Special episode: Abortion rights around the world
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In June, the US Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion in America. In a special episode, we investigate the changing dynamic of abortion rights globally in countries like Colombia, China and Ireland. We'll also be examining the restrictions still faced by women in Africa and places like Malta and El Salvador.
Audio for this episode was updated on 4 July 2022, due to a factual error in an earlier version.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Iona Hampson, and in this special edition of the Global News Podcast, |
| 0:09.8 | we'll be looking at abortion rights around the world. |
| 0:13.2 | We'll be hearing more about the international response to US Supreme Court's decision |
| 0:17.6 | to overrule Roe v Wade, but also understanding how abortion rights |
| 0:21.8 | and access fairies across the globe. |
| 0:25.2 | From Africa, where access is limited, to the so-called Green Wave movement, |
| 0:29.8 | liberalizing abortion rights in South America, abortion rights seem to be improving around the |
| 0:35.1 | world, but unsafe abortions are still widespread. And... |
| 0:39.7 | Every day hearing this little heartbeat of this child that we wanted, |
| 0:43.8 | but the presence of the heartbeat meant that I was still in danger and sort of rejoicing |
| 0:49.3 | at that sound about heartbeat and also wanting it to stop. |
| 0:53.2 | We hear from a US woman needing an emergency abortion in Malta. |
| 1:01.2 | Millions of women in the US have lost the constitutional right to abortion, |
| 1:06.1 | after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision. |
| 1:10.9 | In America, as well as around the world, it is a highly emotive issue. |
| 1:16.0 | These are just some of the voices of campaigners outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, |
| 1:21.3 | as the ruling was announced. |
| 1:52.0 | At the BBC World Service, it got us thinking about the changing dynamic of abortion rights |
| 1:58.1 | around the world that we have reported on recently, and how this is part of a political, |
| 2:03.5 | religious and societal debate on how much access women should get to information and safe abortion |
| 2:09.6 | services. This podcast is not about the pro-choice and anti-abortion debate, but focuses on how laws |
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