protection act and i support people who support it. but make no mistake, it is not roe v. wade codification. it s an expansion. it wipes 500 state laws off of the books. it expands abortion. it is just disappointing that we are going to be voting on a piece of legislation that i will not be voting for today. but i would vote for a roe v. wade codification if it was today. i was hopeful for that. joyce, fact check this for us. because lots of us are sitting here and thinking, that this was all about roe versus wade. so, his criticism might be true in some sort of a hyper technical sense. but it is really disingenuous. what he s talking about our provisions in this bill that make it in permissible for states to engage in some of the restrictions on access to abortion, that make a very difficult for women to fulfill their promise that roe v. wade offers them. for instance, these waiting periods and delays, we have to
go in for an appointment and then come back later. or other sorts of provisions that make it very difficult for clinics to operate in certain areas and curtail access, without severely restricting the number of clinics that might be in a given state. the bill makes it impossible for states to keep those sorts of laws in place. and that is really critical, when you think about restrictions, like the ones, for instance, in texas, in a case called, for women s health versus our stat, which would have essentially ended abortion in texas. without birth provision in the bill, those sorts of restrictions could be enacted by states. clearly, that would mean roe v. wade would not be the law of the land. and so, senator manchin s objections here really speak more to a desire to permit states to restrict abortion then to permit women to make their own decisions about these important matters concerning their own bodies. and that is what we call a fact check. eugene, ketanji brown jackson is no
that are winning or ones that reflect today s new gop orthodoxy. i want to share with our friend matt dowd, former george w. bush strategists, earlier today had as some advice for democrats. i think democrats ought to run a campaign based upon rights and freedom. they actually could run a campaign that says, we are the only one standing for all your rights, as republicans, democrats, and independents. if i were the democrats, i would run that campaign. wringing their hands and bed-wetting over inflation and the economy, obviously it s an issue that you have to deal with. but that s not where they should be spending their time and energy. when they do that, they feed right into the republicans hands. mr. bluff, do you agree? i think that in part i do you think that right now this is a very challenging political environment. an issue like rights generally and abortion rights specifically, it has a chance to alter that a little bit.
of laws in place. and that is really critical, when you think about restrictions, like the ones, for instance, in texas, in a case called, for women s health versus our stat, which would have essentially ended abortion in texas. without birth provision in the bill, those sorts of restrictions could be enacted by states. clearly, that would mean roe v. wade would not be the law of the land. and so, senator manchin s objections here really speak more to a desire to permit states to restrict abortion then to permit women to make their own decisions about these important matters concerning their own bodies. and that is what we call a fact check. eugene, ketanji brown jackson is now waiting to take her seat on the bench. a few days ago, i saw you ask and say, is she wondering what she has gotten herself into? what is you got yourself into on the supreme court? she is walking intuit must be a fairly toxic atmosphere right now. i imagine that the liberal wing
i think, stephanie, particularly, let s talk about georgia, arizona, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. these are massive battleground states and governors races. it s an open question, if governors want to do well there, will abortion be outlawed? of course, with data and research, we understand that things would be most persuasive. but the economy is the central issue in every campaign i ve been a part of. so there has to be a message there. i think on rights, whether they be voting rights, civil rights, abortion rights, i think democrats can play very offensively. on the economy, it s a little more defensive. but there s a case to be made against this they are going to shower the wealthy in tax cuts and cut education. they are going to cut health care. that is going to be worse for you. it s worse for the economy generally and the bottom line specifically. but democrats cannot ignore the