Indiana Lawmakers Debate Strengthening Abortion Restrictions

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

After Roe v. Wade was overturned in June, the issue of reproductive rights was returned to states to decide. In a special session currently taking place in the Indiana legislature, Republican lawmakers are pushing to ban most abortions in the state, with a few exceptions. But, not all Republicans are on board with the proposal, saying it goes too far, and the White House is also lobbying against the measure.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Asma Khalid, and Indiana Public Broadcasting statehouse bureau chief Brandon Davis.

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0:00.0	This is Steve Held from Santa Rosa, California.
0:03.1	My daughter's getting married to Saturday.
0:04.8	She's my only child, so yeah, it's a big deal.
0:08.2	This podcast was recorded at 12.23 PM Eastern on Wednesday, July 27th.
0:14.5	Things may have changed since then.
0:16.5	I'm ready to walk my daughter down the aisle, and here's the show.
0:19.5	Oh, I hope your daughter has a wonderful wedding day.
0:24.8	I had so much fun on my wedding day.
0:26.8	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast,
0:29.1	I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics.
0:31.0	And I must be a Khaled, I cover the White House.
0:33.4	And states across the country are responding
0:35.7	to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade in different ways.
0:39.5	Some have taken steps to protect reproductive rights
0:42.0	by enacting new protections into state laws and constitutions.
0:46.0	And others have gone the other way,
0:48.0	moving to further restrict or ban completely access
0:51.8	to abortion services.
0:53.5	That's what's taking place in Indiana,
0:55.8	where lawmakers started discussing a bill Monday
0:59.0	that would ban abortion,
1:00.4	accepting cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities,
	...

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