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marc hearron is a lawyer from the center for reproductive rights, and is representing abortion providers great to have you, mark. in the first instance, how did it go today in terms of the representations that you did make at the supreme court and what the response was? we are heartened _ what the response was? we are heartened to — what the response was? we are heartened to see _ what the response was? we are heartened to see that _ what the response was? we are heartened to see that several. heartened to see that several of the justices seemed to really understand our arguments and we wish that this law have been blocked two months ago and when the united states filed suit against the state of texas and taking to the supreme court for review with which the supreme court would have blocked that law. and we are encouraged today in the supreme court scheduled oral arguments in briefing and a matter of ten days to make sure new fast which the fast as they have done anything since bush versus gore in terms of actually having briefing and arguments. they clearly are understanding the urgency

marc hearron is a lawyer from the centre for reproductive rights, and is representing abortion providerst several of the justices seem to really understand our arguments. we wish that this law had blocked two months ago, when the united states filed suit against the state of texas and then came to the supreme court for review, that we wished it would have blocked that law ten days ago. but we are encouraged today, and the supreme court scheduled oral arguments and briefing in a matter of 10 days, extremely fast, which is the fastest that they have done anything since bush versus gore in terms of actually having briefing arguments. so they clearly are understanding the urgency here. patients on the ground have been denied access to abortion for 62 days now and are having to leave the state of texas if they're going to seek care and travel to other states to try to get appointments. we were heartened by several of the questions that several of the justices were asking today and they seem to recognise that this case is not just about abortion, it's about whether a state in the united states