it. we see protests in the streets across the country. will this mobilize democratic voters? young ones especially? yeah i think it can. but democratic candidates have to lead the charge. i look to, you can t, expect that it will happen organically. and i would point to whitmer as an example of a candidate who is leading into the abortion vibe. but also concerned about the rollback of rights in general. she has a zombie law, so in michigan, a law, in michigan there is a law on the books that ban abortion if roe is overturned in the colts right now. she will file a lawsuit against that. earlier this year, she did a lot of press around this issue. she had one of your colleagues fly out from michigan yesterday to be part of a roundtable. listening to pro-choice women, republicans and democrats in the state. she is not shining away from it. she is going right to it. and i think these are
what can you tell us? and why could it matter to the rest of the country? yeah, so in michigan we have one of those laws, sometimes referred to as a zombie law. not the same as a trigger law, which was passed after roe, to come into place if roe is overturned. it was already on the books, as you said in 1931. and it became moot in 1973 when roe was decided. but it was still on the books. and so, if roe is eliminated, it means that that law comes back to life. hence the name zombie. but the law was a subject of a recent lawsuit. planned parenthood, and our government, have each filed lawsuits challenging that under the michigan constitution. and so far, a judge has entered a preliminary injunction. saying that it appears that they may be likely to succeed on the merits. and holding it in advance until she can decide the case on the merits. and i think the lesson for the
right. he is limited in what he can do in terms of the executive orders but con deprgress is limited un they have enough buy-in from republicans and democrats to try and overcome the filibuster or amend it to make an exception for abortion to have codification of roe v. wade and we have already seen it s possible to raise the debt ceiling and have that. it is possible to do so talking about supreme-court justices. will they make it possible for roe v. wade is the million-dollar question. laura coates. laura, thank you very much. i appreciate that. i want to bring in now, new mexico governor michelle grisham. her state last year overturned a zombie law, a decades-old abortion ban. now, people from other states are coming to new mexico to get abortions. governor, welcome. thanks for joining us. thank you, don. nice to be on the show. so for the first time in 50 years, daughters, granddaughters are going to have fewer rights in the united states than the generation before them, as l