Policing Pregnancy

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🗓️ 19 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade, states could set their own rules about abortion. Some states have already closed clinics, and for those that remain they’ve added obstacles—like collecting personal data about people who get abortions and declaring that fetuses have civil rights from conception.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:09.4	I'm Al Edson.
0:11.4	Alan Parker is a lawyer who is watching the new Supreme Court closely.
0:16.2	I believe that the court is probably one to three years away from reversing Roe v. Wade.
0:24.4	He's filed a brief in a case the court is considering that could come awfully close.
0:30.6	It's a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
0:36.2	Parker heads a group called the Justice Foundation.
0:38.8	He once roe to be overturned and he's been working at it for years.
0:43.1	What you really need is to win in the court of public opinion.
0:46.2	You need to win in the legislature and then you need to win in the actual courts.
0:51.5	Parker thinks abortion opponents can now win at the Supreme Court because it tipped to
0:56.4	the right with Donald Trump's three appointments.
0:59.3	And he argues that options for pregnant people have changed because of a new kind of law.
1:04.4	The Safe Haven law in all 50 states says that a woman can simply drop her baby off
1:11.4	at a hospital or fire station within a certain period of time after birth.
1:16.7	The essential freedom of Roe was freedom from unwanted child care.
1:22.3	For the lawyer who argued to legalize abortion almost 50 years ago, it was much more than
1:27.3	that.
1:28.3	Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the court.
1:30.3	Sarah Weddington spelled out for the nine male justices what it means to be pregnant.
1:35.5	Pregnant feet to a woman is perhaps one of the most determinative aspects of her life.
1:43.5	It disrupts her body.
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