of the debate with staff, patients and protestors at the little rock family planning service, in arkansas, as they waited for the court's ruling in a ruling that rocked america, the supreme court of the united states scrapped the constitutional right to abortion. people told me it was impossible, that we would never see this kind of victory. and now i know that victory is not only possible, it has happened. seldom does a ruling result in such a reaction. abortions will continue, theyjust will not be legal and women will die from botched abortions. this decision will impact the lives of millions of americans. we were with medical staff inside an abortion clinic

in the final days before they were forced to stop operating and tell people they could no longer help. it is like having to turn women away. it sucks. it's difficult to see the end, although we hope the end is not permanent. do not kill your baby. god gave you that. baby, do not kill it. we are the change, we are the change. what now for them in terms of reproductive rights in the united states? arkansas is one of the 13 states with anti—abortion laws designed to be triggered by the court ruling, and where its impact was felt almost immediately.

you know the rules? this is little rock family planning service. it is the last independent abortion clinic in arkansas. most of the people who work here have done so for many years, here have done so for many years. they are, they say, a family. since may, when the court draft opinion was leaked, they have known their days providing the care they do were numbered and the ruling could come at any day. not today. we have done whatever we can, jumped through all the hoops, just to still be here and provide the care. and now to put this barrier in place that will truly make it impossible, it seems unbelievable. they know it is now a waiting game. and so did the protesters that called them murderers outside.

it is the worst kind of murder, quite possibly, because it is premeditated and it is against a little defenceless baby. inside, friendly pranks provide a distraction from the pending unemployment that looms. each of them knows every day they spend together could be the last. this doctor travels to arkansas from another state because the restrictive laws and the threat of violence or financial ruin has long been too great for local doctors to carry out abortions you themselves. every day could mean i may not get a chance to provide care that day, even though... abortion could start out legal in the morning and be illegal by the afternoon. the staff here have watched each other�*s children grow, they have supported each other

through their own abortions. before becomiong staff. are you serious? and you called me, i was calling to see if you want to do work here and i was like, 0k. i'd love it. this is not a funeral parlour or a cancer ward, people get health care here. people need them to believe it is what it should be, - a society leads to believe this. should be a solemn experience that you are saying. that it is, but it is not always the case. we are saving lives, _ it comes from their own mouth. right now, i am working twojobs already and i am barely making it. if i had another kid... and thank goodness you had that choice. girl, i want to cry thinking about it. not only me, my kids would suffer as well. you know what i am saying?

it is wednesday, the 15th ofjune, the week before the ruling. hannah knows she may not be doing this tomorrow, so does michelle. it is easy to keep busy with a higher number of appointments than they have ever known. everybody making sure the area is ready. today is another day they can provide care for women regardless of what brings them here. i have seen so many different scenarios, so many different women, heard so many stories. and ijust cannot even imagine what some of these women are going through outside just the story they tell us. we don't get the whole story. when abortion became legal, pregnancy became safer for women in this country. and just like abortion made pregnancy safe, the criminalisation of abortion will make pregnancy unsafe.

we will come to recognise the full cost of criminalising abortion when we start to see the bump in the rise of maternal mortality and morbidity, suffering and death related to conditions from pregnancy. i have been praying here 12 years. they do not know when or what it will say but for the protesters, the clinic escorts, the reception and medical staff note the ruling is coming so they have stopped taking new appointments. it is hard to be on the phone with someone and to hear their voice crack and to hear them start crying because i myself have been in that situation. i have needed an abortion. that abortion saved my life from a domestic violence situation and you never know what these women are going through. you know? birth control fails all the time. sometimes, people become pregnant, you know, under circumstances that was not even consensual.

all right. i am doctor parker. due to so—called trap lows or targeted regulation of abortion providers doctor parker is legally bound to inform patients what will happen using specific terminology, at least 72 hours before he terminate their pregnancies. it means many women have to take several days off work and make the often long and costlyjourney twice. got some things that the state requires me to tell you. some of those things i think are designed to scare you. but they require me to tell you but i get to interpret what i think they mean. the reason i explain it is people who want you to feel guilty, but they are really giving you their opinion.

