your vote, you can act. you can have the final word. this is not over. we went off the air at 10:00 a.m. on friday, and ten minutes later, this. this is an nbc news special report. . we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in decades. the monumental ruling by the supreme court finally handed down more than a month after that unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggesting the nation s highest court was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 roe v. wade case. the nation s highest court ruling 6-3 to uphold the mississippi abortion ban being challenged. chief justice john roberts supported that, but stopped short of overturning roe. that vote was 5-4, ending the constitutional protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. the results follow decades after opponents of abortion made possible by three appointees to the high court by former presidential donald trump. the ruling reversed planned parenthoo
desire to make a drug class available for others does not establish standing to sue. this is the most significant abortion ruling from the supreme court since it overturned roe v. wade nearly 2 years ago. joining us now, nbc news washington correspondent outside the supreme court. nbc news senior legal correspondent, laura jarrett. what more does this ruling say? reporter: is a significant ruling. this willing says the drug, this drug continues to be accessible for women across the country who use medication warming as their form of abortion. we ve seen studies that show 63% of women use abortion medication for their means of accessing abortion care. this ruling was unanimous from the 673 conservative majority. the doctors and antiabortion groups here do not have standing. that is important because the same it is a merit to this case, they are saying the people who brought this case to have standing needed. during oral argument, there were hints this was the way the court
southern states that are going to be trapped making horrific life or death decisions without the safety of a safe medical procedure, and you know, mara, it was fascinating that clarence thomas showed that hypocrisy in his decision. he talked about he talked about how contraception rights should be reviewed again. he talked about marriage equality, how that should be opened up. he talked about of course what consenting adults can do in the privacy of their bedroom, that should be taken up. he didn t talk about loving. he didn t talk about interracial marriages, and i saw that, a lot of people brought that up, why didn t he say that. i saw that as being so typical of these republicans, these