Supreme Tension Over Roe V. Wade

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Internal SCOTUS tensions flare as it edges closer to overturning Roe v. Wade, with justices beginning to publicly call each other out on the issue. That, as Oklahoma abortion providers brace for a near-total ban, with Republican Governor Kevin Stitt set to sign a bill that bans the procedure “from fertilization”, and allows civil suits to be brought against anyone helping to access abortion services. Could we see a health care crisis if Roe is overturned?21-year-old Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin stands trial in the first war crime case since Russia invaded Ukraine and pleads guilty to shooting an unarmed 62-year-old civilian. CNN Tonight brings you what he had to say in a Kyiv courtroom. Plus, Georgia could see a rematch of the 2018 Abrams/Kemp battle for Governor, and a W.H.O. official is concerned the monkeypox outbreak “could accelerate” this summer. How concerned should Americans be?Hosted by Laura Coates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.
0:04.8	I want to take a second if we can here, just to take a step back for a moment.
0:09.0	I really want us to understand what is happening across this country.
0:13.5	And I know that as a nation we've been talking about Roe v Wade and the potential for it being
0:17.8	overturned since, well at least 1973.
0:21.4	There's been so many challenges to it, so many decisions to try to have a right Supreme
0:26.3	Court to be able to overturn it.
0:29.1	And yet sitting here today and until now it has remained the law of the land.
0:35.4	But from Texas to Mississippi to now Oklahoma and frankly beyond, we've seen a lot of
0:40.1	blueprints created and followed that we'll and already have upended a nearly 50 year
0:45.4	precedent.
0:46.8	But we have, after all, yet to see a final opinion from the Supreme Court.
0:52.3	Now, I know there's a draft opinion and it was leaked and it purports to say that yes,
0:57.0	the writing is on the wall.
0:59.0	And no one should be naive to the prospect that Roe v Wade may in fact be overturned.
1:03.9	And yet Roe v Wade, again, sitting here today is still supposed to be the law of the land
1:10.0	until the Supreme Court officially says otherwise.
1:14.0	But for some governors and abortion clinic operators, the leaked opinion was enough.
1:19.6	It's given license to governors to try to anticipate that overturning Roe v Wade according
1:24.6	to that opinion will allow them to decide the issue.
1:29.5	Remember, Alito wanted it to go back to the states.
1:33.5	It's more than just overturning Roe v Wade.
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