The Prosecutors Stuck With Abortion Bans
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🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Abortion is now illegal in eight states, and more trigger laws banning the procedure are expected. The new state policies usher in an era of criminalized abortion. In Missouri, one liberal prosecutor is still struggling to predict how strictly these laws will be enforced.
Guest: Jean Peters Baker, elected prosecutor of Jackson County, Missouri.
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| 0:31.8 | Jean Peters Baker swore an oath to uphold Missouri's laws and then Roe v Wade was overturned. |
| 0:41.0 | And Jean had to try to figure out what exactly the law was. |
| 0:49.8 | In Missouri an abortion trigger law was nearly instantaneous. |
| 0:55.0 | Within the first 15 minutes it became law in Missouri upon the decision being released |
| 0:59.7 | and wrote. |
| 1:00.7 | Wow. |
| 1:01.7 | I mean have you ever had a law flip that quickly? |
| 1:05.6 | It's like a late switch. |
| 1:07.5 | No, we really have it certainly not one of this caliber. |
| 1:12.6 | Jean is the Jackson County prosecutor by the way. |
| 1:16.4 | I had a pivot pretty hard to see okay what is this new law? |
| 1:20.4 | You know when and then when I realized oh it's it's a near total ban. |
| 1:25.5 | Near total ban. |
| 1:34.5 | Are you and other Missouri prosecutors like messaging each other all the time right now? |
| 1:38.4 | Trying to figure out like what do we do? |
| 1:41.0 | What are you doing? |
| 1:42.8 | You know I am one of small handful of prosecutors elected to office in the state of Missouri |
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