Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A 5-4 ruling that women and girls have no constitutional right to an abortion. |
| 0:07.1 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.8 | Perhaps the most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades. |
| 0:13.6 | Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that federally protected the right to an abortion, overturned. |
| 0:18.8 | Quote, Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. |
| 0:21.6 | Wrote Justice Alito in the majority decision, which will have a seismic impact on girls |
| 0:26.4 | and women's reproductive autonomy. |
| 0:28.8 | CNN is live as crowds swell outside the Supreme Court, plus. |
| 0:33.4 | The widespread impact, where trigger laws now or soon will make abortion entirely illegal |
| 0:39.2 | for any girl or woman, regardless of circumstances. |
| 0:43.2 | Also on this monumental day, the first major gun safety legislation, in decades, on its way |
| 0:48.5 | to the White House for President Biden's signature. |
| 0:51.2 | How Democrats and Republicans came together to compromise. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper. |
| 1:00.8 | We start today with the historic decision from the United States Supreme Court, which has |
| 1:05.3 | overturned Roe v. Wade, finding that the 167 million girls and women in the United States |
| 1:12.1 | have no constitutional right to an abortion. |
| 1:16.0 | Massive crowds gathered outside the high court in Washington, D.C. this afternoon, some |
| 1:19.8 | celebrating, some protesting, the 5-4 decision. |
| 1:23.5 | Chief Justice Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy |
| 1:29.1 | Coney Barrett, leaving abortion rights as a question for each state to settle. |
| 1:34.6 | The impact to girls and women across the United States will be, in many cases, immediate. |
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