“This Is a Freedom Issue” Texas IVF Patient Brings Lawsuit Over Abortion Bans
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week’s Inside the Hive explores the recent IVF ruling in Alabama and the very personal fight for reproductive rights in America. Host Brian Stelter talks with Amanda Zurawski, who is suing the state of Texas after being denied an abortion, about nearly dying during her difficult family planning journey. He also speaks with Washington Post reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell about Republicans’ complicated relationship with IVF that has involved a lot of misunderstanding of both the science and the political consequences of the ruling.
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| 0:32.3 | read watch and hear. Vanity Fair. Amanda, when I called you last night to ask how you've been feeling about this IVF controversy in Alabama. |
| 0:55.6 | You said you were really angry. How are you feeling today? |
| 0:59.6 | Just as pissed off as I was yesterday and I will continue to be as outraged until something changes. |
| 1:07.3 | You know, I hear these interviews with politicians in Texas and Alabama and Tennessee and you know similar states where it's become very |
| 1:16.8 | clear that they don't even have any idea what they're talking about they've |
| 1:19.7 | never been through IVF they don't understand how it works, yet they're getting in the way of my family |
| 1:27.3 | planning journey and they have no idea what they're talking about. |
| 1:30.4 | Who are they to tell me what I can and can't do when they don't even |
| 1:33.7 | understand the science. That's Amanda Zaraschi. She's a lead plaintiff in a |
| 1:39.6 | Texas lawsuit that challenges the vague wording of the medical exception in the state's abortion |
| 1:45.6 | bans. |
| 1:46.6 | And I'm Brian Stelter. |
| 1:48.6 | Welcome to Vanity Fair's Inside the Hive. |
| 1:51.9 | Today we are going inside the fight for reproductive rights in America. |
| 1:56.0 | It is one of the main campaign issues in 2024. |
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