The Abortion Debate
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 30 July 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Eyal Press and Jeffrey Toobin join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the latest uproar over Planned Parenthood and the politics of abortion.
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| 1:17.0 | It's Thursday, July 30th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:22.4 | On Tuesday, four Republican candidates in the 2016 presidential election joined a pro-life rally in front of the |
| 1:28.8 | Capitol. This is Senator Ted Cruz of Texas talking about one of the undercover videos recently |
| 1:35.0 | released, which shows a Planned Parenthood leader discussing the sale of fetal tissue for research. |
| 1:41.1 | The past several weeks, we've seen a series of videos come out of Planned Parenthood |
| 1:46.4 | that are nothing short of horrifying. These are videos of senior Planned Parenthood officials, |
| 1:54.4 | laughing, swilling Chardonnay, and casually, callously, heartlessly, bartering and selling body parts of unborn children. |
| 2:06.8 | Cruz and other Republicans have called for the organization to be investigated and defunded. |
| 2:11.8 | On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton called the videos disturbing, but defended Planned Parenthood. |
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