not since roe vs. wadedeclared that the right to an abortion, including all three trimesters, according to certain limitations is a constitutional right. so, you can have 75% or 90%, but women are still entitled to an abortion. >> well, i would like to speak to the roe vs. wade comment there and the comment that i think was directed at me about the 62% and just say that was specifically directed at whether or not texans want this, and the idea of federalism, and the idea that if this is what texans support, that's what they should be able to do in their state. i do not think it's an anti-choice bill to go back to that comment. you know, it doesn't get rid of abortions, period. it's not unreasonable to say, you shouldn't be able to have an abortion four-and-a-half months into your pregnancy. if you are unaware that you are pregnant at that point, that is outrageous. >> it goes to the life and health of the mother which roe vs. wade says must be taken into account. >> what about the life of the unborn child.

proposition 8 supporters could try to chip away at the ruling as anti-abortion groups have done against roe vs. wade. it only applies do california. >> supporters are planning rallies tonight. the big rally is in san francisco at castro and market street at 6:30. in oakland, the celebration planned for 5:30 at 19th and telegraph. in san jose, a rally is planned at city hall at 6:00. in concord, a champagne celebration at the rainbow community center. other events are planned throughout the bay area. >> after the ruling two of the plaintiffs in the prop 8 case got engaged on the steps of the supreme court. >> we want to join the institution of marriage not to take anything away but to strengthen it and to live up to its ideals. today is a good day. i finally get to look at the man that i love and finally say "will you please marry me." >> this couple was joined by fellow prop 8 plaintiffs great berkeley. they say today's court ruling is also a victory for their children. >> today we can go back to california and say to our own children, all four of our boys, your family is just as good as everyone el

. >> reporter: republicans hope the vote lays the groundwork for a challenge to roe vs. wadehe law that legalized abortion 40 years ago. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >> six democrats voted to support the bill while six republicans voted against it. >>> the head of the national security agency says dozens of plots were thwarted with the help of the u.s. government's controversial surveillance programs. army general keith alexander testified yesterday at a house intelligence committee hearing saying one of the prevented plots was directed at the new york stock exchange. >> i would much rather be here today debating this point than trying to explain how we failed to prevent another 9/11. >> alexander said the recent leaks have done irreparable damage to the nation's ability to find more terror plots in the future. >>> mountain view-based google is challenging a federal gag order concerning its role in the federal surveillance programs. google was identified as one of nine u.s. internet companies that gave the nsa access to information on its users. google wants to divul

many women died and were permanently injured before roe vs. wade. with this bill, republicans have decided to try to take us back there, to threaten physicians, for instance, with a criminal prosecution. can you imagine? a criminal prosecution for attempting to provide the medically accurate information and care that is best for their patients. why in the world should members of congress or any legislator interfere with women's personal health choices? these private decisions should always be between a woman, her familiar, her doctor or whoever else -- her family, her doctor or whoever else she chooses to help make these very difficult decisions. we should not be making it, not you, nor me. we should let women make their own decisions. congress has no business in the personal lives of women. no business. so i urge my colleagues to vote no on this rule and let's get back -- may i have an additional 10 seconds? ms. slaughter: i yield the gentlelady an additional 10 seconds. ms. lee: thank you very much. we need to vote no on this rule and this bill. w

obstetricians and gynecologists who we should be relying on, have opposed this kind of legislation because roe vs. wader. that number of 24 weeks was not plucked out of the air. it was sicientifically determind that's when there is viability of the fetus. this is not only dead in arrival in the senate, it would be dead in the courts of the country. and once again the republicans are looking at ways to try to mar begin alize women and not focusing on the jobs in this country. >> texas governor rick perry is pushing legislature to pass a similar 20 week ban and if this happens, texas would become the tenth state to do so. and then you have states like arkansas and north dakota which recently passed fetal heart beat laws, and trap law which is make it harder for abortion providers to offer services. how do lawmakers like yourself stop the statewide efforts? >> that's a great concern because there are now 41 states across the country that do limit abortions. and the question is are they being limited at 24 weeks or are they now trying to roll it back to 12 weeks or 20 weeks. i mean, it is truly i think abh

