roe v. wade. the right of the individual married or single to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child. and of course they ultimately conclude, and i quote, that right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. in terms of a legal matter, all these ethical debates we have about abortion today, you all saw of course the protests that were out on polk place a couple weeks ago? how many of you saw those? obviously there's a lot of conversations happening out there. they're using a certain sort of tactic. but legally it's not about morality or religion. it's just not. there's a question that individuals certainly have to deal with but when roe v. wade was decided, it's a question of choice and authority. it's a question of who gets to make this incredibly difficult choice. who has the authority to make this incredibly difficult choice? it's no

roe v. wade which is of course much more famous. in 1970 a woman with the fictional name of jane roe filed a lawsuit over the anti-abortion law in that county. before roe abortion was widely illegal unless you could have a panel of doctors write you a note or approve of an abortion in cases that were needed to save the life of a woman. so that does not mean of course that women did not have abortions. women with access to doctors had abortions off the books. others went to underground providers because they were desperate which could be dangerous. part of the protests surrounding reproductive access focused on brai basically saying, abortions are going to happen anyone, it's better if they occur aboveground as opposed to underground. it's going to happen whether or not there's an open market for it or not. if they were legal, perhaps they would be safer. 1953, sexologists at indiana conducted a survey and found that 22% of married women had had an abortion. the data is part of the kensy repo

roe v. wade did in 1973 is it decided similar to griswold v. connecticut that it was not up to the government to make these decisions for women. so in the final decision, the court, they spoke of a number of different precedents, including griswold v. connecticut, which i believe was cited ten times in the final roe decision, and i'm going to quote from roe v. wade. the right of the individual married or single to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child. and of course, they ultimately conclude, and i quote, that right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. so in terms of a legal matter, all of these ethical debates we have about abortion today, you all saw the protests out on polk place a couple weeks ago. how many of you saw those? okay, so obviously, there's a lot of conversations happening out there. they're using a certain sort of

thought roe v.ade was an easy case and the supreme court could have held that most extreme law unconstitutional and put down his pen. pen.'s abortionit made every restriction in the country are legal in one fell swoop. the country illegal in one fell swoop. that was not the way the court ordinarily operates. he waits until the next case and the next case. -- it waits until the next case and the next case. some women felt i should have been 100% in favor of roe v. wade. it was because i was not. david: president clinton met with you. you had a good meeting. he offered you the appointment and the confirmation went well would you say? justice ginsburg: 96-3. yes. [applause] david: you have now been on the court for 26 years. in total, you have been on the federal judiciary for 39 years. 26 years on the supreme court. you first got on the court, where there other justices saying, let's go have dinner together? or were they just standoffish? your relationship with sandra day o'connor like when you got on

i thought roe v.ade was an easy case, and the supreme court could have held that most extreme law unconstitutional and put down its pen. instead, the court wrote an opinion that made every abortion restriction in the country illegal in one fell swoop. and that was not the way that the court ordinarily operates. you know, it waits until the next case and the next case. anyway, it was that that some women felt that i should have been 100% in favor of roe v. wade. because i wasn't. david: ok, so president clinton met with you, and obviously you had a good meeting, and he offered you the appointment, and the confirmation went pretty well, would you say? justice ginsburg: 96-3, yes, i'd say. [laughter] [applause] david: so you've now been on the court for 26 years, and therefore in total, you've been on a federal judiciary for 39 years. so 26 years in the supreme court. when you first got on the court, were the other justices saying, "we're happy to see you here, . let's go have dinner together. let's soci

in other words, if you didn't en think about voting in a way that restricts roe v. wade we will annihilate you. he didn't speak casually or thoughtlessly, he was delivering a message to these justices, especially cavanaugh. you may think you are safe with tenure, but if joe biden wins the white house we will turn over every stone in your personal and professional life and devote all our resources to destroying you and removing you from office. they don't think you need high crimes and misdemeanors anymore, a catch all abuse power charge is enough for these fools to start screaming impeachment. after hearing schumer yesterday, you don't think cavanaugh is thinking to himself holy smokes, they are going to put my family and me through this again? schumer wanted this to be in their minds, as they readied their votes at conference. uphold the state of louisiana law that abortionists must have admitting privileges in hospitals, not just my professional and personal life but that of my law clerks. my spouse, my children. everyone will be fair game as the dems scour for an

