thank you for watching a sea of back tomorrow at 5 pm eastern for another live hou of politicsnation. we will speak with secretary o education miguel cardona and civil rights icon, andrew yang american voices with alici menendez starts right now. on msnbc - hello to you at home, i a alicia menendez. we begin to saturday wit abortion rights, which is once again in the florida supreme court, a year after the high court ended 50 years of settle law. the court has temporaril blocked restrictions against the abortion pill mifepristone until wednesday. that is the justice time too way to preserve the fda approval o the bill a federal judge in texas invalidated earlier this month as of this moment, the pill is still available with som restrictions that is because an appeals court blocked part of the texa ruling because of aspects, suc as prohibiting the pill to mail, and making it only available t women seven weeks pregnant o less the pill manufacturer joined the biden administr
temporarily blocked a lowe court ruling that would have restricted the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to induce a medicatio abortion, which is the mos common method of abortion in the united states. that means at least for th time being, mifepristone wil remain legal, and will be made available, according to curren fda regulations, where abortio is still legal it could be sent and receive through the mail, prescribed t patients by medica professionals over telehealt consultations, and can be used up to the tenth week o pregnancy. this is the first time that th supreme court has weighed in o the issue of abortion since th conservative majority decide to overturn roe v. wade less than a year ago. as is typical when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the majority did not provide an opinion t explain that ruling. not to be know exactly how eac justice voted, except fo justices samuel alito an clarence thomas, spoke of whom noted in the o
is it freedom for kids to go t school and tried to socialize, and try to learn, and be scare to death that they might die that day well, that groups will fix i because it s gonna double th number of cops in schools. that s what he wants to do well, that will create a great environment. is that freedom? or is it freedom to have a congressman who can make a postcard with all his family holding rifles, includin ar-15s or whatever, is tha cool is that cool for republicans that is freedom. that s more important than protecting the kids? i don t get it coach gregg popovich take us off the air tonight and on that note, i wish you all a very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow thanks to atone for joining us this hour really happy to have you here. on a new state like today, i will admit it is hard to kno we are to begin. but today is yet another day 1 place to begin is with
[inaudible still legal, continues to be a option for people. one of the realities of th post-roe [inaudible] if the clinics that provid procedural abortions, as the i clinic abortion, are swamped and medication abortion become even more important fo [inaudible in lieu of [inaudible] we are at the status quo o [inaudible four people, but what th supreme court did last night was not make it worse. right if we were going backwards, we are not rolling backward for this immediate moment. in the opinion that he wrote for dobbs last year, justice alito wrote it was time to quote, return the issue of abortion to the people and elective representatives that s a quote from him. that is not exactly what s happening. to the extent there have been, there has been the ability o voters to sound in on th issue. there were five ballot measure last year, some introduced b people who wanted to preserv abortion rights. some who wanted to erode
colleagues what are you hearing from your constituents about what this means the floor? yeah, alicia, thank you for having me. i will tell you that we put up one out of a fight i want to tell you, just so you know, i watched the fo debate, and, indeed, you did thank you, thank you, i think it s important for the people to know that. they heard the headlines about what rhonda scent does, bu they need to know how hard democrats fight even thoug we re so deeply in the minority we fought and fought and tried to, in effect, save them fro themselves and save the people of florida to try to preserv abortion rights. and it just felt i gotta tell you, if i had t characterize this legislativ session as a whole, let s sa it s unpopular they insist i m putting thes unpopular culture wars of th people that want there was a university of nort of port recently they showed that 60% of floridians believe that there should be access to abortion, including a number o republicans. abortion access