Mainlining Abortion News Today

get your popcorn ready. i am jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. this sunday, the state of the union is tense. but president biden is strong and bold, as he steps into year three of his administration. for the third time in two weeks, it was commander-in-chief biden who authorized an unidentified aerial object, to be shot from the sky. this latest incident happened over canadas uconn region. the operation was carried out after consultation between biden and canadian prime minis...

Texas concern block access to abortion pills nationwide. back in a, november a conservative antiabortion coalition sued the food and drug administration, arguing that the agency overstepped when it approved a key drug used to help terminate pregnancy. now, the drug could be decided within the next two weeks. and the implications here are far retraining. bills to terminate pregnancy are used in more than 50% of all abortions in the united states. joining me now, congresswoman ayanna pressley of m...

Drug or at least blunts the impact of a harmful ruling from this judge? >> >> they could suffer this time and i get that they are not on the sides of the people. they continue to overturn the majority of the people. very, simply congress will just need to stand in the gap. abortion care is routine medical care. it is cruel and it is inhumane for republicans to tear health care away. and they continue to target the bodily autonomy and reproductive care and health care rights of women. black women...

He was put on in a completely personable manner by donald trump. he did not get a single vote by the democrats. to me, the danger we have here is congresswoman pressley, says is where you have a minority party opposing the will of the majority. enacting and overturning precedents, whether it is fda approval of a safe and effective drug or the supreme court overturning 50 years of the president. the worst thing about this is it most people in this country with the least access to care. i sat ther...

Amendment. we also need to pass the e.r. a, continue to treat women second-class citizens of this country, when it comes to everything from health care access to pay equity. we are just gonna keep organizing and this is not a drill. republicans continue to make a stark contrast here. we fought hard for the fda to expand access to medication abortion and to allow abortion kills to be displaced at local retail pharmacies. its incredibly, safe and effective. in over half of all abortions in the u.s...

Of this, to block maternal health. >> the black maternal morbidity crisis is exactly. that a crisis. whenever you are talking about threats to health care, you are talking about matters of her life and death. and black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die in childbirth or in post birthing complications. in fact, for up to a year. so when you are talking about the government, mainlining abortion, you are talking opening the lines of the most vulnerable. black women, those that are low income...

Republicans want to institute a national abortion ban. so if the judge does block access to mifepristone, when that bin abortion bans nationwide? >> it would be for -- abortions. medical abortion is still available in some states. in many, states it is not available at all. but exactly. even though states like new york and massachusetts and california have taken measures to make sure that abortion is available, if mifepristone is no longer available, that eliminates one of the safest and most ef...