roe v. wade which was much more famous. in a 1970, a woman with a fictional name of jane roe filed a lawsuit against henry wade, the district attorney of dallas county, texas, over the anti abortion law in that county. before row, abortion was, as i mentioned at the start of class, was widely illegal unless you could have a panel of doctors, essentially write you a note or prove an abortion in cases that were needed to save the life of the women so that does not mean of course that women do not have abortions, women with access to doctors had abortions with hooks, others want to underground providers because they were so desperate which of course can be incredibly dangerous. part of the protest surrounding reproductive access focused on basically saying that look, abortions are going to happen anyway, it's better if they occur above ground as opposed to underground. we know throughout the course of american history that women are going to have abortions, it's just going to happen whether or

here we are nearly 50 years later and roe v.is not even at issue in this case. >> martha: we heard what the president said during the campaign that he would specifically seek to appoint pro-life justices and judges. do you think that they will deliver on what the president said he was hoping his justices would do? >> i don't think that any supreme court justice is going to deliver for any president. their job is to look at the facts and look at the law and let the chips fall where they may. again, i think the democrats are just trying to scare voters here. roe v. wade is not even at issue in this case. it is a very limited challenge to louisiana's law that says that if you are an abortion provider, you have to have admitting privileges within 30 miles of where you are performing the abortion. >> martha: we will see what happens. mike davis, always good to have you with us. thank you very much. >> good having you. >> martha: the story continues after this. ♪ ♪ it's surprising how the bigger a city gets... the smaller it starts to

select tommy fbi roe as an informant? was 26 years old. he was a self-proclaimed hell a bar. a bouncer in someone who had one dream and that was to become a police officer. he had not graduated high school. so he had not met the minimum to become a police officer in alabama. he became a county sheriff, claiming that he had graduated from high school. they caught him, and he was rejected. yarns, burned really, to become a police officer. around with police in birmingham, parted with them, rode around in their squad cars at night and at the was friendly with members of the klan. policeman were also friendly with members of the klan. become anot want to klansmen. he thought it was silly. he said, if i wanted to test somebody i would not have to hide behind a good to do it. he was tough. he was extremely willing. he was asked if he would serve his country by being an fbi informant. it did not take much convincing. this was the greatest moment of rowe's life. he always wanted to be a police officer. to be ans being asked informant. the agent made clear to him he was not an agent a

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v wade that made abortion legal in 1973 brother than overturn roe v wade which at one time seemed so insurmountable kill it by death through a 1000 cuts and so these are medically unnecessary regulations that have the effect of closing abortion clinics other states are in acting similar so-called heartbeat laws and bold and by the appointments of 2 conservative judges to the supreme court and to abortion rights groups are hopeful the tide is turning in their direction toward to be competent sometimes when we see the toll that abortion is having on our nation but we believe that our country is going to write its wrongs as it's done in the past and give rights to the weakest and the least among us with the unborn child or working on criminal justice or whether it's reproductive rights organizations like the american civil liberties union say legal abortion is now hanging by a thread minister. vantage that may suffer it is young people poor people immigrant people people who are in this country lawfully but just don't have means that are going to be limited in their opportunity to exerc

