for marshall avocation. on assignment: ukraine s secret resistance begins now. kraine s secre resistance begins now. hey there, i m stephanie ruhle, and no, your clock is not wrong, it is 10 pm, and one hour from now, we ve got an amazing live 11th hour coming your way. we are talking abortion rights, our toxic politics, and we are shaking things up with our friday night cap. you do not want to miss it at 11 pm, right here, on msnbc. before than, i want you to pay attention to this incredible reporting from my colleague, richard engel, where he is speaking to ordinary civilians who joined an underground resistance in ukraine. it is a must watch. [sirens] russian troops tried and failed to topple ukraine s capital, kyiv. they still launch attacks on the city, from a distance. kyiv remains free. it endorse, that isn t true everywhere. i m heading for hundred miles south from kyiv to the city of kherson. kherson was the first city russian troops captured and occupied w
named matthew as merrick, could rule on a case that seeks to upend access to a key component of medication abortion nationwide. that is a drug called the fda approved for use in september of 2000, and since then, it has been used safely by about 5 million people in the united states alone. typically, in tandem with another truck called now, works mifepristone by blocking the production of a hormone that s needed for pregnancy. and then it begins a miscarriage, and the two drugs when used together, they re about 99.6% effective at terminating a pregnancy or completing a miscarriage and they are safe. if you don t want to take the word of the 5 million people in america have taken that drug, you can look into decades of research that show the risk of complications that mifepristone is less than 0.4%. that basically means that it is safer than tylenol and viagra. it is so safe, in fact, about as of 2022, more than 54% of abortions in the united states happened with these pil
those drugs could be on the chopping block, courtesy of a texas court, where a trump appointed u.s. district judge, named matthew kacsmaryk, could rule on a case that seeks to upend access to a key component of medication abortion nationwide. that component is a drug called mifepristone. the fda approved it for use in september of 2000, and since then, it has been used safely by about 5 million people in the united states alone. typically, in tandem with another drug called misoprostol. now, mifepristone works by blocking the production of a hormone that s needed for pregnancy. misoprostol then begins a miscarriage. and the two drugs, when used together, they re about 99. 6% effective at terminating a pregnancy or completing a miscarriage, and they are safe. if you don t want to take the word of the 5 million people in america who have taken that pale, you can look into decades of research that show the risk of complications that mifepristone is less than 0. 4%. that basicall
at that very moment waging a new battle inside the florida legislature. republican representative alex andrade introduced house bill 909 this week, a 23-page proposal that mirrors many of desantis s sensorial or while ian ideas about how to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion in florida s public colleges and universities. the bill, if approved, would ban degrees in subjects related to critical race theory and gender studies. it would empower boards of trustees in each school to hire professors, you may recall that these are boards where the majority of the members are picked by governor desantis. some experts are already calling this legislation the most restrictive bill on higher education in the history of this country, while others say it is the end of academic independence as we know it. that s the show for this evening. coming up next, nbc s richard engel speaks with ukrainian civilians who formed an underground resistance to liberate the city of kherson
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