Abortion in America: Illegal by stealth?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If you thought the overturning of Roe v Wade- the constitutional right to an abortion in the United States was the end of it in 2022, then 2023 has other ideas. Or rather the radical, anti-abortion groups in the United States have other ideas.
Just this week, Florida’s Governor (and presidential hopeful) Republican Ron DeSantis introduced a six week abortion ban in the third biggest state in the country.
And in Texas, a Trump-appointed judge ruled that a drug used in over 50% of abortions in America, should never have been legal in the first place. Chaos reigns and once again, the Supreme Court will decide.
On a special deep dive of The News Agents we explore both of these cases and ask whether, as part of a culmination of a five decade political strategy and movement, abortion in America will be abolished, by stealth.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Florida is on the verge of one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. |
| 0:17.5 | Good evening. I'm Jennifer Lee. |
| 0:18.7 | And I'm Keith Kate. Thank you for joining us tonight. |
| 0:20.5 | Once signed by the governor, this legislation will make almost all abortions in the country. Good evening. I'm Jennifer Lee. And I'm Keith, Kate. Thank you for joining us tonight. Once signed by the governor, this legislation will make almost all abortions in the state |
| 0:24.6 | illegal after six weeks instead of the current 15-week ban. |
| 0:28.1 | On Thursday, in the dead of night in Tallahassee, Florida's state capital, Republican governor |
| 0:34.1 | and presidential aspirants Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning abortion in his |
| 0:39.8 | state six weeks after conception. A state of over 21.5 million people, a state half the size of the |
| 0:49.3 | United Kingdom, the last island of abortion access anywhere in the south has itself removed abortion rights. |
| 0:58.0 | And this week, in Texas, there was this. |
| 1:01.2 | And Laura, we're also watching some breaking news about a high-stakes lawsuit in Texas over the abortion pill. |
| 1:06.5 | What do you know? |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah, that's right, Lester. |
| 1:08.0 | This is just coming down minutes ago, this decision, a partial victory for a group of anti-abortion advocates and doctors that had asked a federal judge to block access to the drug most widely used to induce abortion. |
| 1:20.2 | A Texas judge, a Trump appointee, ruled that the drug used in over 50 percent of abortion cases in the United States is effectively |
| 1:29.2 | illegal, that it should never have been licensed in the first place. It's thrown what's left |
| 1:34.3 | of abortion provision across the United States into chaos. These aren't the US stories you |
| 1:40.3 | probably heard about much this week. We heard about President Biden cloaking himself in green, |
| 1:45.4 | returning to the land of his forefathers. But in his real home, back in the United States, |
| 1:50.8 | the politics of how you deal with mothers and fathers who don't want to be, and even some that |
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