Holding back tears and barely able to contain her rage, co-anchor Martha Raddatz opened Sunday’s edition of ABC’s This Week by lashing out at the Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
“On Friday morning, women in this country like they have for nearly 50 years, woke up with a constitutional right to abortion, a right enshrined by the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade and reaffirmed again and again. But just after 10:00 A.M. On Friday a legal earthquake, the court stripping women of that fundamental right” Raddatz wailed, falsely claiming there was ever a constitutional right to abortion.
She then repeated the false claim that this was the “first time an individual right of this magnitude set in decades of precedent has been taken away.”
Raddatz then mentioned the mobs of pro-abortion leftists who have taken to the streets, but failed to report on some of the violence that has taken place: “since the announcement, abortion rights activists have swarmed the court and launched protests across the country alongside anti-abortion rights groups celebrating a landmark legal and political victory decades in the making.”
Continuing her hissyfit, Raddatz huffed that “Abortion is now a matter for the states and Congress, a decision for voters and their elected leaders rather than between a woman and her doctor.”
Terry Moran flies off the handle: "This is the most consequential supreme court decision in decades. It changes the status of American women as citizens... "Women will die because of this ruling. We already have a disgraceful rate of maternal mortality..." pic.twitter.com/9IiZlUAK7P
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) June 26, 2022
After her meltdown was over, she turned to senior national correspondent Terry Moran who proceeded to freak out over the decision and make numerous false statements like women become second class citizens: “It changes the status of American women as citizens of the United States and as citizens of their states.”
Moran also falsely claimed that “women will die because of this ruling.” Moran acts like women haven’t already been dying under Roe. Sadly, women die frequently from abortions. Like the rest of the leftist media, Moran refuses to talk about that.
Most notably, in 2015 NPR did a puff piece on an abortion clinic and never mentioned the fact that a 22-year-old woman died there from a botched abortion.
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ABC’s This Week
6/26/2022
9:02:17 a.m. EasternMARTHA RADDATZ: On Friday morning, women in this country like they have for nearly 50 years, woke up with a constitutional right to abortion, a right enshrined by the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade and reaffirmed again and again. But just after 10:00 A.M. On Friday a legal earthquake, the court stripping women of that fundamental right, in a 6-3 decision, the conservative majority upheld Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with five of those justices voting to go even further, overturning Roe v. Wade. The first time an individual right of this magnitude set in decades of precedent has been taken away.
Since the announcement, abortion rights activists have swarmed the court and launched protests across the country alongside anti-abortion rights groups celebrating a landmark legal and political victory decades in the making. Abortion is now a matter for the states and congress, a decision for voters and their elected leaders rather than between a woman and her doctor. The decision had an immediate effect. As of this morning, abortion is now illegal in eight states, seven additional states had passed so-called trigger laws that automatically went into affect once Roe was overturned. And in the coming weeks and months a total of 26 states are expected to ban or severely restrict abortion, just 16 states plus Washington, D.C., have laws that explicitly protect access to abortion care.
President Biden called Friday's decision a sad day for the court and for the country. And talked about the steps the administration will take in the wake of the ruling. Amid so much uncertainty, what does seem clear is the emergence of a new era in which the Supreme Court like so much of the rest of the country is mired by partisan divide, it's all certain to keep the court at the center of a political battle to come this fall in the midterm elections.
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9:04:48 a.m. Eastern
RADDATZ: The shock of this may have been tempered by the leak of the draft opinion in May but you cannot overstate how important and what an impact this will have.
TERRY MORAN: Martha, this is the most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades. It changes the status of American women as citizens of the United States and as citizens of their states. That's the big picture. But let’s not mince words, women will die because of this ruling. We already have a disgraceful rate of maternal mortality. But from now on, doctors in many states will have to ask themselves in pregnancies where there are serious complications, a split placenta or placenta in a dangerous position, will the local prosecutor, will the local jury think my patient is in enough danger for me to perform what I would otherwise consider a medical necessary abortion. And in 11 states already, including Texas or Florida, state governments can seize control of the bodies of women who have been raped or who are victims of incest and compel them to carry the baby or child of their rapist to term. This is a different world for women in America.
