The State That Brought Down Roe
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How did Mississippi go from resoundingly voting down a “fetal personhood” amendment in 2011 to being the state that brought down Roe v. Wade? Outsiders have long viewed the state as a potential fulcrum to overturn abortion laws in America, to the point where three different legislators introduced three identical bills to ban abortion 15 weeks after fertilization in 2018.
Guest: Ashton Pittman, senior reporter for the Mississippi Free Press.
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| 0:36.6 | Mississippi, the state that brought the case that overturned Roe v Wade, has won abortion |
| 0:42.1 | clinic, Jackson Women's Health. It's better known as the pink house because it's painted |
| 0:47.4 | the color of Pepto Bismol. And last Friday, Ashton Pittman from Mississippi Free Press, |
| 0:54.0 | he knew that the pink house was exactly where he needed to be. |
| 0:58.4 | It was pure chaos. And it's usually chaotic there. It's always been chaotic there because |
| 1:04.2 | there have always been protesters. There's always been media. |
| 1:07.2 | So now abortion is illegal, and yet every individual here will still stand before gone |
| 1:12.8 | limited here. But on Friday, the moment the decision came down, there was just screaming |
| 1:17.3 | and shouting and preachers on megafalls. |
| 1:21.3 | All along they've been murdering their babies by the living guy, the world of the living |
| 1:25.9 | guy, they've been murdering his babies. These babies all along. |
| 1:29.7 | They're murdering babies inside this pink house right there. |
| 1:32.6 | The law has come into effect now. You've got, you've got, you've got what's coming |
| 1:35.7 | in fact and people need to be prosecuted, justice needs to be upheld now. |
| 1:43.5 | We had some reporters ask one escort, how do you feel? And she just was angered by |
| 1:49.5 | a question. She was like, you know, of course I'm delighted. You know, it's arcastically |
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