With Roe overturned, women have to leave their states to get an abortion | Fault Lines Documentary

Publicado 2022-08-31
In June, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision that made abortion a constitutional right for nearly half a century.

Abortion rights are now up to each state to decide, opening the floodgates for bans across the country.

Fault Lines traveled to Texas, where the landmark case was born in 1970, and where abortion is now illegal in nearly all cases.

'The End of Roe' follows a doctor, staff and patients in an Austin clinic in the immediate days after the decision as they navigate the legal chaos and uncertainty of a post-Roe America. It also follows a group of women who had to cross state lines to access abortions and finds that, for many, this journey is not possible. With more states instituting bans and little support from the government, people are often left with no choice over their reproductive health.

Producer: Amina Waheed
Correspondent: Natasha Del Toro
Director of Photography: Joel Van Haren
Executive Producer: Laila Al-Arian
Editor: Leslie Atkins
Additional camera: Shane Alcock
Additional Field Production: Jeremy Young
Fact-checker: Abdulai Bah

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Todos los comentarios (21)
  • @DAZ100
    How many of you have adopted one of these babies..?.......Yeah. That's what i thought 0.0 Shame on you!
  • I don’t understand. Americans can’t afford to raise taxes to afford universal health care but they can afford tax hikes for all these babies on welfare?
  • @johnnypham2850
    This is a lot to go through in a country where Birth Control is readily available and can be obtained at the exact same places where the methodologies to avoid becoming pregnant are completely accessible.
  • @vickygraham2444
    "The unborn" are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; unlike orphans, they don't need money, education, or childcare; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It's almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn."
  • The over turned roe v Wade ruling taking effect so quickly is unjustified. What should have taken place is that every state should adopt the Roe v Wade ruling immediately. Then the state should draft their own version of abortion rights and have the voters vote on it. Anything other than this is stupid.
  • Women might end up having to move out of the US because of these abortion bans. If Trump becomes president again, we could see a national abortion ban.
  • @israeldna3720
    Guys should have the right to not pay child support and or be in the child life as well. That should be a right too .
  • @xx5386
    Election in November, we all must vote AGAINST any politician that votes to take away a woman’s right to abortion
  • This is only 2 weeks after the Supreme Court decision? Were they already pregnant before the decision? Or did they get pregnant within those 2 weeks?
  • Why did they stop offering abortions on the day Roe was overturned? That’s not how law changes work. It’s not immediate. Why are they being so dramatic and manic? Why kind of doctor would behave this way?
  • I became pro choice because my mother had the freedom to choose to have me and choose to keep me despite taking birth control when she got pregnant with me. If a woman chooses to carry her pregnancy then I will support her decision. If she chooses to carry her pregnancy and place the child for adoption I will support her decision and if she chooses to have an abortion then I will support her decision.
  • @bevneesam7994
    Uk woman here appreciating our laws and common sense. America is uncivilised regards this law ,making children be born when theirs and their mums circumstances are instantly going to be one of hardship. Why? You make mum have child but don't support mum n baby. Maddness. The guilt a woman has anyway about one of the biggest dissisions of their lives and to add to this...jeese inhuman Gun laws are maddness too...my opinion 🤔