Its members didn t grow old and die out. instead it kept renewing itself and it grew stronger and younger year after year, decade after decade. it continued, of course, we still had a problem because too often republican presidents and you know who you are promised to appoint pro-lifeic justices but didn t keep their promises. justices o connor, souterth and kennedy all voted with the judicial activists on these and related cases on abortion that had conservatives including yours truly, noto for george w. bush to pull b the nomination of harriet miersi back in 2005, she would haveo been another vote to uphold roe . thank goodness. wa we have sm alito on the court now. we always seem to be one or two votes short, didn t we, over all these years? but in twenty sixteen pro-life voters saw a chance toaw change the republican party andpa d the court for donald trump wasn t part of the gop establishment.
0 to people and they say they took away our right to abortion. you can tell them the truth. that s not what today s decision did. they decided who gets to decide and the constitution is clear . it s the states all the time we have left this evening. thanks for being with us. thank you for making the show possible. stay with the fox news channel for continuing coverage, not your heartbeat troubled laura s next . we ll see on monday. i m laura ingram and this is ingraham angle on a triumphant friday night from new york answered prayers. that s the focus of tonight s angle on january 22nd . nineteen seventy three almost fifty years ago, seven members of the supreme held that under the fourteenth amendment of our constitution the same constitute that americans and fought and died to protect elected officials could not protect the unborn from abortion. now ever since that time,l abortion has been a constitutional right now this is a painful and humiliating experience forov tens of million
Figure out the nuts and bolts state by state. neal, you that have been in front of the supreme court so many times, how unusual is this? it s past unusual. i mean, it is literally unprecedented. i mean, roe v. wade was a 7-2 decision in a time where there were seven republican justices on the supreme court. and it was reaffirmed in 1992 with a trio of republican justices, justices o connor, kennedy, and suter coming forth to say this is basically a superprecedent. this is something on which social expectations have crystallized around this right. it s crucial to women s equality. the court can t take it away. that s what the republican justices republican appointed justices were saying. today, you hear an absolutely different tune. and it is shocking because
Major affirmation of roe v. wade in the 1992 case of planned parent hood versus casey. justices o connor, suitor and casey were working privately on a plan that stopped reversal of roe. they did not release it to their colleagues until the end of the month. justice kennedy sent a private note to the man who wrote roe v. wade saying there s been a development you might want to know about. he sent that on may 29 the month before the final opinion came out. i do not want to suggest to you or our audience that there are people working behind the scene but the current conservatives are far more to the right. there is a lot going on that could possibly change things come june. if there are adjustments, do