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The Story of Roe v. Wade, Part 2: The Culture Wars (From the Archive)

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🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today, we revisit a two-part series that first ran in 2018 about the history of Roe v. Wade and the woman behind it. Almost 50 years ago, when the Supreme Court first ruled that women had the constitutional right to an abortion, it was met with little controversy. In Part 2, we asked: How, then, did abortion become one of the most controversial issues of our time?

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From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a daily.

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With the Supreme Court now poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade,

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we revisit Part 2 of a series that first ran in 2018 about the history of that case.

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Today, Sabrina Tabernese explains how the 1973 ruling, which initially triggered

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little controversy, eventually became one of the most polarizing decisions of our time.

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It's Saturday, May 7.

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We want to have some control over the decisions that have been covered.

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All right, will you please sit down or be removed from the incident?

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We are going to sit down. When you give us some solid answers to our questions,

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you're going to take women, you're going to drag women out of this hearing whose lives are at stake.

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That's a fine way to want something.

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We tonight became the greatest new floors in politics for basic political and social change of the

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Sabanese and the greatest such floors perhaps this nation has ever seen.

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As Aberdeen, what we're saying, the women have a fundamental right to control their own bodies and to control their own lives.

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So this issue really becomes a lightning rod.

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It's really out there on the national stage at this point.

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And it's an issue that's noticed by a political operative in Washington named Paul Wyric.

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God gave us a purpose.

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God put us here for some reason.

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Everything that we do here is aimed at the next world or it ought not to be done.

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He's a Republican. He's a conservative Catholic from Wisconsin.

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And he's really associated with a lot of the beginnings of the new right in the 1960s and 70s.

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