This hour, the hypocrisy of the Republican Party laid bare this week. Fighting to limit Voting Access and the constitutional right to an abortion all while complaining their rights are violated by bidens vaccine mandate. Dnc chair is going to tell us how the party plans to fight back. Plus, the changing face of terror since 9 11. Is america ready for the next threat, which could be just days away . Plus, Congressman Jones on the climate and racial justice and why it is the same Fight And Reality tv meets reality on the ground. So many activists arent exactly thrilled with a new star studded show. This is american voices. Show this is american voices. Welcome to this hour of american voices. Beginning this hour talking about the unmitigated hypocrisy coming from many on the right. Around Big Notions Of Freedom to now follow the public headlines during a pandemic on one hand. On the other, work overtime to rob their constituents of that same freedom to do what they want with their own bo
It doesnt require that at all because, obviously it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion. Thats not even the part of abbotts Comments Yesterday that capturing headlines today, but well stop right here. Failure Number One to grasp the basic concept about pregnancy. Banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy doesnt give women six weeks to think about what shes going to do as abbott seems to suggest there. For the vast majority of all women based on the Way Pregnancy is calculated, a Pregnancy Test may not even turn positive until what would be considered the fourth week of pregnancy. Abbotts six weeks to think about it in a Sixweek Abortion Ban gives women really a couple days not the month And a half he seems to be suggesting there. Well continue because theres much more on abbotts answer to the critical condition why should a Rape Or Incest victim be forced to carry a pregnancy to term . That said, however, lets make something very clear. Rape is a
Pregnancy, before many women even know theyre pregnant, but it alSo provides no exceptions for rape or incest. And it relies on citizens, regular citizens just like you and me to enforce it, basically letting them sue anybody who helps a woman get an abortion and awards them ten stacks if they succeed. The most pernicious thing about the Texas Law, it Sort of creates a Vigilante System where people get rewards to go out anyway. And it just seems i know this Sounds ridiculous, almost unamerican what were talking about. President biden says the Justice Department is looking At The legality of the new restrictive abortion law, but this is a huge blow to roe v. Wade. It has spurred democratic leaders to try to codify the protections into federal law after the Supreme Court just allowed it to stand. But no surprise, other states are already working to use the law as a blueprint for copycat measures, and Texas Lawmakers have advanced yet another restrictive bill limiting access to abortion m
gets there, we ll take you there as well. but on the cleanup and investigation following the death the collapse of the bridge earlier this week, we hope to get some news from the governor. now, let s go to msnbc s julia chester, 20 from baltimore. julia, as we await this update, i know oakland arrives to begin this very dangerous task of clearing up the wreckage. what can you tell us about the efforts? alex, you can see a little bit behind me, the site of the bridge, and one of the cranes in the distance, which are pretty much standing by to really get working. there is a whole category of equipment heading to baltimore, including 7 floating cranes. the navy is providing 4. 1, overnight, another, set to come here monday. in addition to 10 tugboats, 8 salvage vessels, 9 barges and 5 coast guard boats. they are sparing no resource to get this done. it is a challenging, unprecedented salvage operation , made particularly difficult by the conditions in the water and the fact th
we are thinking of everyone affected by this tragedy in baltimore tonight. on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks at nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you again tomorrow. t. thanks for joining me this hour, in 1993, time magazine called it the pill that changes everything. the new abortion pill was part of a true for medication abortion, and it changed the american healthcare landscape and the landscape across the globe, the people in china, the united kingdoms, sweden, france where the drug it already been improved. had the ability to end pregnancies without undergoing surgery and even in some cases from inside the four walls of their own homes. according to time, ru486 made abortion a truly personal and private choice. but it also opened a new frontier of antiabortion backlash. as soon as the drug was first developed and approved in france in the 1980s, it sparks protests. facing intense pressure from th