decision, news of that broke and the u.s. and all around the world. we ve seen thousands of demonstrators pass through this area outside the supreme court today. you know, when we were here first earlier this morning, there were groups from both sides of this debate and anti abortion activists were here celebrating as we reached into the evening, it was pretty much exclusively hundreds, possibly thousands of proabortion choice activists. the crowd really has dwindled out now. speakers just finished talking but say come back tomorrow. they want people back here tomorrow. what we did see here today, don, is a huge security presence across washington d.c. i will say that it was very, very different to the security presence we saw in washington d.c. on the morning of january 6th. there was police all over the city.
majority to allow more public funding at religious schools. he still has control but on this big one, this one most americans know about above anything else, he lost. right, no one knows more about john roberts than joan does and it is important that he not be portrayed as some sort of moderate, the next coming of anthony kennedy or sandra day o connor as joan said, in virtually every area of the law except abortion, he is either part of or the leader of the conservative side of the court. all right. thank you both. thank you, joan. thank you, jeffrey. thanks, don. clarence thomas writing that he wants to reconsider grizwald, lawrence, that s the case where the supreme court ruled same-sex couples had the constitutional right to marry.
a stunning decision by the supreme court overturning roe v. wade taking away the federal right to an abortion. the court upsetting 50 years of legal precedent, the conservative majority writing in the opinion and i quote, roe was egregiously wrong from the start and it must be over ruled. the impact is immediate. at least 13 states have trigger laws that ban abortion now and in the coming days and weeks. the decision sparking protests around the country. cnn donnie o sullivan in is in washington. good evening to both of you. i ll start with you donee. what are you seeing? reporter: yeah, don, what a day it has been here in washington d.c. it s about almost exactly 13 hours since that historic
he said he d uphold the mississippi law but says now is not the time to reconsider roe because you asked the question about activist judges. the supreme court wasn t asked when it accepted this case to overturn roe. mississippi officials came to the court and said look at the 15-week ban, see if it violates roe and dictate government shouldn t interfere with a woman s choice to have an abortion before viability, which is at about 23 weeks when the fetus can live out same the womb and this was a 15-week ban. that s all this case started out to be but here samuel alito and four justices on the right took it further four months a i go before amy coney barrett was elected took it farther than we would have imagined to overturn roe.
to not do that but 72 counties and that leaves 70 counties that are with women that live there falling into the risk of the unbeliveable stringent and horrible law. what are women in your states supposed to do now if they want or need an abortion for reasons of choice or for medical reasons? they will have to go out of state in illinois and we ve been anticipating this looking for ways to have people to go across our borders but honest to god, that s not the answer. that s one of the answers. we hope we work our tails off to make sure this law does not impact half of the state to have second class citizens in wisconsin isn t right. we ll work hard to make sure we