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thanks, rachel. all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn t believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, these guys from the 16 hundreds in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. yeah, justice alito, and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be b ....
Less access to the health care system. and i do think it is the cruelty of this. i think that this was a day where it s hard to really get to the politics of it. because it s just the inhumanity of what the justices have done, it s so profound. but that is what is really striking to me about this opinion, is it seems the justices five unelected justices, or six if you want to include roberts just don t care. they don t care that this is overturning a freedom that we ve had in this country for more than 50 years. they don t care of what it is going to do to women in this country. and they don t care the fact that this is not with the majority of americans want. that is chilling, to think that we ve lost our freedom in this country. and we ve lost it to people, unelected folks use it on the supreme court, who are making their own decisions about our lives and our futures. joining our discussion now from texas is dr. as elena yeti, ....
Imprisoned, to deliver lifesaving care in our community. i want to hear so much more from all of you, but we have several more guests that we are getting to in this first hour of covering this opinion on the show. please, we are going to need all of you to come back and join us and guide us through this period, cecile richards, but professor michele goodwin, and doctor, thank you very much for beginning our discussion tonight. thank you. we will be right back. tonight. thank you. thank you. the answer that was right under their nose. or. his nose. ....
A doctor at physicians for reproductive health. we have been dealing with the fallout of strict abortion bans for a year now in texas. while we were ready for today, that doesn t make it any easier and this is a human rights issue. my colleagues across the state and across the country in the middle of clinic today, having to stop and send people home and colleagues scrambling across the country to figure out where we can get people care, it s unconscionable to think that unelected people in this country can dictate evidence based medicine. that physicians and nurses and health care providers can t do what they ve been trained to do to save the lives of their community members, that our hands are being tied, that we are being threatened to be ....