What Next - The State That Brought Down Roe
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How did Mississippi go from resoundingly voting down a “fetal personhood” amendment in 2011 to being the state that brought down Roe v. Wade? Outsiders have long viewed the state as a potential fulcrum to overturn abortion laws in America, to the point where three different legislators introduced three identical bills to ban abortion 15 weeks after fertilization in 2018.
Guest: Ashton Pittman, senior reporter for the Mississippi Free Press.
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| 0:37.6 | Mississippi, the state that brought the case that overturned Roe v Wade, has won abortion clinic, |
| 0:44.0 | Jackson Women's Health. It's better known as the pink house because it's painted the color of |
| 0:49.0 | pepto bismol. And last friday, Ashton Pittman from Mississippi Free Press. He knew that the pink house |
| 0:56.3 | was exactly where he needed to be. It was pure chaos and it's usually chaotic there. It's |
| 1:03.6 | always been chaotic there because there have always been protesters and there's always been media. |
| 1:07.6 | So now abortion is illegal and yet every individual here will still stand before it got limited here. |
| 1:14.5 | But on friday, the moment the decision came down, there was just screaming and shouting and you know |
| 1:20.1 | preachers on megaphones. All along, they've been murdering their babies by the living guys, |
| 1:26.0 | the world of the living guys, they've been murdering their babies, these babies all along. |
| 1:30.8 | They're murdering babies inside this pink house right there. The law has come into effect now. |
| 1:35.0 | You've got, you've got, you've got, you've got, you've got come in, in fact, and people need to be |
| 1:38.4 | prosecuted. Justice needs to be upheld now. We had some reporters ask one escort, how do you |
| 1:47.6 | feel? And she just was angered by the question. She was like, you know, of course I'm delighted, |
| 1:53.6 | you know, sarcastically because it was just, you know, how do you think I feel is, is, is kind of, |
| 1:58.9 | what she was getting at. The level of visceral anger was so palpable. And on the other side of |
| 2:09.5 | the road and in the middle of the road, the joy and the celebration. The joy, the celebration. |
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