Years, the second since it overturned roe v. Wade. This appears to have divided the court over ideological and gender lines. It is a case about the near total ban on abortions in idaho. The doj sued the state saying the ban violated federal law that makes it mandatory for hospitals to provide emergency medical care. Arguing in some cases abortions are just that, theyre emergency medical care. And that the Legal Standard of quote, good faith medical judgment has proven to be too vague. That lack of a clear standard is exactly what both Justice Sonia sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett tried to wrestle out of the attorney representing idaho today. Listen. This particular patient had to deliver her baby. The baby died. She had a hysterectomy, and she can no longer have children. All right. Youre telling me the doctor couldnt have done the abortion earlier . Again, it goes back to whether a doctor can in good faith medical judgment thats a lot for the doctor to risk. It is very case by case. T
will change their tune. it seems like many republicans are ready for a bipartisan effort on health care, indeed. my friend senator mccain urged it quite strongly, saying, quote, congress must now return to regular order, hold hearings and receive input from members of both parties. he said that while recuperating in arizona. so, that s how strongly he feels about it. other republican senators have made similar comments. but the republican leaders still plans to ignore their advice and, instead, plans on holding a proxy vote on a straight repeal of our health care first. make no mistake about it, passing repeal without a replacement would be a disaster. our health care system would
implod. millions would lose coverage. coverage for millions more would be diminished. our health care system would be in such a deep hole that repair would be nearly impossible. in passing, in fact, passing repeal and having it go into effect two years later is in many ways worse than the republican health care bill that was just rejected by my republican colleagues. it s like, if our health care system was a patient who came in and needed some medicine. republicans propose surgery, the operation was a failure. now republicans are proposing a second surgery that will surely kill the patient. medicine is needed, bipartisan medicine, not a second surgery. we urge our republican colleagues to change their tune. passing repeal now is not a door
you heard mcconnell before paul ryan essentially laying out for the cameras on the senate floor the plan that we knew he was going to try based on the statement his office put out last night. the question is going to be, how long does this plan hold or does it start to fall apart over the course of today? the way we ll try to answer that question is to talk to those moderate republicans who, frankly, thought that the house bill was too conservative. who had a lot of concerns. who have said from the beginning that there is no way to repeal this without replacing it because it is going to be basically you broke it, you buy it. if they break obamacare without having a fix for it, they are going to pay the political price for it. that was kind of the calculus that set off all of these months of trying to write this repeal and replace plan and wrestle it through congress. we re going to be talking to and find out from susan collins where she stands on this new plan and also talk to people l
hope they will change their tun tune. it seems like many republicans are ready for a truly bipartisan effort. my friend, senator mccain, has urged it quite strongly, saying, the congress must now go back to regular order, hold hearings, and receive input from members of both parties. he said that while recuperating in arizona. that is how strongly he feels about it. other republican senators have made similar comments. the republican leader still plans to ignore their advice, and want to hold a proxy vote on estate repeal or health care first. make no mistake about it. passing repeal without a replacement would be a disaster. our health care system would