>> it would undermine roe v. is the landmark decision that made abortion legal, and undermining the supreme court case below it, but just so you understand that abortion is not illegal nationwide, but it is an invitation to more state regulations and the regulations are on physician and clinics and what could happen is that the states may try more ban-type regulations that would outlaw abortion at certain points, and that would become the ultimate test of roe v. wade. right now what is at stake is access and especially for the poor women in rural areas who would have to travel so far to find a physician who would meet the criteria that we are talking about in the louisiana law. so it has real world consequences, but it is not going to overturn roe v. wade. and when chief justice kennedy left, it comes down to new, and the chief justice in his life has never struck down anregulats might be the first time or maybe not. >> thank you, joan. >> and a trail of destruction of a tragedy in tennessee and at least 24 dead,

fight in a case that could set the precedent for the entire nation, a ruling many feel could weaken roeversus wade. >> i cannot tell you how moving it is to see all of you here. all of these faces rallying behind us, behind a small, independent clinic in northwest louisiana. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: here, 1200 miles away from our nation's capital in shreveport, louisiana, the real battle unfolds. >> wicked, unimaginable! >> reporter: pitman's small clinic at risk of closing if it's forced to comply with a new state law restrictingerrm artioe outside, a scene the clinic staff is all too familiar with. protesters lined up, many who believe abortions are a sin. >> it's hard. you know, to see women go in here. and come in here with their child in their womb and then leave without it. >> reporter: volunteers double as body guards, escorting the women from the parking lot into the clinic. >> i put it on our umbrella for all of the protesters to see while i'm shielding the patients. >> good morning, thank you for calling pitman medical. how can i help you? >> reporter: inside the cli

chavez, chavez, griggs, rodney davis bishop, jim jordan, frank lucas mike mccall, kitty merchant phil roe, matt thornberry mike rogers come everybody coming together to make sure we could make this today. as i said on the floor. the virus is here. we did not ask for it. we did not invited or choose it. but with the passing of this bill you will see we will fight it together and we will been together i want to thank our colleagues for that type of work and the majority leader for his work today and in the future we can all work together to put america first. thank you. >> i want to join you and although not here right now we will let them fight in the appropriations committee with those important discussions. and the committee that represented her committee on the floor. peter defazio transportation and infrastructure maxine waters financial services, veterans affairs, small business, energy and commerce. and the rules committee chair was very helpful to us as was so many other members here. i also want to acknowledge from the house administration and then of course distinguished leader mr

. >>> the national guard is heading to knew roe shell noerk. it's trying to contain the largest cluster of the coronavirus in the united states. that process will include drive-through testing. joining me now westchester county's george vladimir, and dr. irwin redlener. irwin, i do want to start with you and i want to keep a bigger picture before we get to new roe shell and what's happening there. there was a story in the "new york times" talking about seattle and this flu study that was being done, these doctors clelkted over the past couple months thousands of samples, testing for the flu, and they tried to use those samples that were already collected to try and figure out how many people there had coronavirus, move it from a flu test to a coronavirus test. they needed to get the fda onboard, the cdc. and they were met winothing but red tape. people were testing positive, setting the timeline back on this disease weeks earlier than we had initially known. it's frustrating. i get the guidelines are in place. but it's showing i guess how the u

[crowd chanting "bernie"] under ourrs: administration, we will move to codify, put into law, roe v. .ade i will never nominate anybody to the supreme court or the federal bench who is not 100% pro roe v. wade. wants to his friends cut funding for planned parenthood. we have got some bad news for them. we are going to substantially increase funding for planned parenthood. the brothers and sisters, here we are in california, two days before the primary. and in case some of you have not heard, california is the largest state in the country. you have more delegates in the democratic convention than any other state. and the candidate who winds here incalifornia -- wins here california will likely be the democratic nominee. [crowd chanting "bernie"] sen. sanders: so tonight, so today, i am here to ask respectfully for your support on tuesday. i am here to ask you to help us change the political culture in america, bring out your friends and your neighbors and your coworkers. get them to vote. let us, on tuesday, have the highest voter turnout in the history of california. let us win the pri

