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Russian Missiles Hit Kyiv As G7 Summit Begins In Europe; Biden To Meet With Global Leaders This Weekend; Supreme Court Overturns Roe, Leaving States Free To Ban Abortion; Pride Parades March With New Urgency Across The U.S.; Biden Signs Historic Gun Reform Bill Into Law. Aired 3-4a ET
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KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the United States, Canada and around the world, I'm Kim Brunhuber.
We begin in Ukraine. Rescue efforts are underway as we speak after a rocket strike in Kyiv. The mayor says a number of people are trapped under the rubble of a building after a rocket attack hit a residential area. He says at least two people have been hospitalized. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz is at the scene.
Salma, what more can you tell us there?
SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kim, it's an absolutely horrifying scene here. A residential building was struck in the early hours of the morning. Firefighters are there, trying to pull people out from under the rubble. At least one woman is still trapped inside. Rescue workers are doing their best to bring her out.
There are several injuries, four injuries so far, according to officials, including a young child, 12 years old, as we understand.
I just want to show you this scene. This is absolutely going to shake this community. This is what people are seeing here. You can see the extraordinary damage here, multiple missile strikes. This is a civilian area. That's with the mayor has told me, that residents are being targeted by Russia.
It's going to shake up things. For weeks the city has felt relatively safe, relatively calm, relatively stable. (INAUDIBLE) the capital (INAUDIBLE) is showing its capabilities to reach people at the heart of the city.
It's Sunday morning. People would have been home, in bed possibly. This is a horrifying event that happened here. As you can see the consequences still are playing out. They're trying to bring these people out, trying to bring them to safety. One person is still trapped inside and they will have to find a way to
see what her injuries may be, whether she need to be hospitalized. It's really going to shake the city up.
BRUNHUBER: Yet another strike on a residential area, a non military target, really tragic there, we will check in with you in an hour to get an update. Thank you, Salma Abdelaziz in Kyiv.
That attack came on the heels of a barrage of missiles fired on Ukraine Saturday. President Zelenskyy said 45 missiles hit targets across the country in a span of 12 hours. But he says Ukraine isn't caving in. Here he is.
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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): No Russian missiles, no strikes can break the morale of Ukrainians and each of their missiles is an argument in our negotiations with partners.
I will take part in the G7 summit on Monday. The NATO summit will take place next week; 45 missiles in half a day. And just of the eve of such meetings, all clear, another confirmation of our opposition. This confirms that sanctions packages against Russia are not enough. Ukraine needs more armed assistance.
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BRUNHUBER: But some armed assistance will be headed to Russia's ally, Belarus. Moscow says it will send anuclear capable missiles there in the coming months. Belarus has been a satellite base for some of Russia's operations in Ukraine. For more, Nada Bashir joins us from London.
Looking at the wider battle in the country, what's the latest?
NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You see that from Salma's reporting, Russia stepping up its military bombardment across the board. As you heard there 45 missile strikes in the span of 12 hours. We are seeing Russia intensifying its military offensive.
Advances in the Donbas in particular and Luhansk, Sievierodonetsk falling into Russian hands after months of grueling and bloody battle there. We saw the Ukrainian armed forces withdrawing. They are withdrawing to more advantageous positions.
But this is more than just military strategy. Ukrainian troops have really fallen under the pressure of the Russian advances. Their artillery power 10 times that of Ukraine. So we are seeing that intensification there.
Thousands of civilians have been forced to flee Sievierodonetsk as a result of this fighting, around several thousand are estimated to be still sheltering in the city.
[03:05:00] BASHIR: The focus now shifting to the city of Lysychansk, just aross the river from Sievierodonetsk. We also heard reports from Ukrainian officials of airstrikes in the city. Ukrainian armed forces attempting -- Russian armed forces, rather, attempting to close off a major highway exit out of the city.
So that is the key focus now. As you mention, Russia's not only stepping up its advances in the eastern region, attempting to secure the Donbas in order to create that corridor from Russian territory down to Crimea, they also are stepping up their regional military capabilities.
