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Oh. my nonna's! she a good cook? -no. today two incredibly closely-watched cases challenging the nation's most restrictive abortion law made their way to the supreme court. both of them are about sb 8, the texas law that bans abortions after doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat, typically around six weeks into pregnancy. that law was designed to get around previous supreme court rulings that prohibit states from banning abortions before 23 weeks. it does it by deputizing citizens to enforce it, a point several conservative justice of drove down on in today's arguments. >> it's the chilling e...

Hear arguments on the most restrictive abortion law in the nation. protests erupted after the law, known as sb-8, took effect september 1st. >> now, this bill is designed to scare us. >> or when the conservative justices on the supreme court refused to block the law the first time the case came before them, the three liberal justices wrote forceful dissents. justice breyer minced no words weeks later. . >> i thought they were wrong. >> reporter: now, the court will confront whether abortion providers or the federal government even have the power to sue to stop the texas law. it bans abortions ...

Multiplied -- >> the legislature enacted a statute that said henceforth, people of a certain race may not make any public statement. and someone brings suit under that, if the judge begins to enforce that, just by entertaining the suit? >> i think -- >> even if it's certain that at the end of the case, the judge is going to say, no, this is unconstitutional statute. >> i think in certain circumstances, that even the -- in a situation like sb-8, where the point is the filing of the suit, and the point is the making you appear in courts all across the state, over and over again, making you a per...

This time? >> so i think it's likely that the supreme court will eventually strike down sb 8. there was a brief filed by a bunch of gun groups saying if texas can use this weird system to go after abortion rights some state could use the same structure to nullify the second amendment and we don't want that so i think the supreme court will realize this law which is set up in order to avoid judicial review is untenable and has to be a constitution enforced and will strike it down. there's another case being argued in december and asked the supreme court to overrule roe v. wade and they may wait...

Outrageous that causes them extreme moral or psychological harm. >> give me an example of that? >> an individual discovers that someone that -- a close friend of theirs who they've spoken with about pro-life issues and about abortion has chosen instead to have a late-term abortion in violation of sb-8 and they were very invested basically in that child's upbringing and the child's coming and being, to the extent to which there's going to have to be a tighter nexus or a sufficient injury, in fact, will be something that the texas courts have to develop in the first instance. and of course, ther...