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 broadly
and i think that s, i think, part of the reason that you ve had so much discussion today about what s next, because if they re willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we don t care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. and when you think of the presidents who made this happen, beginning with ronald reagan, but more importantly now, george h. w. bush, because he has clarence thomas on the supreme court, and the reagan justice there right now. but from george w. bush, to ronald reagan and donald trump, it is just a statistic statistical likelihood without even getting into their life histories. it s a statistical likelihood that it least one of them has personally, in some sense, participated in an abortion, possibly by paying for it. as is very commo
away abortion rights, we said this is not what america stands for. can we really make broad predictions about how abortion will play from what happened in a blue state look new york? well, yes, as one of the best political prognosticators out there, dave wasserman, will explain later on. it was also a good night for the mainstream candidates. jerry nadler bested a self-style progressive change candidate. and it seems like potentially daniel goldman might as well, though that race is still too close to call. while on the republican side, ultra maga candidates calling for the arrest of anti-maga candidates all lost. charlie crist is now the democratic challenger to ron desantis. and val demings will take on marco rubio. it s all happening and it all getting very interesting indeed. let s begin with that special election up there in new york s 19th. dasha burns is in kingston, new york. ryan put abortion front and center. he said this is about women s rights, it s about freedo
Inaccuracies in your question. You started by saying that this ruling seemed to ban, or make it a criminal case to ban ivf, and thats simply not what happened. In alabama, the Supreme Court, what they actually ruled was that parents of embryos of their own children could bring a wrongful death lawsuit to an ivf clinic that was negligent, criminally negligent, in allowing their babies to be smashed and killed, which is what happened in alabama. In alabama, an ivf clinic had their children frozen on ice. They didnt secure the door. Someone came in and literally smashed the children. But theyre not children frozen on ice. I mean, i think people listening and watching this. They are the Sons And Daughters of these couples. Will find that phrase completely bizarre. If i may finish, they are the Sons And Daughters of these couples that longed for children, and they longed for these children so much that then when they were negligently killed by the ivf clinic, these parents of their children
Lila rose, in southern california, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, stephen. Its a great pleasure to have you on the show. Ijust wonder if, right now, you feel you are wrestling with the law of unintended consequences. You welcomed that Supreme Court decision to overturn roe v wade, but since that happened a couple of years ago, its become clear that most americans do not want to see a womans right to choose an abortion to be outlawed and overturned. Thats become a big problem for you, hasnt it . Well, to be clear, the majority of americans actually support abortion restriction, stephen, which is not the case for pro abortion activists in this country. So those that are bewailing the overturning of roe v wade and Planned Parenthood are some of these very activistic, pro abortion groups, they dont want any Abortion Restrictions. And as you know, even in most european countries, abortion is largely restricted after the first trimester. Thats not so in the United States. In fact