What a post-Roe America looks like now — and how the election could change it
Apple News In Conversation
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, nearly half of states in the U.S. have banned or heavily restricted abortion, leaving millions of people without access to this procedure. Caroline Kitchener covers abortion for the Washington Post and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting in 2023. Kitchener talks to Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu about the impact of abortion bans on people’s lives and the role this issue is playing in the 2024 election.
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| 0:19.8 | This is in conversation from Apple News. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Shimita Bessu. |
| 0:24.2 | Today, what abortion bands have of Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Kristen already had two kids and |
| 0:45.9 | she'd gotten pregnant again unexpectedly. She didn't have the resources for it and wanted to be a good mom to the kids that she already had. |
| 0:56.4 | So she came in and was expecting to end this pregnancy. Kristen was eight weeks pregnant and she thought she'd gone to the clinic just in time, the day before Florida's six-week abortion ban took effect. |
| 1:10.0 | But Florida law requires at least 24 hours between an initial consultation and an abortion procedure, which meant she had missed the deadline by one day. |
| 1:20.0 | And I sat just like a foot away from her as she internalized that news and she just |
| 1:27.9 | started to sob. I mean the tears just were rolling down her cheeks and she just I remember she just said, no, no, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:37.6 | Kristen is just one of thousands of women who have been denied abortions since Rovi Wade was overturned in |
| 1:43.7 | 2022 and the person telling her story is Caroline Kitchener with the Washington Post |
| 1:49.3 | she's been criss-crossing the, reporting the human stories behind the fall of abortion |
| 1:54.7 | rights in America. |
| 1:56.7 | Last year, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on this issue. |
| 2:00.6 | Part of the reason why I wanted to speak with Caroline is because so often abortion is talked about and reported on as a political issue. |
| 2:09.0 | And Caroline's reporting stands out for centering it as fundamentally a health care issue and a deeply personal one. |
| 2:16.4 | She started by telling me about her trip to Florida on the day before the state's six-week |
| 2:20.6 | ban went into effect. That day in Florida, I'll remember it for the rest of my life. |
| 2:27.0 | They allowed me to sort of sit there with some of their counselors as they broke the news to women that they would not be able to get abortions there. |
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