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For 135 million americans. right now the average american has to travel about 25 miles to reach the nearest abortion provider. without roe that distance increases to 125 miles. now, we won't know the court's decision until june, but it only takes just five votes to strip millions of their access to safe abortions. this week the message from the high court to women across the country rang loud and clear. it may be your body, but it's their choice. joining me now to break down some of the arguments from wednesday is an assistant professor of law at the university michigan law school and co-host ...

Say what the law is. here is alito. >> the fetus has an interest in having a life, and that doesn't change. does it? from the point before viability to the point after viability. >> emily. >> well, i think it is pretty clear that alito and justice gorsuch and thomas are ready to overturn roe. the votes in play are from chief justice roberts and maybe kavanaugh or barrett. i thought kavanaugh invoking a great hit list of overruling of precedent and how important that has been under scored his feeling you could add roe to the list and it deserved to be overturned. the same way as plessy vs. ferg...

Mongoloids. caucasians as whites were called. there's this pseudo-racial science which tries to give a supposedly objective grounding to what is ultimately a system of prejudice. >> the case of plessy vs. ferguson in 1896 shows just how arbitrary definitions of race can be in america. >> a man who was white by any definition, but he was considered black because maybe one black ancestor. >> plessy intentionally boarded a whites-only train car in louisiana, challenging the state's separate but equal laws. >> the conductor came and said, get out of this car. you are not white. >> when he refused ...

But by the time that judge parker dies in 1896, the country had changed. >> six months before parker's death, the u.s. supreme court makes a ruling with long-term effects on civil rights. >> what many do not realize is that america actually makes positive strides toward racial equality during reconstruction following the civil war. but the plessy vs. ferguson separate-but-equal decision in 1896 brings an end to much of that racial progress. >> plessy vs. ferguson ruled in separate but equal, in other words, segregation -- segregated schools, segregated water fountains, and all of these things ...