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
How soon could that happen well, alicia, i think thi is on a staff rocker to th supreme court. i think there s no way thi couldn t go to the supreme court eventually right now, judge kacsmaryk s ruling it has been an appeal t the fifth circuit. it is a famously conservativ court. but that court doesn t actuall have to do anything. judge has merrick issued a seven-day stay, so it is seven days before his state actually goes into effect the circuit just sit on this for seven days, and that would really put this in the questio of whether it goes to th supreme court. i think the fda would have t seek approval at the supreme court. they could ask for - which this happened before basically get the supreme cour to take this up to resolve a conflict between the washingto injunction and this toxic decision again issued by a single judge in texas. but nationwide decision that would basically imperil all of mississippi are ston accessibility across the country. composition of this court - fo
In that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to the confusion, federa judge in washington stat issued a conflicting rulin friday ordering the fda to keep the drug available in 17 states an washington, d.c. the dueling decisions directly to the supreme court. setting up the most contentiou fight over reproductive care since last - that reversed row. here s how mark joseph sti pitch why this is a moment of trut to the supreme court quote, they do not put a sto to cause merrick s madness they will show the country tha their goal is not to leave abortion up to the democrati process, but to use every tool in their power to outlaw abortion in every state. kicking us off tonight, msnb contributor mick bliss murray. she is a - of law and faculty director at nyu melissa, what would it loo like for the supreme court t take up the abortion cases and
Abortion is the complete and total abolition of it. so the dobbs opinion is merely an s the sizing us to th prospect of the slow and incremental removal of all abortion accessibility in that eight states we are seeing that movin quickly to its outcome we saw the is last week when there was that case filed in texas about the wrongful death for termination of pregnancy again, the idea that onl persons get to have long ful death suits. again, acquitting the fetu with a person. and now a black and white in the pages of the united states federal supplement reporter, that this judge is telling u where this is going. this is moving toward feta personhood it is the only place it can go unless there is a response fro the people melissa you, talk about wha is happening in texas and in washington state you talk about what is happening and idaho. you talk about what is happening in at tennessee in the effect of gerrymandering which you have often flagged for us in the theoretica context that you
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