What Next: What Texas Abortion Laws Leave Unsaid

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Kate Cox’s fight to abort her pregnancy and save her fertility in Texas says a lot about America’s post-Roe, fractured approach to reproductive rights. Guest: Selena Simmons-Duffin, health policy correspondent at NPR. 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 Dear Prudence—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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0:21.0	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. It was it was just about a week ago that an op-ed appeared in the Dallas Morning News and
0:38.0	kicked off a public firestorm.
0:40.0	This editorial was titled,
0:42.0	I need to end My Pregnancy Now.
0:45.0	The author was a mom of two
0:48.0	named Kate Cox was at the time,
0:55.0	was at the time, 20 weeks pregnant,
0:59.0	and her fetus had a devastating diagnosis.
1:02.0	Kate had been in and out of the emergency room. devastating diagnosis.
1:02.5	Kate had been in and out of the emergency room,
1:05.2	cramping, bleeding.
1:07.3	She had been told that continuing this pregnancy
1:10.4	could make her infertile, and she wanted an abortion.
1:14.0	Under state law though, any physician who performed one
1:18.0	would risk tens of thousands of dollars in fines,
1:21.0	even prison time.
1:23.2	So Kate Cox, she was suing.
1:26.4	To NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin, the details of Kate's story were horribly familiar.
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