We heard President Putin confirm that he will send, plans to send nuclear capable missile systems to Belarus. That comes after a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko.
We also heard this week the Russian defense minister say that both Russia and Belarus need to step up and strengthen their joint defense capabilities and in particular focusing on air defense system.
So that will be a key concern for President Zelenskyy. We expect him to focus on this in his meetings with G7 leaders over the coming days. He is concerned over the fact that the focus appears to be economic sanctions. But he has said repeatedly that it is no longer enough. Ukraine needs more military support from its Western allies -- Kim.
BRUNHUBER: Nada Bashir, live in London for us.
As Nada just mentioned, the G7 summit will get underway in Germany in the next hours. While several issues are on this year's agenda, nearly all of them can be traced back to Russia's war on Ukraine, from energy prices to a global food crisis. Nic Robertson reports it's a far cry from the hope and optimism we saw just a year ago.
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR (voice-over): It was elbow bumps and optimism at the G7 summit last year, the first face to face G7 leaders meet since the COVID pandemic.
BORIS JOHNSON, U.K. PRIME MINISTER: We're building back better together and building back greener and building back fairer.
ROBERTSON (voice-over): This year in Bavaria's luxurious Schloss Elmau, what a difference those 12 months have made, a perfect storm, gathering beyond its alpine peaks.
Not just Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine but spiking petrol prices at pumps across the world, a looming food crisis, rising inflation, a global recession likely.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would like to update the house on the Northern Ireland Protocol.
ROBERTSON (voice-over): And while she's host to the U.K., themselves threatening to unpick (ph) the global order even more by going back on it Brexit agreement with the E.U. on Northern Ireland. At stake at Schloss Elmau, the G7-led the global order.
The challenge: how to stop the changes?
It won't be easy. Host Germany is not alone, firing up coal power stations, reversing hard-won climate change agreements at last year's COP26 summit in Glasgow, because Russia went to war.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Russia has weaponized energy, all of this is part of Russia strategy to undermine our unity.
ROBERTSON (voice-over): On unity, the G7 has delivered on its Carbis Bay pledge to strengthen partnerships. It will need a lot more of the same.
But another unity is also developing. In the past year Putin and Xi have strengthened ties, Xi increasingly bellicose about China' claim to Taiwan, both trying to draw global powers to their side.
Divisions and global disruptions are intentionally foisted by Russia through its pernicious war in Ukraine.
JOSEP BORRELL, E.U. HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS & SECURITY POLICY: Russia's locating Ukrainian exports. This is a deliberate attempt to use the food to war (INAUDIBLE).
ROBERTSON (voice-over): Revolutions rose in the outfall of the last global economic crisis, despite global bankers pulling together.
Today's G7 leaders are more alone than ever. The G20 that grew out of previous financial crises is divided. So, too, at the U.N., where Russia and China are absolute adversaries of democratic freedoms.
At Schloss Elmau, setting long term unity against Russia's destabilizations while balancing economic pressures back home won't make a bad year good but might make the coming storms more manageable --
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ROBERTSON (voice-over): -- Nic Robertson, CNN, Brussels.
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BRUNHUBER: Anger is erupting across America in response to the abrupt ending of Roe v. Wade. To many Americans, it is almost inconceivable that hard-fought right could survive court challenges for nearly 50 years, only to be taken away in a 5-4 decision.
In an instant, life was turned upside down for countless Americans. Activists and supporters are spitting mad, as senator Elizabeth Warren put it, at not being -- and they're not being very subtle about it, as they turned out in large numbers.
And that is true even in the 24 states where abortion is still protected. And with midterm elections less than five months away, the political stakes for women have never been higher. Despite that outpouring of angry protests, many states are seizing on
the ruling. Since it came down Friday morning, no fewer than 10 states have effectively banned abortions. Clinics there that provided the procedure are essentially shut down.
Wyoming, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Idaho are expected to quickly follow suit. Clinics in those states are vowing to stay open until the last possible minute. In all, 26 states have indicated the willingness to ban or severely restrict abortions.