but also a legal agenda to get a case to the supreme court and try to directly challenge roe vs. wadefight it both on the state level and federal level. >> "disrupt." every saturday and sunday. what do you have coming up this weekend? >> a lot of good stuff. we're going to teach folks a little bit about how women's bodies really work. all right? >> and you know what, that's a great segue for this. that's going to wrap it up for me. thomas roberts is back. 11:00 eastern. monday morning. and you can catch me tomorrow right before "disrupt," in fact, 2:00 eastern right here on msnbc. now with alex wagner is up next. alex, what have you got coming up? >> i am psyched for karen's biology lesson. that's all i'm going to say. psyched, america needs it. thank you, my friend. and hello, craig. happy friday. house republicans defect on the farm bill. frogs leaping out of the wheel barrow by the dozens. we'll discuss whether it will cost john boehner his job. plus, john mccain is begging his party not to obsess over the dang fence. does the house have its own plan to kill the bill? >>> and mayor

since roe vs. wade in 1973, medical knowledge regarding the development of unborn babies and their compass its at various stages of growth has -- compass its at various stages of -- capacities at various differed.growth has sunng xpert of dr. anand, as dr. anand has testified, if the fetus is beyond 20 weeks gestation, i would assume there would be pain caused to the fetus and i believe it would be fear and excruciating pain. congress has -- shows that the unborn can feel pain with limited exceptions. h.r. 1797 does just that. it also includes provisions to protect the life of the mother and an additional exceptions for rape an incest. the trial of late-term abortionist consider met gosnell and excessive reports of similar atrocities committed across the country remind us how an atmosphere of insensitivity can lead to horrific brutality. the grand jury report in the gosnell case itself contains references to a neonatal expert who reported that the cutting of the spinal cords of babies intended to be lat

also puts a motion a legal battle some say might force the supreme court to reconsider the 1973 roe vs. waden. the democratic will lead senate is expected to ignore the bill. the lighthouse says the president would be up it if it ever gets to his desk. today, attorneys and the george zimmerman murder trial are set for the next phase of jury selection. yesterday, lawyers for both sides. it down to a group of 40 prospective jurors. they are aiming for a final group of six jurors and four alternates. and the second round of jury selection, lawyers can ask potential jurors much broader questions about their knowledge of the case including what they think about it. zimmerman is charged with killing 74 old --17-year old trayvon martin , clammy self-defense. >>anny: at the teen year-old boy has been charged that- louisiana and the death of his sister. police say the boy told them that he was performing wrestling moves on her. officials at a pond --they found viloude louis lying unresponsive on the bathroom floor in this apartment when they arrived on the scene. she was pronounced dead at the hospit

this bill is not only a direct challenge to the supreme court ruling in roe vs. wade, but it's a dangerous new attack on women's reproductive rights. the proposed ban on this bill does not include an exception for the physical or emotional health of a woman, it fails to provide sufficient protections for victims of rape and incest and it has a very narrow exception in cases when a woman's life is in danger. h.r. 1797 would significantly reduce the safe, legal options that women have and would prevent doctors from providing the most medically appropriate care for their patients. republicans have repeatedly demonstrated a lack, a lack of understanding about basic women's health care and this bill is just one more example of their continuing attack on women's rights. it is a step backward for women's health and a distraction from the critical work we should be doing to pass legislation regarding immigration reform, strengthening our economy and creating jobs. i urge you to vote no on this unconstitutional legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has ex

