Joy-Ann Reid: Southern Abortion Laws Taking Us Back to ‘Before Roe v. Wade’

Joy-Ann Reid: Southern Abortion Laws Taking Us Back to 'Before Roe v. Wade' (NewsBusters)

Commenting on a recent women’s health measure passed by the Louisiana state house, Joy-Ann Reid and MSNBC.com’s Irin Carmon portrayed the bill as an aggressive attack on women’s rights. The law includes such innocuous provisions as a 24-hour waiting period for abortions and a requirement that doctors must have admitting privileges within 30 miles of the clinic where the procedure is performed. This didn’t stop Reid and Carmon from waxing apocalyptic about the bill.

The Reid Report host opined that “people are actually going back to what we had before Roe v. Wade which is trying to find some other way to end a pregnancy which isn’t safe.” Irin Carmon of MSNBC.com later hyperbolically claimed