good morning. i am jonathan capehart. and this is a sunday show. this mother s day. breaking news out of ukraine. first lady jill biden crossed into ukraine this morning, and dr. biden met with her ukrainian counterpart. olena zelenskyy. for two hours. at the school housing displaced people. before crossing back into slovakia, just moments ago. according to nbc news, this is the first time the ukrainian first lady has appeared in public since the war began. we will have much more on ukraine with retired general stuff later in the show. but first, here in this country, the clock could potentially rollback on 50 years of women s reproductive rights. something the majority of americans oppose. wednesday, the senate will vote on the women s health protection act of 2022. which would block an abortion rights before the supreme court could officially overturn them. the measure is expected to fail because of the filibuster. but the debate is a vital for true servicing these key fa
of rape saying it was easy to make. the instruction is known as the hale warning. he didn t have much use for charges of marital rape either. in his book, history of the pleas of the crown he wrote, quote, the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, meaning that a wife was a man s property and, therefore, he cannot commit a crime upon her nor can she refuse her consent. interestingly or rather horrifically, justice samuel alito in the leaked opinion draft that would overturn roe v. wade cites that book in his argument to end abortion. citing hale as an historical authority not once, not twice but nine times in a 98 page ruling, mathematically that s once almost every ten pages, hale was one of the people alito relied upon for one of his most extreme assertions, that, quote, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion from 17th century english common law to the late 20th century. that could apply in almost everything. contraception, inte
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decisions relating to your private life, who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child or not, whether or not you can have an abortion, a range of other decisions, how you raise your child, what does this do? does this mean that in florida, they can decide they re going to pass a law saying that same-sex marriage is not permissible, against the law in florida? there s a it s a fundamental shift in american jurisprudence. politico obtained and published a leaked draft opinion written by conservative justice samuel alito. now, the opinion would eliminate the constitutionally protected right to abortion. alito writes this in part. the constitution makes no reference to abortion and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. roe was egregiously wrong from the start. the supreme court chief justice john roberts confirmed the leaked draft is authentic but he cautioned that it is not final. roberts slammed the leak as a betrayal and a s