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PBS News Hour - Segments

How abortion restrictions have disproportionately impacted Black women

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It's been more than two years since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, nearly two dozen states have banned or restricted access to the procedure and abortion pills. Special correspondent Sarah Varney traveled to Tennessee to report on the disproportionate impact abortion bans are having on Black women. It's part of our series, Race Matters. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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It's been more than two years since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion.

0:06.0

Since then, nearly two dozen states have banned or restricted access to the procedure and to abortion pills.

0:13.0

Special correspondent, Sarah Varney, traveled to one of those states, Tennessee,

0:18.0

to report on the disproportionate impact abortion bans are having on black women.

0:22.0

It's part of our ongoing coverage of race

0:24.9

matters. He's actually 14 in that photo. This was the year where he was

0:31.3

graduating from the 8 grade.

0:33.7

Nicole Blackman's son Daniel was shot and killed in Mobile, Alabama two years ago,

0:38.8

an innocent bystander.

0:40.3

Overcome with grief, Nicole and her husband moved to a Nashville suburb.

0:44.0

After so many tries, I did finally get pregnant.

0:51.0

Blackman Long had difficulty conceiving after having Daniel, so she was elated when she became pregnant after arriving in Tennessee.

0:58.0

But four months into her pregnancy, doctors discovered that the fetus's organs were growing outside its body and

1:04.6

Nicole had become so dangerously ill she was hospitalized. It was only when she

1:09.8

decided to end her pregnancy her pregnancy,

1:13.4

lawmakers had outlawed abortion.

1:15.8

When you learned that you were unable to make the choice

1:20.0

to end your pregnancy here in Tennessee. What was your husband's reaction?

1:24.0

He was devastated.

1:25.0

You're putting your life on the line.

1:28.0

You know, we just lost Daniel and I don't want to lose you. The couple considered driving out of state but

1:36.9

Nicole was already too sick to work with no paid sick leave and her husband a

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