Arizona court revives 1864 abortion law
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It joins more than 12 other states where abortions have been largely outlawed since the federal right to a termination was removed two years ago. Also: Gaza receives its largest airdrop of aid in six months, and the British scientist who gave his name to a subatomic particle -- the Higgs bosun -- has died at the age of 94.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Wednesday the 10th of April, |
| 0:10.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.0 | Arizona's Supreme Court revives a near total ban on abortion in the state, |
| 0:16.6 | sparking an angry response from Democrats. |
| 0:19.5 | From contraception to abortion to IV. The I. The |
| 0:23.3 | they don't plan to stop until our rights are gone. |
| 0:26.3 | A large air drop into Gaza to mark the end of Ramadan. |
| 0:30.3 | The people of Gaza are very grateful for the efforts that we're going to and we'll keep delivering and keep delivering until we can't give them any more. |
| 0:37.0 | And the parents of a US teenager who carried out a mass shooting at a school in Michigan are jailed for at least 10 years. |
| 0:44.4 | Also in this podcast has the international community turned a blind eye to |
| 0:51.5 | what's happening in Sudan. |
| 0:53.0 | This is 100% genocide. |
| 0:55.0 | I think some of the international communities |
| 0:58.0 | they don't react or they just condemn. |
| 1:00.0 | But there is no intervention. |
| 1:02.0 | And the lengths a German artist went to to get his art on public display. |
| 1:07.0 | Arizona has become the latest American state to outlaw nearly all abortions |
| 1:17.3 | by reviving a law that dates back 160 years to the time of the Civil War. |
| 1:22.1 | It means that only terminations that save a woman's life |
| 1:25.8 | will be allowed. It follows a US Supreme Court judgment two years ago which overturned a historic |
| 1:31.7 | decision that had legalized abortions |
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