Rachel Maddow Celebrates Roe v. Wade On Its 40th Anniversary

Rachel Maddow honored the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on her Tuesday night show.

The MSNBC host sent two of her producers to women's clinics in four different cities to interview the only doctors in various areas who were performing abortions. She wanted to know why these doctors, despite the threats from anti-abortion activists and pressure from anti-abortion law makers, continued performing abortions.

Doctors described how the number one killer of women in their child-bearing years used to be complications from abortions. That's no longer the case since Roe v. Wade passed forty years ago.

"The legacy of Roe is not that there became a country named America in which there was abortion and there hadn't been abortion before. The legacy of Roe is that women very very very rarely die from abortion in this country anymore, and they used to die from it a lot," Maddow said.

Maddow also criticized anti-abortion lawmakers for what she called successfully eroding the legacy of Roe v. Wade by limiting access to abortions at the state level. According to NBC News, "Eight states now require women seeking abortion to have ultrasounds, after Virginia lawmakers passed a measure in 2012. Three states also enacted laws that require abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, which can deny them for a variety of reasons."

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[Frank Montez]

As for the troublesome truth on what abortion is : such as the baby can feel pain ( Fetal Pain Act) or sonogram act that tells the women the truth and there's been documented proof that women do suffer guilt , depression , suicidal tendencies and increased physiological complications directly due to abortion. And we give them this option of hearing the truth rather than the lies at centers that are killing innocent lives . Come on , who would you believe the ones that murder or those that save?

[Frank Montez]

Legalization in 1973 has led to more abortions from about 600,000 to 1.2 million to 1.3 million today . And we're getting into infanticide with abortion survivors ( babies ) getting killed after the abortionist fails the first time . Look into the Kermit Gosnell murder trial in Pennsylvania were the woman was killed and several babies were brutally murdered by cutting their vertebrae at the base of the skull . After they survived the initial abortion attempt .

[Frank Montez]

He's wrong about the numbers of abortion that have climbed since 1973 from 600,000 to 1.2 million to 1.5 million . So , the numbers have gotten bigger since legalization of abortion. Abortion has also killed women since 1973 .

[Frank Montez]

She relishes the much smaller numbers of Bush inauguration with Obama inauguration yet fails to mention to much much larger numbers 600,000 pro lifers vs the miniscule numbers of abortion .

[Smfsableye]

They have to pretend it's not a human to justify the killing. It's the same rationale they used to justify the Holocaust.

[LCCharlie]

Many of the radical feminists who pushed for abortion forty years-ago were lesbians. They had an envy-hate relationship with traditional marriage and child rearing and that motivated them to attempt to destroy these institutions. It is not surprising at all that this progressive lesbian Maddow celebrates the deaths of tens of millions of babies and the continual destruction of families.

[wisdom9091]

she never mentions 3801land caster or dr joshua drah calt on video raping his patients or abortionist alicia ruiz hannah trieng to stuff body of angela santches in trunk of her car afster botched abortion.or about obama&live birth look up that video.&make no mention of demicratic poliction for school bord charless espy glassman runing her car in march for life.&can actual find a case coat hangers being used.&out all the things why coat hangers why not forsepts

[wisdom9091]

it seem her point is if women do,nt what the babby thay,l what it dead so bad thay find some of having it killed one way or another.&to make sure it does,nt come out alive like so many other abortion survivers.thats a nother video she do,nt what you looking at.thay use the most dangerus tool like coat hangers or scissor.that sound like women have abortion because there crazz.oh how coment below end orgionaly ment for this to be low that.im just sayin it may seem