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guaranteed that a woman confronted with unplanned pregnancy could, within reasonable limits, make their own decision about whether to bear or child, with all the life transforming consequences that that act involves. and in the safeguarding each womans reproductive freedom, the constitutional protective the ability of a woman to participate equally in this nations economic and social life. but no longer, and quote. in a decision that is no less devastating, because we knew it was comin...

For slate, focusing on courts in the law. amy, i want to ask you, that seem so stunning of a transmission of what they believe roe does for a blueprint of other laws and other rights to illuminate. what do you say to that? >> i mean, i think thats right. that was one of the real surprises today, actually. after the draft opinion, it wasnt a surprise that the court overruled roe and casey. the cour in that draft opinion, which we already saw, had, in essence, tried to provider sherines is that it...

That this conservative court has writes. that it supports. and writes it doesnt. it wants to withdraw the rights from the neighbors in the democratic process. saying we simply have no control of them as american citizens. it is happy to talk to the sharks and say, how about it republican legislators, you can do whatever you want. >> amy megaton mark, stay with us. up next, this major supreme court decision not only turns abortion rights over to the states, but it puts other law and founding righ...

We will help get you the best result possible. just a samuel ego -- ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ justice clarence thomas voted with the majority and wrote a concurring opinion thats gotten a lot of attention for one particular section, quote, and future cases, we should reconsider all of this court substituted of due process presidents, including griswold, lawrence and obergefell. for those who dont have those three landmark rulings memorized, they ensure that americans have the...

Opinion that was leaked in early may, the court said it was not a final decision. but we knew at the time that decision meant that there were five votes to overrule roe and casey. and we saw that today. it is one thing to expect something to happen. but then to actually see it happen is really remarkable. >> i want to follow up on that question with amy. when you make of the fact that justice roberts was not completely aligned with the conservative justices? why can we read into that? >> that is...

That oh, this decision wont affect any other president. in fact, the court has really given conservative politicians and advocates a playbook for a eventually overruling all of these other rights. and what i am hearing is a lot of threats, the attorney general and politician, are already thinking about how they can make the same play that they did to topple abortion rights, to topple things like gay rights. >> amy, how are you feeling listening to this hearing? >> todays decision with a bombshel...

Covid was at its peak in january, wearing masks. justice thomas gave a speech last month, talking about how much better the court used to be, in essence, before the chief justice arrived. he said the court we had, up until 2005, for 11 years, with justice breyer at the, was fantastic. you also saw, truthfully, at the end of the dissenting opinion today, one of the common courtesy that the justices ws there -- respectfully. here, they did not use afraid. they said, with sorrow, we dissent. >> so,...

Depending on what you think. i think we did see today was that if the purpose of leaking it was to try and change the minds of one of the five justices who voted back in december to overrule roe and casey, i clearly did not have that effect. >> megan hatch are, amy how and mark joseph stern, thank you so much. thank you for reminding us that voting does have consequences. who is appointed to the supreme court has consequences and is up to the american people if they want to see change. appreciat...

Woman at grievous risk, especially, as folks have said, impacts low income women who cannot travel to states where abortion is still legal. and the worst part is, this is not the ends. it may be a combination of a 50-year project to overturn roe v. wade and casey, but it is not the end of the conservative project to ban abortion, nationwide. and then once they have done that, theyre gonna certainly for the rest of our constitutional rights as well. access to contraception and private sexual rela...