office, and it just took us long to get there. i remember saying on our air, in 2018, when justice kennedy retired, that one of the consequences of that would be that abortion would be illegal in half the country within two years. and i was wrong, it was four years. but the fact that this is foretold doesn t make it any less shocking. i m gonna go watch your show now. thanks, chris. good to see you, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for being with us this hour. it s a big day. when the supreme court first handed to overturn the decision in roe, just shy of 50 years ago, it s not that it was not controversial when it happened. there were definitely people who are opposed to the roe v. wade decision in 1973, in particular the catholic church, would always been staunchly anti abortion. but it wasn t as controversial in 1973 yesterday s politics about what it might make you think. for example, it was not a particularly controversial decision among american eva
gretchen whitmer, london lamar, and senator elizabeth warren all join me live. all in starts right now. good evening from los angeles. i am chris hayes. it is a brutal day for american democracy, for american women, specifically, for all americans could become pregnant. for all americans, really. it right enshrined in the constitution as intimate as any right one could imagine. it has been discarded and destroyed by five unelected justices. three of whom were appointed, of course, by the last president, who got about 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. in american democracy, it is truly rare to see rights taken away in this fashion. the proverbial moral arc of the universe, justice, striving for a more perfect union, to watch these things born backwards towards a reactionary pass, as starkly as this, and one moment to the next, it makes you feel physically nauseous. speaking only for myself, as a person who can become pregnant, a man, it s not even a tiny sliver
who have been upset about the erosion of abortion and access, even as roe has stood, that we were needlessly distressed about this, that roe was never really gonna be overturned. i have gotten similar messages since the leaked draft of this decision, as i and melissa and others have worried about the future of same-sex marriage, of contraceptive access, being told no, no, those are never gonna go away. i heard those messages today, despite clarence thomas s clarity on this. so, the first task was to be really clear that that message that things are okay is unappetizing fantasy that we ve been sold to create paralysis in us. this is bad. it s horrible, and it will get worse. the second conjoined responsibility is to not let that further paralyze us. to, in fact, take the awfulness, the badness, the injustice, and remember that it is incumbent
short term. and that means we have to respond in the short term. that means that right now, you ve been talking to people who are doing it, all across this country. we need to be helping women who are pregnant, right now. women who get pregnant next week or next month and need help because they live in one of the states that is banning abortion. and we should be doing it. volunteering time and voluntary money. we also are calling on president of the united states to use all of the administrative tools that are available, right now. medication abortions are more than half of all abortions in the country, not clinical procedure. but there are a lot of restrictions on access to that medication that are not medically necessary. oh. i would like to see the president loosen those up. there are other places the president could act, to dampen the ability of those companies to track women who travel out of state to an abortion clinic. to provide funds for people who
office, and it just took us long to get there. i remember saying on our air, in 2018, when justice kennedy retired, that one of the consequences of that would be that abortion would be illegal in half the country within two years. and i was wrong, it was four years. but the fact that this is foretold doesn t make it any less shocking. i m gonna go watch your show now. thanks, chris. good to see you, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for being with us this hour. it s a big day. when the supreme court first handed to overturn the decision in roe, just shy of 50 years ago, it s not that it was not controversial when it happened. there were definitely people who are opposed to the roe v. wade decision in 1973, in particular the catholic church, would always been staunchly anti abortion. but it wasn t as controversial in 1973 yesterday s politics about what it might make you think. for example, it was not a particularly controversial decision among american evangelicals.