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Adversary shun of the rule of law and also complicit in this medical backdrop that will lead to many deaths unfortunately. >> barbara, i want your thoughts on the complicity that michele references there. i also want your thoughts on the big ne today, which is planned parenthood filing a lawsuit to block the trigger ban and utah. we will see similar lawsuits in the future. how do you see them playing out now that we have the supreme court decision? >> i think the supreme court decision has not s...

Travel? >> absolutely. there are abortion funds all across the country. there is through planned parenthood, through local abortion funds, so many different organizations right now have been taking -- to use funding to then provide that financial assistance to people seeking care in those seven states that already bans abortion, and as for preparing for up to 26 more states to move forward in their own abortion bans. >> how many clinics of yours will you be shutting in the next coming, 20 to 30 ...

Legal scholars is that undercutting the principles behind roe v wade and plant parenthood reduces the strength of those decisions and in fact if you look at one of the current opinions in this case byjustice clarence thomas, he said at those cases, deciding thoseissues said at those cases, deciding those issues should be looked at in a new light the based on the decision by the supreme court. there is concern even if justice alito and others in the majority said they should not be concerned, the...

Break that 60 vote filibuster requirements? >> that is exactly right. thats exactly right, and. forget in the united states senate, because of our rules, which i think should be changed. you are only able to pass legislation if you can get an agreement among 60 senators. thats not happening because republicans blockade so many important pieces of legislation. what we need to do is we need to look. and a full throttle approach across the board, what executive action can retake, and what can indiv...

Theyve been young, and so, people will be forced to continue pregnancies when theyre raped. incest. or, event when their health is at risk. just yesterday, the wisconsin state legislature gaveled in and gaveled out, 15 seconds, effort that the democratic governor called to overturn an 1849 law that made abortion murder in our state. and so, we are one of those states where a doctor could be charged with mighty. and and in fact all 24 a buyer planned parenthoods are providing their last abortion ...

Lizzo is taking action on Friday, June 24, when the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v

For them. >> that is great counsel. sarah, you are stepping down after 20 years of planned parenthood in the central states. what does this moment mean to you that after 20 years of fighting and advocating on behalf of womens health, that the supreme court ruled down. how are you feeling right now? >> reiterates, a thank you for that question. it is a very difficult time for our country. our movement has been devastated emotionally and psychologically. on one hand. on the other hand, it is a tim...

But all of us who care about our sisters and our daughters and our mothers and our aunts, this is completely unacceptable. and what we can do, and everyones asking, gloria, what can we do, is you must vote as though your life depends on it because it does. you must go in your state and vote out the antichoice, compulsory pregnancy legislators who want to wrap their ideology and their message in some kind of nonsense. there is no rationalization or justification for trying to control women. you m...

Many years, and the courts trying to no longer sit in this political fashion and decide these important issues for the american people. knowing that there are important deeply held views on both sides. >> jennifer, i thank you for being with us on msnbc this morning. joining us now, alexis mcgill johnson, planned parenthood president and ceo. alexis, your reaction to this news. >> this is absolutely devastating. the court just told us that we are not equal. the court just told us that we dont ha...

Former President Barack Obama issued a statement criticizing the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday.