Transcript of Being pregnant under Donald Trump is 'terrifying' | US Election 2024
Sky NewsThese are the protocols that you're going to follow. You're going to do the procedure. We do have protesters certain days of the week.
Dozens of times a day, Irma explains the process and risks of abortion to women in this clinic.
Twenty and one pill. It's going to be a busy day. May I get your first and last name, please?
But it's no longer simply a personal medical matter. Across this country, abortion is a burning election issue, especially Especially here in the battleground state of Arizona, where it's literally on the ballot.
You have politicians that basically see something they can use, and they're going to use it no matter what it is.
Dr. Eunest sees how a patchwork of abortion laws across the country are putting women's lives at risk. Earlier this year, Arizona briefly enforced a law from 1864, completely banning all abortions.
These people were going across state lines, getting procedures done that can cause bleeding, delayed bleeding, and then coming back.
I felt defeated. Across town, these women know intimately the myriad circumstances which lead to abortion. One, after rape.
I found myself in an emotionally and mentally abusive relationship.
Others to save their own lives.
I carried my healthy twin daughter and my dead twin son. I was beyond devastated.
Kristen was 17 weeks pregnant when She was told her unborn child had severe fetal abnormalities.
Our baby was still... It was guaranteed she would live a short life, and it would be full of pain.
Already a mother to a young son, Kristen and her husband made the heartbreaking decision to get an abortion. But in Arizona, it was banned past 15 weeks. So they drove seven hours across state lines to New Mexico for the procedure.
I truly could not believe it was happening. I didn't really have time at the time, the drive there to think, reflect on how angry I was and how I had been so let down by my state.
What would you say to someone who might have long-held beliefs in banning abortion? What would you say to them?
For those people that are so against it, think of the other women such as myself who desperately want to have another baby. I had to use abortion care.
Proposition 139 will protect Arizona.
Reproductive rights are being used as a a rallying cry for the Democratic Party. Ballets dropped today. I join State Representative Quante Cruz as she canvases for support.
Ballets dropped today.
She's telling voters about a special measure on the ballot.
Prop 139 is regarding abortion access and allowing health care when women need to make those decisions with their doctors.
If approved, it would enshrine abortion rights into the state Constitution. The election mood here is febrile. This is a Kamala Harris campaign office, abandoned after not one but three shooting attacks. With polling showing Arizona balanced on a knife edge, Latino voters here could hold the sway. Some at this concert are more motivated by immigration and the economy than abortion.
I'm still up in the air about it, but I think only because of how the economy was functioning, things were cheaper. I'm going to vote for Trump.
With three weeks left to the election, time to win over undecided voters is fast running out. Martha Kana, Sky News, Phoenix, Arizona.
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