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To the Point

Does Roe v. Wade have a future?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Abortion is legal under federal law, but Red State Republicans are making it hard for women to exercise their constitutional right to choose. President Trump’s choices for the Supreme Court will help him turn out the base in next year’s re-election campaign.

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0:00.0

In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today legalized abortions.

0:05.0

The majority said that the decision to end a pregnancy during the first three months

0:10.0

belongs to the woman and her doctor, not the government.

0:14.0

What this bill is designed to do is to go to the Supreme Court and challenge that particular

0:22.3

precedence that said that abortion is legal on demand, essentially anytime, anywhere,

0:28.5

for any reason.

0:29.4

This is the beginning of President Trump's war on women.

0:33.2

If he wants this war, he will have this war and he will lose.

0:38.3

The unborn deserves a up and down vote.

0:41.3

My body, my choice.

0:43.3

My body, my choice.

0:46.3

My body, my choice.

0:47.3

I believe that the right to life is the greatest right there is.

0:50.3

And I think the right to life supersedes every other right that we have.

0:56.3

A woman's right to choose an abortion is legal under Roe versus Wade, decided by the U.S.

1:01.6

Supreme Court in 1973, but the ruling gave states the option to enact limitations, and that's

1:07.6

fueled the anti-abortion movement. On this podcast, we'll hear how it's

1:12.1

almost impossible in some states for women to exercise their constitutional right, and how

1:17.0

Roe v. Wade is threatened as never before, but for some history. When abortion was illegal,

1:22.8

the middle-class women had found a way around that. In 1971, two years before Roe versus Wade,

1:29.3

Linda Ilseley took a friend to a hospital in Washington, D.C.

1:33.3

Well, I, at that time, I just, I was very peripheral to the whole movement

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