constitutional right t abortion was eliminated in thi country nearly a year ago. a federal judge in texas las night issued a sweeping ruling to reverse the food and s 23 year old approval of a key abortion drug, the rulin orders the fda to hold thi medication from pharmacy shelves in every state regardless of whether or not abortion is legal in tha state. u.s. district judge matthew ha put a seven-day hold on hi willing to give the government the opportunity to repeal it the justice department did fil a notice of appeal last night. let me tell you what is at stake here the drug in question is one of a standard two drug regiment commonly prescribed by doctors for medication abortion across the country. medication abortions account for more than half of al abortions in the united states according to the good doctor institute. and this was approved by the fda in 2000 is one the mos heavily studied and scrutinize drugs on the market. studies show that it is safe than penicillin,
distract totally on brand for th republican party it is great to see you m friend, enjoy the rest of your evening off. welcome to ayman tonight going on offense by handing d alvin bragg who s jim jordan accusing him of interferin with his investigation plus, taking apart his frivolous lawsuit agains trump s reproductive rights of the conservative supreme court once, again the outrageous ant abortion law just signed by ro desantis in florida. also, the tennessee three ar back in action, stat representative justin pearso should discuss is return to th state, legislator and gloria johnson will speak out on th issue that threatens their political futures. gun control. i am a man what he, let s ge started. here is one thing that we ar learning about manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg he is a fighter. this week, in an extraordinary and aggressive move, bragg sue congressman jim jordan asking court to block parts of th republican-led house judiciary committee s inquiry int
You get the governor that ro desantis quietly signing the six-week abortion ban into law quite honestly, judge ha merrick, it seems as thoug even he knows this is not th right decision perhaps he s playing politic with the peoples lives certainly while their lives ar at stake you are based on you organization based in th south. talk to us about how this ne ban if it does stand impacts folks in this south as the attempt to access reproductive care it s obvious that desanti has been doing work that doesn t make any sense we ve seen so many horribl decisions coming out of hi leadership and this is jus another example of that. what is also true is that th south unfortunately is in th midst of a health care crisi in general the south has been the place that is yet to expand medicaid and most of it states. there are thousands of peopl who fall through the cracks. we are dealing with th maternal health crisis acros the south as well. many of our states, we are seeing black women dying at
For a stay of judge ha merrick s ruling, the ruling i scheduled to take effect as yo know on april 14th if the department does not get any response or an expedited briefing schedule for exampl that stays his ruling, befor april 14th, i expect that they will seek emergency relief fro the supreme court. that can come in a variety o forms, but one of the things that i think is really interesting here, and michelle can confirm this is that durin the trump administration, we saw an exponential rise in the number of times that conservatives and the trum administration itself tried to leapfrog federal courts and go straight to the supreme cour for the relief that they wanted now we are going to see that turned on its head as the bide administration learned those lessons well the fifth circuit is arguabl the most ideologically driven, the one most penetrated by trump appointees during hi administration i don t expect the fifth circuit, unless they are reall sympathetic to how
A judge has merrick s ruling had in terms of inflammatory and partisan language. he said patience use this to quote kill the on born baby, judges usually use the ter fetus, he referred the process as a chemical abortion kill, baby, chemical burin are words we usually hear from judges when discussing abortion whether not they have antipath towards abortion judge has merrick knows that this is is an important ruling that is going to be scrutinized. does this give forces that don t agree with him and h likes? you know, judge has merrick was opposed when he wa nominated to the bench because people understood that he wa going to be a zealot he is a person whose lif experience includes voluntee -ism in the crisis pregnancy movement that is a series of center across the country that offe themselves to women as if they are reproductive healt clinics. really what they are offerin