supreme court reinforced its position on roe vs. wadest time, the supreme court gave broad approval to abortion critics and struck down local efforts to restrict their operations. the leading case involved a clinic in akron, ohio. >> i think this has been a tremendous victory not only for akron, but across the nation. >> reporter: the court said states and cities may not require that abortions be done in hospitalized for women more than three months pregnant, nor impose waiting periods nor inflexible cparental consent, o inform women about abortion hazards. they may be licensed and do tissue studies on aborted g eed fetuses. this adds up to one unmistakable message. abortion will continue to be a woman's constitutional right, unless there are changes made in the constitution. karl, nbc news, at the supreme court. >> while the decision was reaffirmed, abortion rights remain highly contested to this day. in fact, house republicans intend to consider a bill this week outlawing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of report

one of the things they have going on was just as ginsberg was lying about in roe vs. wadet we went too far too fast. maybe we got ahead of ourselves. people were worried about what that meant for prop 8. peebles said you're not going to far, you're not going to fast. people have chains and times have changed. in a span of eight years when the polls were absolutely against, and now they're fled the other way around. it is a soft landing ground. you can do that if you want. >> let's see what they can do because it's should be happening in the next couple of minutes. we at mark danon is are monitoring what comes of minutes. we at mark danon is are monitoring what comes in wellwe, readrey to go look? so ready. of minutes. we at mark danon is are monitoring what comes in lotslo of opf tions, huh? i can helphe you nouarrow it do. ok thanthks.. this one'sne smudgmue free. smudgeud-free.re really? and this one o beepsee when yu leave the door open.n. get thosthe branbrd name bels and whistles, even on a budget,, with red r whitehi and blue sav. thank anyou!u! more sav sing. more d

obviously this is an issue that came up of another big sweeping ruling in the court's history, roe vs. wade, one that took the issue of abortion out of the political process, out of the democratic process. and even justice like ruth bader ginsburg said maybe the court shouldn't have stepped in and seems like justice scalia's dissent talks about that concept. >> that the argument. the idea behind equal protection clause to protect disenfranchised minorities from the will of the majority. is it appropriate for the majority of people in california or elsewhere to vote away the rights, civil rights of a small protected class? that's the issue. five in the majority said no equal protection laws apply to bay bridges and lesbians. this is the decision today. but this is going to engender more cases to come to further protect gay rights. >> back to pete. >> it's a very quick moving morning. a lot going on at the u.s. supreme court. an historic morning as well. recap. tell people what they need to know. headline here is -- >> the headline is the supreme court has declared the federal defense of marr

this is an argument against marbury vs madison an argument against judicial review it's frankly what his last comment that's that's my argument my concern about roe v wade was that the court stopped the debate in the united states so i'm just curious what you think of what it's a sham like ask you you know you said it from a conservative point of view that yes the judge is having more power than the other branches of be a scary thing is that not scary to you i mean do you want a balance i think the i think that this is trans you know the progressives and conservatives should be equally concerned about this they sat with you know the the unelected branch of government basically saying look we haven't we don't longer have a constitutionally limited representative democratic republic we have a constitutional monarchy and these nine people are the monarchs and they get to decide what becomes a lot of what doesn't and they get even make up policy you know the idea that corporations are people for example was never proposed by any legislature anywhere it was invented out of whole cloth by these guys ok what you read and misinterpreted was the basic complaint

this is an argument against marbury vs madison an argument against judicial review it's frankly what his last comment that's that's my argument my concern about roe v wade was that the court stopped the debate in the united states so i'm just curious what you think of what it's a sham like ask you you know you said it from a conservative point of view that yes the judge is having more power than the other branches of be a scary thing is that not scary to you i mean you want to balance i think the i think that this is trans you know the progressives and conservatives should be equally concerned about this they sat with you know the the unelected branch of government basically saying look we haven't we don't longer have a constitutionally limited representative democratic republic we have a constitutional monarchy and these nine people are the monarchs and they get to decide what becomes a lot of what doesn't and they get even make up policy you know the idea that corporations are people for example was never proposed by any legislature anywhere it was invented out of whole cloth by these guys ok what you read and misinterpreted was the basic complaint th