With Roe overturned, women have to leave their states to get an abortion | Fault Lines Documentary

In June, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision that made abortion a constitutional right for nearly half a century.
Abortion rights are now up to each state to decide, opening the floodgates for bans across the country.
Fault Lines traveled to Texas, where the landmark case was born in 1970, and where abortion is now illegal in nearly all cases.
'The End of Roe' follows a doctor, staff and patients in an Austin clinic in the immediate days after the decision as they navigate the legal chaos and uncertainty of a post-Roe America. It also follows a group of women who had to cross state lines to access abortions and finds that, for many, this journey is not possible. With more states instituting bans and little support from the government, people are often left with no choice over their reproductive health.
Producer: Amina Waheed
Correspondent: Natasha Del Toro
Director of Photography: Joel Van Haren
Executive Producer: Laila Al-Arian
Editor: Leslie Atkins
Additional camera: Shane Alcock
Additional Field Production: Jeremy Young
Fact-checker: Abdulai Bah
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[@Diana1000Smiles]

BTW, I intend to never watch FAULT LINES DOCUMENTARIES. You're offensive and anti-USA. 👎 I respect Al Jazeera's News Organization, but, not whoever (fault lines) keeps disrespecting American Women.

[@jasonweinstock1282]

No woman owes anyone a baby

[@johnnypham2850]

EXACTLY! That is why all Women should avail themselves of the actual contraceptives available.

[@Phoenix-J81]

​@@johnnypham2850that's great, when they actually work. Honestly, I think it would be wise for democrat (women) to be more choosy with their partners now. Only pick successful men, that believe you have rights as a woman; will treat you like a partner in life and not as someone to control. Men that will help you raise a child if you choose to have one. Having a family is not as important anymore, but focusing on becoming independent and having good careers is. Men need to become second class, now that our safety net is gone. Pregnancy is dangerous as 1-10 have serious complications. Our maternal death rates have increased by 300 in Idaho alone, in just a short 10 months.

[@the-seed-sower761]

​@@Phoenix-J81Men will never be second class. If you believe this nonsense, you're in for a world of hurt

[@kennyroberson6216]

​@@johnnypham2850dude shut up

[@nothereyetlost]

@@Phoenix-J81 funny you think women should still be dating and getting pregnant when a lot of these abortions are ones where women want the babyies

[@DAZ100]

How many of you have adopted one of these babies..?.......Yeah. That's what i thought 0.0 Shame on you!

[@ultramarinewaters9325]

I don’t understand. Americans can’t afford to raise taxes to afford universal health care but they can afford tax hikes for all these babies on welfare?

[@GhostRider-ce3eb]

America, the land of freedom is becoming a dystopie

[@mathildeyoung1823]

pretty sick if someone is equating freedom with having the ability to kill a defenseless human being to make their life easier

[@GhostRider-ce3eb]

@@mathildeyoung1823 yes, it's human, but it's not a person, because the central nervous system and the brain isn't developed, so the fetus doesn't feel pain or has a consciousness. It has the potential, but in this early stage it doesn't.

[@GhostRider-ce3eb]

@@mathildeyoung1823 do you really think that the only reason for an abortion is to make your life easier? So to go through a pregnancy, to give birth and grow up a child is simply an inconveniance?

[@mathildeyoung1823]

@@GhostRider-ce3eb Slave owners said "not a person - because they have black skin". Human being = person. And really you can say loud and proud "I support the killing of defenseless human beings. Yay for abortion. Yay for killing"?

[@mathildeyoung1823]

@@GhostRider-ce3eb I never said the only reason for abortion was to make someones life easier but the top 2 reasons for abortion are money and "not the right time for a child" - those are excuses of convenience. Instead of doing something like getting help from a pregnancy resource center, friends, family, a church (if the woman belongs to one), an adoption agency etc, the woman has her unborn child killed. We do not hear hundreds of thousands of stories of women being turned away from adoption agencies and pregnancy resource centers after going there asking for help to save the life of their unborn child do we?

[@jasonweinstock1282]

Doctors and women shouldn't be treated as criminals

[@DAZ100]

Shame on you

[@johnnypham2850]

This is a lot to go through in a country where Birth Control is readily available and can be obtained at the exact same places where the methodologies to avoid becoming pregnant are completely accessible.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

IF IT'S NOT YOUR BODY, IT'S NOT YOUR DECISION, johnny.

