Abortion rights around the world

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To have an abortion in Poland, women will now have to prove that their pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or that it is life threatening.  Here's what abortion access looks like around the world...

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00:00Every single one of you loves someone who's had an abortion.

00:04Abortion is a matter of human rights, public health and social justice.

00:09Women should have the right to decide about our bodies,

00:14not the government or the Church.

00:30Abortion is a matter of human rights, public health and social justice.

00:57The situation is awful.

00:59We have a very restricted law, one of the most restricted in Europe and in the world.

01:29Voting makes everything better

01:38Friday 26 March

01:51Yes, in our country, we've had some obsessive experiences in our intravenous sequences.

01:56We've had delays for too long.

01:58We have lived through doctors who forced us to listen to heartbeats.

02:01We have lived through it and we don't want women in our country to continue to live it.

02:09I can't help but note the hypocrisy that is ours,

02:13to count on our neighbors, on the countries around us,

02:16to do what we don't want to do.

02:28I can't help but note the hypocrisy that is ours,

02:31to count on our neighbors, on the countries around us,

02:34to do what we don't want to do.

02:46Over the last three years, women's reproductive rights

02:50have come under attack in a way we haven't seen in modern history.

02:54From Louisiana to Missouri to Texas,

02:57Republican legislatures are waging a war on women,

03:01all women.

03:04And they're taking away fundamental rights.

03:16The real problem is that women who have money or come from certain situations

03:21can always go to a different state to avoid the consequences of the new ruling,

03:25but the people who are affected the most by it are people who are not of means.

03:42I'm very excited. It's a historic day.

03:45Today is history. There's nothing more to say.

03:48There are no more words.

03:50It's a winning right. Let's go for more.

03:52This is just the beginning.

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