What next for a post-Roe America?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
It's been just over a week since the US Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade, overturning Americans' constitutional right to an abortion. And America has already begun to change. What sort of future is the country heading into?
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| 0:00.0 | Some things just add some play to your day. |
| 0:02.9 | Catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster. |
| 0:05.6 | Dancing down the street to your favourite place. |
| 0:09.0 | Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop. |
| 0:11.2 | Best of all, picking the new Red Scratch Card. |
| 0:14.0 | A Red Scratch Card, please. |
| 0:15.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.7 | And doing your own drum roll. |
| 0:18.6 | This is exciting. |
| 0:21.4 | Add some play to your day. |
| 0:22.9 | The Scratch Cards from the National Lottery. |
| 0:24.9 | Set street big, place more. |
| 0:26.5 | Brawls and procedures are by a place where it's been 18 or over. |
| 0:42.2 | As Friday the 24th of June dawned, |
| 0:45.6 | after months of speculation, |
| 0:48.3 | tension hung in the air, |
| 0:50.7 | as America waited. |
| 0:54.2 | Behind closed doors, |
| 0:55.8 | four women and five men were ruling on an issue |
| 1:00.2 | that would change the country. |
| 1:02.7 | Good morning. |
| 1:03.3 | You made it to Friday. |
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