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Amanpour

Making sense of Arizona's abortion battle

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Arizona has become a flash point for America’s abortion-rights battle, as the Supreme Court there votes to uphold a Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions. To discuss what happens now and how will this development impact people in Arizona and across America, law professor and author Mary Ziegler ("Abortion and the Law in America") joins the show.   Also on today's show: US Special Envoy to Sudan Tom Perriello; author Percival Everett  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to alma unfore. Here's what's coming up.

0:08.0

Arizona becomes a flashpoint for America's reproductive rights battle as a

0:16.2

106 year old law bans almost all abortions. I'm joined by Mary Ziegler

0:21.9

an expert on the law, history, and politics of this issue.

0:26.0

Then one year of Civil War in Sudan.

0:30.1

I speak to Tom Perreello, the U.S. Special envoy to the country about what the world must do to end the violence.

0:37.0

And...

0:38.0

It was his business to tell the story of the white youth, and it is my business to tell the story of the white youth and it is my business to tell the story of the black man.

0:46.0

Author Percival Everett tells Walter Isakson why he's taking on Mark Twain by reimagining Huckleberry Finn.

0:54.2

Also ahead, 26 years since the Good Friday Agreement.

0:59.8

We look back at Christian's interview

1:01.6

with the leaders who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm

1:23.4

I'm Bianna Goladrigi in New York sitting in for Christiane-Amandpur.

1:27.0

Arizona has become ground zero for America's battle on reproductive rights.

1:31.0

The U.S. Vice President Kamla Harris is in the state today

1:34.1

arriving hot on the heels of a decision by the Supreme Court there to hold up a

1:38.7

civil war era law banning nearly all abortions. A law of Republican legislators then fought to

1:44.9

protect. She is also going to send a clear message that a second term for

1:49.3

Donald Trump means more bans, more suffering.

1:53.0

a line we can probably expect to hear more of as an election season heats up.

1:57.0

For his own part, the former president said that the Arizona ruling goes too far,

2:01.0

but that's a stark contrast to Trump's previous campaign for the

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