CNN is covering these protests from coast to coast and overseas. And some of the most vigorous demonstrations have been right outside the U.S. Supreme Court. CNN's Joe Johns has this report.
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JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Here outside the Supreme Court on Saturday, anger, outrage and fear about the future after the court overturned Roe versus Wade. A large crowd made up almost entirely of abortion rights supporters, many of whom came from far and near.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right now, I feel like my voice matters even that much more because, considering my journey with the LGBTQ+ community, somebody a long time was doing this right here for the LGBTQ+ community when they tried to tell them who they could and could not love.
And so I feel like now, even though people are connecting pro-choice with pro-abortion, which is a false narrative, it's not true. I'm not pro-abortion or antiabortion. I'm pro-choice.
My choices matter. Everybody's choices matter. And if you don't fight for them yourself, that's OK, we got you. We'll fight for your choices, too.
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JOHNS: There are also opponent of abortion rights present at this rally, leading to some verbal confrontations. Organizers of the rallies say this will not be the last demonstration. And they also anticipate a state by state fight for abortion rights -- Joe Johns, CNN at the Supreme Court.
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BRUNHUBER: Opponents of the abortion ruling were particularly alarmed by one part of justice Clarence thomas' majority opinion. He singled out several important high court precedents on contraceptives and same sex marriage as worthy of Supreme Court review.
In their dissent, the three liberal justices highlight their own fears that other established rights could now be at risk. U.S. President Joe Biden put it this way. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A whole range of rights are in question, a whoel range of rights. And the idea that we are letting the states make those decisions, localities make those decisions, would be a fundamental shift in what we have done. It goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there's the right to choose. It goes to other basic rights.
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BRUNHUBER: CNN legal analyst Areva Martin joins us from Los Angeles.
Areva, this ruling has just reinforced the very real notion that rights aren't permanent; they could disappear.
How worried are you that the Supreme Court could erase other rights as well?
AREVA MARTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Pretty worried, Kim. The statements contained in the concurring opinion by justice thomas are pretty clear.
He basically said that, given the courts ruling in overturning Roe v. Wade, we should reconsider rights that have been protected under the 14th Amendment as it relates to same-sex marriages, to contraceptives as well as partners, adults being able to engage in certain sexual acts.
Even though justice Alito in the majority opinion said those rights are not in jeopardy, Clarence Thomas seemingly thinks otherwise. And we also know that the dissenting justices also say that we should not believe that this is the end but rather the beginning.
And for some, Kim, they saw what Clarence Thomas was doing, was an implicit invitation to state legislatures, to enact restrictive laws that would then be challenged in the court as it relates to same-sex marriages and then for those challenges to make their way to the Supreme Court, so that the Supreme Court could review them and perhaps overturn them in the same way that the court has done with respect to Roe v. Wade.
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MARTIN: So I think there is a lot at stake beyond just abortion rights with respect to this ruling.
BRUNHUBER: You mentioned same-sex marriage a couple of times.
Is that the right that you fear for most here?
MARTIN: I think the three rights that were enumerated by the justice are all at stake, same sex marriages, contraceptives as well as being able to enjoy certain intimacies in the privacy of your home.
What is interesting, Kim, is that there's also a very significant case in Loving v. Virginia that provided for the legalization of interracial marriages.
Now surprisingly that right or that case is not enumerated in the concurring opinion by justice Thomas, which is leaving a lot of experts asking, if you are going to take on same-sex marriages, why is interracial marriages not included in the list?
BRUNHUBER: Yes, but not everyone agrees that this could have such wide-ranging ramifications. The argument is that abortion is in its own box and the other issues are much more settled in terms of public opinion, even in red states.
There hasn't been the same momentum to overturn them, as there has been for abortion. That is the argument, anyway.
Do you buy that?
MARTIN: I think that is a naive interpretation of what is happening. We know abortion rights have been the target of conservatives for decades. This has been a well strategized and concerted effort by Republicans to pack the courts with judges, conservative judges, who would be willing to consider and, in fact, overturn Roe v. Wade.
We know Donald Trump, in his run up to the election in 2016, said that he was going to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe v. Wade. So I don't think we should take lightly the comments in justice thomas' concurring opinion.
