WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:46.2190000" NOTE recognizability:0.868 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8765776 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.632 Is looking at every angle of NOTE Confidence: 0.8765776 00:00:01.632 --> 00:00:03.434 this important issue as we see NOTE Confidence: 0.8765776 00:00:03.434 --> 00:00:04.758 protests downtown this evening, NOTE Confidence: 0.8765776 00:00:04.760 --> 00:00:06.530 but also churches celebrating the decision. NOTE Confidence: 0.8765776 00:00:06.530 --> 00:00:08.288 We go first to Doug Richards. NOTE Confidence: 0.8765776 00:00:08.290 --> 00:00:10.610 He is at the state Capitol with what NOTE Confidence: 0.8765776 00:00:10.610 --> 00:00:12.700 could occur there next in our state. NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:14.890 --> 00:00:16.920 Yeah Jeff, during the spring NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:18.950 primary campaign you may remember NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:19.022 --> 00:00:20.987 Republican David Perdue calling on NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:20.987 --> 00:00:23.718 Governor Kemp to call for a special NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:23.718 --> 00:00:25.800 session of the legislature to enact NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:27.715 an even stricter abortion law. NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:27.715 --> 00:00:30.145 We're told that Kemp has zero NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:30.145 --> 00:00:31.530 intention of doing that, NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:31.530 --> 00:00:33.770 but what this ruling does do is NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:33.770 --> 00:00:35.726 open the door for implementation NOTE Confidence: 0.882853870000001 00:00:35.726 --> 00:00:38.498 of the 2019 hardly heartbeat law. NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:40.040 --> 00:00:42.616 I think this summer we're we're going NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:42.616 --> 00:00:45.409 to see the HB 481 in full effect NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:45.410 --> 00:00:47.230 in Georgia. Statewide state Representative NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:47.230 --> 00:00:49.350 Ed Setzler wrote the heartbeat bill, NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:49.350 --> 00:00:51.498 which passed in 2019 over waves NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:51.498 --> 00:00:52.930 of abortion rights protests. NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:52.930 --> 00:00:55.240 That law has been stalled in court NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.219 pending the Supreme Court decision, NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:00:57.220 --> 00:01:00.442 which opens the door for it to become law, NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:00.450 --> 00:01:01.524 perhaps within weeks. NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:01.524 --> 00:01:04.740 Forced pregnancy is now the law of the state. NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:04.740 --> 00:01:05.814 Democrat Stacey Abrams NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:05.814 --> 00:01:07.604 posted a video on Twitter, NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:07.610 --> 00:01:09.896 bemoaning the court decision and blaming. NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:09.900 --> 00:01:11.450 Governor Brian Kemp for using NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:11.450 --> 00:01:13.000 abortion to score political points. NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:13.310 Meantime, NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:13.310 --> 00:01:15.480 a Kemp tweet cheered the court ruling NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:17.648 calling it a historic victory for life. NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:17.650 --> 00:01:19.180 And while the heartbeat law NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:19.180 --> 00:01:20.710 would restrict abortion to the NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:20.768 --> 00:01:22.298 first six weeks of pregnancy, NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:22.300 --> 00:01:24.309 setzler calls that middle ground in the NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:24.309 --> 00:01:26.329 debate all life worthy of protection. NOTE Confidence: 0.8645822 00:01:26.330 --> 00:01:27.260 I'd like to NOTE Confidence: 0.8499841 00:01:27.260 --> 00:01:29.740 move in the direction of making that happen, NOTE Confidence: 0.8499841 00:01:29.740 --> 00:01:32.220 but I think we're in a place today. NOTE Confidence: 0.8499841 00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:35.886 We've got a very strong law. NOTE Confidence: 0.8499841 00:01:35.890 --> 00:01:37.230 That takes a dramatic. NOTE Confidence: 0.8499841 00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:39.240 It takes a very strong and NOTE Confidence: 0.8499841 00:01:39.316 --> 00:01:41.371 positive common sense step towards NOTE Confidence: 0.8499841 00:01:41.371 --> 00:01:43.770 in the direction where we need NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:01:43.770 --> 00:01:45.798 to be, and alright. So Doug, NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:01:45.800 --> 00:01:48.159 a recent poll by Pew Research Center NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:50.700 found 48% of adults in Georgia said NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:52.560 that they felt abortions should NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:01:52.630 --> 00:01:54.590 be legal in all or most cases. NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:01:54.590 --> 00:01:57.446 49% said it should be illegal. NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:01:57.450 --> 00:01:59.364 What kind of challenge does this NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:01:59.364 --> 00:02:01.265 present to lawmakers in the middle NOTE Confidence: 0.858999 00:02:01.265 --> 00:02:03.253 of a very big election year ahead? NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:08.208 Well, you know, I asked David Perdue a NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:08.208 --> 00:02:10.409 question about that several weeks ago, NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:10.410 --> 00:02:12.778 and his answer as lawmakers tend to do NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:12.778 --> 00:02:15.295 when poll numbers don't jibe exactly with NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:15.295 --> 00:02:17.954 their stated positions is to say that NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:17.954 --> 00:02:20.180 those pollsters didn't talk to anybody. NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:20.180 --> 00:02:21.920 I know, I'm telling you, NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:23.670 the people I talked to, NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:23.670 --> 00:02:25.410 I have this position instead. NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:25.410 --> 00:02:27.825 It's funny how polls are very useful NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:27.825 --> 00:02:29.554 when they support the positions NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:29.554 --> 00:02:31.745 of people in power and how they NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:31.745 --> 00:02:33.787 are easily dismissed when they NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:33.790 --> 00:02:35.998 don't. It has been a subject. NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.112 It has been bantered about for NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:38.112 --> 00:02:39.976 generations and it will continue NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:39.976 --> 00:02:42.286 on Doug Richards outside the state NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:42.286 --> 00:02:44.877 Capitol on this on this Friday night. NOTE Confidence: 0.87401676 00:02:44.880 --> 00:02:46.218 Thank you, Doug.