Roe v Wade one year on
This Is Why
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🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The overturning was highly controversial with more than 100 global health organisations including the British Medical Association describing it as a "catastrophic blow to the lives of millions of women, girls and pregnant people".
On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson is joined by our US correspondent Marth Kelner to explore the impact of Roe v Wade's overturning in Tennessee, and the important role it plays in the abortion debate.
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| 0:27.8 | such TFL fare capping. In 1973, the US Supreme Court made history in the case of Rovers's weight. |
| 0:37.3 | The Supreme Court justices ruled that the |
| 0:39.3 | Constitution of the United States protected a pregnant woman's right to an abortion, and for almost |
| 0:45.0 | 50 years, it was in many U.S. states the only legal protection for those seeking termination. |
| 0:51.6 | But 12 months ago, the court once again made history by overturning its own |
| 0:56.6 | decision. On the 24th of June 2022, life and law for women across the US changed, with some |
| 1:03.4 | states immediately recriminalising, well, not just anyone seeking an abortion, but also the medical |
| 1:08.7 | professionals providing them. |
| 1:16.3 | A US correspondent Martha Kellner was at the Supreme Court the day it stated that Roe v Wade was egregiously wrong from the start. |
| 1:19.2 | A year on, she joins me to reflect on its decision. |
| 1:22.7 | We'll be hearing from a woman who was denied access to a legal abortion, |
| 1:26.5 | the doctors whose hands are tied, and the |
| 1:29.2 | lawmakers responsible for the most controversial changes to reproductive rights in US history. |
| 1:35.5 | I'm Neil Patterson. Welcome to the Sky News Daily. |
| 1:39.2 | Martha, good to have you back on the Daily. Look, the overturning of Roe versus Wade has been |
| 1:43.6 | in the use for quite a while now, but it is |
| 1:46.1 | a complicated legal decision. |
| 1:48.0 | So just walk us through it. |
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