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joining us this hour. happy to have you here. quick personnel news, good news, i want to say congratulations to alex wagner, who is going to take over the slot that is now msnbc prime, this is just announced today by msnbc, it is great news, in terms of me, nothing about what im doing is changing, im going to be doing monday nights from here on out and here for big news events like i have been, things like the january 6th hearing and the supreme court decision friday on roe v. wade, no...

But now, of course, its our story, too, here in america, at the supreme courts ruling on friday, overturning row v weight wade. as of right now, there are seven different states who say they are actively enforcing a total ban on abortion but that doesnt fully account for what is going on and doesnt count texas where the so-called trigger ban technically isnt legally in effect yet but nevertheless the states republican attorney general just proclaimed on twitter that all abortions are now illegal...

States had already put on abortion access, even with the roe law still in place. >> well, we started getting a lot of requests from women from the united states already for a few years, and the reason that they were looking for access was because they could often not afford the abortion services locally. but also privacy reasons, for several people that were living in domestic violence or they couldnt travel because the distance to travel was already quite long. so there was already, there were ...

There, too. so its almost a total ban in arizona thats in effect. even though legal confusion would suggest that thats not happening there. earlier in the day today, louisiana was one of the states that said they were enforcing a total league ban on abortion, but then the louisiana ban was blocked by court. the court issued a temporary restraining order stopping the state of louisiana from imparting their ban. same thing in utah tonight. in the last few hours. so utah had said they would totally...

The united states as well. figuring out how to get abortion services to women in states where it is illegal. the time now, for americans who have done pioneering work for decades. joining us is the doctor, the founder of women on waves and aid access. doctor, i appreciate you joining us. especially given how late it is where you are. it is really kind of you to be here. >> thank you so much, rachel. im glad to be with you. >> let me ask you first about the roe v. wade decision by the united stat...

Russian custody, first photos of her since her mug shot was released back in march. today she was photographed in handcuffs as they brought her in for a court appearance. theyre going to put her on trial, what counts for a trial in putins russia, later this week, that trial is supposed to start in friday in a court in less than 1% of the defendants are exonerated because it is not a real court, a putin court and this is how russia is handling the case, we will have more on that coming up later o...

Concept in terms of how women can make decisions, about the most intimate decisions in their lives, it will apparently affect them within days. another way for women in states with abortion bans to access abortion may be for them to get abortion pills which you can use for many abortions within the first ten weeks or so of pregnancy, you can get abortion pills prescribed by a provider overseas, a provider in another country, who is there beyond the reach of u.s. state laws designed to block that...

Support abortion rights are talking about stuff that seems, you know, like thought experiments, as recently as, you know, four days ago. stuff that seems like fantastical sci-fi approaches, to solving the problem of abortion access for american women. and theyre now talking about getting it up and running. things like setting up local clinics on the other side of the state boarder from states where abortion is being banned, literally getting a drive-through clinic built, an abortion clinic in an...

To mail abortion pills to women all around the globe. in 2018, she saw into the future and decided that the united states was joining the ranks of countries needing her group services and launched a group called aid access, specifically to provide medication abortions to patients in the united states, in states that had banned tele-medicine abortions. physicians have video consultations with women in the u.s. and then the pills are often mailed from overseas as well. we have entered a new era in...

Appalling part of all of this, isnt it? and we have seen it with joe biden. we have seen it with nancy pelosi as well. not only do they betray their beliefs or betray the beliefs of their church, the church that they claim to want to support, by, you know, by being such enthusiastic supporters of abortion. but they also trot out their catholic religion whenever it serves their purposes politically. and it often comes up, for example, when they try to defend their open border policies, and they t...