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shut down, in some cases, doctors stopped performing what had been routine medical care out of fear of litigation or imprisonment, leaving some women with life altering conditions and scarring, both physical and emotional. on the broad end, more than 25 million women of child bearing age from 14 to 44 live in states where it is hard or impossible to get full reproductive care. millions more say those restrictions and bans go too far. by more than a two to one ratio, voters say abortion access across the country has become too difficult, rather than too easy. when put directly to the people, abortion access has largely been a winning issue. we ve seen it time and time again. but when left to state lawmakers, buffeted by the safety of their gerrymandered districts, that access has been rolled back systematically. do those truths hold? how long will abortion be a motivating issue. and are those districts really all that safe when the vast majority of women and most men say ....
good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m katy tur here from new york. and i m chris jansing with special coverage on what is happening inside russia. for the first time, we are still waiting to hear from vladimir putin. now, we haven t heard anything since his former ally and the head of the ruthless mercenary wagner group attempt add revolt, and this new video released by russia, is it new or just something put out by the kremlin? who knows when it was taped. we can t say. and where is the man responsible for the dramatic weekend events, yevgeny prigozhin. right now we still don t know and he hasn t been seen since saturday when he decided to turn his forces back after marching toward the kremlin. and seemingly agreed to live in exile in belarus. so now russia, a country armed with more nuclear weapons than any other nation led by a man desperate to proclaim the old soviet union glory is at a crossroads. and while the world watches, ukraine is acting. ukrainian ....
Very, very close race. a lot of the different republican presidential candidates have weighed in on the war in ukraine. we had desantis at one point calling it a regional conflict and saying it s not a priority for america. others in the race pushed back against that. president biden, though, and as chris was saying in that great question up top, really did a lot to or the white house says he did a lot to fortify the nato alliance and to keep it together when it was assumed by vladimir putin potentially that it would break apart, that they wouldn t have the they wouldn t be able to stand together for as long as they did, they d roll over and allow him to do what he wanted in ukraine. president biden gets a lot of credit for doing that. do the voters see that as credit for biden or do they see it as chris said as what s going on around the world they say god it looks terrible out there, we need new leadership? there s a couple ways to look at it. our polls didn t test this but i ....
The polling that nbc news came out with today shows why this is going to be a thorny issue. even in the republican primary itself. yes, in this audience, this crowd of conservative religious voters, they want to hear a consistently anti-abortion message. nevertheless when you get to the general election, the way this manifests with women and independent voters, it becomes difficult for republican candidates who are in some ways out of step with what the national polling tells us. we ask the question up top, do those truths hold, abortion was an animating issue for voters in special elections, we saw voters in a red state make sure that it was enshrined in the constitution. when it s put to voters, we have seen abortion access be a winning issue. we have seen lawmakers in red places, in safe red districts roll back abortion access. do those truths still hold going forward? will it still be an animating issue, and are those districts where those republican lawmakers came from still saf ....