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Legal Docket

Overruling Roe - Part I

Legal Docket

WORLD Radio

Government

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A new Mississippi law protects unborn life after 15 weeks’ gestation. The only abortion provider in the state sued, arguing the law is a direct affront to Supreme Court precedent.

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Back in 1983, a young nurse was left to care for a baby who was miscarried at 15 weeks gestation.

0:14.0

A baby whose parents very much wanted a child and had lost many prior pregnancies in this way. Fifteen weeks was the furthest along the mother had been able to carry.

0:24.6

Devastating to go through it yet again.

0:26.6

The baby emerged still alive, a turning point in the life of that nurse.

0:32.6

You know, it felt like eternity, but I'm talking a good 15 minutes.

0:37.8

You know, we, I sat there with her and, you know, prayed and saying Jesus loves me.

0:45.0

And, you know, I was with her when she came and I was with her when she left, you know.

0:50.6

And so 15 weeks was where I wanted to get.

0:57.0

Remember that 15 minutes with the 15 weeks gestation baby that miscarried.

1:02.0

The young nurses short time with that child stayed with her.

1:06.0

Even years later when she became a Mississippi state legislator

1:10.0

who would make a law that would change the legal landscape of this country.

1:17.6

I, Clarence Thomas.

1:22.6

I, Sonia Sotomayor.

1:24.6

I, Neil M. Borsuch.

1:25.6

I, Neal M. Borghaw. I, Elena Kagan. I, Samuel M. Borsuch. I am Elena Kagan.

1:28.3

I, Samuel A. Alito Jr.

1:30.3

I, Steven Breyer.

1:31.3

I, Amy Coney Barrett.

1:33.3

I, Brett M. Cavanolum, do solemnly swear.

1:36.3

Do solemnly swear.

1:38.3

That I will administer justice without respect to persons.

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