‘They Don’t Understand That We’re Real People’

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. A month ago, Texas adopted a divisive law which effectively banned abortions in the state. Despite a number of legal challenges, the law has survived and is having an impact across state lines. Trust Women is abortion clinic in Oklahoma just three hours north of Dallas — one of the closest clinics Texas women can go to. On the day the Texas law came into effect, “it was like a light had been flipped,” said one of the workers who staffs the clinic’s phone lines. “We had everyone’s line lit up for almost eight hours straight.” We visit Trust Women and speak to workers and patients about the real-world impact of the most restrictive abortion law in the country.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tabernese.
0:03.4	This is the Daily.
0:05.2	Tonight, the most restrictive abortion law in the country
0:08.2	has gone into effect in Texas.
0:10.1	The Texas Rule bans abortions once medical professionals
0:13.7	can detect cardiac activity before many women know they're pregnant.
0:18.6	A month ago, on September 1,
0:21.2	Texas adopted a controversial law
0:23.7	that effectively bans abortion in the country's second largest state.
0:28.2	A breaking news tonight, the US Supreme Court will not
0:31.3	block the new Texas law that bans.
0:33.7	The law has faced multiple challenges in court.
0:36.0	The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to block the new Texas abortion law.
0:40.8	Including by the federal government.
0:43.3	But so far, the law has survived.
0:46.3	And it is already having an effect.
0:49.2	Today, my colleague Claire Tennis-Getter and I
0:53.5	on how the most restrictive law in the country
0:56.6	is changing the map on abortion.
1:00.4	It's Friday, October 1.
1:10.0	Can you describe what we're seeing?
1:13.4	We are driving through a series of endless stoplights
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