We shouldn't ignore what the three liberal judgees said in their dissengin opinions. What they said to us was very specifically that we should be concerned because of the language in both the majority opinion as well as the concurring opinion.
So I think it would be naive of us not to believe that, in some ways, justice Thomas is speaking to conservative legislatures and, in some ways, inviting them to challenge these other rights that have been protected in this country for decades.
BRUNHUBER: Looking then on abortion specifically, do you think that if Republicans take the House and the Senate in the fall, there will be an attempt to institute a nationwide abortion ban?
MARTIN: I think everything is on the table, Kim. I think what this ruling tells us is that there are certain conservative lawmakers as well as conservative judges, who are willing to take this country back to where we were almost 50 years ago, where women had to engage in back alley abortions and had to do things that were very dangerous to their health to terminate pregnancies.
I don't think we should assume that women's rights to control their health, their reproductive health, are not under attack and could be further jeopardized if we did have a Republican House, Senate and a Republican president.
BRUNHUBER: Finally, some Democrats are now pushing the idea of term limits for Supreme Court justices.
Do you think that is a good idea?
It is at all realistic?
MARTIN: I think absolutely we should be looking at ways that make sense to reform the Supreme Court.
That has been a conversation that has been at the fore of a lot of Democrats, who have run for office, a lot of Democrats who are currently in office, this notion that six justices can make a decision that overturns 50 years of precedent, particularly when the majority of the country, Kim, is in favor of choice, is in favor of women having the right to choose how to govern their bodies and their reproductive health.
So I think it is time in this country to consider some kind of Supreme Court reform. Whether that is term limits or expanding the court, I think this is the moment where we should be having those very serious conversations.
BRUNHUBER: Biden has said he is against expanding the court. We will have to leave it there, Areva Martin, thank you so much for your insights, we really appreciate it.
MARTIN: Thank, you Kim.
BRUNHUBER: International gay pride month is winding down across the world. The LGBTQ+ community and its allies are celebrating love and perseverance. There was perhaps a specifically significant event in Norway following an attack on a popular gay bar the night before. We will have that story and more next. Stay with us.
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BRUNHUBER: Thousands of people turned out to celebrate gay pride around the world on Saturday. From Lima, Peru, to Toronto to Paris, in many countries it was the first parade in two years because of the coronavirus pandemic.
That includes the hundreds who turned out in Manila in the Philippines. In Warsaw, thousands of Poles and Ukrainians marched in a joint parade for peace and demanded an end to discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community.
Meanwhile, there was a remarkable scene of solidarity and perseverance in Norway. Dozens marched for Oslo's Pride Day, despite the paride being called off following a deadly mass shooting in a gay bar the night before.
Crowds waved pride flags and chanted defiant slogans in support of the LGBTQ community. CNN's Michael Holmes has more. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Police in Norway are calling a deadly shooting outside a gay nightclub in Oslo, a terrorist attack.
A gunman opened fire overnight Friday killing two people and injuring 22 others, three of them critically.
MARCUS NYBAKKEN, SHOOTING WITNESS (through translator): There were many who cried, who screamed. Injured people screamed. People were upset and people were lying on the floor inside because they were very scared.
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HOLMES (voice-over): Police arrested the suspect within minutes and charged him with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts.
CHRISTIAN HATLO, OSLO PROSECUTOR (through translator): He is a Norwegian citizen originally from Iran. He is known to the police but not for big things. Some convictions for smaller things compared to what we face today.
HOLMES (voice-over): The acting chief of Norway's Police Security Service said they'd been aware of the man since 2015 when they became concerned he was becoming radicalized and was part of an extreme Islamist network.
The country's terror threat level has been raised from moderate to an extraordinary threat situation and police who normally are not armed in Norway have taken up weapons temporarily in the aftermath of the attack, which also forced organizers to cancel the city's Gay Pride parade.
INGER KRISTIN HAUGSEVJE, HEAD OF OSLO PRIDE (through translator): We are shaken and have been advised by police to cancel today's events. We take the police's advice and recommendations seriously and are encouraging people not to gather in Central Oslo.
