What Next - The State That Brought Down Roe
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
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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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| 0:00.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:01.2 | What do I do? |
| 0:02.4 | What do I say? |
| 0:03.6 | What do I say? |
| 0:30.0 | Mississippi, the state that brought the case that overturned Roe v. Wade, has won abortion |
| 0:42.8 | clinic, Jackson Women's Health. |
| 0:45.4 | It's better known as the pink house because it's painted the color of Pepto Bismol. |
| 0:50.1 | And last Friday, Ashton Pittman, from Mississippi Free Press, he knew that the pink house was |
| 0:56.1 | exactly where he needed to be. |
| 0:58.9 | It was pure chaos, and it's usually chaotic there. |
| 1:03.1 | It's always been chaotic there because there have always been protesters, and there's |
| 1:06.2 | always been media. |
| 1:07.2 | So now the abortion is illegal, and yet every individual here will still stand before |
| 1:13.0 | gone living in here. |
| 1:14.2 | But on Friday, the moment the decision came down, there was just screaming and shouting |
| 1:18.7 | and preachers on megaphalls. |
| 1:20.8 | But all along, they've been murdering their babies by the living guy, the world of the |
| 1:26.3 | living guy. |
| 1:27.3 | They've been murdering his babies. |
| 1:28.3 | These babies all along. |
| 1:30.2 | They're murdering babies inside this pink house right here. |
| 1:33.1 | The law has come into effect now. |
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