anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. this is cnn. the world s news network. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. abortion rights supporters are nervously anticipating what comes next after the supreme court moved to preserve access to a commonly used abortion drug . the ruling allows doctors to continue prescribing the stone and states that allow it, but there s almost no chance to protective ruling will be the final word. on regulation of the drug in the next challenge, the texas case that challenged medford per stones 23 year old fda approval, heads back to the fifth circuit court for an appeal on may 17th right now, we don t know why the court, which last year overturned the historic roe versus wade decision, moved to protect this drug justices offered no explanation with friday nights ruling. i spoke last hour with minnesota democratic senator tina smith about the ruling and what comes next. here s what she had to say. the supreme cou
83% why doesn t that get past? i can tell you why it doesn t get passed because guns and gun radicalization, and the intimidation that they provide are now the central totem for the right side of the political aisle and the right side of the far right of our political. i ll rules the whole republican party now. i mean, marjorie taylor greens christmas card. go look at it. massive christmas card. go look at it. lauren barbies christmas card. go look at like there s a reason while white guns are so central and republicans won t touch this because it is their central totem. right who cares about policy? it s not about policy to them. it s about a culture war to them and without guns in the middle of it, their cultural war falls apart. that s why these things don t pass. and just recently, we saw that a number of announced the potential republican presidential candidates appeared at the nra convention in indianapolis. and this is despite the fact that we ve seen a lot of stories out there,