elegant in the room. even ed, who has been reporting on this. he s saying the family wants her taken off life support. no one wants to talk about the baby on board. i think as a society, and certainly in the state of texas, has, you know, the right and an interest to protect the life of that child. and i think it s curious that no one really wants to talk about that. everyone is dancing around that issue when i think that is the issue. i think that s unfair to the grieving father and husband of one child to say he hasn t taken that into consideration. we need the courts and the law in texas to butt out and let this family make their own decisions and handle this privately. this is a private medical decision and it should be left in the hands of this her husband to whom she had expressed her wishes about never being kept on life support. except in the state of texas, if you are pregnant, even if you have a dnr, if you re pregnant, the dnr gets overridden. that is the law.
something that would not be helpful. finally congress including key republicans like former indiana senator richard lugar and mitch mcconnell overrode reagan s veto passing the anti-apartheid act into law with a vote of 78-21 in the senate. we are against tyranny and tyranny is in south africa. we must be vigorous in that fight. today s vote is today s generation saying no to the insipient holocaust of our times. the law banned new investment in south africa and blocked the import of most south african goods. it was the first time in the 20th century that a presidential veto on foreign policy had been overridden. those who stood on the wrong side paid for it. as south africa was used as a wedge in campaigns.
reagan could finally go along with. that was the first veto overridden in a century actually when ron would reagan s veto was overridden with strong republican support. it showed that the pressure that had been building on campus started in the congressional black caucuses as reverend al pointed out. it built to the point where it was irresistant and the united states was joining with world condemn nation with what was continuing to happen in south africa. craig shirley, you are the author of december 1941, 13 days that changed america and saved the world. tomorrow is the 72nd anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. before we go to break, your thoughts on that momentous day in history. it s interesting because it ties together what we are talking about and what happened
other republicans. and the question is all of the republican primary voters bought him that. republican primary voters have cost mitch mcconnell in two successive elections. christine o donnell, sharon engel, richard murdoch, there are about five or six senate races, winnable senate races that republican primary vote voters with chris christie, he had a good week. also today, the new jersey supreme court ruled that gay marriage in new jersey starts on monday. he previously v lly vetoed a bi. it might have been overridden, but that s off the table. he s off the record with republican primary voters as being against gay marriage, but he has a state in which the fight is over. he doesn t have to antagonize moderates by being the standard
discrimination. there was a quite a extensive argument going on in the white house at the time, key veto it? what would that mean? could he allow it to become law without signing it? because you don t have to veto it s not your only option. you can just let it sit, a pocket veto. what were the other options? but, you know, at the time you ve got to remember, there were there were only 14 members of the u.s. senate who voted against this bill. a veto would have been overridden. there was no state in this country where same-sex marriage was allowed so it affected nobody. there was less than 30% of the american public who supported same-sex marriage six weeks out of a presidential re-election. that was the case. i made the case to him that, mr. president, your legacy think about your legacy. think about, do you want to be remembered for this? you will be remembered for this. same-sex marriage is possible.