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Congressman judy chu has been introducing this proposed law year after year after year and we ll talk to her about exactly those points because she thinks this is a beachhead and a way to do it. we ll get back to that later in the show. but let me ask you about the federal government part of it. president biden said today he didn t just condemn what the supreme court did. he said he wants a whole of government response. he specifically called out the department of health and human services and the justice department and he put his white house counsel in charge of it. do any of those raise your interest in terms of something the federal government might be able to do they haven t previously done? look, i am absolutely delighted if joe biden wants to put together a whole government response. my sense is, look, this should have been happening from inauguration day where we had clinics in louisiana, mississippi, places where women were all but losing access. these are protections that ar ....
Influx of texas women patients. but does the vigilante bounty hunter part of this law also put that at risk? will the vigilante snitch on your neighbor, sue your neighbor over her medical procedures part of this law, will that be used to target people who donate money or otherwise help women leave their state to go get an abortion elsewhere? practical question. here is a washington question. democrats in the white house responded to the supreme court today by saying they plan to codify roe into law. they say they ll try to pass a law through the house and the senate and have president biden sign it. even if they can do that, senator joe manchin not with standing, would it help? or would the court not only undo roe but also kill a law like that? and here is one last question. it does now feel inevitable the same supreme court will go the full nine yards and formally ....
President biden saying he wants a whole of government response to this catastrophe in women s rights in texas. i have questions. first of all, what can the federal government actually do? what can those agencies, president biden singled out, health and human services, the justice department, what can they do that might make a difference? also, what does it mean? what should we infer from the fact that president biden has put, interestingly, his white house counsel in charge of leading this whole of government effort? what does that say about how he intoends fight and what resources he thinks he can bring to bear? also, now that texas has been allowed to ban abortion in this specific way, should we expect that all the red states in the country will just xerox the texas law and thereby put their own copy cat abortion bans into place as well? the supreme court giving republican controlled states the green light to ban abortion that ....
Today president biden made a substantive statement not just criticizing the decision but saying both what is wrong with the decision and what he plans to do about it. you may have heard he made a statement about this today. it is worth actually checking what he said here. quote, the supreme court s ruling overnight is an unprecedented assault on a woman s constitutional rights under roe vs. wade which has been the law of the land for almost 50 years. by allowing a law to go into effect that empowers private citizens in texas to sue health care providers, family members supporting a woman exercising her right to choose, or even a friend who drives her to the hospital or clinic, it unleashes un-constitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts. complete strangers will now be empowered to inject themselves in the most private and personal health decisions faced by women. this law is so extreme it doesn t even allow for exceptions in the case of rape or ....
You heard the democratic leader in the senate george mitchell say that is too close for comfort. it is time to take the whole issue of protecting abortion rights out of the hands of the supreme court. it is too dangerous there. he said in june, 1992 rather than leaving it up to the court congress should make an end run around the court. congress should just pass a federal law that would protect a woman s right to have an abortion in all 50 states. he promised he would bring the full united states senate to a vote on the freedom of choice act which would enshrine abortion rights into federal law. in the end he did not follow through on that promise. but the idea of doing that, the promise to do that, has stuck around in democratic politics ever since in a weird and kind of frustrating way. go back to the 2008 presidential campaign, barack obama then a candidate said if he were elected president he would make sure there was a vote on the freedom of choice act. he said signing that bill w ....