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A Year After Roe v. Wade Was Overturned

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4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A year ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, upending abortion law across the country.

With Roe v. Wade overturned, what could replace it? WNYC's Supreme Court podcast "More Perfect" takes up that question in a two-part series. The two episodes focus on the origins of the viability line—that's the line that determines when a fetus is viable outside the womb.

That line was around 24 weeks as defined by Roe v. Wade.

Now it's whenever the state decides.

We discuss the viability line in post-Roe America.

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One year ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade upending abortion access across

0:12.8

the country.

0:14.1

The day that decision came down, we opened the phones to hear how you were processing.

0:19.2

I am distressed, disgusted, and I just tabbed so much disappointment.

0:23.6

So long in this country, we've developed this idea that everything we don't like should

0:29.2

be prohibited by the Supreme Court.

0:31.2

Even Ruth Beter Ginsburg said that the foundations of Roe were very weak, but a certain segment

0:36.5

of the population, like the outcomes that let's go forward anyway.

0:40.1

I'm 80 years old and lived through the era prior to Roe v. Wade.

0:46.6

I had two friends that had unwanted pregnancies.

0:50.4

One went through a backstreet butcher and ended up not being able to have children the

0:55.2

rest of her life.

0:56.2

I grew up in Mississippi and I went to school in Louisiana and an HBCU.

1:01.3

I saw with my own eye a female use the clothes hanger to end up pregnancy because she didn't

1:06.7

have the money or have access to reproductive education.

1:11.0

This is a great, we're really turning back the hands of time.

1:15.4

And what about protecting the whole child?

1:17.4

How about the hungry child, the homeless child?

1:21.0

Now or two days away from the anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

1:26.0

ruling.

1:27.0

This year we saw states like Kansas, Ohio and Indiana reject abortion bands being considered

1:32.6

in their states, but 14 others implemented near total bands.

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