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Abortion measures on Nevada and Arizona ballots could help tip the presidential race

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Abortion access is a top issue this election at both the state and federal levels. Several states will have measures to protect reproductive rights on their ballots this November. In key battlegrounds, like Arizona and Nevada, these measures could have an impact on the presidential race. White House Correspondent Laura Barrón-López spent time in both states and has this report. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Abortion Access is a top issue this election season at both the state and federal levels.

0:06.3

A number of states will have measures to protect reproductive rights on their ballots this November.

0:11.2

And in key battlegrounds like Arizona and Nevada

0:14.4

these measures could have an impact on the presidential race. Our White House

0:18.6

correspondent Laura Burone Lopez spent time in both states recently and filed this report.

0:24.3

Yona, I think he's gonna love these flowers, huh? They're kind of fall colors.

0:28.8

Crystal Price comes to this cemetery in Mesa, Arizona almost once a month.

0:34.0

It's where her son Noble is buried.

0:36.0

He's noble, he's great, and he's part of our family.

0:40.0

At Noble's grave, she and her family leave flowers, write messages, and take a moment of silence.

0:47.0

Almost six years ago, Crystal had an abortion in her 22nd week of pregnancy when complications

0:54.9

threatened her life. I was coming in and out of consciousness losing I lost so

1:00.1

much blood and it was a really scary it was just really scary.

1:07.0

What was going through your mind when you heard the doctor say that you needed to

1:12.4

terminate the pregnancy.

1:14.0

It was just excruciatingly hard to know that I was choosing to end the life of my son,

1:27.2

but also knowing that it was the right choice

1:31.0

for me and for my circumstances, that my life was important. My family needed me and I

1:37.6

wanted to live. I didn't want to associate my experience with my child with the word abortion but that's what it was.

1:49.2

Arizona law only allows abortions for medical emergencies.

1:53.6

After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022,

1:57.5

the state banned abortion after 15 weeks,

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