Anderson, thank you. I'm Michael Sverkanisch,

in for Chris Cuomo, welcome to Prime Time.

Who'd have thought that Texas would come along and make the Mississippi abortion restriction

look reasonable? But that's where we are after the Lone Star State enacted a law that bans abortion

after just six weeks. A time period so early that many women don't yet know their pregnant,

it contains no exceptions for rape or incest and incentivizes citizens to sue abortion providers.

The Supreme Court has allowed this extreme legislation to stand for now, even though it's

a glaring affront to Roe vs Wade, some say a precursor to overturning it. Roe in the cases that

followed made it illegal to ban abortions before the point of viability, around 24 weeks.

A far cry from Mississippi's 15 week restriction and Texas is a full 18 weeks before the current

standard. President Biden called the Texas law un-American today in his first on-camera words about

it and is looking for ways for his justice department to limit it.

The most pre-nicious thing about the Texas law is sort of creates a vigilante system

where people get rewards to go out to, anyway. And it just seems, I know this sounds

ridiculous, almost un-American. I was told that there are possibilities within the existing law

to have the justice department look and see whether or not there are things that can be done

that can limit the independent action of individuals and enforcing a federal system, a state law.

The Senate Judiciary Committee now plans to hold a hearing examining not only the law,

but also the High Court's decision to allow it to take effect. In a scathing rebuke today,

Democratic Chair Dick Durbin argued, quote, the court allowed it to see the light of day without

public deliberation or transparency. We must examine not just the constitutional impact of

allowing the Texas law to take effect, but also the conservative court's abuse of the shadow

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