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Want sb-8 overturned, plain and simple. they are calling on the biden administration to do that. they are calling on members of the u.s. supreme court. i am here outside the state capitol here in texas, here in austin, and this is ground zero. this is where those legislators on september 1st enacted sb-8, essentially banning abortion once a heartbeat is detected and as we know, that can happen around six weeks when many women don't realize they are pregnant. there was a huge turnout here today. thousands came to take part in this rally. again, there were activists, there was music, and i did h...

The people here are activists, organizers, the organizers tell me that people are here from all across the country. i spoke to kim taylor. she is one of the main organizers. i talked to her earlier this morning. she says this new law is not representative of most new texans. she says that 87% of texans are actually against sb 8. against this abortion ban. she says it was only passed by a small minority of gop republicans. she and others want this overturned immediately. >> it's still something we're unfortunately have to work on to make sure that these girls, you know, have autonomy over thems...

Back now with more breaking news of the women's marches around this country, thousands of women showing up and raising their voices against the restrictive abortion law in texas. they're marching to the steps of the supreme court right now in d.c. as the court prepares to hear a direct challenge to roe vs. wade. joining me now, jennifer gersen, news reporter with the 19th. jennifer, welcome to you. count them, 561 new restrictions have taken effect across 47 states with bans on various services. what are the most troubling policies that marchers are hoping to draw attention to today? >> well, ...

Sb-8, which went into effect on september 1st, has banned, effectively, all abortion after six weeks and even six weeks is really generous in its terminology because it's based on the presence of cardiac activity which is a debatable approximation. for some people, that might be as soon as five weeks, which is more or less one week after they would first know they were pregnant, after a missed period. so it's an extreme bill with no exceptions, and it's been outsourced in its enforcement to private citizens versus the government, and so, i think people are pretty upset about that, and we're se...

U.S. Department of Justice attorney Brian Netter argued in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that the state had enabled a regime of "vigilante justice" in direct contravention of the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of the right to a pre-viability abortion. He said the DOJ considered the state's "ploy" to be an "open threat to the rule of law."