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The News Agents

SPECIAL REPORT: A war on women - Florida’s abortion crisis

The News Agents

Global

Daily News, News, Government, Politics

4.24.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It isn’t just Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on the ballot in the US general election on Tuesday. Across the United States abortion rights are being voted on too, in a string of referendums across different states.

The biggest and most fiercely contested of all is in Florida, which in May enacted a six week abortion ban. In a special report, Lewis tells a disturbing tale of fire and fury in the Sunshine state, of women’s health being put in jeopardy and of a growing theocratic strain at the heart of American politics.

Editor: Tom Hughes

Lead Producer: Georgia Foxwell

Video Production: Rory Symon

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0:00.0

This is a Global Player original podcast.

0:06.8

You're saying that if your brother has sex with his sister and impregnates her, that that woman,

0:11.6

and that woman should be forced to bring that child to term and bring up that child.

0:17.2

Change the value of that person.

0:19.9

He should go to jail. We believe that rapist should go to jail we believe we believe that

0:23.3

rapist should get and that woman and that woman should live with the trauma of that day after day

0:28.7

bringing up that child but shouldn't that be her choice okay maybe she'll want to do that who the

0:33.7

hell are you to tell a woman who has been abused sexually sexually abused by her father or her brother or her uncle?

0:38.5

Why would you punish that innocent child? Why would you punish that innocent woman by making her have that child?

0:44.2

A child is a gift, not a pun. You're saying that it's a gift, a gift in that circumstance when you've, your brother has had sex with you, that it's a gift. It's awful. But the child is a gift. He deserves to go to jail, but that child is a gift.

0:57.3

The child's value is not dependent on whether his father is a rapist.

1:01.1

That is the sound of zeal, the sound of a small man, like many small men, who have had

1:07.8

an outsized power over women's lives. This isn't the story we were going to bring

1:14.4

you. We came to Florida thinking we would tell a big, grand story at the end of the week about Trump,

1:21.0

about the election, about the radical forces which have reshaped this state and its politics.

1:26.4

And in a way, we still are. All of those things

1:29.7

are in this story. But it is yet bigger and distinct from those things too. We came to Florida,

1:36.7

and it became clear very quickly that there is one issue above all which is shaping politics here,

1:43.9

the right to choose, the right for women to have

1:47.1

autonomy over their own bodies in the land of the free. What you're about to hear is shocking.

1:53.1

Abortion casts the darkest pool over the sunshine state, but as big as it is, it is itself

1:59.3

part of something even bigger.

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