20—yearr—old lauren travelled here from oklahoma, a state which banned abortion months before the supreme court gave any state the right to do so. she says she does not have the financial or mental stability to bring up a child alone. she allowed us to film her procedure. film during her procedure. this is lauren. all right. they got you comfortable? all right. there are no surprises. the pressure you feel, i want you to let go. and exhale. goodbye. thank you. lauren is taken to the recovery room after a five minute procedure and 20 hours of travel.

it seems inappropriate, the practice of medicine, we have argued for many years, should be left to the people that practice medicine and medical decisions or private between the doctor and their patient. to have the government involved has always been something we have argued against. you know, we are here and we do this care for the reasons that are very personal and... any of us who work here have done this for a very long time and to have that no longer be accessible is very upsetting. you are a lawbreaker. don't kill your baby. this is where the case decided at the supreme court originated,

the last abortion clinic in mississippi, also known as the pink house. the state of mississippi tried to ban almost all abortions here after 15 weeks when the highest court in the land ruled in its favour, it overturned its own most famous and controversial ruling in the case of roe v wade. that gave women across the united states the right to choose. now, 50 years on, it has taken that right away from individuals and handed it to individual states. many republican—led states, including mississippi now have or will either ban abortion or severely restrict access to it. we are trying to protect the unborn white child and you are not. - critics of the supreme court ruling said this is where it will be most acutely felt.

as you drive around the mississippi delta, you can see just how rural it is. the uniform rows of crops that report by stretch further than the eye can see. this is the land of the haves and the have—nots, with little but farmland in between. 0k. amanda was a struggling single mother, still breast—feeding when she found out she was pregnant again. come on, are you ready? i am ready. she was staying with her parents, having escaped an abusive partner and she was adamant she wanted a termination, but she says she was tricked by a crisis pregnancy centre into thinking they would help her until it was too late. eventually i found out i had timed out, essentially, how far along i was,

whatever, i had timed out and i knew then my other option was to go somewhere else, another state but i did not have transportation, i did not have a phone. she had no choice but to have the baby here in the poorest region of the poorest state, with the lowest number of doctors per capita anywhere in america. and where many clinics have closed. in the mississippi delta, wages are low and health insurance is expensive. that combination has led to nearly 40% of the population here being saddled with medical debts and if they cannot pay, clinics and hospitals close. access to health care gets worse, not better. that, plus a lack of basic transportation and nutrition, puts many pregnant people in the highest risk category. the banning of abortion will increase maternal morbidity and mortality. this clinic...

at the health centre here its only obstetrician tells me banning abortion will exacerbate an already desperate situation. and i think what is sometimes missing in the general public discussion of abortion is that abortion is a necessary part of reproductive care. blindly banning abortion really puts women's lives at risk. greenwood is less than an hour away but it feels like another world. at the regular sunday service, local obstetrician doctor terry is amongst the choir, he does not agree. there will be more children being given a chance at life. i don't think women's health care will be impacted, maybe we should not have sex outside marriage. and women making those difficult decisions.

so this is our reception area. when abstinence fails, which it often does, crisis pregnancy centres which women like amanda often confused with clinics, step in and they are the answer to unwanted pregnancy and any hardship it might bring, is counselling and prayer. have you ever sat in this room and thought maybe having this baby is not the right choice for this girl? never. i don't think there is such a thing as a child that should not be born, ijust don't think, i think the world is a better place with more children and i understand there are higher risks but i understand women who are in poverty do have healthy babies. slow down. amanda says there is nowhere near enough support here for the children people are being forced to have. what would you say to anti—abortion campaigners, people at the crisis

pregnancy centres who say to you, we helped you, because now you have this lovely little boy who you never would have had. i would say to them what i have been saying to them in my mind for years and years, no thanks to you. because you don't know what we went through, you don't know that my abuser had to be escorted out of the hospital when i had the child. but it all worked out, did it really? can we really get into it? what about the young woman who is dead? what about the kids who do not have a mother, what about the child being abused, what about the kids in foster care who are suffering? what about the kids, there is no grocery store, no hospital, they don't have books at school? what about the parents who do not have jobs? we have these children but we cannot support them.