[@Famlayf1st]

@@Diana1000Smiles ITS THE BABY BODY TOO

[@chrissmith7669]

It’s not nearly as accessible as you’d think thanks to the unwavering work of religious zealots

[@JLneonhug]

@@chrissmith7669 you have a better argument to get contraception more accessible than to get babies removed from the earth.

[@johnnypham2850]

@@Diana1000Smiles STFU I’m John’s Wife and it is my business when ridiculous non thinkers kill babies out of convenience because they want to bang some black dudes but not give birth to the offspring.

[@drakenkraken8455]

Qatar World Cup Costs 6,500 Workers Their Lives.

[@undercoverangel1410]

Thank you for the awareness. I just looked it up because of your comment. Won't be watching the world cup this year. Appreciate you 🙏

[@zainzoala1083]

Helloo , The video isn't about Qatar world cup but about abortion in the US. 😁

[@TheJLH]

I know you think you’re appealing to people who might care about life and then maybe they’d care about those lives, however, any pro-life people here likely won’t care a bit about that ACTUAL suffering. They only care about things that give them an enemy and make them feel self-righteous. On the other hand, I and many others who are fans of formula 1 in fact have varying degrees of activism from boycotting races in certain Middle East Emirates nations to directly petitioning the FIA. Abu Dhabi comes to mind as well with the death and slavery that they’ve tricked Indian people into walking into freely by dangling the carrot of well-paying work in their faces and then stealing their passports. Saudi Arabia, too. It’s very very sad.

[@johnnypham2850]

@@zainzoala1083 HELLO ALL LOST LIVES AND INDIRECT MURDER IS MURDER

[@meowclaws4690]

@@undercoverangel1410 yk the same thing happened with 2014 fifa wc?

[@israeldna3720]

Guys should have the right to not pay child support and or be in the child life as well. That should be a right too .

[@Elephantstonica]

When it’s ultimately their fault? You’re joking right?

[@iamwell5654]

Most do NOT pay child support already.

[@JLneonhug]

@@Elephantstonica it's how equality works, your body your rules. His body his money.

[@johnnypham2850]

I AGREE

[@danthomas6587]

He also has a right to keep it in his pants and be responsible for his own sexual proclivities.

[@victoriabardsley8097]

I became pro choice because my mother had the freedom to choose to have me and choose to keep me despite taking birth control when she got pregnant with me. If a woman chooses to carry her pregnancy then I will support her decision. If she chooses to carry her pregnancy and place the child for adoption I will support her decision and if she chooses to have an abortion then I will support her decision.

[@We.1014]

Abortion is evil to kill innocent unborn baby!

[@TheEverFreeKing]

You're only alive because she didn't have an abortion, it makes no sense to support abortion because she rejected it. You're opening the door for someone just like you to be killed.

[@spencermorgan9774]

Women might end up having to move out of the US because of these abortion bans. If Trump becomes president again, we could see a national abortion ban.

[@vickygraham2444]

"The unborn" are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; unlike orphans, they don't need money, education, or childcare; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It's almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn."

[@lhw.iAviation]

Fun facts: I’m for prison reform, there should be maximums jail terms not minimums. 10 years for petty crimes, sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me. I’m for preventative government health coverage. Poor health can be avoided if you pay attention to the early signs. Widows? Let’s make it easier for widows to get help, how? I don’t know Orphans? Make it easier for adoption, right now there’s too many barriers to adoption. The state is in the way too much

[@susanwest4137]

There's a wait-list of families wanting to give a newborn a home. 0 justification to electively kill.

[@spencermorgan9774]

Vote BLUE this November!!!!

[@AnonymousAccount514]

This is only 2 weeks after the Supreme Court decision? Were they already pregnant before the decision? Or did they get pregnant within those 2 weeks?

[@phillipsandcastle8387]

People be getting pregnant it's wild

[@bevneesam7994]

Uk woman here appreciating our laws and common sense. America is uncivilised regards this law ,making children be born when theirs and their mums circumstances are instantly going to be one of hardship. Why? You make mum have child but don't support mum n baby. Maddness. The guilt a woman has anyway about one of the biggest dissisions of their lives and to add to this...jeese inhuman Gun laws are maddness too...my opinion 🤔

[@Goodkidjr43]

Exactly. Killing "children" (your words) is always the best solution.....sarc. Now WHO is inhuman? jeese. Furthermore, a child IS SUPPORTED.

[@Reaper-cm4jr]

Funny how you folks in the UK fought so hard during WWII to stop the killing of innocent men, women and children in the Concentration Camp in Poland. But now want to kill your own children at will. Rather strange isn't it. "Let's Go Brandon"

[@sonicmiku3009]

I don't pay for people's pets, why should I have to pay for another person's irresponsibility of having a kid. It's not much different when there's mothers who have actually killed their children after they have been born either way.

