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BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT.
ALABAMA’S REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR
KAY IVEY DID SIGN INTO LAW A
BILL THAT OUTLAWS ABORTION
EXCEPT IN CASES OF WHAT THE NEW
LAW CALLS "A SERIOUS HEALTH RISK
TO THE PREGNANT WOMAN."
CASES OF RAPE AND INCEST ARE NOT
EXEMPT UNDER THIS BILL AND
DOCTORS WHO PERFORM AN ABORTION
COULD FACE UP TO 99 YEARS IN
PRISON.
PRISON. THE GOVERNOR ACKNOWLEDGED THAT
THIS BILL IS DESIGNED TO GET THE
SUPREME COURT TO RECONSIDER AND
OVERTURN ROE VERSUS WADE.
THE GOVERNOR SAID IN A
STATEMENT, THE SPONSORS OF THIS
BILL BELIEVE THAT IT IS TIME
ONCE AGAIN FOR THE U.S. SUPREME
COURT TO REVISIT THIS IMPORTANT
MATTER AND THEY BELIEVE THIS ACT
MAY BRING ABOUT THE BEST
OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS TO OCCUR.
ALABAMA’S ABORTION BAN IS NOT
SLATED TO TAKE EFFECT FOR SIX
MONTHS BUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD
AND THE ACLU HAVE ALREADY SAID
THEY PLAN TO CHALLENGE IT.
TODAY, THE GROUPS FILED A
LAWSUIT TO BLOCK OHIO’S SIX-WEEK
ABORTION BAN, THAT DOESN’T ALLOW
ABORTIONS AFTER SIX WEEKS FROM
TAKING EFFECT IN JULY ARGUING
THAT IT DIRECTLY CONFLICTS WITH
THE PRECEDENT AND THE RULES SET
IN ROE VERSUS WADE.
OHIO IS ONE OF FOUR STATES JUST
THIS YEAR TO IMPOSE SOME FORM OF
A BAN ABORTION AFTER SIX WEEKS
OF PREGNANCY BEFORE MOST WOMEN
EVEN KNOW THAT THEY ARE
PREGNANT.
PREGNANT. COURTS HAVE ALREADY STRUCK DOWN
SIMILAR LAWS PASSED IN IOWA,
KENTUCKY AND NORTH DAKOTA.
TODAY THE DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES REACTED
TO THE NEW ALABAMA LAW.
>> WHAT THEY DID IN ALABAMA,
WHAT THEY DID IN GEORGIA IS
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL. >> THEY’RE TRYING TO OVERTURN
ROE VERSUS WADE.
THAT’S WRONG AND WE WILL FIGHT
BACK.
BACK. >> IT’S NOTHING SHORT OF AN
ATTACK ON WOMEN’S BASIC HUMAN
RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
IT’S SOMETHING THAT WOMEN OF
AMERICA ARE GOING TO HAVE TO
FIGHT AGAINST WITH EVERYTHING
THEY’VE GOT.
THEY’VE GOT. >> WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE IS UNDER
ATTACK AND WE WILL NOT STAND FOR
IT!
IT! WE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT!
>> JOINING US NOW IS STACEY FOX,
THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF PLANNED
PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST.
PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST. ALSO WITH US JOYCE VANCE FORM
HER U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA AND
PROFESSOR AT IS THE ALABAMA
SCHOOL OF LAW, AN MSNBC LEGAL
CONTRIBUTOR.
CONTRIBUTOR. JOYCE VANCE, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
>> WELL, NEXT WE’LL SEE THIS
ALABAMA BILL BEGIN TO FACE LEGAL
CHALLENGES.
CHALLENGES. I SUSPECT WE’LL ALSO SEE AN
OUTPOURING OF PROTESTS,
CERTAINLY IN ALABAMA WHERE THOSE
PROTESTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN
SCHEDULED FOR THIS SUNDAY.
BUT I THINK ALSO ACROSS THE
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. AND THEREIN ALABAMA BILL WHICH
IS SODA CROHNIAN MAY SPARK
NATIONWIDE FOCUS ON WHAT’S GOING
ON IN THIS AREA.
>> LET’S LISTEN TO WHAT PAT
ROBERTSON HAD TO SAY TODAY
BECAUSE STACEY FOX, THIS MAY BE
THE FIRST TIME YOU FIND YOURSELF
AGREEING WITH PAT ROBERTSON, AT
LEAST IN PART.
LET’S LISTEN TO THIS.
>> I THINK ALABAMA HAS GONE TOO
FAR.
FAR. THEY’VE PASSED A LAW THAT WOULD
GIVE A 99-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE
TO PEOPLE WHO COMMIT ABORTION.
THERE’S NO EXCEPTION FOR RAPE OR
INCEST.
INCEST. IT’S AN EXTREME LAW AND THEY
WANT TO CHALLENGE ROE VERSUS
WADE BUT MY HUMBLE VIEW IS THAT
THIS IS NOT THE CASE WE WANT TO
BRING TO THE SUPREME COURT
BECAUSE I THINK THIS ONE WILL
LOSE.
LOSE. >> STACEY FOX, HOW DID ALABAMA
GO FARTHER THAN PAT ROBERTSON’S
WILLING TO GO?
