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I think abortion is healthcare. those healthcare decisions back to the states and also it puts so many other rights at risk and it makes electing governors in these states where legislatures like the one we have here in pennsylvania are going to try to continue to erode those right, it makes those governors so critically important. >> californias governor has said that hell propose an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution so theres no doubt. i know that republicans in t...

Changing. every senator now under the real glare of roe v. wade being repealed by the courts is going to have to show which side theyre on. we will find the best way to go forward after that. >> well, the world today is certainly different than the one in which we were living before the news of this draft opinion broke last night right before rachels show began, but the fight to codify roe remains uphill battle. over the past two years washington congresswoman pramila jayapal has learned a leade...

Harris. the room was electric. advocates, activists, elected officials, folks are fired up, energized. look, we are devastated by what weve learned from the court, the leak. its important to note, and i know your other guests will also note this, that abortion is still legal in this country. roe is still the law of the land. this was a leaked opinion, but we faced a believability gap for a few months now, for about six months, since the oral arguments a lot of us have been out there shouting its...

Voters. i think it would be fair to say donald trump was critical in delivering this victory to jd vance. >> big uptick in vances support since the endorsement by donald trump. steve, great to see you, my friend. thank you as always. the great steve kornacki. up next, the bracing new reality that the end of roe could mean that other rights, like the right to obtain contraception, the right to same sex marriage could now be in the crosshairs of the courts conservative majority. courts conservat...

Were precedent on precedent, end quote. according to the draft supreme court opinion published by politico last night, those cases are likely precedent on precedent for just about another month. while justice roberts confirmed the authenticity of the document today, of course it is still a draft, the language and the justices votes could still change, but for now, this is what all of those justices i just listed voted for. quote, we must hold that roe and casey must be overruled. the constitutio...

But despite that fact, republican leaders spent the day avoiding the topic of roe entirely. when they mentioned it at all, it was in the context of fajing outrage over the fact that the draft opinion had leaked. zero talk on where they stood on the decision itself. dynamic that chuck schumer made clear to note during his own press conference today. at that press conference, schumer informed skeptical reporters that democrats would do everything they could to fight the upcoming decision, includin...

And dangerous because it seems to be saying that if something isnt specifically named as a right in the constitution, from 200 years ago, that somehow that does not qualify as a right. >> its not really a right. so one of the options and this is one that you have been pursuing is to codify this, to make this law passed by congress. what is the path for that right now? how do -- its really the senate where this problem lies. but you heard chuck schumer talking about the fact that its a different ...

Now, there are several rights that fall into this category. rights like same sex marriage. the right to birth control. justice alito basically wrote a how-to guide to dismantling those rights, too, which is probably why he also peppered in this tepid assurance. we emphasize our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion, end quote. thats good. should we take him a...

Rights? >> the only thing that could be done is for the two senators who were told by both kneel gorsuch and kavanaugh that they were going to respect the precedent of roe v. wade. their votes were contingent on -- >> murkowski and collins. sorry to interrupt you. >> right. they could be the votes we need to narrowly eliminate the filibuster for purposes of making sure that roe is the law of the land by codifying it, by making it the law. i dont think we should spend a lot of time on that. i kno...

Research institution. texas has already given us morbid case study of what that could look stlike, since the ste passed ace draconian abortion b a few months ago. stories of women concocting dangerous home remedies, foregoing furniture to get them gas to get across state lines. late last year the good mocker institute released essentially a forecast for what other states are in for if roe were to fall. so lets start, for example, with louisiana. louisiana iswi one of those stas that is basically...