HOLMES (voice-over): Meanwhile, Norway's Prime Minister is expressing his solidarity with the queer community and speaking directly to Muslims in the wake of the attack.
JONAS GAHR STORE, NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER: I know that many Muslims in our country are also scared and in despair. It is a common responsibility to make it clear that no one other than the person or the people behind the attack is responsible for it. Let there be no doubt, we are a community. We are a diverse and strong community. We will never be threatened or give up our values.
HOLMES (voice-over): Michael Holmes, CNN, Atlanta.
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BRUNHUBER: I'm Kim Brunhuber, thank you for watching. If you're joining us from here in the United States and Canada, the news continues after a short break. For international viewers, "AFRICAN VOICES: CHANGEMAKERS" is next.
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BRUNHUBER: Welcome back. I'm Kim Brunhuber. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
Rescuers working to reach survivors after a missile strike in Kyiv. The city's mayor says a nuber of people are trapped and two are hospitalized and emergency crews are at the scene.
Ukraine is also confirming that Russia is in full control of Sievierodonetsk. As Ukraine fights for its survival, G7 leaders are set to kick off their summit in Germany. U.S. President Joe Biden arrived Saturday and Ukraine will be high on their agenda along with the economic effects of the war.
For more, let's go to Kevin Liptak, live near the site of this year's summit.
The leaders will be trying to find the balance between punishing Putin without punishing themselves too much economically.
KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's exactly right. This really is a wartime summit. There are a few other items on the agenda -- China, climate change -- but it really is the Russian invasion of Ukraine that is top of mind.
They want to find new ways to punish Russia for the invasion. Momentum has kind of stalled in the war against Ukraine. When you talk to American and European officials, they really describe the objectives as twofold.
One is to identify these new areas where they can punish Russia. And we do understand today the leaders will announce a new ban on Russian gold imports. And gold is Russia's second largest export. And leaders want to sort of use that to further cut it off from global markets.
The second thing that they do want to focus on is to mitigate the effects of the war felt around the world, primarily in energy markets. Of course, gas, the price of gas is spiking in part because of these bans on Russian energy.
Leaders want to kind of get a handle on that and try to find ways to bring the price down.
The other area that they're looking at is food, looking at how to get grain out of Ukraine so that food insecurity doesn't become a larger problem around the world. Now it's been just three months since the president was last in
Europe. He was in Brussels for the NATO and G7 summit then. The mood now is quite different. It is much more sober. And it's really become a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine.
Leaders are dealing with the effects of that. They're also dealing with fatigue at home for the war. They're dealing with the political fallout from the higher prices that have been caused by the war.
And so I think one of the conversations that they are going to have at the meeting and on the sidelines of the meeting is, what is the next phase for the war in Ukraine?
Where does this go from here?
They will hear from President Zelenskyy tomorrow.
But do they need to restart negotiations with. Russia?
Do they need to nudge Zelenskyy to make concessions?
As they see their political fortunes fall and prices rising, they need to identify when and how this war might change or come to an end. So when the leaders start meeting in a couple hours from here now at a castle in the Bavarian Alps, it will be the war in Ukraine that will be front of mind.
BRUNHUBER: Kevin Liptak, thank you so much.
U.S. lawmakers are turning up the pressure on Moscow to release American basketball star Brittany Griner. She was arrested and later accused of drug smuggling. That could land her in jail for up to 10 years. But the U.S. says she's wrongfully detained.
Protests have erupted across the United States in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to end constitutional protection for abortion. Dozens of demonstrations took place across the country.
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BRUNHUBER: Abortion rights activist are urging them to make their voice heard at the ballot box. In all, 26 states have indicated they would either outlaw or set extreme limits on abortion. Mississippi is one of those with trigger laws. CNN's Nadia Romero is there.
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NADIA ROMERO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is the last abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi. And because of that certification process, they have about 10 more days to perform abortions for women who want it.
