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The New U.S. Abortion Map

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.597.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In the days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, states have rushed to either ban, restrict or protect abortion. The different approaches have created a fragmented, patchwork map of America. Guest: Margot Sanger-Katz, a domestic correspondent covering health care for The New York Times.

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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is the Daily.

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Today, in the days since Rue vs Wade was overturned, state after state has raised to ban,

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restrict, or protect abortion.

0:24.0

My colleague, Margot Sanger Katz, on what access to the procedure now looks like across the US.

0:36.0

It's Tuesday, June 28.

0:44.0

Margot, the last time we spoke with you, it was right after a leaked version of a Supreme Court opinion

0:50.0

over returning Rue vs Wade emerged. We asked you to give us a map of what abortion laws would look like across the country, state by state,

0:58.0

if as we suspected that draft version became a real Supreme Court ruling.

1:04.0

Of course, that has now happened. It's no longer theoretical.

1:08.0

We want to turn to you again to talk through the post-Roe map that has emerged since that ruling on Friday.

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What are your first impressions of it?

1:18.0

I will say, obviously, I've been tracking this for a long time and I've been looking at state laws and trying to figure out what the post-Roe world would look like.

1:26.0

But even having done that, I have to say I was surprised by the speed with which we saw states coming out and announcing that they would ban abortion.

1:36.0

Effective immediately, abortion is now illegal in at least seven states, including Oklahoma.

1:44.0

In Dakota's trigger law, we've got Texas, we've got Louisiana and Arkansas.

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Idaho and Wyoming have those trigger laws.

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As of today, all abortions are now illegal in the state.

1:54.0

Throughout the day Friday, it was just sort of state after state after state.

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Some clinics are already canceling patient appointments.

2:01.0

By the end of the day, the decision came out. We already saw quite a lot of states that were banning abortion, quite a lot of abortion clinics that were closing and no longer seeing patients.

2:11.0

The doors of the only abortion clinic in New Orleans closed immediately Friday morning.

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Abortion clinics here in Texas say they have stopped services.

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