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Crisis pregnancy centers in TX, 'sister senators' unite over abortion in SC

Here & Now Anytime

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A new investigation from ProPublica and CBS News found that contractors for crisis pregnancy centers are wasting millions of dollars of taxpayer money. ProPublica's Cassandra Jaramillo joins us. And, Republican state Sen. Katrina Shealy and Democrat state Sen. Margie Bright Matthews bonded over abortion rights despite party differences. They join us to discuss. Then, Dara Torres is among the most decorated female Olympians in American history. She discusses her long Olympic career and looks ahead to the Paris Games.

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They don't know how many diapers have gone to families. They don't keep tracking on how much money is spent

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to essential items.

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Texas sends millions of dollars each year

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to crisis pregnancy centers run by anti-abortion groups.

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How do they spend that money?

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Well, no one really knows. It's Thursday, July 11th, and this is here and now any time from NPR and

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WBI I'm Chris Bentley. Today on the show, two stories about the

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fallout of the Supreme Court's decision to take away the right to an abortion. We'll hear how anti-abortion groups are milking the state of Texas for millions of dollars,

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well under delivering on services they promised. And we'll hear from two of South Carolina's sister senators who worked across the aisle to defend abortion rights, but ultimately lost.

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Also, Olympic Great Dara Torres, has some advice for the swimmers competing in their first

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games in Paris this year.

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