And good morning to you. It is Saturday, August the 6th. I'm Ali Velshi, back on the road with a special edition of Valshi across America, post-Roe Alabama.

This weekend, I'm in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a state that has been without safe and legal abortion care since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade 43 days ago.

State officials here moved quickly to ban abortion within hours of the Supreme Court's ruling.

Alabama imposed a total abortion ban that only makes exceptions for the life and health of the woman,

and even that I've learned is a highly subjective matter.

Hundreds of appointments across the state were canceled immediately, and that's been the new status quo here ever since.

Alabama's law has been called the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation. It makes providing abortions a class A felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison.

On top of that, providing information about abortion or helping someone access that care

could also be a crime. Abortion providers aren't even clear whether it's legal to advise a woman

on where she might go to obtain reproductive health care, and women who are pregnant here worry that

any miscarriage could make them a criminal suspect. In the week since Roe fell, all of Alabama's

neighboring states have enacted their own bans, making abortion care virtually inaccessible

across the entire southeast region of the United States. People in Alabama will likely have to

travel hundreds of miles across multiple states in some cases to get a safe and legal abortion.

So I have come here to speak with the medical professionals, advocates, and others who've been most affected by Alabama's years-long hostility toward abortion.

I'm going to share with you my conversations with them later on in the

show. They are very interesting. But what is happening here is emblematic of the radical change in

reproductive health care that is continuing to unfold across this nation. The situation is so

confusing in some states that the law is changing by the day. On Monday morning,

earlier this week, abortion was legal in the state of Michigan, but a court order issued at noon

the same day allowed for local county prosecutors to start enforcing the state's pre-row abortion

ban at their discretion. This is a 1930s law. But before the day was done, another judge

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