it s confusing. justice samuel alito said this issue is going back to states. we know that 26 states will soon, if they haven t already banned abortion. some of those states had these laws on the books before roe. those went back into effect. others has trigger laws. laws that would be triggered to go into effect if roe were to go down. each state, the trigger law goes into effect at a different time. that s why we re seeing confusion nationwide. there s one other fascinate thing going on. just a couple of hours ago, planned parenthood staid it was going to state court in utah because it was going to challenge utah s trigger law by saying that it violated the state s constitution. the reason i keep emphasizes the word state is this is no longer in the federal arena. e everything is happening in the state and that will be a big lawsuit to watch. it s really changing the legal terrain. that is fascinating. wh a twist. what let s take a look at that. i do not have a positi
a leaked ruling in may triggered nationwide protests. it will be a decision that s rooted deeply in this country s history of racism. reporter: activists say the abortion ruling is especially damaging to poor women of color. black and hispanic women made up roughly 59 of the people who reported legal abortions in the u.s. in 2019, according to the k keiser family foundation. plaque women are three times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy related cause. it will be felt acutefully the black community, other communities of color and for people who have the least access to health care. reporter: black people make
don t forget, we have got judge jackson who will be sworn in because breyer said he will step down. she stepping into really fraught atmosphere right now. it s unprecedented. we covered the court together for many years. a very different high court now than it was several years ago when we were covering it. all right. excellent reporting. thank you. president biden calls the court s ruling a tragic error and said it was a step back ward for the united states. today s supreme court of the united states expressly took away a constitutional right from the american people that it already recognized. then didn t limit it. they simply took it away with this decision the conservative majority shows how extreme it is. how far removed they are from the majority of this country. they made the united states an outliar among developed nations in the world.
we fear violence at the clings. we re hearing reports on that. it s a prubling decision. it s the first time we over turned 49 years of precedent. they always say precedent. they pledged they would uphold p precedent. we re assessing what it meeps. we know it means more deaths for women. i want to ask why this is personal for you. i grew up in new york and i know people who lost people with back alley abortions.
they are all part of the same constitutional fabric. protecting autonomous decision making over the most personal of life decisions. joining me to talk about the decision and its implications is a senior correspondent at new york magazine and co-author of notorious rbg. thank you so much. i want to talk about this story. they say you re not hysterical. what most stands out to you in their 66 pages of remarks. i read a lot of dissents in my time. i think this one stands out for its clarity, its anger, its bluntness. because of the unusual nature of how we learn about this opinion through a leak, i think there was an opportunity for there to be a public conversation about all of the ramify ication of th