Okay, But Why Don't Abortion Law "Exceptions" Work?
How To Not Lose Your Sh!t
Red Wine & Blue
4.7 • 892 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's so much happening in politics right now. |
| 0:04.0 | So red wine and blue is here to ask, okay, but why? |
| 0:09.0 | Every time I share our story, my heart breaks. |
| 0:17.0 | For the baby girl we wanted desperately, for the doctors and nurses who couldn't help |
| 0:24.1 | me deliver her safely. For Josh, who feared he would lose me too. But I was lucky. I lived. |
| 0:34.8 | So I'll continue sharing our story, standing with women and families across the country. |
| 0:43.3 | Today, because of Donald Trump, more than one in three women of reproductive age in America |
| 0:51.8 | lives under an abortion ban. |
| 0:58.9 | In 2022, Amanda Zorozky almost died. |
| 1:04.9 | She was pregnant with a baby girl she desperately wanted, but her water broke way too early at 18 weeks. |
| 1:07.0 | Doctors told her with absolute certainty that her baby wouldn't survive, but because of a law in Texas, |
| 1:13.2 | they couldn't give her an abortion. They had to wait until the baby died inside of her, |
| 1:19.5 | and she went into septic shock, almost dying herself, before they could give her the medical |
| 1:25.4 | care she needed. Now she has permanent organ damage. |
| 1:30.6 | Amanda's timing couldn't have been worse. |
| 1:33.6 | Just one week earlier, she would have been able to get the health care she needed. |
| 1:38.4 | But because the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that year, |
| 1:42.0 | an abortion ban went into effect in Texas, just a few days before |
| 1:46.6 | all of this happened to her. When cases like Amanda's are held up as examples of why abortion |
| 1:52.8 | bans are so dangerous, some people protest. Most abortions aren't like that, they say. You can't |
| 1:59.4 | use one story to make a law. |
| 2:02.3 | Even well-meaning people think that doctors can make exceptions in cases like Amanda's, where |
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