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Their states and washington, d.c. as the legal battles intensify. >> thanks to erica hill for that report. lets bring in abigail abrams, "time" magazine. so nice to have you back. appreciate you getting up with us. you know, technology has transformed access to abortion in so many different ways and now of course the majority of women in the united states get abortions through the two medications that you take. they are not going in for surgeries, at least in the majority of cases. how is this a...

Attorney General Ken Paxtons advisory on immediate abortion prosecutions is being challenged.

>> well, the reversal of roe will mean greater demand for reproductive services in blue states like new york. we are going to have a wave of refugees from red states. when it comes to the gun case, the decision is dangerous. before the decision in new york, in order to obtain a gun permit you have to demonstrate proper clause. you have to demonstrate that you as an individual have a special need for self-defense in order to carry a firearm in public. the supreme court struck down the proper requ...

Immediately, there are people in arkansas and mississippi who are going to have to go a thousand miles. that is absolutely, to illinois. i was talking to several people in those states yesterday, as we were anchoring on the very subject. they cant travel a thousand miles. they dont have the money. they dont have the money for day care. they dont have the ability to get there for all of the pre-testing that youre supposed to have and for the follow-up exams, and whats so remarkable is when roe is...

Minute were going to talk with richie torres about what congress can do, not just to restore reproductive rights, but protect gay rights. first though, a look at with the supreme court could do next. heres pete williams. >> the supreme courts five member majority said 50 years of abortion ruling, starting with roe, should be overturned because the right to abortion is not, quote, deeply rooted in this nations history and tradition. does that mean other rights recognized by the court, including s...

Circulated as we speak. i feel confident that they will get the number of signatures required to make the ballot. and voters in michigan will have an opportunity to pass this ballot proposal which will codify roe into our state constitution, which means that abortion as of the moment, the certification of that the election results, if it passes, roll will -- constitution, and abortion, birth control, ivf, all of it will be legal in michigan. >> michigan also has a decades long marriage ban -- wh...

And she joins me now. téa, i am just really struck by your clarity and choosing to tell this story. clearly, well before roe fell. so i want to know, first, what drew you to the story, why you want to tell. it. you were seeing thousands of restrictions -- and we began production in earnest after brett kavanaugh was confirmed to the supreme court. the writing was on the wall. it was clear that roe was going to be overturned. it wasnt a matter of, if it was just going to be when. and it felt like...

Place now are actually more punitive, more restrictive than anything that existed in the air of the genes. theres potentially criminalizing people for -- to get health care. incentivizing bounty hunters. that wasnt a thing in the pre roe era. no exceptions for rape or incest. even the most draconian laws back then had exceptions. so it is pretty stunning. yes, there are technological advances. we have medication abortion, which is a huge and liberating thing. but we are seeing many states restri...

The lgbtq community, and would protect lgbtq people from discrimination and matters of employment, housing and public accommodations. its based on the proposition that they be fired, evicted, denied -- simply because if we are whom you love. so moving the equality act forward as weve done in the house should be the highest priority. >> it strikes me, representative alexandra or casual cortez sort of framed what is happening with the supreme court as both a crisis for reproductive rights, but als...

Attorney general of north carolina announced friday morning that, you know, we should be enacting pre roe law which would criminalize abortion immediately. so we were forced to halt services on friday when we should have that extra 30 days to continue to provide care. you know, aiding and abetting abortion is a part of that and does that make us criminals for providing good medical advice of just giving alternative states. i will tell you that right now thats exactly what were doing because we s...