sanders: under our administration, we will move to put into law roe v. wade. i will never nominate anyone to the supreme court or federal bench who is not 100% pro-roe v. wade. trump and his friends want to cut funding for planned parenthood. we've got some bad news for them. we are going to increase funding for planned parenthood. brothers and sisters, here we are in california two days before the primary. in case some of you haven't heard, california is the largest state in the country. you have more delegates than any other state in the candidate who wins here will likely be the democratic nominee. [applause] [chanting "bernie"] sen. sanders: today i'm here to ask respectfully for your support on tuesday. i am here to ask you to help us change the political culture, bring out your friends and neighbors and their coworkers, get them to vote. let us on tuesday have the highest voter turnout in the history of california. let us win the primary, let us win the democratic nomination. let us defeat donald trump. [applause] sen. sanders: and let us create a govern

tomorrow you must roe for your city. tomorrow you must roe for freedom. they destroyed that persian fleet. it is an extraordinary story of accomplishment and charisma, but within three years after that victorious battle, arrogance overtakes him and he ends up alienating his countrymen, he is banished from greece and ends his life in the court of the persian emperor. it is a greek tragedy. it is a story of how you can be given incredible gifts. if you allow your ego and arrogance to overtake you will metaphorically end up, let's go to a different part of the world. we are now in the year 1400-1405. the chinese emperor invests, entrusted with an enormous treasurer fleet constructed of wood which explores the south china sea, indian ocean and to give you a comparison about europeans and chinese, look at those ships in the upper right. see the massive wooden one? that is the scale of zheng's flagship which is 500 feet long and has a crew of 600. you see the toy boat next to it? that is the flagship of christopher -- christopher colorless, the santa maria whic

take a look at the value of human life not just abortion even though we've had 60 million since roe v wade but there are other challenges in chicago and baltimore and major cities shootings every weekend so many that hardly makes the news this is how life has become an american people shot and killed because drive-by shootings i wanted the leather jacket are the expensive shoes. and now we see in the debate over health care that we saw with the clinton administration put his wife in charge of reforming health care in america the pressure to save money will be so great once you devalue human life the pressure at the other end and in between if you are too old are not contributing enough to your taxes taking more than you are getting it will start at the extremes than the precedent is set like doctor assisted suicide particularly of the west coast that is a very slow step to the next step. one of the things that i mentioned is the millennial's and that contributes to the decline of nations you need to have another reason to live other than getting up and going to work to make money ther

[cheers and applause] we will fight to codify roe v. wade, put it into law.cheers and applause] donald trump and his friends want to cut funding for planned parenthood. [crowd booing] well, we have some very bad news for them, because we are going to significantly increase funding for planned parenthood. [cheers and applause] now, what reverend jesse jackson has spent his whole life talking about and what i believe is that campaigns like this are not about me, it's about us. [cheers and applause] it is about understanding that we are more human, we are better human beings, when we care for each other. [cheers and applause] when we don't turn our backs on human suffering, because ultimately, every family in america, trust me, has its share of problems. we are in it together. [cheers and applause] my family has got to care about your family. your family has got to care about my family. that is how we improve life for all of us. [cheers and applause] and the other point about us, not me, is this campaign is of course about a presidential election. but it is abou

mchenry, sam graves,x, rodney davis, ronnie conaway, , jim jordan, frank ,ucas, michael mccaul, phil roe mac thornberry, mike rogers -- everybody coming together to make sure we could make this all fruition today. as i said on the floor, the virus is here. we did not ask for it, we did not invite it, we did not choose it. but with the passing of this bill, you will see that we will fight it together, and we will win together. colleagueshank our with that type of work i especially want to thank the majority leader for his work today and the work in the future that we can all work together to put america first and to the speaker, thank you. pelosi: thank you. i want to join you and acknowledging the leadership of our committees on all of this. and anotherl, person who is not here right now who led the fight in the appropriations committee, important discussions in the appropriations committee, rosa delmaro, who represented her committee on the floor and in the discussions. peter defazio, trest predation, bobby scott, maxine waters, veterans affairs, velasquez, mcgovern was, jim very helpfu

