menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to th
Menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg
Government of course, you sent a lette to president biden urging th administration to preserve fda approval for mifepristone an access to a nationwide you have 40 other housto signed on to it. talk to us about what the bide administration needs to do - yes, absolutely so first of all, happy easter. it is interesting that all o this came up on good friday, but i will leave that fo another day. as it relates to the administration, i want to make sure that they are - becerra, we made to make sur that we are all in and we ar doing everything we can to - that if the fda is protected a an agency, making sure that we are having the appropriate conversations with every singl portion of the federal government, with our v hospitals, doing the creativ things that out of the box things to make sure that thi access is available despit
Instead of fetuses he embraces the idea of feta personhood i want to read a tweet that yo flag for me. this is from americans unite for life that tweet says, restoring the constitutional right to life for the pre-born has been th entire point of the pro-life movement since roe no human being can except be excluded from the circle o humanity or the equa protection of the law. i mean, melissa, they are no even trying to hide what the are doing. tell me about why that matters for the national fight for abortion access and for wome across this country. again, alicia, this shows immediately the lie that dobbs restoring this to the people i their states to determine fo themselves what their position on abortion would be on a stat by state basis that cannot be the outcome it is absolutely an incoherent outcome, if you are someone wh opposes abortion, if you oppos but portion and believe that i is tantamount burner, yo cannot be okay with blue state allowing it. the only coherent response
Constitutional principle what would you be looking ou for if portion access is decided by this court? well, again, i think you se it up beautifully. this case really gives the court the opportunity to sho the american public whethe they were serious abou returning the abortion questio to the democratic process or whether this is what the antiabortion movement ha always said it was - merely a weigh station on th road to fetal abolition of abortion in the united states. this is the decision from on judge that would have th impact of eliminating abortion access even in states where it is currently legal this is not the state by state settlement that drops reported to the offer, and i will b looking, not only a justic kavanaugh, but justice toledo, who can t that decision, sayin that this was merely destroyin this to the democratic process this is the antithesis o democracy. i pointed out this ruling, read it in full and cast merrick was really insistent o using the term unborn hum