>> LAWRENCE, I THINK YESTERDAY
ALABAMA WENT SO FAR AS TO IGNORE
THE RAPE SURVIVORS THAT WERE
STANDING IN THE GARY WHILE THE
SENATE WAS DEBATING THIS BILL.
THEY CLEARLY STATED YESTERDAY
THEY DON’T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT
THE WOMEN OF BETHLEHEM AND THIS
IS NO MORE THAN A POLITICAL
GAME.
GAME. WE WORK ACROSS GEORGIA, ALABAMA
AND MISSISSIPPI.
AND MISSISSIPPI. ALL THREE STATES HAVE ENACTED
BANS LIKE THIS AND ARE LITERALLY
PLAYING GAMES WITH WOMEN’S LIVES
IN THE SOUTH.
>> JOYCE VANCE, WHAT DO YOU MAKE
OF PAT ROBERTSON’S LEGAL
SCHOLARSHIP HERE SAYING HE
ACTUALLY THINKS THIS IS A BAD
CASE FOR ABORTION OPPONENTS TO
BRING TO THE SUPREME COURT, THAT
PAT ROBERTSON THINKS THIS ONE
WILL LOSE.
WILL LOSE. >> >> WELL, IF YOU BELIEVE IN
TRADITIONAL LEGAL ANALYSIS, A
PRECEDENT LIKE ROE VERSUS WADE
WHICH IS ALMOST 50 YEARS OLD AND
CERTAINLY WELL ESTABLISHED IS A
PRECEDENT THAT CAN’T CAN BE
CHALLENGED BY ANY OF THESE
CASES.
CASES. SO IN THAT SENSE, PAT ROBERTSON
IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
THE SERIOUS PROSPECT WE FACE
HERE, LAWRENCE, IS WATCHING THIS
EFFORT NOT JUST TO THE ERODE,
NOT JUST TO CHIP AWAY AT THE
PROTECTIONS THAT ROE VERSUS WADE
ESTABLISHED FOR WOMEN BUT A FULL
FRONTAL ASSAULT DESIGNED TO
ERADICATE IT THE IN LEGAL PRESS
DIDN’T NOT WARRANTED BY THE
ALABAMA BILL OR ANY OTHER BILL.
>> I WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT
GLAMOUR MAGAZINE COVER, THIS IS
A NONPOLITICAL MAGAZINE TO SAY
THE LEAST.
THE LEAST. THEY HAVE PUT UP THERE THE WILL
THE 25 MEN WHO VOTED FOR THIS
ALABAMA BILL.
ALABAMA BILL. THESE ARE THE 25 WHO IN
PARTICULAR VOTED AGAINST AN
AMENDMENT THAT WOULD HAVE
ALLOWED AN EXCEPTION FOR VICTIMS
OF RAPE OR INCEST.
AND STACEY, TALK ABOUT WHAT THE
REACTION HAS BEEN IN ALABAMA
WHERE YOU ARE IN THESE LAST 24
HOURS.
HOURS. >> WELL, I THINK BETHLEHEMIANS
ARE PORE O HORRIFIED JUST IN THE
HOURS AFTER THE VOTE IN THE
SENATE LAST NIGHT, THOUSANDS OF
ALABAMIANS HAVE SIGNED ON TO
VETO PETITION THAT WE’VE STOOD
UP AND I THINK IN A STATE WHERE
51% OF THE POPULATION OF ALABAMA
ARE WOMEN AND WHERE WOMEN ARE
DYING FROM CERVICAL CANCER, THE
STATE SAID LOUD AND CLEAR THEY
DON’T CARE ABOUT WOMEN’S HEALTH.
THEY WILL CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN
POLITICAL GAINS.
POLITICAL GAINS. AND LAWRENCE, TO BE HONEST, YOU
KNOW, WHO ARE ON MY MIND TODAY
ARE OUR PATIENTS.
OUR PATIENTS WHO AREN’T
FOLLOWING THE NEWS REALLY
CLOSELY.
CLOSELY. THEY’RE SEEING THE HEADLINES AND
THEY’RE WORRIED THAT ABORTION IS
ALREADY ILLEGAL IN ALABAMA.
AND I WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT
WILL ABORTION IS SAFE AND LEGAL
AND AVAILABLE TO THEM AND WE
WILL FIGHT THIS EVERY STEP OF
THE WAY.
THE WAY. >> GOOD POINT.
JOYCE VANCE, THIS BILL DOES NOT
TAKE EFFECT FOR SIX MONTHS.
CAN THE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO THE
BILL BEGIN BEFORE THE BILL TAKES
EFFECT?
EFFECT? >> YOU KNOW, IT CAN AND THIS IS
TYPICALLY IN ALABAMA HOW WE’VE
DEALT WITH UNCONSTITUTIONAL
STATE LAWS LIKE WE DEALT WITH
THE ALABAMA’S IMMIGRATION BILL
IN 2011.
IN 2011. THE HOPE HERE IS THAT FOLKS LIKE
THE ACLU WHOEVER ELSE CHOOSES TO
CHALLENGE THIS BILL WILL GO INTO
COURT AND HAVE IT ENJOINED SO IT
WILL NEVER GO INTO EFFECT AND
IMPACT THE LIVES OF ALABAMA
WOMEN.
WOMEN. >> STACEY FOX AND JIS VANCE,