The constitution but republicans support that, don t they? at the end of the day there are a lot of words that aren t in the constitution. which were back 200 plus years ago i would be three-fifths of a person, thank god the constitution lives, breathes and expands and grows with the times. we are in the year 2022, are we really telling women you re going to go back to unsafe procedures because, guess what, women are going to have abortions, they re going to do it and they re not going to just go across state lines because only rich women or upper middle class women like allison or myself can do something like that. that s not something everybody else can do. i think we have to describing some type of balance here. this is a draft opinion, we will have to wait and see what the final document looks like and who supports it, i don t know if it s going to be concurrent, 5-4, 6-3, we will have to wait and see. i m so glad to have a discussion, a robust discussion with you guys about this
Major u.s. cities and all around the country as protesters rally against justice samuel alito s first draft decision that would if it becomes official overturn abortion rights decision roe v. wade. this was a draft leaked to politico reporters and has caused a firestorm. i want to bring in two conservatives with differing viewpoints on the issue. we have alice stewart a cnn political commentator and republican strategist so he tea a. nelson is a contributing editor and a former house republican investigative committee counsel. i want to be clear for our viewers to categorize you both, you are both you boo describe yourselves as pro life so you are anti-abortion, but, sophia, you support a woman s right to choose. you differ on the government s role of regulating abortion here. alice, this draft opinion, can you tell me why you see this as a win? i see this as a win for those that support life for a couple of reasons. this protects the sanctity of
That s number one. number two, back to liberty, alice is a wonderful woman, a friend, we are both pro life, but if you are going to be out here protesting about masks and saying that a mask impinges upon your liberty as an american and that it is something that is so grave that in the case of michigan they wanted to take out the governor of michigan because she was impinging upon their liberty asking them to wear a mask, how can you then not extend that to a woman, brianna, and the care of her own health and her own body and the decisions about what to do with the pregnancy. and i think this is where conservatives are getting into trouble, they are inconsistent. there s some hypocrisy going on. for me personally pro life sophia nelson wouldn t have an abortion. i don t agree with it. but another woman can make a different choice than me and that doesn t make her any less american or any less a good human being. she has to deal with the consequences of her choices but i think we have to