i do. reporter: among those colleagues, senator gary peters of michigan. in 2020, he became the first sitting u.s. senator to share his personal experience with abortion. my first wife and i were expecting our second child, a child that we very much wanted to have. yet, the pregnancy went wrong after about four months. her water broke. it was clear that something catastrophic has happened. reporter: they waited days for a miscarriage that never came. similar to amanda s story, nearly 40 years later, the doctor was hamstrung by hospital policy. he goes, i went to the hospital board to get permission. there is no way this baby will survive. there is a faint heart beat. there is a policy against that. but i m really worried for your health. you could lose a uterus. could go septic. i can t perform this procedure. my advice to you is find a doctor in a hospital immediately that can do this. so we luckily had a friend who was an administrator at another hospital who got us in imme
Want abortion laws much like you see in europe, in france and in other european countries. but right now, the democrats, democrats are getting free rein on this issue to point to the extremism of the republicans and not have to answer many questions themselves, because the republicans support such extreme bans. it s as i said before, it s crushing them in wisconsin judicial races, crushing them in kansas, crushing them in kentucky, in a lot of red states. right. you know, joe, it s like the thing that has been so hard to get a lot of people on the right to understand and that still make people scream when you say it, is the regime under roe v. wade, the system installed was a compromise. it was not a system that allowed for abortion on demand at any point in a pregnancy. it allowed for laws that restricted abortion in various
One year later and the role she has played in advocating for health care access and abortion access over decades, as well as donald trump. her deep concerns as a former member of the intelligence committee, a former ranking member, about those specifics of those documents and what donald trump did in putting our national security at risk. so a very wide ranging interview. we re going to use a lot of it on the show on sunday. i love it. can t wait. noon eastern, jen psaki s show. gene robinson, what are you looking at today and as we head spot weekend? well, today, first thing i m going to do is see what the supreme court has in store for us. of course, that big decision on affirmative action is still hanging out there. you know, are they going to release it on a friday? we ll see. i think, you know, we all anticipate which direction that will go. i think it would be really bad.
In step with the american public right now. no, it s not. nbc s ali vitali, thank you so much for that excellent report. ali brought up the politics of this. let s bring in co-founder and ceo of all in together, lauren leader. you ve been conducting polls about abortion and finding that attitudes on abortion have changed and continue to loom large over the elections, where republicans on a number of issues appear to be on the wrong side of where most americans are. yeah. mika, i was thinking about when i was here exactly a year ago after the dobbs decision was overturned, and we talked about how much we believed that it was going to completely change the political landscape in america. that has really proven to be true. for democrat and independent women, this is becoming the number one voting issue. guns and abortion for democratic women, number one and two, separated by one point in the most recent poll.
Ways. the trimester system that blackman created in that ruling was itself a political compromise. said, we re not going to have we can restrict abortion it is to a limited degree in the third trimester, and it also meant that you would not have a full overturning of abortion. you couldn t outlaw abortion. that itself was a compromise, and the right, for political reasons, you know, kind of reinterpreted that, argued nit a different way, and said roe v. wade somehow allowed abortion on demand. it never did. and so what would have been a stable political compromise built on top of a supreme court precedent that granted a certain right, that was taken down by this decision. then this threw it back to the political arena and, i would say, a savvy political operator looking down from on high would have said to republicans, hey guys, go slow here.