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they have become emboldened. they are looking for new legal ways to chip away access they are not backing down. >> in some respects, they've already done that. we are all accepting tha mister president will only b available in states wher abortion is legal, and tha congress would have to act but here, congress has already acted. the food and drug cosmetic act allows the fda to make decisions about safety and efficacy we have accepted us let's ge to override that, that is question that we need to litigate and think there are over the next few years to, an there are two cases pendin right now, one in west virgini and north carolina that raised the issue, does the fd regulation of mr. mifepristone supersede or preempt contrar state laws that restrict acces to mifepristone. >> chris, new analysis from th new york times reads, quote, i his concurrence in dobbs, chie justice john roberts said that the majority had a bande principles of judicial restraint at the cost of a serious jolt to the lega
bestselling book, victorious rpg, the life and times of rut bader ginsburg for more on this topic, i' joined now by kathleen severely, previous secretary of health and human services during th obama administration and as th democratic governor of kansas. she is now the president and ceo of sibelius resources. madam secretary, good to see you again. thank you for being us thi morning. >> good to be with you >> your thoughts on this development about the suprem court ruling, the decision, th fact is going to the fifth circuit court of appeals meaning it will probably end u back of a supreme court? for now, mifepristone remain available in the states wher abortion is legal. >> that's right. we have to go back to dobbs, which was, to me, a horrifying ruling taking away our right that women across this country have counted on for 50 years and now we have a really mismatch of laws throughout th country, limitations legislatures trying to control women's reproductive healt
to limit access to abortio medication politico reporting that th antiabortion groups did it for life on wednesday launched the next phase of the campaign t use the patience of our mental laws to restrict the ability t terminate a pregnancy. in a citizen position to the fda, the group asked tha access to the widely use abortion drug mifepristone b prohibited until the agenc studies whether trace amount of the pill and wastewater pos any risk to endangered o threatened species o designated critical habitats it goes back to what i was reading in the introduction, they have become emboldened. they are looking for new legal ways to chip away access they are not backing down. >> in some respects, they've already done that. we are all accepting tha mister president will only b available in states wher abortion is legal, and tha congress would have to act but here, congress has already acted. the food and drug cosmetic act allows the fda to make decisions about safety and efficacy we have accepted us let's ge
have republican governors in your state, that means that as of now, the state no longe wants to prevent a pregnancy from occurring as a result o rape they want you to be forced t bear the pregnancy and the child against your will, after you have been raped, eve though it is within their powe to stop that and before this policy change, the state regularly took steps to stop it they are going to change tha policy because they woul rather you bare that pregnancy and the rapist's baby agains your will, and it is the choic of republicans and state government to insist upon that for you, despite what you want after you have been raped. iowa, a red state, we're still two as a red state, 61% of the public wants abortion to b legal in some or all cases not only has that republican government there now criminalized abortion, they're going after contraception, and specifically targeting rap
this is how she responded. >> no, i'm not concerned about litigation you know, look, i just want to be clear i mean, displays, this is th foundation of our country' democracy. you know, this is bedrock. and if you come here to mess with our rights, our freedoms, we're gonna take you on. we're certainly not gonna stan for that >> joining us now is massachusetts governor governo maura healey governor, it's really nice o you to make time to be with us tonight. thank you. >> oh, it's great to be with you, rachel. >> tell me about the practicalities of this decisio about mifepristone you asked university o massachusetts to buy thousands of doses of this drug, and t have them in hand in state before this texas ruling goe into effect, which could effectively ban th distribution of that dru nationwide tell me how it would work fo the state to effectively control a stockpile like that, of that drug >> look, rachel, as you know the battle to protect abortion is really being waged in the
very quickly to try to get ahead of what republicans an conservative judges are trying to do, because republicans are not just trying to ban abortion, and criminalize abortion, even go after contraception in al the states where they contro the state government, they'r trying to do it nationwide they are trying to do it i blue states, too they're trying to do it even i states where there's democrati governance, and where people have voted through their representatives to make sure abortion stays legal and so, democratic governors are trying to move the defense mode and what that has meant very quickly, just in the last fe days, is that democratic led states, democratic governors have moved to literall stockpile these abortion pills before the republicans reall can try to ban them everywhere and a state house brisk on france today in boston, maur healey announced an executiv order to protect massachusetts doctors and pharmacists from
victims to start the targeting of contraception you cannot abort a pregnancy once it happens, even if i happens as a -- as a result of rape, saying they will n longer assist you with that as a rape victim, nor can you prevent a pregnancy from occurring by using emergency contraception. the state will no longer hel you with that either and this, again, is not just something brought that they're doing for the whole they are specifically targeting rap victims. so, like i said, the phras radical turn here is a considered phrase. i do not use it lightly. in idaho, also consider that republicans just passed a la late last week that threaten you with 2 to 5 years in prison, if you help someone under th age of 18 leave the state to get an abortion. you have to leave the state of idaho if you want to get a abortion because they have criminalized abortion there. but helping someone do so no is a new crime, and they'r
calling it, abortion trafficking. and it is 2 to 5 years i prison if you do it. you would think in the unite states of america that a state could not pass a law banning you as an american fro traveling to another state but that's the idaho republica idea of freedom. they are also going to try t use the law to bring crimina charges against doctors wh provide an abortion in another state, if that abortion is provided to a young woman wh has traveled there from idaho. now, in one of the states that has a long border with idaho's washington state, wher abortion is legal. that state democratic governor jay inslee, wrote a letter jus a few days ago to idaho' republican governor brad little. so, jay inslee, the democratic governor from washington, on the left side of your screen there, and brad little, that republican governor of idaho on the right side of you screen jay inslee's letter to bra little, basically for most o the letter, tells him what a bad idea it is for idaho t
led by the democratic attorney general in washington that filed a federal lawsuit abou the legality of the abortion pill that's how most abortions ar done in this country now surgical abortions are ver safe medication abortions using the so called abortion pill, those are even safer than surgical abortions. and that's how most abortion in this country are done well, last week, one conservative judge in texa tried to make the abortion pil illegal nationwide, when h tried to rescind fda approva for that drug more than 20 years after the fact, despit dozens and dozens and dozens o scientifically sound studies finding that it is safer than, say, tylenol or penicillin when he tried to rescind fda approval 20 years after th fact for that drug it was that competing lawsui that democrats have filed in federal court in washingto that resulted in a nearl simultaneous federal court ruling that went in the othe direction. and this was very confusing in
board of anti abortion organizations. it's pretty safe to say that restricting reproductive freedom, limiting abortion rights, it's all been the focu of his career to date. the thing is that it is hi latest ruling stands, millions of people, millions of women across the country will be impacted because more than half of al abortions are medical abortions, using this to pill regimen tha includes mifepristone. even in some key states wher abortion is legal, this ruling may mean that women may no longer go to their pharmacy to get the abortion pill. they would need to go to g directly to a provider the problem with that is tha as of now only 36 states eve have legal abortion provider and many of those are alread overwhelmed by the influx of patients coming from other states where abortion is now illegal. that all means that patients may have to wait weeks o months for an appointment. patient seeking an abortion, patients seeking consultatio with a doctor about that in short, this is all going to dramatically cut access fo