amanda, like many others here, feels she has already effectively been living in a post roe v wade world, one which had little respect for the reproductive rights she was constitutionally entitled to. life will go on here, but now, as soon as they are born, the future generations of the delta will have even fewer rights and fewer choices than their parents did. just after 9am on friday the 24th ofjune, the supreme court delivered its decision. the agonising wait at the clinic is over. it was exactly the ruling they had been dreading. but the expectation did not make the court decision any less devastating. i love this place, these people, everybody is super nice. i love what we do, it is helpful for women who feel they do not have another way out. this is not a country i ever

thought i would know. i thought that this country would still care about people. would still care about women. we have got to make sure that every woman knows how important this is. this is notjust women. these people have a christian nationalist country, they do not want you taking birth control. they are going after transgender people next, query people. - people next, queer people. they tell us what they are going to do after this is closed. my suggestion is for you to turn around and leave this place - of sin and iniquity, this evil place. - the regular protesters outside the clinic welcomed the ruling. you are on notice, your license plate has been recorded - and you will be reported to the authorities. - while some busied themselves taking down registration numbers, clinic escorts began explaining to patients who continued to arrive

why they could no longer help. abortion is murder. it hasjust been upheld. the right of abortion - is returned to the people. the elected representatives. we will not fully celebratel until abortion is eradicated fully from our land, _ until our family planning services for example is closed down and does not reopen, - then we can celebrate for sure. i am proud to announce as chief legal officer for the state of arkansas that the united states supreme court has in fact overruled roe v wade. and planned parenthood versus casey. thereby restoring the state of arkansas the authority to prohibit abortions. a few hours later in downtown little rock the arkansas attorney general fought

back tears ofjoy as she signed an almost total ban on abortion into law. terminations can only take place here now in the case of a life—threatening maternal medical emergency. there are no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, it is a law even the state governor says will lead to heartbreaking circumstances for some young girls. those conversations on policy in 2019, whether we should include cases of rape or incest and the legislature said we should not include those exceptions, it should only be in the life of the mother. you agree with that or do you have reservations? i do agree because this is an innocent life we are talking about and that innocent life that began at conception, because it was formed and under evil circumstances it does not make the innocent child evil. today our attorney general signed

la proclamation that made it clearl women who are victims of rape - and children who are victims of rape and incest art no longer able to try to regain control. - this was the reaction outside the capitol building. it is my body! it is my choice! there are women who need to have something done to their bodies. no man should ever tell us or woman that we cannot do, we ought to be able to do it. we are at the change. among those demonstrating is karen, the clinic escort. my name is karen. that felt better than i thought it would, i'm sorry. thank you! we do clinic escort and we started out, the arkansas support network

started as a clinic escort programme, we were there at the clinic helping people walking through the door. and i was there today with some other escorts. when they close their doors. it is heartbreaking. we are going to continue to do this, we are going to continue to keep raising money and help get people out of their state. there are facilities and other places and we are going to send them there. cheering. do you want me to take...? back at the clinic they had to come to terms with the fact the care they provided here for many years is now a criminal offence. none of them are close to us. the closest we have is illinois. there is a health clinic. it is about ten minutes from saint lewis, do you want the number? i do not think there is a waiting period but it is about a five hour drive. and tell people not to come

