experience for women. but it s oftentimes talked about as if it only impacts. but it does have a disparate impact because of socio-economic factors here. resource. remember, one of the issues here that is so important to think about is the reason supreme court justices are even thinking about possibly overturning roe v. wade. take justice amy coney barrett who said, i m paraphrasing here, i don t understand. don t the safe haven laws get to the issues you want to address? safe haven laws being you can hand your newborn into a safe space, if you terminate your parental rights. isn t that the same thing as terminating one s pregnancy? it s a fundamental misconception of what is being talked about. the idea you re going to say as long as you can terminate parental rights and put your child up for adoption, that is the same thing as being able to have the choice and agency to terminate one s pregnancy is so flawed, so is justice kavanaugh s thought here, don, where he suggests the supr
word here. no, i think that s right. and if you look at the reasons a lot of women get abortions, they re economic reasons. some of these women already have kids. so they know about the burdens of parenting. a lot of these women are unmarried as well, and that is across all socio-economic and racial lines as well. you had one of the people fighting to overturn roe v. wade said well, listen, society is set up now where states help people, help women with child care and they get leave. they don t get paid leave, right? if you work at the winn dixie in mississippi and you become pregnant and you need to take time off because of your health during that pregnancy or when you have the baby, your employer is having unlikely to give you paid leave to take care of that child. so this is there is a real fundamental misunderstanding i think of the ways women go about their child bearing decisions and sort of the dilemmas they face when it comes to abortion. nia, laura, thank you so much. i
it affects women, and women ought the have the same rights as men. no one is curtailing the use of vasectomies. no one is talking about what men are able to do. so just to put it in the language of how it will only impact one race or another, it impacts the gender. that is women. nia, i ll give you the last word here. no, i think that s right. and if you look at the reasons a lot of women get abortions, they re economic reasons. some of these women already have kids. so they know about the burdens of parenting. a lot of these women are unmarried as well, and that is across all socio-economic and racial lines as well. you had one of the people fighting to overturn roe v. wade said well, listen, society is set up now where states help people, help women with child care and they get leave. they don t get paid leave, right? if you work at the winn dixie in mississippi and you become pregnant and you need to take time off because of your health during that pregnancy or when
senior political analyst nia-malika henderson and cnn legal analyst laura coates. good evening to both of you. man, this is huge news, and we re waiting to see what happens. it sure sounds like, laura, that the supreme court s conservative majority is prepared to uphold mississippi s law banning abortions after 15 weeks. the question is will they toss out roe v. wade all together? you know, it s always difficult. we try to retain that glass half full thought process about trying to read the tea leaves. sometimes the judges ask questions with a guide toward how they ll rule. other times not so much. but thing is a clear indication of how they are leaning already. the question here really is whether they are prepared for the pushback and the fallout of disrupting a 50-year precedent. remember, people order their lives, frankly, around supreme court precedent.
profound effects on their bodies, their health and the course of their lives. reporter: the court s 6-3 conservative majority appeared poised to uphold the mississippi law, but it was less clear if there was a majority to end the federal right to abortion. a key vote, justice cavanaugh appeared skeptical that the interests of pregnant women and fetuses can both be accommodated. the reason this is hard is you can t accommodate both interests. you have to pick. that s the fundamental problem. reporter: we don t expect an opinion in this case until june, maybe even early july when major rulings are released. recently the justices also heard arguments on a texas abortion law prohibiting most abortions in that state. the justices have not issued an opinion on that case either. so we may have to wait until early summer to get answers on this critical issue. don? all right, thank you so much. now i want to bring in cnn