many states will. at least half a dozen already are, as of yesterday. now the rule has been overturned, 26 states are certainly to ban abortion in the coming days and months according to the institute. it advocates for reproductive rights. they have so-called trigger bans on the books. they are laws designed to automatically ban abortion if roe were to be overturned. officials and seven of those states, missouri, south dakota, louisiana, kentucky, oklahoma, utah, and arkansas, have already activated these bands. chief justice john roberts was the only conservative justice that disagreed with the court s decision. he disagreed. he ruled in favor of upholding mississippi s 50-week abortion ban. roberts did not vote to overturn roe entirely. however, all three justices appointed by the now twice impeached president now voted to overturn. roe nancy pelosi singled him out in her remarks yesterday. take a listen. how about those justices coming before the senators and saying that
decided for an entire country that their christian doctrine is the only way. let me reiterate this. a woman s right to choose as a human right. a person s ability in choice to bring life into this world is their choice. in america, where guns are the leading cause for death, an ar-15 has more rights than a woman. does now, the supreme court wants to mandate birth in a country where 17 million children are hungry, and more than 420,000 children or in the first care system. none of this should be a surprise. why? we warned you. every time we told you to vote. this is a decade old republican promise, when barack leblanc was blocked from putting a one gorsuch, kavanaugh, and they handmade in, were nominated and confirmed, we tried to tell you. now, here we are. joining me now is erin haines, msnbc political contributor, editor at large for the 19th. michelle cullen, she is a cofounder and consecutive director of she wrote mississippi. and amy miller, she s the president and ceo
Who are facing famine across africa and the middle east. The United Nations says the crisis in nigeria, south sudan, yemen and somalia threatens to be the worst in 60 years. In somalia, conflict and corruption has made the effect of a two year drought even worse. Our correspondent Andrew Harding is in baidoa in the countrys south west. You may find some of the pictures in his report distressing. This is baidoa, a town besieged by two unforgiving enemies. The soldiers are here to guard against al shabab, the militant islamists controlling the countryside in this corner of somalia. But its the second enemy, drought, that is now far more dangerous. Nine year old ali has just been carried into the local hospital. He is unconscious. But its not from hunger not yet. After three years of failed rains, clean water is hard to find. The doctors here believe they are battling a sudden outbreak of cholera. Inside, weak from diarrhoea, dozens of new cases. Many families have walked miles get help.