for abortion rights. and to witness the states democratic governor, roy cooper veto the 12-week abortion ban that the republican-controlled state legislature passed in the first week of may. now north carolina republicans claim that the bill was, quote, a mainstream approach to regulating abortion, but critics say it is full of hidden restrictions and medically unnecessary obstacles that take in together were we dramatically reduce access to abortion and cause women s health clinics across the state to shut down. but the fact that republicans are trying to market this extreme abortion ban as reasonable and mainstream is important. it s part of a larger national effort will cancel determine unacceptable abortion ban standard that they could enact without politically backfiring on them. for the most, where they ve been unsuccessful in this regard. again, the majority of americans support abortion rights. opposed this is importing the criminalization of women and their doctors
spending pools, that move is gonna force desantis to file paperwork within the next 15 days. that s officially acknowledging his intentions to run for president for the first time. even though he hasn t officially announced yet, he has been acting like a presidential candid for several weeks. yesterday, travel to the early republican primary state of iowa. where he attended a pair of events and met with voters. super pac backing him had to santa s 2024 signs, merchandise available yesterday s event and during a speech, he turned his attention to the election. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024 it s gonna get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing that isn t affected our party in recent years. the time for extra races is over. we gotta demonstrate the courage to lead and the strength to win. if we do that, if we make 2024 election a referendum on joe biden and his failures. if we provide a positive alt
that number has already more than doubled a similar letter bills passed in 2022. as you can see, the number bills introduced this year exceeds the number of bills totally in the past four years. or the four prior years. so far this, year more than 50 anti lgbtq bills have passed nationwide. anti-trans rhetoric and, subsequently, anti-trans legislation have become central to right wing messaging among those passing laws at the state level. advocates for trans rights have been saying for a long time that anti-lgbtq policy, and specifically, this focused, excel or the attack on tribespeople is actual part of a political strategy from the right. and the political right lost same sex marriage as a central rallying point for the socially conservative christian right. they needed something else to chin up support. and, moral panic. and they are admitting it. the new york times spoke to some people involved in the, effort quote, we knew needed to find an issue that the candidates were comforta
the trans exactly 24 hours after he vetoed his states major abortion ban, while in the process, laying out a blueprint for democrats in 2024 and beyond. another hour of velshi begins, right now. good morning, it is, sunday may 14th. i m ali velshi. for much of the past, year we have been tracking the many nuances of the fight for abortion rights. man other shifted from stateo state. in the immediate aftermath of the dobbs decision, we saw trigger bans quickly take effect in deep red states like arkansas, and oklahoma. that was followed by huge victories for abortion rights in the ballot box last year, when voters in five states chose to protect abortion rights. further proving that the majority of americans support reproductive freedom even inserted of states. and now, we are seeing a new fight play out in north carolina, yesterday, local law enforcement officials estimate that more than 2000 people turned out for the north
ultimately going to hurt alabama in a state that has a lot of military assets, a lot of military personnel, a lot of federal dollars that come in that people are going to remember this if he doesn t go ahead and let this go through. i go back to this white nationalism question. tommy tuberville is not a civil rights lawyer, that is on his background. but, growing up in alabama, being a certain age. what is the likelihood that one doesn t have a relatively good understanding of white nationalism. i m not sure that a grown man should be confusing the two things. he is saying that calling trump supporters and maga people s the that they are being called white nationalism i am not sure that that s, i m not sure that it all. i agree, but remember, heating robin alabama. i m not even sure he lives in alabama right now. he just has an apartment in arbon, where he has his, quote, residents. so i don t know if he has kind of history.