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What Next: The Diagnosis Was Fatal. She Couldn't Get an Abortion.

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Two weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Lauren Hall found out the baby she was carrying had a fatal condition: her head and skull weren’t properly developing. Texas’s three overlapping bans on abortion forced her to fly to Washington to terminate the unviable pregnancy. With the Center for Reproductive Rights, she’s now one of five plaintiffs suing the state, so no one else will have to go through what she did. Guest: Lauren Hall, plaintiff suing the state of Texas over its abortion bans. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I race for life and my mom who was diagnosed with bowel cancer.

0:04.0

I race for life for my best friend who would lose to her.

0:08.0

I race for life from a dad who's living with prostate cancer.

0:12.0

I race for life for everyone who feeds in cancer.

0:15.0

Who are you, Raceful?

0:17.0

Sign up to your local event at racepolive.org by the 30th of April to get 30% of entry.

0:24.0

And together we will be cancer.

0:27.0

Impartnership with Headline Sponsors Standard Life.

0:30.0

Hey there.

0:31.0

Here's some important news from Network Rail,

0:33.0

if you're planning to catch a train over the May Bank holiday weekends.

0:37.0

From the 28th of April to the 1st of May and from the 27th to the 29th of May,

0:42.0

Network Rail will be working to upgrade and improve the railway for us all.

0:47.0

And while most of the network will stay open, some train services will be affected.

0:52.0

So, be in the know before you go.

0:55.0

Please check before you travel at nationalrail.co.uk forward slash May.

1:07.0

If you walked into Lauren Hall's house,

1:09.0

here's how you'd know she's pregnant.

1:12.0

Tables, counters, they're cluttered with ultrasounds.

1:16.0

As if her fetus was spending most of its time in a photo booth.

1:20.0

They're laying everywhere.

1:22.0

They're laying everywhere, just like riddens of sonograms.

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