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You heard the democratic leader in the senate george mitchell say that is too close for comfort. it is time to take the whole issue of protecting abortion rights out of the hands of the supreme court. it is too dangerous there. he said in june, 1992 rather than leaving it up to the court congress should make an end run around the court. congress should just pass a federal law that would protect a woman's right to have an abortion in all 50 states. he promised he would bring the full united states senate to a vote on the freedom of choice act which would enshrine abortion rights into federal la...

Issue of protecting abortion rights out of the hands of the supreme court. it is too dangerous there. so he said in june 1992 that rather than leaving it up to the court, congress should make an end run around the court. congress should just pass a federal law that would protect a woman's right to have an abortion in all 50 states. he promised he would bring the full united states senate to a vote on the freedom of choice act, which would enshrine abortion rights into federal law. in the end, he did not follow through on that promise, but the idea of doing that, the promise to do that, has stu...

Which is essentially incredible doing an end run around roe in less than a page. >>laura, can you just remind our viewers how restrictive this is and why it's so difficult for people to challenge in court? >> it's the most restrictive in the country, certainly the most restrictive that's ever been allowed to stand. people have tried before to sort of get around what you call previability, right? so if you think about it in terms of trimesters. they've tried this before and it hasn't worked but this time it does. essentially in texas as soon as a doctor detects a fetal heart beat, you can no lo...

Finger, without writing an opinion, without hearing oral argument, without having it fully briefed, and there is presently a case on the docket, they could essentially say, you know what? all the hard work is done. and then imagine what would happen in other contexts here. what if another state were to adopt a law that said a private litigant can bring an action for a $10,000 bounty on somebody who owns a gun? well, this is a way to go around and have an end run around things where the constitution or the supreme court has effectively weighed in on an issue. this is something that cannot be ov...

This is going to become a blueprint for other jurisdictions who want to run an end run around judicial process. normally if you are somebody in a state who has a problem with the law, what do you do? you can't sue the state because they have sovereign i ammmunity. the law says a private citizen, anyone can bring a case against somebody. there's no direct defendant in this case. the supreme court can say there's no case before us to do anything about it. a blueprint has now been established. this is going to have a huge impact on so many women who are seeking abortion related services. the chil...