Hi, I'm Wendy Zookovan, and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlett Media.

This is the second part of our election primer, a series of politically charged episodes

that we're updating and re-releasing ahead of the US midterm elections.

On today's show, Abortion.

President Donald Trump has appointed two conservative justices to the Supreme Court, and many feel

it's only a matter of time before Roe v. Wade, the court decision giving many women the right

to an abortion, will be overturned.

Now for the first time since Roe v. Wade, America has a pro-life president, a pro-life vice

president, a pro-life house of represent-

As we come up to the midterms, the battle over abortion is fast becoming one of the key

issues of the election.

Donald Trump's disrespect of women is unacceptable, but Congressman Steve Knight's position

on abortion is even more troubling.

In West Virginia, we believe in the sanctity of life, but Senator Joe Manchin voted to allow

federal funding for planned parenthood, the largest abortion business in the country.

And in these debates, you hear a lot of things about abortion, that it's painful for the

fetus, and the late term abortions are a huge issue.

But what does the science say about all this?

We dug into these questions and more in an episode that we published last year, and now

we've made sure the research is up to date, and it is.

So here's our episode, Science vs Abortion.

Abortion is so to boo that many people don't talk about the abortions they've had, many

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