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Roe v. Wade Is Overturned

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion no longer exists. For nearly 50 years, Americans have had a constitutional right to an abortion. We're about to find out what the country looks like without one. The court's ruling doesn't mean a nationwide ban– it allows states to do what they want.

NPR's Nina Totenberg walks us through the ruling, and NPR's Sarah McCammon discusses the states where "trigger bans," or laws passed in anticipation of the Supreme Court's action, are already in place.

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We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.

0:05.7

Ro and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned

0:11.4

to the people and their elected representatives.

0:14.7

With those two sentences, the Supreme Court upended nearly a half century of legal precedent.

0:20.4

It's a moment advocates for abortion rights have feared, and that opponents have been

0:24.6

working toward for decades.

0:27.0

Both groups were outside the court Friday morning when the verdict came down to protest,

0:38.0

or to celebrate.

0:45.2

Some in the crowd had not planned to come to the court, but felt compelled after the

0:48.8

opinion.

1:04.0

She says her daughter is a teenager now, and she's worried about the world she's growing

1:07.9

into.

1:17.7

Chelsea Smith from Clemsons, South Carolina is wearing a shirt that says the pro-life generation

1:22.9

votes.

1:23.9

Very excited, very happy, very grateful, but still a lot of work to do.

1:29.0

We still, I mean the pro-life generation, the pro-life movement wants to really make abortion

1:36.1

illegal, unthinkable, and unnecessary.

1:39.2

Abortion rights advocates warn that overturning Ro could mean women who seek abortions end up

1:43.8

in prison.

1:44.8

Smith says she hopes that doesn't happen.

1:47.0

I don't believe that women should be jailed because I really think it's like being

1:51.8

abortion industry and culture that has failed them when they choose an abortion, and they deserve

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