We ve covered protests not just here in the court but all over the country and that s usually the case. i can alsoi tell you that despite the fact that we ve had at points over a thousand people here , it has been a relatively cool, calm evening, people chanting,p holding up signs even some people praying. earlier you saw many pro-life demonstrators here . but for the most part here tonight it s been pro abortion of protesters here tonight. er and i can always tell this whenever i come out here to the court, there s a magnitude to being oute here when there s a big haze and you certainly feel that here tonight . but again,ight so far peaceful,o far spirited and we ll keep an eye on things. laura , back to you. and all right, kevin ,g thank you . now we reco going to continue to monitor events acrossou the country tonight , but for his take on the media reaction to today s supreme court ruling and more, we re going to go to fox news contributor raymond arroyo tonight .
And as you previewed in the t angle or samhe alito might nothi have had the opportunity to write this dobbs opinion were it not for the fact that a certain commentator named laura ingraham tooknd l on supre court nominee harriet miers challenged her record and president bush back in 2005 remember this the burden really is on him to show us whya harriet miers is a judicial conservative given what she said in nineteen ninety three about abortion, given what she said about the role of the courts, how could she square those comments with what she said in nineteen eighty nine and that questionnaire where she said i m for a pro-life amendmentst w, the texas constitution and as you know a president bush rescinded her nomination and nominated sam alito, which wouldn t haveor happened had it not been for your activism but judicial falak can t believe matter h and that was your gripeer with her. yeah well it was a tabula rasaht . we io didn t know what she thout and we didn t know what judge
what what is that ? you know, it was it was a pretty wild experience being on capitol hill today, laura .ng i was walking past camera crews where some of my colleagues were doing interviews sayingen comments like that sayingts ridiculous statements like we heard mr. barak commenting about the need for abortion so that families could abort a potentially special needsch child which is incredibly beyond the pale and discussedil beyond belief. i heard other comments like this is restricting health care to women. that s not true . we all know that abortion is not health care.he and i look back on the story from my own life. you know how my mom had had a stroke at the age of twenty seven and was told then she would never be able to have kids again and for sure she would not survive nor would i . and so years later she finds herself in a very, you know, precarious situation and she chose she chooses life. she m makes that brave decision
Its members didn t grow old and die out. instead it kept renewing itself and it grew stronger and younger year after year, decade after decade. it continued, of course, we still had a problem because too often republican presidents and you know who you are promised to appoint pro-lifeic justices but didn t keep their promises. justices o connor, souterth and kennedy all voted with the judicial activists on these and related cases on abortion that had conservatives including yours truly, noto for george w. bush to pull b the nomination of harriet miersi back in 2005, she would haveo been another vote to uphold roe . thank goodness. wa we have sm alito on the court now. we always seem to be one or two votes short, didn t we, over all these years? but in twenty sixteen pro-life voters saw a chance toaw change the republican party andpa d the court for donald trump wasn t part of the gop establishment.
That abortions would be illegal except to save the lifelleg of w a mother at the moment that roes v. wade was overturned. as of today, that trigger law goes into effect and we are a lot on supporting mothers and supporting individuals who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy or a crisis situationon, making sue that we re connecting them to the resources that we havee. what is the approach that your state will take in the event that a woman seeks to have a chemical abortion or abortion for medication? maybe getting medication in thecr mail? because i ve heard a lot ofy democrats today saying that they will not allow that to stop orr be stopped by the states. in other words, i guess interstate mail and so forth. what will your response to that be? re well, the statute and the language that we use will be specific to being utilized for an abortion that that is going to be a reference to that does not save the life of the mother
From outside the supreme court. savannah, i understand you were following a contingent offo antifall tonight . what can you tell us , laura ? what are s you seeing here on te ground is basically the biggestf tantrum i ve ever seen in myr life. i was following on peoplele for a while and they re basicallyem just hijacking this movement and they re trying to makeen itg about abortion but also hating police officers, also burning the american flag and on our country. the people in the group the dont even know what they re fighting for. so again, just a mass tantrumum and another a sample of how and people is trying to utilize this event and hijackk this outrage. i and i talked to several womenu in the group and i was why are you upset? they were like, well, because pregnancyy is equivalent towo slavery because women don t control their own body. similarme to what maxine waters c is saying.wa and i woulds just counter that by saying when you do control their bodies and it s so easy to dispute these people, which is why they re out and not just having a tantrum because they know that they ve been fighting to
Now look at all those young women and men celebrating life that is the future of america, the pro-life movement. but there are still some who consider abortion a holy sacramentrt and they re furious. they re tryings to intimidate the justices at their homes, the court. to defy they re desperate too inflame the nation as it was in themm summer of 2020 six . the legislature got rid of the five four majority that overturn roe and dobbs simply returns the issue of abortion to the states where it properly belongs. it will be legal in many states
This is this is a manho is just he s sort of faced a with extreme pressure and he s trying to do everything he can to be clear e about what the court is and isn t doing. d and really alloing it s doing rt now is withdrawing itself from the process and that he s hanging on this. yeah, well, megan ,me the justice department is weighing in on supreme courtpr decisions, which is kind of unusual, right? i mean, they decided to weighe, in on the gun case now they decided to weigh in on the abortion case and basically throw sand at the whole thingid and say in a way they didn t think it was a legitimate or. correct ruling. isis that unusual? oh , i think it s highly i unusual and another example of what you said tonight , which is that they make all these appeals to process and everything is great as long as they re winning and as soon as they re losing, they re ready to burn it all down. and the reality is that this decision today was fundamentally democratic .
Matter, it has been totally unworkable and there are no reliance interests that , you know, essentially dictatets. that it must be cemented in stone forever. and as kerry put it very well, i think this is going to go back to the states my homeni state of californiaa is probabl going to joinof north korea and being one of the most liberal m places on earth to get abortions, places like texas. clo it st going to be much more restrictive. but the point is the people are now going too be able to have the debate and have the argument that we just have not been able to have as as a policy for the last 50 years. and i think that s a positive development. and you know, biden was correcte on one thing. this isn t the last word on abortion. there s going to be a lotd more words. it s just that they re not going to be spoken bpokee by te justices. they re going to p be spoken by the people. well, the main thing, robert, is that is not a fundamentalt right enshrined in ourin constitution and that sth the victory that wasat a lie in 1973. and as a result, there aref millions and millions and millions of babiess who never were born mean it was a lie and the lie has been
To people and they say they took away our right to abortion. you can tell them the truth. that s not what today s decision did. they decided who gets to decide and the constitution is clear . it s the states all the time we have left this evening. thanks for being with us. thank you for making the show possible. stay with the fox news channel for continuing coverage, not your heartbeat troubled laura s next . we ll see on monday. i m laura ingram and this is ingraham angle on a triumphant friday night from new york answered prayers. that s the focus of tonight s angle on january 22nd . nineteen seventy three almost fifty years ago, seven members of the supreme held that under the fourteenth amendment of our constitution the same constitute that americans and fought and died to protect elected officials could not protect the unborn from abortion. now ever since that time,l