The Potential Impact Of The Decision To Overturn Roe v. Wade
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
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NPR congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and national correspondent Sarah McCammon explain the far-reaching effects this draft could have on abortion-rights advocates, as well as its potential impact on the midterm elections later this year.
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| 0:00.0 | The right to an abortion in the United States appears closer than ever to being eliminated. |
| 0:05.1 | Last night, shortly after 8 o'clock, political published a leaked draft of a majority opinion |
| 0:10.0 | written by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe vs. Wait. |
| 0:14.4 | abortion is out there, abortion is out there. |
| 0:18.6 | As the news spread, a crowd started to form outside the Supreme Court. |
| 0:22.7 | Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet. |
| 0:26.0 | Juliette Moults was among the first people to show up. She plopped herself, |
| 0:29.7 | cross-legged in front of the marble steps. She said she had to come. |
| 0:33.2 | Because a week ago I had a pregnancy scare. Because a week ago I thought I might be pregnant and |
| 0:42.0 | I didn't know what to do and I'm not. But to hear this a moment later, I was terrified. |
| 0:50.9 | Terrified for herself, she said, and for anyone who might soon be unable to end an unwanted pregnancy. |
| 0:56.7 | The court's draft ruling, if it becomes final, would not ban abortion nationwide. |
| 1:01.5 | It would leave that up to each state. Many Republican-led states are ready to enact their own |
| 1:06.4 | bans. Morgan McFarlane's voice quivered at that prospect. |
| 1:10.1 | I have friends that aren't in blue states that are at risk right now and I don't think that they |
| 1:14.8 | deserve to be at any greater risk than I do just because of where they live. They still live in the |
| 1:19.4 | United States. Kira Thorntzen said she has been dreading this moment, but also preparing for it. |
| 1:26.0 | I just got an IUD because I was scared that this was going to happen so that I could be |
| 1:29.3 | protected for five more years and I was right. Most of the hundreds of people who flocked to the |
| 1:33.5 | court steps last night were abortion rights supporters. But abortion rights opponents also came. |
| 1:39.0 | Katrina Fee was here with a group of classmates. I came out here because it is so important that |
| 1:44.4 | the nation see that there are young people like me across America that are so hopeful for the |
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