CNN host abruptly ends interview with pro-life activist after clash over SCOTUS decision

CNN host Jim Acosta shut down an interview with Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, on Thursday, after the two clashed over recent Supreme Court decisions on abortion.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that doctors in Idaho must be allowed to provide emergency abortions despite the state's near-total ban, in order to comport with the federal law that requires emergency rooms to give "stabilizing treatments" to patients in critical condition. The court also recently ruled againsta challenge to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) regulatory approval process of the abortion drug mifepristone, which Hawkins tied to the Idaho decision.

"Saying Idaho must allow for abortions to prevent infertility, future infertility, the FDA must now change its policy, too, to do the same. Given their no-test online distribution scheme of chemical abortion pills, which we know harm women’s future fertility, as 15% of women of our population are Rh negative. And there is no [Rh] testing now because of the Biden administration and their FDA on these dangerous chemical abortion pills," Hawkins said.

Acosta pushed back and said experts have said the drug mifepristone is "safe for women to use."

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Hawkins fired back and told Acosta to ask any woman who has been pregnant about the importance of the Rh factor.

"Ask any woman who is RH negative. Ask any woman. Excuse me, ask someone who’s been pregnant, sir. When you’re pregnant, one of the first things they do is they test for RH negative status. Because if you have a miscarriage, if you give birth, if you get in an accident, if you have an abortion, you have to be