News with Norah Odonnell, reporting tonight from cbs news election headquarters in times square. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are coming on the air tonight with breaking news on several fronts. Just six days before the election, tonight, that powerful hurricane zeta is slamming into louisiana at 110 miles per hour, the fifth time that has happened this year. More than 30 million americans are in the storms path right now, and tens of thousands have already lost power. At the same time, the Coronavirus Crisis is reaching a dire new peak tonight, both at home and overseas, cases are exploding. The u. S. Is now facing its worst week of new infections since the pandemic began. In the past seven days, more than half a Million People have been infected nationwide. That news, along with nationwide lockdowns in france and germany, sent the dow into freefall, dropping more than 900 points today. And tonight, the Coronavirus Crisis is slamming headlong into the preside
Gutierrezromine teaches a class about laws and policies regard ago bor regarding abortion. She tracks Public Opinion through court cases and newspaper kofrncoverage. She also describes costs and health risks in different time periods and states. All right. Everyone, welcome back. This week were looking at the topic of abortion. And in class on tuesday we watched the film abortions stories womens health. That is looking at the more current debates about abortion now. It was looking at abortion in states that had begun to legislate abortion restriction. So today were actually going to go back in time a little bit. Were going to give some Historical Context and do a historical overview of the topic of abortion and were going to start nationally and then were going to look at california specifically, specifically on the topics of specialized abortion or abortion specialists and decriminalization. And then were going to go back to the National Context to look at roe v. Wade and then the leg
Of abortion. Were going to start nationally and look at california specifically on the topics of specialized and go back through the National Context to look at roe v. Wade and some that has happened since then in more recent years. We did have a very brief introduction to the topic of abortion in the colonial period. We talked about sarah and her abortion in the 1740s, so we had have a very brief introduction to it. But today were actually going to pick up around the time of the comstock can someone remind us what the com stock app does . Information on planned parenthood. Yeah, so no advertising of contraceptives and especially the dissemination of stuff in the mail. The act made it criminal toadsvertise these things beginning in 1873. We showed you guys the political cartoon if you recall. The caption was she gave birth to a naked baby, you know, so the joke or punch line is that comstock was really prude. Its important to know he doesnt approve all methods of Birth Control. He does
Celebrates his 100th birthday just days after completing a record breaking charity walk to raise money for Health Care Workers battling the corona boxers. Hello im terry martin welcome to the program we begin with some breaking news germany has banned hezbollah on its soil and designated the iran back group a terrorist Organization Since early this Morning Police have been conducting raids in 4 cities on mosques and associations suspected of affiliation with the group as well as a shiite Muslim Political party and militant group based in lebanon German Security officials believe up to a 1000 people in germany belong to its extremist wing. Lets get more now from Political Correspondent. Tell us what do we know about these rights. The goal behind these raids according to the German Interior Ministry was to prevent. Destruction of documents in particular after the announcement over the bond that bond again announced by the German Interior Ministry its important terry opposite to understan
Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h