24th. i am sam stein filling in for the one and only ali velshi. one month ago today the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. this immediately and radically reshaped abortion rights around the country. these are the 26 states that were considered certain or likely to ban abortion in the post roe era. more than a dozen of them have already taken action to do so. today, there is not a single provider offering abortion services in the united states. forcing residents to travel across state lines for basic and essential health care. seven other states banned abortion at a much earlier point. it was previously allowed when roe was the law of the land. in the coming weeks at least three more states, north dakota, wyoming, and indiana, are expected to enact total abortion bans. let the constitutional protections for abortion that were provided, access is quickly shrinking around the country. nowhere is that more evident than in the south, where abortion access is almost entirely a
she is the president and ceo of the center for reproductive rights, one of the organizations involved in a legal challenge against the abortion ban in multiple states, which includes louisiana. nancy, thank you for joining. us really appreciate it. let s start with the story from orleans. how often are you hearing these sorts of horror stories from across the country now? it is absolutely frequents that these stories are happening. the fact that there is an attempt to criminalize abortion care across the south and in the midwest means that people who are having obstetric a merge unseat is like the doctor in our case have pointed out in that story that you just told me that they are not getting the medical care that they need. it is just a public health emergency when pregnant people the woman who are pregnant, cannot get the standard of care they need when they are having it. in an emergency like that. in addition to that people are