In Between Pro-life and Pro-choice

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Shrader had always thought that abortion was morally wrong. As a devout Baptist Christian, she volunteered at a clinic designed to discourage women from getting abortions. And when she got pregnant for the first time, she knew she would carry the baby to term, no matter what.

But when Rebecca’s pregnancy didn’t go as planned, she started to question everything she had always believed about abortions, and about the people who choose to have them.

This episode of The Experiment was reported by Emma Green in collaboration with This American Life, and originally aired as a part of This American Life’s episode “But I Did Everything Right.”

Further reading: “The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate,” “What Roe Could Take Down With It,” “The Court Invites an Era of Constitutional Chaos”

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This episode was produced by Miki Meek and Diane Wu with additional production by Peter Bresnan and Julia Longoria, and help from Alina Kulman. Reporting by Emma Green. Editing by Laura Starcheski. Fact-check by Jessica Suriano. Special thanks to Emily Patel and Aimee Baron.

Sound design by Joe Plourde. Transcription by Caleb Codding.

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0:00.0	The Supreme Court heard arguments today in what is widely seen as the most significant
0:09.2	abortion case in a generation.
0:11.0	More than 20 states are poised to ban or restrict abortions if the Supreme Court upholds
0:15.6	a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
0:19.2	And Mississippi's law is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.
0:22.2	The society didn't support my mother doesn't deserve to exit.
0:25.2	Outside the U.S. Supreme Court, Wyatt police stood between protesters for and against abortion
0:29.7	rights.
0:30.7	I cannot believe that we're going back and erasing all the progress that we've made
0:35.1	over the past half century.
0:36.4	Which you just say this is all about choice, all about a woman's right.
0:39.3	No, it's all about the life of a little baby.
0:42.2	Then who gives these state legislatures a gift?
0:44.2	When people are killing themselves and back alleys before Roe v. Wade.
0:47.0	We're dying now too, Chris.
0:47.0	Never.
0:48.0	Never.
0:59.6	So the short version of why we're at such a huge moment with abortion is that we've
1:04.6	had this one way of testing when is abortion legal in the United States for half a century.
1:14.3	Emma Green writes about the intersection of religion and politics.
1:18.3	And it's the point of viability.
1:20.1	One can a baby live outside of the womb.
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