Abortion and the Potential “Criminalization of Pregnancy” in the U.S.

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Last week, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. Although this outcome had been anticipated for months—for years, even—it has had an immediate, visceral effect on abortion providers, those seeking abortions, and the nation at large. In some states, abortions stopped overnight; in others, there’s widespread confusion over what qualifies as legally acceptable circumstances for having an abortion. As states move to either outlaw abortion or codify it, the larger political question of “What next?” looms. The New Yorker contributing writer Stephania Taladrid and staff writer Jia Tolentino have both reported extensively on abortion access in the United States. They join the New Yorker senior editor and Politics and More guest host Tyler Foggatt. “Flat out, women will die in the course of ordinary pregnancy because of physician fears of doing anything that might make them liable for felony changes of performing an abortion,” Tolentino says. “It will make pregnancy significantly more dangerous for many, many people.”

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0:53.9	The constitutional right to an abortion has been eliminated by the Supreme Court. And while I'm Tyler Foggett, a senior editor at The New Yorker. The constitutional right to an abortion
0:55.5	has been eliminated by the Supreme Court. And while last week's ruling didn't exactly come as a
0:59.9	surprise, its effects have been rapid and chaotic. In some states, abortion stopped overnight.
1:05.7	In others, there is profound confusion over what qualifies as a legally acceptable reason for getting
1:10.0	an abortion.
1:16.1	For much of the country, the practical and political question of what's next looms.
1:23.9	Gia Tolentino and Stephanie Taledrid, two of my colleagues here at The New Yorker, have reported extensively on abortion access in the United States.
1:26.9	Hi, Steph. Hi, Gia. Hi. Steph, you just got back from Houston where you were reporting on
1:31.0	the largest abortion clinic in Texas on the day that the Supreme Court decision came down. Can you take us
1:36.0	through what you saw there? Definitely. So the reason why I wanted to be in Houston is because contrary to a city like McCallon,
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