from them, against their will, for the first time in history. and the moral guiding lights for the supreme court majority, that is revoking a constitutional right for the first time in our history include men who believed which must be sentenced to death. joining us now, clara mccaskill who served as democratic senator from missouri, also delia, lithwick senior editor and legal correspondent for slate, and host of the podcast and, because both are msnbc analysts. now clare, you ve had a week to calm down about, this how is it going? not very well. i m not very calm, of course i m living in a state where they have not only a trigger law, but no exception for rape or incest, a personhood law that means any fertilized egg now has the protection of a felony statute, with a minimum sentence of five years.
that is revoking a constitutional right for the first time in our history include men who believed which must be sentenced to death. joining us now, clara mccaskill who served as democratic senator from missouri, also delia, lithwick senior editor and legal correspondent for slate, and host of the podcast and, because both are msnbc analysts. now clare, you ve had a week to calm down about, this how is it going? not very well. i m not very calm, of course i m living in a state where they have not only a trigger law, but no exception for rape or incest, a personhood law that means any fertilized egg now has the protection of a felony statute, with a minimum sentence of five years. so it is, and by the way, alito s opinion, and listen i m here with dalia, and she is the expert on all of this, but it s
place ready to effectively ban abortions there if roe is overturned. i don t think most missourians realize how extreme our state will be the minute roe falls. it s not a matter of if at this point. it s just a matter of when. will it be in three weeks or four weeks? at that moment, a law goes into affect that outlaws all abortions in the state of missouri. not even an exception for rape or incest. combine that with our personhood law which means any fertilized egg is considered a person. it s going to have a ramification for not just victims of rape and incest who are not going to have access to be able to terminate a young child who has been raped repeatedly by her uncle, would not have access to terminate that pregnancy in missouri, but it will have an impact on iud,
a lot of money out of pocket and these guys are laughing about it. and saying that it is cheap. they are saying we can use aspirin between our nieknees. some of us feminist and liberals have maybe sound aid largists over the years that we have warned about this way of thinking and desire to control women. now we have got a guy like santorum telling us that is exactly what he wants to do. let me ask you, delegate kory, people, according to polling, 55% of polls, mandatory ultrasounds, 55% of virginians, 52% oppose the personhood law. yes. so, if you ve got the majority of the people in your state opposed to these measures, what are your republican colleagues telling you what are they thinking? why are they bent on doing such a thing? no political reason and clearly,
whole support gas board of right-wing reactionary legislation they are trying to push through in your state. oh, i agree with you. there are so many repressive measures coming to the house of delegates it is very, very frightening. i think people aren t going to recognize virginia come the end of this session if they don t start shouting and the protesting now. now, joan, let me ask you this are we seeing with social issues, like the personhood law, which other states have proposed and even defeated in mississippi, that s how bad it s. right. and mississippi is certainly not considered a progressive state. when we see social issues, religious issues raised on the president, are we seeing a desperate move by the right to try and ram down their version of morality and social issues down the throat of americans and this may end up being what defines politics 2012?