December 9, 2023 - PBS News Weekend full episode
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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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