abortion access

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming heard reaction from San Diegans on both sides of the Roe v. Wade debate.

“I am just heartbroken that they’re thinking of getting rid of it,” 88-year-old Joan Holland told NBC 7’s Dana Griffin.

In San Diego County — as is the case across the U.S. — leaders were split down party lines, with democrats expressing outrage and republicans lending applause.

States and the Department of Justice are waging court battles over the right to abortion that the Supreme Court outlined in Roe v. Wade. But in 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a key case that was less widely known, paved the way for some abortion restrictions – as long as they didn’t meet the definition of an “undue burden.”...