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PBS News Hour - Full Show

December 9, 2023 - PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, a new treatment for sickle cell disease using revolutionary CRISPR gene-editing technology has been approved by the FDA. Tensions rise in South America as Venezuela threatens to take over a large region of Guyana that's rich in resources. Plus, a conversation with Harvard professor Claudia Goldin on the eve of her receiving the Nobel Prize in economics. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS PBS news weekend, a new treatment for sickle cell disease using the

0:10.1

revolutionary CRISPR gene editing technology now approved by the FDA.

0:15.7

Then rising tensions in South America as Venezuela threatens to take over a large region of Guyana

0:21.8

that's rich in resources.

0:24.0

And on the eve of receiving the Nobel Prize for Economics

0:27.2

for her work on women in the workforce,

0:29.5

a conversation with Harvard Professor Claudia Golden.

0:33.0

I have the sense that this isn't just my Nobel.

0:37.0

It's a Nobel for women in general.

0:41.0

And for that, I am John Yang.

0:55.0

An unusual abortion rights case in Texas has taken a turn.

1:02.0

The state Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court ruling

1:05.7

that would have allowed a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis to get an abortion

1:10.8

despite some of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws.

1:14.3

The one-page order stresses that it is not a ruling on the two sides legal arguments and that the case

1:19.3

remains undecided.

1:21.3

Lawyers for Kate Cox, the 31-year-old mother of two in the case,

1:24.9

say they fear that justice delayed for the at-risk pregnancy

1:28.4

will be justice denied.

1:30.4

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked for the pause saying that an abortion

1:35.0

while the case is pending could not be undone.

1:38.0

Cox says she wants another child but her doctors say carrying the fetus to term

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