♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, post-roe impact. >> i knew there was no chance in hell that i was having a baby. >> ahead of this weekend's women's march and next month's midterm elections, we travel the country to examine life after abortion bans. >> i was carrying my baby to bury my baby. >> what women on both sides have to say. >> abortion is death. abortion is evil. it's destructive. plus huma abedin. one on one with the consummate political insider. >> anthony was my first relationship, my first love, the first man i'd ever been with. >> how she healed from betrayal, lies, and the fallout from her

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♪ thanks for joining us. now to the national debate over banning abortion. we traveled across the country to see up close how women on both sides of the issue are grappling with the fallout. some sharing stories about being denied access that are as painful as they are powerful. others describing their profound decisions to have their babies, despite the obstacles. here's abc's rachel scott. >> reporter: hey, juju. it's been a little over 100 days since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. with the midterms just around the corner, women across the country are starting to feel a sense of urgency. we decided to travel state to state to explore all angles of this divisive issue, with real, raw, and emotional conversations exploring the impact in a post-roe america.

>> it's heartbreaking. the agony, the pain. the confusion from all of this. >> we looked at this picture, you know, over and over and over and over again. you know, getting to the point where we stopped looking at it. because -- >> it's hard to look at it. >> reporter: when nancy davis found out she was pregnant this summer, it never occurred to her she would be sitting down to tell this story. >> we were elated. >> this was a planned pregnancy. we wanted a fourth child. >> i think i may have done a dance. >> reporter: weeks earlier, the supreme court handed down the dobbs decision, overturning roe v. wade. nancy and her fiance cedric weren't thinking about abortion until they suddenly learned

their fetus had a deadly diagnosis, ecrania. >> imagine being told that your baby, some of his brain is missing. and the skull is missing. it's heartbreaking. it's devastating. >> we had to come to terms with the fact that these babies just don't survive. >> i was carrying my baby to bury my baby. that was the worst day of my life. the doctors, they advised us that we should terminate. but whenever it came down for us to get the procedure, we were denied. women's hospital was scared of prosecution, and they were scared of being fined. >> reporter: the decision in dobbs versus jackson women's health essentially gave each state the power to control access to abortion. louisiana was one of the states to immediately ban it. but there were exceptions.

ecrania is not one of them. >> we contacted a few different doctors in louisiana. no one was going near abortion. absolutely nobody. >> reporter: louisiana is just one state to ban abortions. with the midterms just weeks away, at least 14 states have also banned it. while five other states have abortion on the ballot this november. this saturday marks the fifth anniversary of the women's march to advocate for abortion rights. >> our bodies, our choice! >> reporter: we set out to explore this issue. in "nightline's" new weekly series streaming on hulu, "impact." first episode takes a closer look at how the supreme court's decision is changing the landscape of women's rights. >> the first time i had an abortion, i was 19. there was never any question in my mind about what i would do. >> i was 15.

yeah. i was 15. i was just really devastated. and i knew there was no chance in hell that i was having a baby. >> i was 26 when i needed an abortion. saved my life. it was the best decision i ever made. >> reporter: we speak to people across the spectrum on the issue. >> abortion is death. abortion is evil. it's destructive. it's unnecessary. >> i feel that everyone should give their baby a chance. a chance at life. whether you want to parent or not. >> reporter: talk about what needs to change as we enter a post-roe world. >> we won't go back! >> reporter: the ripple effect is reaching across the country, including traditionally blue states. in michigan, voters will decide this november if they want to

protect abortion in the state constitution. >> probably the most hidden population, where i had a lot of trouble as a student, no one had really heard of my identity. but statistics show 1 in 5 students are student parents. >> reporter: jessica pelten is a graduate of university of michigan. it's places like this that could feel the impact of the roe reversal. over one-third of women who have abortions every year do so before the age of 25. >> i'm going to get your cereal, get your breakfast and your lunch packed, honey. >> yeah, i like it. >> i think there's a narrative that young mothers, young fathers, can't graduate from college, college isn't an option, it's out of the question. do you think that's wrong? >> yeah. because if it wasn't for her, i never would have gone. college was never on my radar at

all. i never felt like i had a reason to go. >> reporter: after her daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor, that changed. >> let's get in the car. after she was diagnosed -- she was 3 -- asked how she would have a normal life. so i signed up for daily ledge to show her, if i can have a normal life while raising her, she can do it too. >> have best day! >> i want her to be in college. i want that to be a goal. i want her to see me do it. >> reporter: the university of michigan has more resources than most for student parents. lactation rooms. >> i am going to show you guys the study room. >> reporter: a dedicated study space. a pilot program for on-campus daycare. some of those thanks to jessica. she now works for the center for the education of women, known as cew plus. an organization that advocates

for students from underserved groups with scholarships and emergency funding. dr. tiffanie mara is the program's executive director. jessica says she's been a critical mentor. >> the hardest part for me is seeing students who advocate so hard for themselves, knowing that they might not be able to create the change they want to see in the four years they're here. >> reporter: marra says with roe v. wade overturned, supporting student parents should be a priority at all campuses. >> i would imagine with the roe v. wade supreme court decision, that there might be greater demand. it would be a travesty if, because of bans that are now getting enacted across states, we lost a population of the higher education system. to me, that would be the worst possible outcome. >> you don't really talk about abortion or politics around this issue at work. why? >> i don't talk about politics as a student or in my personal life or at work because it causes a lot of divide and ill

feelings about each other. i just believe that everyone should be supportive of student parents regardless of where they feel politically. >> reporter: around the country, there are other programs designed to help expecting mothers. many are faith-based, like good counsel homes, the nonprofit which provides a place to stay, school, job training for free. good counsel also has a program that helps women who regret getting an abortion. >> my name is teresa bonaparte, director of lumina. it's an outreach for people suffering, to let them know they're not crazy, they're not alone, there is help. there can be healing from a past abortion. >> tell me about how this program got started. >> that would go from my own story. i had an ra abortion when i was a teenager. to say my life changed after that is an understatement. i hated myself. >> reporter: teresa says she's encountered dozens of women who feel guilt and shame after their abortions and her program helps them find healing.

