were denied because florida and texas and louisiana. we didn t say this before the
lower court decision on th abortion pill, earlier thi month u.s. district judg matthew kacsmaryk invalidate the food and dru administration s longtim approval of the drug the order reversed years of fd rulings designed to broade access to mifepristone b limiting its usage from te weeks to seven weeks into pregnancy. and suspending the ability t access the pill through th mail such limitations would hav caused restrictions on the medicine even in states wher abortion is still legal. two of the high court s most conservative justices, clarenc thomas and samuel alit launched their opposition to the state. in this dissent, illegal argue that, quote, the applicants ar not entitled to a stay because they have not shown that the are likely to suffer irreparable harm in th interim. and in less than a month, th case will be back before a three person panel - for, now nancy north, presiden of the center for th reproductive rights is suppressing police, let s take a listen woke up this morning,
remember is that the america public strongly supports the right to abortion. we have seen it again and agai when they get to decide. so of course we saw it in th midterm elections, with the bi victory in michigan and also with california and vermont, all of those states protecting abortion rights and we saw i kansas last summer saying hike no don t take our rights away, kentucky is the same thing we just saw last week in wisconsin when the voters by a strong majority said we do wan to have a justice on a high-risk court who is going t protect the fundamental righ to abortion to make decision about ourhealth, lives and future this one judge in this entir coordinated campaign to get nationwide abortion ban is completely at odds with th views that the american public hold thank you for being, with u as always, nancy, the presiden and ceo for the center o reproductive rights. no amount of money or powe should prevent someone fro being accountable.
maybe you re ready to take action. go ahead and look at another credible resources planned parenthood, in a panic clinic abortion funds and all the places that you forget. the attorney general has information on her website. , all those places, we re trying to get the information first, don t just assume. it s very hard, i think because not enough attention s been paid to this issue. it s hard to fathom could be on our doorstep. literally, in the next 24 hours. and the chaos as you say, layer on top, what s already an unacceptable situation as far as women s access to reproductive freedoms. nancy, thank you for coming here. thank you for doing the work you re doing. please keep us posted as this case makes its way through the courts. absolutely. ending where we don t know. we ll be right back. be right back.