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States to fight for the people whose lives are being directly impacted. lets be clear. this is not just a states fight. mccauley mccaul just last week for firm that republics are pursuing a national born on the ban on abortion when they are empowered to do. it >> you mentioned the states. youve got 13 of them, the have trigger laws, that almost immediately enact total bans on abortion if roe was struck down. 16 straits have been on the other direction. they have than acted laws to protect aborti...

Change laws at the local level. listen to some of whats to antiabortion activists told us, one in georgia, the other in texas. >> i think that it 50 years from now we are looking back on this moment, and it is what we think its gonna be, then it was because the pro-life movement a number of years ago decided there were gonna start to go to state legislators and get pro-life people elective. eventually, one of the laws that theyre gonna pass, as gonna go up and overturn roe. >> theres a long race...

Supreme court document. talk to me about what youre seeing on the ground? today >> we have obviously been talking about this issue together for a few weeks now. one of the things that we brought up recently is that here in chicago, and illinois, this is a state where they have codify protections for abortion rights. this is not a place that is looking at trigger laws that would go into effect if roe is overturned. they got rid of trigger laws in recent years. but we still saw thousands of people...

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Vague and they can have so many unintended consequences. some states with trigger laws like kentucky, tennessee, and arkansas that define embryos as unborn children at the moment of fertilization. this could criminalize ivf clinics. itd take one overly aggressive prosecutor, one of my counterparts in another state, to threaten arrest, then youll see these fertility clinics close up and move elsewhere. maybe close up for good. so even though justice alito says his ruling would not reach beyond ab...

Um i also fear greatly that it is working-class women and workin working-class families who would suffer most as a result of this kind of draconian return to pre-roe times. it would be women and families who tonight have the means to travel to jurisdictions where they could seek healthy and safe abortion services that would suffer ask that would page our community less safe. >> just so we are clear, just the weight and grafb tass of the statement you are making, along with other prosecutors real...

Services, alternatives to abortion. says s was inspired to do this work because at 19 had an abortion and regrets it. texas lawmakers passed a law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. >> women were seeing seem more panicked and angry, there is a shorter time frame. >> how much more panicked and scared when its illegal? >> once thats decided to be illegal, it goes off the table for them. rule followers for lack of a better word. hope is some of the panic goes away. >> reporter: in the ...