Two years ago, the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade made abortion access a top political issue across America. In the race for the White House, Laura Barrón-López has been following both candidates’ positions on reproductive rights. Read the Full Transcript
Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Amna Nawaz: Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade made abortion access a top political issue across America and now in the race for the White House.
Our Laura Barron-Lopez has been covering both candidates’ positions on reproductive rights. She joins me now.
Good to see you, Laura.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Good to be here.
Amna Nawaz: So, start with the national landscape for us here. Where do the bans and restrictions currently stand nationwide? Laura Barron-Lopez: Right now, across the country, 13 states total, Amna, have abortion bans with very few exceptions.Now, after that, four — there are four states that have bans at six weeks and three other states ban abortions after 12 or 15 weeks. And the majority of those states are in the Deep South, including swing states like Georgia and North […]
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