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00:00 In 2022, the US Supreme Court removed the only federal protection on abortion rights.
00:07 "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. It is time to heed the Constitution and return
00:13 the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
00:17 By overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, Justice Samuel Alito and his colleagues left
00:24 an uneven landscape of reproductive rights across the country.
00:28 Fourteen states lost no time in banning abortion from conception.
00:32 The likes of Texas, going so far as to criminalise the procedure. Anyone performing an abortion
00:37 faces a six-figure fine and 99 years in prison.
00:41 Georgia and South Carolina have implemented bans after six weeks of pregnancy, a stage
00:46 at which many women do not yet know they are pregnant, while Nebraska and North Carolina
00:52 prohibit terminations after 12 weeks.
00:55 Most of these bans make no exception for victims of rape or incest. Other states set the limit
01:01 at 15 or 18 weeks.
01:03 Meanwhile, 25 states have kept abortion legal. And the numbers of women crossing state lines
01:08 for abortion care doubled between 2020 and 2023.
01:12 In states like Montana, Iowa and Wisconsin, bans and restrictions have been passed but
01:18 are so far blocked from taking effect.
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