last year overturned the historic roe versus wade decision, moved to protect this drug justices offered no explanation with friday nights ruling. i spoke last hour with minnesota democratic senator tina smith about the ruling and what comes next. here s what she had to say. the supreme court did the right thing. they did the only reasonable thing. it is really incredible that these lower courts were prepared to buck president and, um and follow their ideology and my view to overturn the authority of the fda to be deciding what medicines are safe and effective . i mean, judges are not doctors , and they should not play doctors. for now. this right is still protected only in states where abortion is still legal, but this fight will continue in the courts, and i believe it will continue. in the ballot box , as well as people voice their values on election days. kevin liptak is over at the white house. kevin, what kind of reaction are we seeing from the white house to this ruling, and
american women and girls. but after that, all bets are off. the u. s. supreme court was expected to issue a decision wednesday on the future of the widely used medication, but instead announced it would weigh the case until midnight friday local time. earlier this month, a trump appointed federal judge in texas sided with anti abortion activists to overturn the drug s approval. the biden administration once those restrictions blocked the case is the biggest abortion related dispute to reach the supreme court since last year, when the justices overturned the landmark roe versus wade decision that made abortion legal across the united states. cnn s paula reed picks up the story. as of now, this commonly used abortion medication will remain widely available. the supreme court is expected to issue another update on friday. at the center of this case is mifepristone is one of
court way in. you talk about this. probably the likelihood is it will end up at the supreme court. you have these two opposing decisions from two different judges in two different states. this was sort of a state s rights ruling that the supreme court did when they got rid of the roe versus wade decision. the original decision . i want to ask you are we going to be just seeing this happen over and over and over again since that roe versus wade decision by the new supreme court, it s hard to say i mean, it s hard to square what the court said in dobbs about states rights with which with what is happening now, right, a judge saying nationwide, it s unavailable. the states cannot decide for themselves. so yeah, there s a lot of cancer going to have to wait for the supreme court to weigh in. i will say that this fifth circuit opinion, like the opinion below in texas, is indefensible legally, their problems with stan the other problems, so i hope the supreme court does the right thing with
tiny town of plains, georgia. that s where former president jimmy carter is resting at home, choosing to begin hospice care and refuse any further medical treatment in hospitals. the decision comes four months after carter celebrated his 98th birthday. he s faced a number of health challenges in recent years, including brain cancer back in 2015. cnn s eva mckend is live for us in his hometown of plains, georgia. eva, first of all what do we know about how president carter is doing and what kind of care he might be receiving right now? reporter: well, abby, no major updates on his health. what we know is that he has opted to receive end of life care here in his hometown of plains. that is what he wants. when you travel throughout this community, every single stretch of it connected to carter and the carter family in some way. we were having breakfast this morning at bonita s southern
choice issues because that is what was working. and republicans do it, too, right? absolutely. they always are campaigning against representative alexander ocasio-cortez. so i think it is a play that can work, but for a sophisticated voter who is listening to both messages and trying to make a decision and really is trying to make up their mind, i think that it doesn t work for independent voters. so here is the real elephant in the room, what if it s not trump? here is what airs republican pollster saying at this point president biden just needs to seem like he is very much with it and able to do the job and at that point his fate is largely out of his hands. he has to pray that republicans blow themselves up again. if it s someone else, younger than trump and less polarizing than trump, does that change the calculus for the president? i think it does because the top concern for voters for the president is not even so much his record or whether he s done enough, its his age. m