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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.4 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:12.2 | I hope you had a good bank holiday if you did manage to have some form of break. |
0:16.6 | But let me ask you this question that may be in your mind this morning after seeing and |
0:20.4 | hearing and reading the news. |
0:22.5 | Could the legal right to abortion in America be about to be overturned? |
0:27.3 | An unprecedented leak of a draft US Supreme Court document shows that might be on the |
0:33.0 | carbs. |
0:34.0 | The political website Politico published the leaked document in full and that report has |
0:38.7 | sent shockwaves through the country regardless of which side US citizens find themselves |
0:43.3 | on on the issue of abortion. |
0:45.9 | The leaked draft, and I should stress that's what it is at the moment, shows that five |
0:49.9 | justices, four men and one woman, would vote to strike down Roe v Wade, the landmark decision |
0:56.3 | that legalised abortion across America in 1973. |
1:00.3 | We will get into the detail of that shortly and what that leak shows as I say it's published |
1:05.3 | in full. |
1:06.3 | But I wanted to give you the opportunity to have your views aired today on this potential |
1:11.6 | major change in America which of course will have knock on effects around the world and |
1:17.2 | of course we need to think about individuals who will be affected too. |
1:21.4 | This potential major change expressly concerns women. |
1:26.0 | What do you make of what you're hearing from America where of course the issue of abortion |
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