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The leak of a draft opinion of the Supreme Court written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito has caused backlash in the U.S. including protests at JMU. The draft opinion suggests

The majority of working adults want to live where abortion is legal. Employers are looking for solutions to retain them in states where it may soon be banned.

Theyre going to be run by people that talk about jewish space lasers, that talk about bamboo being in ballots from china, that talk about all of these qanon conspiracy theories. that many of these house republicans who are back benchers now, but kevin mccarthy promises to put into leadership positions, theyre pushing all of these qanon conspiracy theories. theyre talking -- let me bring in john heilemann here. theyre talking about no exceptions for rape or incest for roe v. wade. i suspect this ...

I recognize, i believe, are very appropriate. and what will happen as time goes on if roe versus wade is reversed, these are going to become very real circumstances. >> yes. >> i think the debate and discussion will continue and that could very well be revisited. >> governor, what if it cant be? you wanted the legislature in arkansas to put those exceptions in. they didnt. your term is almost up. what makes you think you can change it? and if you cant, that means that people who are -- women -- ...

I guarantee you if one republican controlled state does it, then oklahoma will be the next one to file that exact same legislation. >> so, you also said that oklahoma should consider being more open minded about the fact that the hypocrisy exists from trying to regulate womens bodies, through your tongue and cheek proposal to regulate mens body. i wanted to make your reaction to the following. if roe v. wade is overturned, several states have trigger laws that will go into effect immediately, in...

And 12-year-olds, might be in this situation, in a very real way in just a couple of months potentially. >> those are heartbreaking circumstances. in the last few years when we passed these trigger laws, were expressing a belief. were trying to return that authority to the states and to reduce abortions, but whenever you see real life circumstances like that, debate is going to continue and the will of the people may or may not change, but its going to come back to the states flexibility on that...

To ban abortion, and as you know, some of them have trigger laws that abortion bans will kick in as soon as if roe v. wade were to be overturned, and those are the states most likely to have thin resources for mothers and infants. zoom out, add on top of that, jonathan, there is a shortage of pediatricians already. great concern that a child welfare system that was not designed for a post-roe world is suddenly going to get unexpectedly flooded. >> mike, axios had an important story this week. yo...

In the wake of a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court suggesting a majority of justices want to eliminate federally protected abortion rights, more than half of Americans say they have little to no faith in that institution.

Planned Parenthood has been flooded with calls from companies asking what to do if Roe v. Wade goes. But when Insider called top employers in states with "trigger" abortion bans, few would comment.

>> reporter: the law goes further than a similar texas law which bans abortion there after six weeks and gives private citizens the right to enforce it by suing abortion providers with $10,000 awards. itself in effect, causing some texas women to seek abortions in oklahoma. oklahoma closed that door last month when it enacted its six week ban. todays would ban aabortion before six weeks. other conservative states are considering similar laws, more than a dozen already have so-called trigger laws...