>> nobody wants to hear us, on both sides, sometimes. so i think that people that have suffered abortion often feel very much stuck in the middle of the debate. >> there are women who feel they cannot go through with their pregnancies that they have to decide to have an abortion because they're young and they feel it may limit their opportunities. >> but don't you think that we're the ones that put that in their heads? we've told women they're not capable of doing this, and they are capable of doing it if they have the right help. >> our thanks to rachel. "impact" by "nightline" is now streaming on hulu. new episodes drop every thursday. up next, one on one with huma abedin. moving on from scandal, lies, and heartbreak. with apretude a prescription medicine used to reduce the risk of hiv without daily prep pills. with one shot every other month, just 6 times a year. in studies, apretude was proven superior to a daily prep pill in reducing

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♪ one on one with huma abedin, who spent years as hillary clinton's trusted adviser from the senate to the state department. how the quintessential political insider found healing after her ex-husband's sexting scandals underindependented their lives. it's in her searing memoir "both, and" now out in paperwork. i'm so glad you could join us. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start with the news. you were at state department for many years. we know that as a south asian muslim woman, growing up wearing a hijab at times, i wonder your reaction to the protests going on right now. they're deadly in iran. >> i am so sort of filled with fury, watching what happened to

mahsa amini. more than that, i really think we need to continue to talk about what's happening, encourage these women to speak out, iranian citizens to speak out. because i do know what it's lime to be a teenage girl having to cover her hair. >> when we talk about gender-based violence or sex i, it's not just abroad, it happens here in the united states. walk us through sort of how you see sexism playing out in the political sphere throughout your experience and now. >> i think it's hard for women in politics. it was hard 20 years ago, it's still hard today. there's been, you know, a movement to sort of talk more about it, to lift women up. in terms of actual -- the structural system, both in politics and i would argue in business or really any field, it's hard for women to be 69 as executives, seen as in charge. that's why one of the things i talk about in my book, it's important for men to be at the table to support women, to help lift us all up, and for each of us to show that support to each other. but i right extensively in the

book, as you know, about the sexism that hillary faced in 2008 and 2016. it was really hard. >> you talk about so much of your experiences with hillary in this memoir. but one of her famous quotes was, "i'm not some little woman standing by my man." yet you say in the book that her broken and open heart and her perseverance helped save her husband's presidency during the monica lewinsky scandal and impeachment process. was that what inspired you to stand next to your now-exhusband in the midst of not his first but second sexting scandal in the middle of his run for mayor? >> i think every case of challenges and relationships is different in every case. certainly mine i think was unique in its way, but i don't think i'm the only person who's gone through what i went through. for me it was very different in that i, you know -- the first time the sexting scandal was revealed, i was not even 12 weeks pregnant. i was desperately in love with my husband. back then, nobody understood the

behavior. you thought it was this little, easy thing to knock off. turned out it was a compulsive behavior that later was revealed as addiction. we didn't know that. hindsight is 20/20, but at the time you're just trying to get up every single day and make it through the day. >> tell us about that first moment of revelation and what advice, if any, you have for other women who may be blindsided by a romantic partner? >> anthony was my first relationship, he was my first love, he was the first man i'd ever been with. the trauma and ptsd which i do write about in the book, it took a long time to get through it. one of the great privileges i feel as women stop me on the street or send me messages and emails, i do calls fairly regularly. i tell them, lie yourself to feel. i think i didn't. i had to compartmentalize, ied a so much anger and resentment, and in the end it was slowly killing me. it really was. it was going through therapy, understanding it, working through it. now that i'm on the other side, i can be this person in 2022 who

would not recognize the 2016 version of me. >> so give us some insights into that healing process. i would imagine writing this book was a lot of it? >> i grew up in an immigrant family. and my -- you know, a community, a south asian family, a community where you didn't talk to strangers about your problems. i write about my father's kidney transplant and the impact that had on our family. deep, emotional impact on our family. i had a father who was terminally ill, i didn't know it was a secret. one of the things i've learned is secrets can become cancers. it certainly was that in my marriage. and it is going to -- for us, it was going into professional therapy with being able to have these conversations with each other. they were very, very hard, very painful. we went through a disclosure process, it's a formal therapeutic process, it takes time. for me, it was worth it. >> you wrote this book in "vogue" legend anna wintour's guesthouse? >> it was anna's idea.

i was procrastinating, not writing it, she said "you're going to come into my house." i did. poured my heart into it. a wise friend toll me, "for a woman like you, the single most important relationship you can have is with yourself. everything else is a plus, not a must." and i -- i'm just -- i really do feel that in my life right now. >> i hate that we're out of time. in a phrase, what's next for huma abedin? >> freida pinto has optioned the book. making it into a scripted series which i'm very excited about. i can't wait to see that. i'm really excited about the notion of mentorship. i really want to get even more involved in that space. i think i'm going to, you know -- you'll see a few more appearances of me in different spaces and places, but those are the things i'm excited about right now. >> thank you for bringing your wisdom and grace, huma abedin, thank you so much.

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