[@leonardmayer2362]

The over turned roe v Wade ruling taking effect so quickly is unjustified. What should have taken place is that every state should adopt the Roe v Wade ruling immediately. Then the state should draft their own version of abortion rights and have the voters vote on it. Anything other than this is stupid.

[@TheEverFreeKing]

Well we had to do it because babies were being slaughtered, we were waiting for the day where we could act. Many states had trigger laws for this very reason so we could minimize the bloodshed as soon as humanly possible🧐

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

I just never got into this need to have kids, especially within my race! I always found it to be more of a curse than a blessing; and a lot of that stems from my childhood.😒

[@robsledgegroupie]

I keep saying the difference between me and the folks that want me to have kids is that they see kids as a blessing, I only see kids as a burden to avoid.

[@expectopatronummf]

Gilead

[@ronaldgross9188]

the solution is a constitutional amendment.

[@Reaper-cm4jr]

Even if there was one that guarantees that right, the Democrats would just try to take it away from you. Look what they have been trying to do to the Second Amendment for years. "Let's Go Brandon"

[@Diana1000Smiles]

ERA should be LAW.

[@citizen_of_earth_]

Great reporting 👏

[@AnonymousAccount514]

Why did they stop offering abortions on the day Roe was overturned? That’s not how law changes work. It’s not immediate. Why are they being so dramatic and manic? Why kind of doctor would behave this way?

[@KayMoneyRecords]

Some states had trigger laws. When roe was overturned, abortion bans were imminent

[@somewhereinspace2166]

You need to research trigger laws.

[@AnonymousAccount514]

@@somewhereinspace2166 thank you. I understand now. Still, they knew that they lived in a state that had these trigger laws…im sure those weren’t written overnight

[@mannytazz5106]

No one's talks about the Baby's right to live.

[@livingcorpse5664]

What about the mom's right to not die from a DEAD, ROTTING CORPSE IN HER WOMB?!?

[@Reaper-cm4jr]

@@livingcorpse5664 Here's an idea. Don't go around sleeping with people that you don't want to have a child with. Unique concept, but it WORKS. "Let's Go Brandon"

[@jasonweinstock1282]

Sorry to burst your bubble,but I have more feeling for a BORN woman than I do a zygote, embryo,or fetus

[@ponzi_bunny]

@@livingcorpse5664 if it's a dead baby it's not an abortion... Duuuuh!!!!! 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@ponzi_bunny]

@@jasonweinstock1282 for a born woman who prefers herself over a child? Yeah... Definitely bursting bubbles left and right. Got it.. 🤢

[@goremall4330]

Women can choose if they want to be sexually active or not.

[@johnnypham2850]

In America they can also access birth control GENIUS

[@TheEverFreeKing]

Ashamed of these unitarians that make their Church look bad 😔😔😔

[@xx5386]

Election in November, we all must vote AGAINST any politician that votes to take away a woman’s right to abortion

[@chrissmith7669]

Vote to strengthen the separation of church and state

[@deleted72636]

no

[@johnnypham2850]

I refuse to vote to continue to allow access to murder in a place where actual contraception is available and easily accessible.

[@TheEverFreeKing]

​@@chrissmith7669you can oppose allowing abortion on completely secular grounds.

[@chrissmith7669]

@@TheEverFreeKing I don’t see a need. I’d rather argue on secular grounds we need to provide better options and alternatives.

[@dianehess5520]

Whatever happened to birth control?

[@brookiegremlin6660]

they claim it's "inaccessible" which is absurd

[@prettyllady]

It's not an option for everyone! Like my mom had 4 kids because all forms of birth control failed her and she was getting blood clots from the birth controls! Birth control was bad for her body, so after having us she had her tubes tied. I'm in the same boat, because birth control makes me sick and causes stomach and body pain..and no matter which ones I tried, the outcome was still the same. Smh! Also birth control can fail so there's that lol 😂

[@nealamesbury1480]

We are fully divided before reversing roe. I assure u , we are unhinged

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Not me. I'm a retired medical professional and I understand Science and the ignorance of the religiously deluded people trying to control other Humans. Only a Woman has control of her own body.

[@karenfugagnolo1897]

im glad this has happened. a baby has a right to live just like the mother was given that right. to me abortion is murder and murder is not a human right and this is my opinion and i wont apologise for it

[@ashleyc506]

If you can sleep at night knowing that girls as young as 10 can be forced into motherhood after being raped, than you are of no moral or humane character and I will not apologize for it.

