why it s so important now for me to tell the story is i don t want any woman to ever have to go through that. i know what that back alley looked like. i know ha ha that dark light looked like. i see it right now. i was one of the fortunate ones. reporter: these stories didn t just span experiences that led these congresswomen to make these decision, but these span geerations. one of the things you hear from democrats who say now is a very important moment to act on federal laws, one of the reasons that they say that is because they are concerned that a conservative-leaning supreme court could roll back the protections offered by roe v. wade decision. for one congresswoman, she chose to have her abortion before that law and before that case even happened in the supreme court. so she s not talking theoretically about a time before roe. for her, you heard her say it there. she knows what that back alley
here. what is the significance of that? the significance of that is it s a very narrow ruling. this was a dispute between catholic social services which said it would not send foster children to same-sex parents to their homes. the city sued and said that violates our nondiscrimination contract. now, the catholic social services said to the supreme court, give us a broad ruling. say that there s always a religious freedom exception to nondiscrimination laws and the court didn t go that far and said catholic social services wins this case because of the narrow way in which the city administered the contract. so, it s not going to have a wider effect on county clerks that refuse to issue marriage licenses or bakers who refuse to make cakes for same-sex weddings. you never get to take vacation in june. what is coming next that you re most anticipating? three decisions next week, by the way, chuck. the court has just said on monday, wednesday and friday. we re still waiting for the
obama care and brought by the state of texas invalidating the law did not have standing. the court was clear this was not obamacare itself but upholds as it is and tementdemocrats are c it a win. today s supreme court decision is a landmark victory for democrats work to defend protections for people with pre-existing conditions. so let me say definitively, the affordable care act has won, the supreme court has just ruled the aca is here to stay. our justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. pete, let me start with this. why did the supreme court take a case that didn t have standing in the first place? well, they try not to do that, but they did, i mean, that was really the question in the case. i think there must have been four conservatives who thought they did have standing. they didn t carry the day. only two members of the court said they would have taken the case and decided on the merits.
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