the cbs evening news starts now. the nation s highest court rejects an effort to limit the use of the widely-used abortion pill mifepristone. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. the implications are enormous. medications are now the most common way to end a pregnancy, and some providers send them by mail to states that have limited or banned abortions. the decision comes on the same day that senate republicans blocked legislation that would protect access for in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. democrats brought this bill to the floor because they are trying to make the battle over reproductive rights a centerpiece of the debate this election year. cbs s jan crawford is at the supreme court with why all nine justices on this divided court agreed on this ruling. my body! my mind! reporter: finding common ground in a divisive case, the supreme court refused to roll back access to the abortion pill mifepristone, saying a g
the cbs evening news starts now. the nation s highest court rejects an effort to limit the use of the widely-used abortion pill mifepristone. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. the implications are enormous. medications are now the most common way to end a pregnancy, and some providers send them by mail to states that have limited or banned abortions. the decision comes on the same day that senate republicans blocked legislation that would protect access for in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. democrats brought this bill to the floor because they are trying to make the battle over reproductive rights a centerpiece of the debate this election year. cbs s jan crawford is at the supreme court with why all nine justices on this divided court agreed on this ruling. my body! reporter: finding common ground in a divisive case, the supreme court refused to roll back access to the abortion pill mifepristone, saying a group
and who is not. i.c.e. is charged with the expectation that they will carry out enforcement orders of who is to be deported, but the question is if they are doing the prioritize all of people in this country unlawfully or do they have to abide by a certain criteria, and should they be focusing on somebody who is a convicted criminal in some respects or engaged in unlawful behavior and enough to just have that, and we have the news and the actual holding, and we will go back the figure out what the court has said and go back to it. we will go to jessica schneider coming straight from the decision, and has more information. and jess, tell us what you see and hear. this is a broad win for the biden administration, and the guidelines they tried to put into effect in 2021 blocked by the courts, they can now go into effect. this was an 8-1 ruling, and the decision written by justice
2013 the supreme court invalidated the so-called defensive marriage act. again, written by justice kennedy. at that time 12 states had basically legalized marriage equality. immediately after that states began changing either by court or by or by legislation, legalizing marriage equality. today when we woke up 37 states in the district of columbia allowed for same-sex marriage marriage equality was legal at 10:01 a.m. the decision written by justice anthony kennedy made it clear that there is indeed a constitutional right to inch what for same-sex couples. so from that political act of civil disobedience by then mayor gavin newsom of the way to the plaza in the supreme court today ave seen a remarkable remarkable shift in this country s attitudes towards