Checks and Balance: Roe away
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A year ago the Supreme Court upended abortion access in America. The court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade allowed states to ban abortion, leaving a patchwork of policies across the country. What difference has the ruling actually made, and what will happen next in the fight over abortion access?
Dr Ushma Upadhyay from the Society of Family Planning shares the latest numbers. Dr Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, author of “From Back Alley to the Border”, remembers Ronald Reagan’s surprising role in widening abortion access. And The Economist’s Stevie Hertz travels to Ohio, where voters are being asked to decide the future of the state’s abortion rights.
John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon.
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| 0:27.2 | There there'd be, every Thursday afternoon, walking in solemn silence around the pyramid |
| 0:38.2 | in the centre of the square. |
| 0:40.5 | The mothers of the plaza de Mayo started their vigil in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s |
| 0:46.4 | to protest against the ruling military hunter who they blamed for the disappearance of their children. |
| 0:52.4 | They wore white headscarves symbolising the nappies of their lost sons and daughters. |
| 0:59.1 | A generation later, Argentinians fighting for abortion rights paid tribute to the mothers |
| 1:04.0 | by also wearing headscarves. They chose a new colour, green. |
| 1:09.5 | Last June, green bandanas, t-shirts and banners filled streets and squares further north |
| 1:15.0 | in the United States. American activists had taken up the colour of their Argentinian counterparts |
| 1:21.1 | fighting for abortion rights in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:27.3 | I'm John Prado and this is Checks and Balance from the Economist. |
| 1:33.4 | Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth. |
| 1:46.0 | Today, what has changed after the end of Roe v. Wade? |
| 1:50.0 | And what will happen next in the fight over abortion access? |
| 2:00.8 | It's a year since the Supreme Court upended abortion access in America. |
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