the fight is over. but senior republicans, including former vice president mike pence welcome the ruling. millions of women across the united states have lost their constitutional right to abortion, after a ruling of momentous significance by the country s supreme court. it has overturned a 50 year law that legalised abortion nationwide and it now means that individual us states are legally able to ban it. up to half of america s 50 states are expected to do so and 13 have already passed so called trigger laws which automatically outlaw abortion with the court s ruling. in the past hour, president biden has said it was a sad day for the court and for the country. 0ur north america editor sarah smith reports now on an issue and a decision which has polarised the united states. this is a huge, historic moment for america. as they hear the news from the court, there isjubilation from anti abortionists. life won today! life won today, they chant, celebrating a victory
Unfortunately, are getting so disgusted with the hyper partisanship. especially the white nationalist hyperpartisan ship of the supreme court. it s actually turning them off and it s our job to help assure them and put them in the center of their own democracy. neil, we re out of time, but i want to give you an opportunity to give us some final thoughts on the legal stuff that is presented by this alito opinion. what should we be paying attention to as we wind our way to the end of the court s term? it s not just the bottom line that roe v. wade is overturned, it had i got there. the alito draft has this historical ridiculous test that he ll turn back the clock and threaten everything from gamers to contraception laws to possibly even brown versus board of education. we ll probably flank their test. this is the result of a radical move by mitch mcconnell and others, who monkeys with the court, and the fruits of that are now, unfortunately, starting to be seen by the
That is historically different from every other congress we have ever had. no congress has ever done what this congress has done. that is they refuse to pass any substantive legislation at all. so it is an interesting experiment in american democracy it turns out. in the event congress chooses to stop governing, how much governing than the other parts of the government do to pick up the slack? that s the experiment we re all part of right now. at the supreme court, the five conservative justices in the court s majority today ruled that some companies are exempt from regulations of health insurance in obamacare. it s a weird ruling. we ll be talking about this later. the justices in the majority went out of their way to say your religious objections can only get you out of one part of this one law. said specifically only contraception laws are subject to religious beliefs. other laws aren t. if you re lucky enough to be
This congress has done. that is they refuse to pass any substantive legislation at all. so it is an interesting experiment in american demockray it turns out. in the event congress chooses to stop governing, how much governing than the other parts of the government do to pick up the slack? that s the experiment we re all part of right now. at the supreme court, the five conservative justices in the court s majority today ruled that some companies are exempt from regulations of health insurance in obamacare. it s a weird ruling. we ll be fautalking about this later. the justices in the majority went out of their way to say your religious objections can only get you out of one part of this one law. said specifically only contraception laws are subject to religious beliefs. other laws aren t. if you re lucky enough to be employed at a company where five or fewer people hold at least