davis, mike ,onaway, tom cole, rob bishop jim jordan, frank lucas, mike mccall, kitty marchand, phil roe, max dorn berry, mike rogers everybody coming together to make sure we could make this come to fruition today. as i said on the floor, the virus is here. we did not ask for it. we did not invite it. we did not choose it. but with the passing of this bill, you will see that we will fight it together and we will win together. i want to thank our colleagues for that type of work. i especially want to thank the majority leader for his work today and the work in the future that we can all work together and put america first and to the speaker, thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. leader. i want to join you in acknowledging the leadership of our committees on all of this. richie, you started with ways and means, nita lowey who is not here now but led the fight in the appropriations committee. it was important discussions in the appropriations committee. also who wrecked presented her committee on the floor in the discussions. peter defazio, transportation and infrastructure, bobby scott,

take a look at the value of human life and not just abortion but we've had 60 million of them since roev. wade but there are other challenges now. in chicago and baltimore and major cities there are ten, 15, 20 or more shooting every weekend. so many that it hardly makes the news. this is how cheap life has become in america people getting shot and killed because drive-by shootings, i wanted a leather jacket or a expensive shoes and now we are seeing the debate over healthcare and we saw in the clinton administration and was called hillary care the pressure to save money is going to be so great but once you devalue human life at one end of the pressure to devalue it at the other end and in between if you are too old according to the government and if you are not contributing enough to your taxes or taking more than you are getting at .-full-stop at the extremes. things always do but once the precedent is said that doctor assisted suicide particularly on the west coast, that is a very slow step. one of the things i mention in the book also is that no one eagles it also contributes to the

roe. mr. roe: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain up to -- begin with mr. roe. without objection, the gentleman from tennessee, mr. roe, is recognized for one minute. r. roe: unanimous consent to address the house. the speaker: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. roe: thank you, madam speaker. ethan today to recognize magness who delivered today's opening prayer. he's a senior pastor at first christian church in my hometown of johnson city, tennessee where my wife has attended for many years. we are pleased to welcome pastor magness here today. he's originally from elizabethan, tennessee. he received his master of divinity and served for 10 years in maryland. he founded and directs a semester at ministry program at milligan college. i'm proud to welcome ethan, his wife, and his son to our nation's capital

[cheers and applause] we will fight to codify roe v. wade, put into law.eers and applause] trump and his friends want to cut funding for planned parenthood. [booing] sen. sanders: i have some bad news for them. we are going to expand funding for planned parenthood. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: brothers and sisters, here we are tonight a few hours before the minnesota primary. i am here tonight to respectfully ask for your support tomorrow. [cheers and applause] i am asking not only for your support, i am asking for youtuber not your friend, your coworkers, your aunt -- i am asking for you to bring out your friends, your coworkers, your aunts and uncles. let us have a huge turnout in minnesota tomorrow. i am asking not only to help me win here tomorrow, but to help me win the democratic nomination. [cheers and applause] then, withs: and great joy, together, we will defeat donald trump. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: but tonight, i am asking from you even more. --t i am asking of you because the message of our campaign is us, not me. i am asking

not just abortion, we have had 60 million of them since roe versus wade. there are challenges now. chicago, baltimore, major cities ten, 15, 20 or more shootings every weekend. so many now that it hardly even makes the news. this is how cheap life has become in america. people getting killed because of drive by shootings. somebody dissed me. i wanted the leather jacket or the expensive shoes. now we are seeing in the debate over healthcare, and we saw it during the clinton administration, president clinton put hilary, his wife, in charge of reforming healthcare in america. the pressure to save money will be so great that once you have devalued human life at one end, the pressure to devalue it at the other end and in between, if you are too old, according to the government, not contributing enough in your taxes, once the president is set, like doctor assisted suicide and sums dates. particularly, the west coast. a very slow step to the next step. also, a poll of millennial's. a loss of the sense of god or the transcendent. also contributes to the decline of nations and superpowers.

