millions of american women, no longer have the constitutional right to an abortion that has been their right for decades now and nearly half of all states women will soon find themselves without any access to an abortion, a 6-3 decision handed down in dobbs versus jackson women s health upholds mississippi s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, in a 5-4 majority went further completely striking down roe versus wade, written by justice samuel alito, it is similar to the draft opinion that leaked back in may. it reads in part, roe was egregiously wrong from the start and the decision was exceptionally weak. and the decision has had damaging consequences. with this decision, 13 states have already effectively ended abortion access. missouri s governor issued an order ending all elective abortions one hour after the supreme court decision was released. another 13 states will impose draconian restrictions on abortion. a decision that s consequential is of course, nothing
plus, the reversing of roe, what that means for some other rights in this country. during this pride month, right for the lgbtq+ community are under fire. we are going to hear from jim obergefell, the man who led the legal battle for same sex marriage. i am symone sanders, and i have something to say. two days after supreme court overturned roe v. wade, the nation continues to grapple with the realities of a post roe america. yang, that s not good. at least nine states have already banned abortion. ripping away women s rights to make decisions about their own bodies. even more states are expected to follow. thousands of americans nationwide are still hitting the streets to protest the courts ruling. and the idea that state governments can now force people to give birth. meanwhile, democratic members of congress are sounding the alarm. but, how are they talking about this? well, they are talking about how the decision will affect americans everywhere. take a listen to democrat
the word help was scratched in the ground. we found two shovels that had what appeared to be blood on them. that just did it for me. i can t even think about how scared she was. a mother s worst panic. there are no signs to get there. just follow the rough, sandy trail from the subdivisions above, turn a corner and there it is, a creek, a low-twisting moving body of water in north carolina, that s nothing less than a garden of eden for teenagers playing hooky from high school. it was like a beach. if the weather was good, her decision was made, go right to the creek and bypass school all together. tell me about an afternoon at the creek, caroline, what would you do? just go swimming. after we were done swimming we would sit by the fire and get dry, and hurry up and go back to the bus and take it home. they would play all day like frisky otters. innocent fun until one day when this secret teenaged world collided with tragedy. i just knew in my heart s
before the gunman entered. but that is completely different from what the public was told just days ago. cnn s omar jimenez is live for us in uvalde tonight. omar good evening to you. this is another contradiction from officials, what is the very latest? on the investigative, side this is another discrepancy of police initially told us, versus what we find out to be reality. police initially said that this teacher propped open a back door that was supposed to be lock the day of the shooting. and we are now learning from authorities, she actually closed that door when she realized there was an active shooter, but it did not lock. this discrepancy is coming as we are now starting to see the first of what will be many funerals here in this community. even as you walk around, it s hard to find people who were not personally affected by this, even if not directly, they know someone who was and so we are going to see families morning in funerals that will continue into tomorrow,
Brutally murdered. Her little girl left to wonder in her mothers blood. Police had a suspect and they say that he had a motive. We had an intimate relationship. Ended up having sex. Could they prove he was the killer . It was a circumstantial case, except for that witness, girl who left those footprints. They will never know what cassidy saw and what she did not see. Maybe she could not tell detectives who the killer was, but maybe she did not have to. The fact that cassidy was spared, would that mean anything to a jury . Person who killed the mother cared about cassidy. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Michelle young was married to her college sweetheart, four months pregnant with her second child when the unthinkable happened. The young mother was beaten to death in her own bedroom. The investigation would quickly bowl a troubled marriage. But her husband was away on business. And unraveling this complicated case would take years. Here is Keith Morrison with Silent Witness. I think i