Democracy Now! 2026-05-04 Monday
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 04, 2026; Abortion Rights Movement Shifts to “Plan C” as Court Restricts Mifepristone by Mail; Gaza Flotilla Participant Details “Cruelty” of Israeli Abduction at Sea; Two Activists Still Detained; Trita Parsi on Iran War: Trump Still “Looking for a Silver Bullet” Instead of Negotiating Seriously
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | This is the biggest setback for abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned |
| 0:22.8 | Roby Wade almost four years ago. |
| 0:25.4 | And yet the abortion rights movement was far more prepared this time around and had |
| 0:29.8 | contingency plans in place for a court decision restricting access to abortion. |
| 0:35.9 | A federal appeals court Friday blocked the mailing of abortion pills, restricting access |
| 0:43.3 | to one of the most common means of abortion in the United States. |
| 0:47.3 | We'll speak with the nation's abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield. |
| 0:52.3 | Then the latest on the global Samud flotilla. |
| 0:55.9 | On April 29th, Israeli occupation forces kidnapped over 170 participants from the global |
| 1:03.1 | smooth flotilla in international waters in Greece's search and rescue zone. Two days ago, many |
| 1:08.7 | of us were released, but two participants, two organizers from the |
| 1:13.0 | flotilla remain on board. Tiago Abba, and Saif Abukhashik. |
| 1:17.3 | Two Samud activists who were not released, a Brazilian and a Palestinian with Spanish citizenship, |
| 1:24.6 | say they were beaten and blindfolded. We'll speak to another two members of the flotilla. |
| 1:31.9 | Then Iran says two missiles hit a U.S. Navy vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:38.5 | The U.S. is denying it. |
| 1:40.7 | We'll get the latest. |
| 1:42.0 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:55.2 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:01.6 | Two missiles hit a U.S. Navy vessel in the Strait of Hormuz earlier today after it ignored warnings from Iran's Revolutionary Guard to halt. That's according to Iranian state media. The U.S. |
| 2:08.5 | is denying it. Iran says the strike came as President Trump announced the U.S. will begin guiding |
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