MTP NOW June 24 — Roe overturned, Gov. JB Pritzker, Michigan AG Dana Nessel, Carol Tobias

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In a ruling for the history books, the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Pete Williams explains how the decision works. Illinois Gov. JB Prtizker (D) discusses the influx of out-of-state women who are seeking an abortion but live in a state where the procedure is banned. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says that her office won’t enforce a state trigger law that outlaws abortion. Carol Tobias, president, National Right to Life, talks about the next phase in the anti-abortion rights movement. Leigh Ann Caldwell, Brad Todd, Katie Brenner and Xochitl Hinojosa join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press.
0:12.3	Now I'm checked out in Washington on what is an historic day and a perilous moment in
0:17.8	American politics.
0:19.4	This is the scene right now.
0:21.0	This is the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court as both pro-choice demonstrators and pro-life
0:28.4	demonstrators continue to gather after the courts, expected, but still no less dramatic
0:34.3	ruling, overturning 50 years of precedent, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.
0:41.2	We heard the president this afternoon urged demonstrations across the country to remain
0:45.2	peaceful.
0:46.3	The ruling is one for the history books, and it sets in motion an avalanche of legal,
0:50.4	medical, political, and cultural fallout.
0:53.5	At a time when you have to ask yourself if this country can handle yet another divisive
0:58.7	issue.
0:59.7	13 states of the trigger laws on the books are going to be banning abortions immediately
1:03.3	or within a very short period of time.
1:05.4	Oklahoma's Attorney General, for example, announced this afternoon that his state will now
1:09.7	prohibit abortions on demand.
1:12.9	In the coming weeks, it's expected that roughly half of the states in this country will make
1:17.3	the procedure illegal, even in instances of rape or incest, not in every one of those
1:22.6	cases, but in some of them.
1:24.1	It's the first time ever that a Supreme Court has granted a widely recognized right and
1:29.4	then taken it away.
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