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Anderson Cooper 360

Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal right to an abortion.  Former Texas state senator Wendy Davis and Congresswoman Cori Bush discuss how the opinion is one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in decades and will transform the landscape of women's reproductive health in America. After news broke that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, activist groups began organizing protests for Friday. At least 70 protests are set to occur Friday afternoon and into the evening. Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and Houston are among the cities where protests will occur. Protests are set to carry on into the weekend as well. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening and cities across the country tonight.

0:03.1

There are people in the streets, including, as you can see, at the Supreme Court in the

0:06.5

nation's capital.

0:07.5

Today, the court did would elique draft of a majority opinion suggested it would do.

0:11.8

It overturned Roe v. Wade taking away a national right to abortion after almost five decades.

0:17.4

The historic nature of today's five to four decision by the court's conservatives cannot

0:21.9

be emphasized enough.

0:23.8

In part, because you do not see the court overturned precedence of this magnitude.

0:27.7

This is a day that many Americans, no matter their political leanings, likely will remember

0:32.4

decades from now, about where they were and what they were feeling when they heard the

0:36.5

decision announced.

0:38.2

The headlines that many Americans will read online or in their newspapers tomorrow reflect

0:42.3

the seismic shift that has just taken place in America.

0:45.4

The main headline for the Columbus Dispatch read simply roe overturned the subheadline says

0:50.5

what the U.S. Supreme Court abortion decision means for Ohio.

0:54.0

The Miami Herald in Miami, the end of Roe v. Wade, means anger, fear and praise for

0:59.2

landmark ruling.

1:00.9

Already the ruling has had a huge impact more than a quarter of states have so-called trigger

1:05.3

laws that ban abortion.

1:06.6

There was an Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Alabama, and South Dakota

1:12.0

banned abortion after the court's decision was announced.

1:15.6

Within days, Utah, Wyoming and Mississippi will join them.

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