This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. By the time of the next president ial inauguration so the next president , one way or another, is going to its going to affect the future of the Supreme Court for the next quarter century. Looks like you have a response. Its a bit of an overstatement to say that its the phone. Certainly, one overhaul see other, but it affirms the essence of. At the basic core of row survives case, even as other aspects of it come out of casey. The court also ultimately ruled seven to two. I want to ask you how we got to that, but lets listen to keith in minnesota. You are on. Thank you. Theres been talk, discussions about the rights of the unborn and the rights of the mother. Has there ever been discussion about paternal rights . Youre shaking your head, yes . Not necessarily. Not in roe v. Wade, but certainly other cases, for example and dan, fourth theres discussion
Earnest miranda number 18 the rule against weight. Quite often, and many of our famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Let us go through a few places that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live any society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans landmark cases. Tonight, the 12th and final in our history series. The 1973 roe v. Wade decision, a decision that has continued to rock american Political Landscape 40 years plus after the decision was made. We will learn more about that in the next 90 minutes. First we will start with the cbs evening news report on the night the decision was announced. Lets watch. Good evening, the landmark ruling the Supreme Court today legalized abortions. The cases from texas and your must set the decision to end the pregnancy during the first three months belongs to the woman and her doctor, not the gove
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So this is obviously more material than i can cover in an. So this is a snapshot of the history of reproductive rights and justice starting from the 19th century to the present. Its also something thats in some ways very hard to lecture about now because its i as as professor lawson said in one of the main historians of this stuff, and im also living through it with all of you. So its a strange time to be discussing this as history when its also very much real life. So i think now often when we think of reproductive rights and we think of them in the context of criminalization and criminal laws, but thats a relatively recent phenomenon. So if you go back far enough and theres a dispute about this that was reflected by the supreme in thes decision in 2022 in dobbs versus jackson, Womens Health organization, the majority led by Justice Samuel alito suggested that in the United States to some degree, another abortion had always been a crime. Any point in pregnancy, he might have said or m
History of reproductive rights and justice starting from the 19th century to the present. Its about now because its i as professor lawson said in one of the main historians of this stuff, and im also living through it with all of you. So its a strange time to be discussing this as history when its also very much real life. So i think now often when we think of reproductive rights and we think of them in the context of criminalization and criminal laws, but thats a relatively recent phenomenon. So if you go back far enough and theres a dispute about this that was reflected by the supreme in the Supreme Courts decision in 2022 in dobbs versus jackson, Womens Health organization, the majority led by Justice Samuel alito suggested that in the United States to some degree, another abortion had always been a crime. Any point in pregnancy, he might have said or might have believed something similar about contraception. But the reality was that for much of ited states history, either passing o