for their appointments but help make alternative arrangements. can i help you with anything else? and it's like having to turn women away, like... it sucks. what did she say? she is going to look on the pro—choice website, i'm sorry, ifeel like my face is getting hot because i start crying every time i have to tell them now but she is going to look and hopefully find a place she can get an abortion and if not, she will have a kid that she does not want to have and probably will not be a good situation. so, that sucks. jennifer first walked through this corridor more than ten years

ago when she came here, a young woman who was in trouble and looking for help. she says her abortion saved her life and that the care she received here inspired her to train so she could do the same for others. to not to be able provide anyone else when i know what this place is capable of, it's heartbreaking. it's really heartbreaking. i mean, they need to come and listen to the phone calls i get every day, i have to tell them i am sorry but there is nothing i can do. i'm sorry your boyfriend beat you every day and he rapes you. i can give them information to help them try but it is heartbreaking, this place saved my life, literally. i feel angry in a way that anybody who is deeply invested in humanl rights should feel angry— and outraged and indignant any time

they are witnessing injustice. if you are not angry you have to question your values. - although it looks scary, it is non—invasive. there will be follow—up care for recent patients and the administrative work that comes with winding down a business but operations have stopped and the clinic is now is now for all intents and purposes, closed. it is very difficult to see it end although we hope the end is not permanent. we know there are other ways we can still pursue our support of this movement. and abortion care. no matter what new avenue i find in a job, i will still definitely work with everything i have to help ensure that this right returns. we obviously care very much for our staff. as you have said, we are like

family, we truly are and we want them to continue to have jobs and careers that are fulfilling. and it's very heartbreaking that our work has gone, but i again think it is important to know there are so many women out there who will not be able to travel, who do not have the means and who will ultimately not get care. and that is a tragedy as well. the decision of the six conservative justices at the supreme court will impact the lives of millions of americans. apart from closing this decades long debate, it has intensified it and lead to a wave of legislation and lawsuits that has only deepened the chasm dividing the united states and led the world to question its direction which even its president seems powerless to control.

hello there. temperatures are set to rise through the coming week, particularly across the south and south east. but first of all, through today, we are looking at a mixture of sunny spells and showers. the weather watcher photos show the contrast in conditions nicely. this photo sent in from the highlands, but blue sky and sunshine overhead in this photo sent in earlier from east sussex. now we take a look at the pressure chart. we have low pressure to the north, so quite blustery, breezy conditions across scotland through today. and high pressure building into the south, so we have got a scattering of showers and a north—northwesterly flow through this afternoon, particularly for eastern areas, temperatures generally sitting in the high teens, low 20s. as we go through tonight, it will stay fairly blustery across the far north of scotland in particular. we will see that feed of showers and rain pushing in across scotland, northern ireland, eventually getting into northern england and northern wales. elsewhere, a largely dry picture with patchy cloud and clear spells.

temperatures fairly similar to where they have been of late, sitting at around eight to 13 celsius. tomorrow, we start off with this band of cloud, which could bring one or two showers across northern england and northern wales. it slips fairly quickly southwards through the morning. sunny spells following on behind. sunny spells and showers for scotland, northern ireland and northern england, but fewer showers than today, but it does remain fairly blustery across the far north. temperatures at a maximum of 23 celsius. high pressure continues to edge its way fairly slowly in as we move into tuesday. but we have that weather front still toppling around the top of it. so, tuesday, some early brightness but it will turn cloudy as we go through the day. the best of the brightness to be found in eastern and southern areas. showers or spells of rain and drizzle for northern and western areas. temperatures generally in the high teens, low 20s, a maximum of 23 celsius.

as the week continues, you can see high pressure continues to gradually edge its way in but weather fronts never too far away from the far north, so always breezier conditions and the greater chance of seeing wet weather here. if we take a look at temperatures, how close to average they are, temperatures dropping off across europe but picking up above average across the uk. so if we take a look at the outlook, temperatures picking up across the south, getting up to 26 celsius on saturday, around average further north. bye— bye.

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