Lawmakers who are tasked with legislaing around it and, of course, to the women who are at the center of making these decisions for themselves, or at least trying to. when the supreme court s decision on dobbs came down a year ago, amanda zorowski was furious. i was undergoing fertility treatment, so i did not think an abortion was something i would ever need or want, because i didn t understand fully how abortion is health care. reporter: months after amanda finally got pregnant, doctors told her the fetus wouldn t make it, but also that they couldn t help. she couldn t provide an abortion. she couldn t do any of the things that she was trained to do because of the restrictions in texas. as a result, it landed me in the icu with sepsis. reporter: knowing that you had to get worse in order to get the care you needed, can you just talk to us a little bit more about how that felt? it was devastating on top of
Play out, and this testimony here is a reminder that jack smith could do two things at once. yes, the attention has been on the classified documents. we ve even got a court date now for the middle of august, though it may slide some, but the investigation into january 6th is continuing. joe, i think you ve heard the same, where there s been a growing belief that the te knorr tenor of the investigation has changed. people are hearing about it. people in the trump orbit are like, that s not going to happen. it s too complicated. they re not going to bring charges there. now, it may. abortion was a significant issue in the 2022 midterms. another was defending democracy. this time around, trump, even with the legal morase, is the name, that ll be on the ballot.
We re also talking about people like amanda who want a child and they re going to refuse to allow them to have the reproductive health care they need in order to stay healthy. reporter: though the dobbs decision added more barriers to abortion access, it s not like other barriers didn t exist before. for rena, an army veteran who had an abortion years before the dobbs decision came down, it wasn t just access in care, it was the stigma around it. i ve overheard my superiors talking about how pregnant women were worthless. i quite frankly never wanted to be a parent, i still don t, so as soon as i found out i was pregnant, i made a call to the local clinic. reporter: she counted herself lucky to access the abortion she sought, and she only had to travel an hour to do so. others have to drive and fly much further to access that procedure. that wasn t an option for you, right, amanda? no. if we had made that choice and i d gone into septic shock on an airplane or in a car in t
5% of the electorate as being important to them. we didn t believe it at the time, and everybody around this table, well, we were right. it s the same thing now. there may be people that have problems with this issue or that issue with joe biden and the democrats. as we get closer and closer to the elections, it s going to become more in focus. all of the things that everybody from the wall street journal editorial page to ann coulter have warned republicans about. they have to get smart on abortion or they re going to keep losing elections. well, they aren t getting smarter on abortion, and bad things will happen. i ll talk to jon meacham later about this. the united states supreme court, in a political crisis unlike any political crisis it s been in, at least in my lifetime, even after the 2000 recount. their approval ratings recovered very quickly after that. they were respected and trusted again. but you look at just how rig td