[@susanwest4137]

​@@ashleyc506😂😂😂 Rape and incest account for less than 2% of abortions. Even smaller percentage of minors. Exceptions don't make rules sweetie. If the mothers life is danger, there is no issue with ending the pregnancy. 0 justification to electively kill.

[@kennyroberson6216]

We will find other ways to have abortions and you will have to live with it

[@chrissmith7669]

A sad day when America took a giant step backwards and closer to being the opposite of what the founding fathers intended.

[@johnnypham2850]

That step backwards seem to have taken place when Women began randomly committing murders of innocent babies by abortion on demand at late stage. As for our so called founding Fathers who found someone else’s land they were slave owners who viewed humans as capital so they would certainly be against abortion at all stages and therefore against the rights to access afforded by Roe v/a Wade.

[@chrissmith7669]

@@johnnypham2850 that’s about the stupidest justification for a total ban I’ve ever heard. I think you’d be horrified if you found out how our forefathers dealt with abortion.

[@TheEverFreeKing]

​​@@chrissmith7669epends on where you go in history, early Christians of the Roman empire were extremely against abortion and forbid the practice. It actually attracted a large number of women because during this time it wasn't their choice but the choice of their husbands and fathers. Abortions were extremely dangerous as they didn't have modern medical technology so many women jumped at the chance to convert so that they could be safe. They also tended to have a preference for boys over women so baby girls were left alone in the wilderness and Christians would adopt them and raise them as their own, literally going out looking for them because they knew this practice was happening. Of course it varies depending on place, time, and group. Catholics in the United States have always universally been against it. Seeing as many Irish and Italian immigrants helped build this country it's very likely massive parts of the population were in opposition. The evangelicals came on later when the Catholics made the rational arguments to them and when presented with the overwhelming evidence they became the core of the pro-life movement. Although to be honest the supreme Court only succeeded in killing row because of Catholic Justices so in the end it seems the Catholics score yet another W🤔

[@TheEverFreeKing]

Also it was a beautiful day for America like freeing the slaves the end of segregation 😎☝️ I don't believe the founding fathers Express many opinions about abortions, I believe Benjamin Franklin was an exception but generally I think they'd be pretty impressed with how powerful and great the country has become 🤔

[@srv645]

Is abortion legal in quatar😂

[@shacaciabillings1545]

I love this documentary ❤ this is a topic that everyone needs to understand and stop looking at it as a bad thing because its not. Its a part of being human.

[@mathildeyoung1823]

killing a human being is part of being human? huh?

[@desistarktm7270]

Church: Abortion is sin. Libs: that's misogyny & fascism Mosque: Abortion is haram. Libs: understandable.Have a nice day..

[@PSYxTV]

This is not a theocratic country. It is a secular country. We dont make laws based on sin. Go and live under the Taliban if you want that so much.

[@marygard4608]

Stupid statement.

[@admire1915]

@@PSYxTV Most atheists I know are pro life. Pro life stances aren’t biblical at all. Simple moral reasoning is all it takes. If world religions had no stance, if men had no stance, this issue would still be here.

[@Nitterous]

Abortion isn't haram in islam nor is it ever mentioned to be a sin in the Bible. Educate yourself before making stupid comments

[@robillionaire]

I do not want to live under religious law no matter if it’s yours or someone else’s

[@akbarralston9714]

If these abortionist were real doctors they would be upholding the Hippocratic oath that a doctor's job is to preserve and save life not to terminate it ...

[@Linkacide]

So if being raped by a relative happen then that’s cool

[@yinnetteolivo]

Ok, so we should preserve life and eliminate guns too and put everyone in jail who takes them. Cops, no exceptions even for self defense.

[@livingcorpse5664]

You want women to die from carrying a dead rotting baby inside them. Bug off.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Wow, this Post is filled with comments by uneducated Humans.

[@jonwiegels3007]

Abortion is murder, your rights don't include taking another persons life.

[@jasonweinstock1282]

Why don't that male anti abortion activist mind his own business,and quit looking on other people's license plates..is this guy a womb cop,or something?

[@BrianaKees]

You can't have it both ways. Texas carries the death penalty(murder) but bans abortion. If SIN is the reason for banning abortion, why isn't adultery? It's not my place to judge ANYONE ELSE'S actions in this life, as NO ONE is free from sin. But the fact that "church and state" isn't being honored in this country, is WRONG.

