Safe Delivery, Part II

NICK EICHER, HOST: Next up on The World and Everything in It: Safe Delivery: Part 2!

Last week we brought you the first of our three-part special report. If you missed it, I say now is as good a time as any to go back, catch up, because part two is right around the corner

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Yes, and by “right around the corner,” you mean tomorrow.

EICHER: Yes, I do!

BROWN: It’s a good reminder, too, because catching part one is critical.

There are storylines that revolve around pro-lifers using Safe Haven Laws as well as other safe-haven tools to help mothers and babies in crisis.

You may have heard me mention this last week. That it was Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett who raised the issue and it was important that she did. Because she knocked out a pillar of the argument propping up Roe versus Wade.

So I found that part in the Oral Argument in the Dobbs case where Justice Barrett talked about it. And I want you to hear it:

CONEY BARRETT: It doesn’t seem to me to follow that pregnancy and then parenthood are all part of the same burden. And so, it seems to me that the choice more focused would be between say the ability to get an abortion at 23 weeks or the state requiring a woman to go 15, 16 weeks more and then terminate parental rights at the conclusion. Why didn’t you address the safe haven laws and why don’t they matter?

So with that, she set in motion what has become a year-long look into what some are calling the safe haven movement.

EICHER: Well, Myrna, congratulations on this series. It’s one of the things that sets WORLD apart—taking a deep dive into an important story.

Part 2 of WORLD’s three-part series, Safe Delivery, continues this weekend right here in your podcast feed for The World and Everything in It. We’ll include a link to that in today’s transcript.

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