All throughout the day, they have allowed women to come in long before opening hours. Some women called into the clinic today and showed up to have the procedure done. I spoke with the abortion provider here, who says that he believes
that this is his life's work, that this is his calling. He's been performing abortions for 30 years and he says this is all about health care. Listen to why he believes that the antiabortion protesters have it wrong.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One is I'm a baby killer and what we're doing is killing babies. You know, we're not killing babies. We're terminating previable fetuses that somebody has made a difficult decision, that she does not want to carry this pregnancy. So this nonsense about killing babies and murdering, it's just -- you know, it isn't -- it is not right.
So that's the first thing. And then, you know, as part of that, just I can get along with them being able to protest.
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ROMERO: Religious leaders and state leaders all across Mississippi say this day of celebration. They are so proud that it was their state that went up to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. The speaker of the house here and the governors believe this is the day that they can protect women and children.
That'swhy they are happy to have this overturning of Roe v. Wade and having it here in Mississippi. It's what they're calling ground zero for those rights -- Nadia Romero, CNN, Jackson, Mississippi.
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BRUNHUBER: And just ahead, days after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, well, we're going to take a look at more of that and how it affects minorities.
And a major accomplishment after the recent spate of deadly mass shootings. We'll have a report from Washington coming up. Stay with us.
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BRUNHUBER: All right. Back now to the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade. Mississippi's ban on abortions after 15 weeks led to the case. And the state is effectively ground zero in the heated debate on abortion in the U.S. Amara Walker went there to find out how abortion laws are applied and how they affect minorities.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) AMARA WALKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There's no mistaking this mother's dedication to her three young boys. Handwritten Post-It notes can be found in every room of their home, guiding and encourage them.
AMANDA FURDGE, PRO-CHOICE COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: A lot of things that I tell them are the words that get me through parenting every day.
WALKER (voice-over): Parenting for 34-year-old Amanda Furdge has been a journey filled with difficult decisions.
FURDGE: I get emotional talking about it because we been through so much. Even now we still go through things.
WALKER: She knows what it is like to be poor and pregnant. A single mom of one, escaping an abusive relationship, living on government assistance with limit the access to health care, she decided to seek an abortion. But she says she ran out of time.
FURDGE: I'm still dealing with the residue, emotionally and mentally and economically, of not being able to secure an abortion.
WALKER: Mississippi laws are already among the most restrictive when it comes to getting an abortion.
On top of that, when she first sought one out, Ferd said she was sent to an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center. "A waste of time," she said.
And when she eventually found the right clinic, it was too late. So her second son, Mega, was born. He's now 7.
Furdge said she has no regrets and trying her best to raise three boys.
FURDGE: Hey, well, you're here now. Welcome to the family. This is how we're rolling.
That is Mega. Before there was Mega, there was Science.
WALKER: With Friday's Supreme Court announcement, a number of states are expected to further restrict access to abortion effecting millions across the country, a shift experts say will disproportionately effect women.
The Jackson Women's Health Organization, also known as the Pink House, is the last place offering legal abortions in Mississippi. It is named in the case. It has become ground zero for the abortion rights battle.
The opinion centered around the Mississippi 15-week ban on nearly all abortion. A leaked draft ruling in early May triggered nationwide protests.
FATIMA GOSS GRAVES, PRESIDENT & CEO, NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: It will be a decision that is rooted deeply in this country's history of racism. WALKER: Activists like Fatima Goss Graves said the abortion ruling is especially damaging to poor women of color.
Black and Hispanic women made up roughly 59 percent of the people who reported legal abortions in the U.S. in 2019, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
And a recent report from the CDC found that Black women are three times more likely than white women to die from a pregnancy related cause.
GOSS GRAVES: It will be felt acutely in the Black community, in other communities of color and for people who have the least access to health care.
WALKER: In Mississippi, Black people make up 38 percent of the population. But made up nearly three quarters of legal abortions in the state in 2019, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
STATE SEN. JOEY FILLINGANE (R-MS): Abortion is not illegal across the U.S. It is going to be returned to the states and the state legislatures will decide.
