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Tear down the nearly 50-year precedent set by roe v. wade and anti-abortion activists take note. there's a lot to unpack here and i have the two perfect experts to help me do it. i'll talk to elizabeth nash who tracks anti-abortion lawmakers and duvern who keeps patients and providers safe from anti-abortion extremists. m anti-abortion extremists you get a smile on your plate. only from ihop. join the rewards program and earn double pancoins with any omelette purchase. subject 1: st. jude affects all corners of the world for good. i mean if you think about organizations that affect the entire ...

The past, we've been able to rely on the court as a backstop for the most egregious they've proposed. >> reporter: a texas law waned most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, allowing private citizens to sue to enforce the law. in response, at least eight other states move to enact similar bills with idaho becoming the first to implement a so-called heartbeat bill, since it bans most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. the supreme court is now poised to issue what could be its most consequential decision on abortion in nearly 50 years. the justices will issue a ruling by th...

How much do the continued drum beat of southern states and other states passing these restrictive abortion laws become an issue for voters in the years ahead, whether republicans, democrats, people who support the laws, people who oppose them? >> i think a lot of them depend what happens with the supreme court this summer. texas has passed a law that is far more restrictive than what you described and yet it did not seem in any of the analysis that i have seen in texas primary results to have been a major issue. six weeks is something that is much earlier. so i expect for the mid terms that to...

24-week standard that was set by roe v. wade which is roughly the point where a fetus can survive outside of the womb. opponents of abortion rights have spent the last five decades set the precedent set by roe v. wade and the supreme court's new justices appointed by the twice-impeached former president gives them the chance of doing just that. justice sonia sotomayor has taken notice of it, too. >> the newest ban that mississippi has put in place, the six-week ban, the senate sponsor said we're doing this because we have new justices on the supreme court. will this institution survive the ste...

Banning abortion after 15 weeks of conception. the state is asking the court directly to overrule the 1973 precedent set by roe. mississippi's law which has been blocked by two federal courts before this only allows the procedure after 15 weeks in the case of a medical emergency or severe fetal abnormality. it makes no exception for rape or incest. the significance of this moment and this case before the justices cannot be overstated. let's get to the court. cnn's jessica schneider is live outside. oral arguments still going on as we speak, jessica, started about an hour ago. what have you hea...