when you switch to the network that can deliver gig speeds to the most businesses. or get started with internet and voice for $64.99 per month with a 2-year price guarantee. give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. roe v. wade has been set a law since 1973. it was reaffirmed in 1992 in the case of planned parenthood v. kasie. a potential historic day in the supreme court today. justices heard arguments on mississippi s new law that bans abortion 15 weeks in a pregnancy, long before the viability line set by a prior precedent of around 24 weeks. chief justice john roberts said mississippi s limit of 15 weeks
system, the constitution is not supposed to be up for election every two years in state legislatures. the constitution says we have freedom of religion, regardless of what the legislature does and that s that s the core of the dispute about roe v. wade. senator davis, what kind of an impact do you think the mississippi law and the arguments today of the court would have on the law in your home state of texas that effectively banned abortions at six weeks? i mean, the mississippi law obviously would be a better situation than texas finds itself in today. but as i said a minute ago, i really don t think that s where we re going to wind up. i think we are going to see an absolute overturning of roe v. wade and we already know what that looks like essentially in texas with the six-week ban that s been in place since september the 1st. um, i was surprised actually when the court handed down some rulings a week ago, and texas
brett kavanaugh justice kavanaugh suggested that they just want to get rid of the whole thing. they think roe was wrongly decided and chief justice roberts actually was trying to look for a a way to uphold the law. but not to overrule roe altogether. and he didn t get any support from any of the five other conservative justice. well, jeff, can you just explain when justice kavanaugh was talking about a return to neutrality. i mean, it s some of the language was confusing to me. what does he mean? what is he talking about? what he means by neutrality. the mississippi solicitor general, um, i thought explained this very well. he basically said, look, abortion is complicated. abortion is controversial. the way we deal with problems is leave it up to the voters. leave let let the voters decide whether, um, we should ban abortion or allow abortion, so that the constitution would be neutral. that s what he meant by neutrality. the problem with that is, in our
tonight? uh, i think that those kids are in varying conditions. some of them are seemingly, you know, starting to be on the mend. and others are in critical condition. so, i i m certainly hopeful that we don t lose any any more kids than, of course, the last, you know, child that died this morning. but we really just don t know at this point. michigan attorney general, dana nessel, i really appreciate your time tonight. thank you so much. the most serious challenge to row v. wade in decades was heard today by the supreme court the future of reproductive rights could be at stake if justices green light mississippi s ban after just 15 weeks of pregnancy. appears to be leaning in one direction already. we will assess the potential historic implications, next. yeah. i love finding out things that other people don t want me to know.