when i worked at planned parenthood, i saw firsthand the capacity of people making decisions for themselves and what was best for themselves and their family. and will we see in this draft opinion is basically a bunch of supreme court justices led by simulate or saying, no, we know better, we know best of what is best for you and your family. i like to say that it is stunning, it is shocking, but of course, it can be so when we have seen that concerted effort of republican party and republican senators working to strip away this fundamental, most american freedoms, which is to have control over your own body and your own autonomy. it s a terrible night tonight. let s listen to what justice barrett said and her confirmation hearing about roe v. wade. okay, will you also
in casey and in a row here, the way that this draft opinion is written, is to say that there is nothing that any court has previously done there s nothing that any supreme court that has previously arrived that that deserves respect and even with as you say, justices that are pointed by presidents who didn t win the popular vote, and one case by president who had already been impeached. it doesn t matter, because once you ve got power, you can use it to wreck everything, because stare decisis doesn t exist, and whatever we d say has to go, goes and we have the power to do, it and how you gonna respond? we it s a challenge on the legitimacy and credibility claims of the court, that implies that battle is over. that they re no longer trying
and if that means that we have to fight like hell and do everything we can to make sure that we hold the house in november, and that we not only hold the senate, but we increase the number of democratic senators there, then we ve got to do everything we can to make that happen. i m rachel do us no good if we don t follow it with that kind of concrete action. cecilia richards, as we go forward, here, one thing that i think has always been a struggle for democrats is to link voting to the supreme court. the supreme court as a voting issue for president. the supreme court as a voting issue for the senate, which of course, confirms supreme court justices. if this doesn t clarify that for voters, nothing will. i understand what you re saying, lawrence, and i agree. it is a challenge.
0 again, it has been a remarkable hour. this is groundbreaking reporting from politico.com. josh goldstein, alexander ward. they have obtained i can t even, i still caught sounds crazy to hear the words coming from my mouth. they ve obtained a graph maturity opinion from the supreme court. this is not a ruling that has been issued, but it is been drafted by conservative justice samuel alito which overrules roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey, full stop and completely. and with an exclamation point. effectively clearing the way for republican controlled states and any future republican controlled congress at white house to flat out and completely ban abortion in this country, making it illegal without constraint. we re fundamentally changes as the country, it will fundamentally change the relationship between women and the government. it will fundamentally change the future of every girl in the country, for all our daughters and granddaughters, and women that come after