welcome to the show. i m mehdi hassan. last year, a texas woman neymar lionel suffered a miscarriage. nine and a half weeks into her pregnancy. she and her doctor and asked for a standard procedure to remove the fetus so there would be no infection, or other long term properties. here s what the doctor told her. because of the new law that is passed here, you have to schedule another ultrasound to verify the pregnancy isn t valid before we give you a medical intervention. the new law, that new law. texas s six-week abortion ban take effect in 2021. they called it a heartbeat bill because it bans abortion once they can protect cardiac activity. she says she had to carry a dead fetus for two weeks. and sit through three ultrasounds before she could find someone to do the procedure she had been denied. and i shouldn t have to beg to get a medical interaction to make sure that i can t get an infection to be here for my doctor that i do have. it is after up. she sa
break you are mentioning that your corpus is calling for public health emergency. joe biden is using more of his executive powers. he keeps saying that it is up to congress. we know that congress cannot get anything done. cannot codify roe because of the filibuster in the senate. because of joe manchin and his refusal, even now, to budge on that filibuster. is there anything that he can do between now and november on abortion? we have already the house has done its work. they pass the act to codify roe twice, not just wants. but maybe the, you are right. winning more pro-choice democrats in the senate who are willing to overturn the filibuster, at least with exceptions for caught roe, providing, rights for getting money and politics. some of these critical issues that we ve just turned power over to 40 republicans who do represent a minority the population of the country. that is absolutely wrong. we know that that is what has to happen.