v wade that made abortion legal in 1973 rather than overturn roe v wade which at one time seemed so insurmountable kill it by death through a 1000 cuts and so these are medically unnecessary regulations that have the effect of closing abortion clinics. other states are in acting similar so-called laws and bold and by the appointments of 2 conservative judges to the supreme court and to abortion rights groups are hopeful the tide is turning in their direction toward to be confident sometimes when we see the toll that abortion is having on our nation but we believe that our country is going to write its wrongs as it's done in the past and give rights to the weakest and the least among us with the unborn child or working on criminal justice or whether it's reproductive rights organizations like the american civil liberties union say legal abortion is now hanging by a thread and it's the least advantage that may suffer it is young people poor people immigrant people people who are in this country lawfully but just don't have means that are going to be limited in their opportunity to exe

not just abortion, we've had 60 million of them since roe versus wade did there are other challengesnow. chicago, baltimore. major cities. major shootings every weekend. so many now that it hardly even makes the news. this is how cheap life has become in america. people getting shot and killed because drive-by shootings, somebody just me, i wanted the leather jacket or the expensive shoes. now we are seeing in the debate against healthcare, the clinton administration when president clinton put hilary, his wife, in charge of reforming healthcare in america. the pressure to save money will be so great that once you have devalued human life at one end, the pressure to devalue it at the other end and in between, if you are not contributing enough in your taxes, taking more than you are getting, it will start at the extremes. once the precedent is set like doctor assisted suicide in some states, particularly the west coast, it is a very slow step to the next step. one of the other things i mentioned was a poll of millennial's, a loss of a sense of god or a transcendent also contributes to

we're told mom, dad and roe are all doing great. to hallie, frank and roe from all of us at the "meet the press daily" team. chuck is back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." and if it's wednesday, there's a new chuck toddcast ready to download. alex seitz-wald and i didn't yamiche alcindor. "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. hi, ari. >> hi, katy. we have a lot of news in our program. the president announcing he will address the nation this evening on the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. it is hitting pandemic levels. we'll get to what that means later this hour. >>> also bernie sanders coming out defiant after losing several key states last night to joe biden. and later tonight, we go to queens to hear from voters on the democrats' now two-person race. biden's surge and how voters are viewing the economy. we have that brand new reporting, listening to voters, something we've tried to do throughout this high-stakes cycle. we begin with the latest on the coronavirus which today the world health organization is formally

thanks thanks thanks thanks it's no secret that roe v wade and the war on women's reproductive rights was waged across the united states decades ago the protections provided under the landmark supreme court legislation are being a race largely in republican led state legislatures with an raving unwavering support from president from his minions and those who like to invoke religion when it comes to women's pregnant bodies but take no issue with not providing food housing or bible education out when a child's home is in the world. folks the same religious right that had no problem voting for and supporting an adulterer with multiple divorces a penchant for lying and a low a porn stars but somehow this group wants to regulate when a woman decides to become a mother from legislative prescriptions on access to forced ultrasound balls and the cool is a nation of abortion providers the hurdles to abortion access are still in fact more than 2 dozen states have moved forward with abortion bans in the 2 years since justice cavanagh's confirmation to supreme court conservative men seem to not h

it has led to a lot of cases, roe v.ade, planned parenthood versus casey, the tal that talka right of privacy that it hears in the constitution that the court has built out. that is one of the areas that is a controversial part of the earl warren court's jurisprudence, and certainly now in the burger court, and the current court. i think people are looking and the court is looking carefully at those precedents. when you look at that light of cases and some of the examination that is going on now, as a matter of process, it is not fundamentally different from the kind of re-examination and thoughtfulness the court engaged when it was considering brown against years of precedent under plessy. i think people sometimes focus more on results than process. what strikes me about those both those instances is the cous doing its job of not overstepping its role but also re-examining where necessary some of the jurisprudence as time proceeds. host: we have another clip to show. this is from a 1969 interview that earl warren gave b