Hi, Warren-Nalmy back with The Good Point.

Dahlia Lithwick titled a recent column, Stund, Numb, Frozen. That's how she described reaction to a decision by the

U.S. Supreme Court, her specialty for Slate.com. The court's refusal to overturn a new state law

made abortion all but impossible in the state of Texas, even though the High Court already

has planned to hear Mississippi's challenge to Roe versus Wade

on the 1st of December.

So, Dahlia, tell us more about that dramatic headline, stunned, numb, frozen.

That was a conversation that we published between myself and Amy Hagstrom-Miller.

She's the CEO of Whole Women's Health, and that is one of the abortion providers that has a bunch of clinics in Texas and around the country.

And she was really giving voice to what it was like at her Texas clinics

when providers suddenly, like the flick of a switch on September 1st, had to stop providing services

to anybody after six weeks pregnancy. And just, I think what she was trying to express in that piece

was just how extraordinary the turn of events was that led to this constitutionally protected

right to have abortion at least up till viability. That's been the rule since Roe, suddenly just turned off

and having to turn away women at 12 weeks, 15 weeks, women with acute needs, and how dispiriting

it had become for her staff.

And tell us a little bit more about Senate Bill 8 passed by the Texas legislature signed by the governor.

Exactly, how does it flip a switch?

What does it do?

Well, this was a piece of law.

It was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May. Effectively, what it does is ban any abortion

in the state of Texas after six weeks of pregnancy. There's no exception for rape or incest or

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