WALKER (voice-over): Republican Mississippi State Senator Joey Fillingane insists this has nothing do with race and everything to do with state's rights.
WALKER: This would disproportionately impact Black and brown women.
FILLINGANE: And it would disproportionately save Black and brown children.
FURDGE: My biggest concern is that women are going to secure abortions but they won't be safe.
WALKER (voice-over): Furdge believes that abortion access is about saving lives.
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FURDGE: Minority women are going to die. And minority women are going to go to jail. Because we're going to find ways to meet our needs.
WALKER: She vows to keep fighting for safe legal abortion access for all --
FURDGE: OK, let's see if it works.
WALKER: -- while simultaneously embracing her reproductive journey.
FURDGE: It is part of my healing process, too, is to be able to say, man, you really did not want to have that pregnancy but you did it and now look.
WALKER: Amara Walker, CNN, Jackson, Mississippi.
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BRUNHUBER: The Supreme Court decision won't just affect patients; it has serious implications for health care providers, particularly those who deal with women's reproductive health. Earlier I spoke with a psychiatrist about this.
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DR. ROBERT KLITZMAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: We are trained to do whatever we can to help the patient, to avoid problems, to do what the patient wants whenever we can, to respect the patient's wishes to do whatever he or she wants to do.
This is part of the Hippocratic Oath, to respect privacy, to put the concerns of our patients before our own. Yet now we're being told, because of the I think unfortunate Supreme Court decision, that we cannot do that, that now we have to not do what's in the patient's best interest and not mention abortion if the patient is saying, look, I have four kids, I can't afford another child.
Or I was the victim of rape or incest. I don't want to have this child. We can't say, well, you know, one option is abortion. And so this tremendous strain on doctors because we are not able to do the thing that we are trained to do.
And by law and ethically, that we are required to do and, in other situations in the law, normally do. So this is -- there is a notion of moral distress. And doctors are already stressed out due to COVID-19. And now this just adds more stress to them.
Many doctors are saying they want to leave the field. There are doctors who certainly who do not want to go work in, quote, "red states," that is states that will have the most restrictive abortion policies now.
Doctors, even if they aren't performing abortions, and are just psychiatrists, who may speak to patients about this, are very worried and don't want to practice in these areas.
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BRUNHUBER: Stay with us next hour for my full interview with Dr. Robert Klitzman on the abortion ruling.
President Biden signed the first federal gun safety bill in decades into law on Saturday. It got support from both parties in the wake of the massacre in the Texas elementary school. Here's Daniella Diaz.
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DANIELLA DIAZ, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: President Joe Biden signed into law the first major piece of legislation addressing gun safety in nearly 30 years. Major, major news, after a bipartisan group in the Senate worked on this framework on this bill for weeks in the wake of that horrific shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Of course, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell ended up supporting
this legislation. The top Republican in the Senate, he actually was the one who gave his blessing to senator John Cornyn of Texas to begin negotiating with Democrats for this legislation.
It passed the Senate, was able to break the filibuster Thursday night and it passed the House Friday morning. Incredibly notable, with just little to no Republican support in the end; 15 Republicans in the Senate supported this legislation and just 14 Republicans in the House supported the legislation, including Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, two Republicans who serve on the January 6 committee.
After it passed the House, it went to President Biden's desk.
What's in this legislation?
It has millions of dollars for mental health, school safety, crisis intervention programs and it will have incentives for states, including -- to include juvenile records and the national instawnt criminal background check system.
It also makes significant changes to the process for someone between the ages of 18-21 goes to buy a firearm. Then it also closes the so- called boyfriend loophole, a major win for Democrats in these negotiations.
Of course, Republicans endorsed this legislation because they say it still respects the Second Amendment. That is why it was a bipartisan bill.
But look, Democrats argue that it falls short of some of the measures they were hoping they could include in gun safety legislation, including a ban on assault rifles or expanded background checks.
But they still lauded this as a win for a bipartisan group that negotiated this bill. But of course, President Joe Biden signing this legislation into law, one of the first major bipartisan wins we've seen on Capitol Hill in a long time -- Daniella Diaz, CNN, Washington.
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