activist, part of the mississippi freedom democratic party. she and many, many other poor african-american women during the era of jim crowe were given what came to be called mississippi appendectomies, either going in for child birth and other minor procedures and having their uteruses removed through his recht mis they had not consented to. mississippi is making a choice as a government to intervene in the reproductive lives of women and families in ways that will undoubtedly have dramatic and negative impact on women s health. melissa, the issue that get a lot of people is this does go beyond abortion. what kind of impacts would this have in reproductive rights, not
government out of our medicare, but in our uteruses. this is you know, forced pregnancy, forced pregnancy and dictating to women the kind of birth control they can use, the kind of help that they can seek out when they find themselves unable to get pregnant, it shows such a profound disrespect for women s liberty and women s autonomy and women s ability to make their own decisions. i think they ought of those million people marches for life against young men having unprotected sex with young women with no intention of having a child. you want to stop abortion, you stop the circumstances that lead to people who feel they have to have one. this is so logical and they don t do it. they just want to prevent people from having a free will at a certain point, is what they re really up to. anyway, thanks, michelle. we ll do more report on this. i think it s an end run on the constitution. up next, the raging cajun unloads on the republican field. catch carville doing what
most panicked about this measure, are infertile women in mississippi, who know that this is going to radically curtail their chances of getting pregnant with ivf. i just wonder how it squares with the writings of the constitution, and people who believe in the original intent. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness relates to people who are alive, living, and born, pursuit is a word, an active verb. i don t think you would associate that with a fetus. and liberty is a word you would apply to people who are alive and born. i don t know what it means to say an unborn person has liberty. i don t know how you could possibly catch up, in its original intent, to what these people are talking about. and one thing, when you say an unborn person or a fertilized egg has liberty, you re saying that a woman doesn t. because, again, what we re talking about here is, you know, these people pretend to be kind of small government libertarians, it s hard to imagine a more kind of radical intru
was previously possible, enabling them to find up to five times as many cancerous deposits than before. surgeons in europe are already using the purdue technique. we envision being able to use this strategy for about 40% of human cancers. our anticipation is that it will extend life-span. reporter: and similar glow in the dark surgery is being used to target other forms of cancer at the cleveland clinic. a pink and blue light dye, illuminating bladder cancer. our dyes are very specifically tumor targeted. the contrast that one sees with our dyes is much more stark than it is with anything else to date. reporter: the mayo clinic is starting to schedule this type of surgery next month. jim avila, abc news, new york. a newborn set of twins from south florida is going to have quite a birth story to tell when they grow up. their mom had two uteruses, and each of the twins was conceived in a separate womb. doctors say the odds of that happening are about 1 in 5 million. and the twi
year, 1982, he went through three managers, five pitching coaches and three batting coaches and 47 players. and another number for you, steinbrenner hired and fired billy martin five separate times. driver error it turns out could be behind dozens of accidents involving toyota vehicles. government investigators reviewed data recordingerrecord involved in accidents. the wall street journal reports that it shows drivers likely stepped on the gas pedal instead of slamming on the brakes. believe it or not, a utah mau mom is pregnant with two babies but they re not twins. the story of how that happened is off the charts. she was born with two uteruses. she has been pregnant before, but this time she conceived in both bellies about a week apart. doctors say the chances of that happening are 1 in 5 million.