[@susanwest4137]

😂😂😂 You don't need any religion to know elective murder is wrong.

[@checkmate2861]

Unborn babies live matters

[@yinnetteolivo]

Except when you get your lover preggo and your wife is gonna kill you if she finds out. lol

[@byronius7012]

Born babies lives don't matter

[@Diana1000Smiles]

You're another man playing GOD?

[@iamwell5654]

Speak when you have a uterus.

[@AMultipolarWorldIsEmerging]

Not everyone agrees that a 2 week old placenta is the same thing as a human being so why do you get to decide what is a life and when it becomes a life or not? 99% of abortions are done in the first few weeks why do you get to limit other peoples freedoms by your definition of what a human being is or isn’t

[@freedomfighterletsgobrandon]

Roe vs Wade was just a clump of words and now it has been aborted, lmao! 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂

[@heidi2842]

How can it be a woman's right to end someone's life?

[@ajeenahmelvin6594]

It’s her body

[@heidi2842]

@@ajeenahmelvin6594 So, which organ or part of "her" body is removed in the process of abortion?

[@heidi2842]

@Anon Ymous Comparing a hand to a new organism is biologically and physiologically absurd. It is legally absurd to say that the fetus has any active demands on the mother, because it did not enter the womb of its own free will. The question is: what can possibly be a valid argument for taking the life of a completely innocent and harmless human being?

[@heidi2842]

@Anon Ymous The fact that a fetus is dependent on its mother's body is not an argument that the fetus is not a human being. Independence is not the core of being a human. Also, if someone depends on someone, it does not mean that someone owns someone. So what about the mother who abuses the bodily autonomy of the fetus? - as you yourself said - no one has the right to abuse someone else's body to save their own life. Isn't that exactly what the mother does in an abortion? So we have two parties, both with the right to bodily autonomy. In the circumstances where the fetus had nothing to do with the pregnancy and taking into account that the mother will retain her bodily autonomy in several months, the right of the fetus to bodily autonomy prevails. Which means it has every right to be born. I am handling your arguments here. However, the deep truth is not the mother is after her bodily autonomy - she will have it in a few months. The truth is the mother in fact has another goal - to prevent the child from being born, that is, to avoid motherhood. There are far more civilized ways of avoiding motherhood than abortion.

[@eliesh3833]

@@heidi2842 I'm pretty sure not even being "innocent" or "harmless" makes you entitled to usage and occupation of an unwilling person's body.

[@michaelb3138]

What about the right of the unborn child? ....in American there is no reason why woman does not have access to birth control...if its about a woman's body then stop being Promiscuous and wait until marriage

[@livingcorpse5664]

What about the mom's right not to die carrying a DEAD fetus?

[@johnnypham2850]

@@livingcorpse5664 That is indeed acceptable as a reason to abort. It is devastating that Women have once again oppressed other Women by overuse of a horrible act instead of reserving that procedure for situations where there is need. It is similar to the Formula shortage. Instead of the Formula being abundant because most Mothers nurture their progeny and give them the breastmilk they are entitled to the majority take the way out that they believe is easy.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Women should have equal Rights, same as you, Michael. You're not the boss.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

@@livingcorpse5664 what about Women's Healthcare Rights? Are men forced to support the babies they caused?

[@jonwiegels3007]

❤

[@akbarralston9714]

Murderers !!!

[@yinnetteolivo]

Yes, murderers. Let's put them all in jail, even the NRA and everyone who kills. everyone, no exceptions. Everyone who kills? Cops, people who allow murders to happen. Even state excecutioners? maybe? yes?

[@byronius7012]

If you are referring to the politicians who want women to die in gruesome yet preventable ways because of a non-viable fetus that died inside of them, then I agree.

[@byronius7012]

@Souven Tudu Women who have fetuses die inside of them have to sit at home coping with the death of their child and waiting to become infected because doctors are only allowed to treat her once she is literally ravaged by sepsis and on the brink of death. Don't "whaaat?" me.

[@ponzi_bunny]

@@byronius7012 if the baby is dead.. it's not an abortion. It's a miscarriage. Get your facts inline murder simp!!

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Men. I don't know any Women who create WARS.

[@eileenjames9929]

when she said feels like the air has been sucked out of the room I thought yust like the baby feels being sucked out of the womb a nation that kills it's children is doomed

[@Ray-sl5mc]

What evil people. They are literally mad sad and heart broken because that can't kill babies anymore.

[@eliesh3833]

Nice misconstruing of the people you disagree with. That totally refutes everything they say.