The End of Roe v. Wade -- and What Comes Next | Kathryn Kolbert | TED 

The fact that everything in her talk turned out to be right on the money and happened TODAY is astounding.

Holy Crap, her outlining of which states would ban abortion is really accurate.

Reversing Roe is a great Netflix Documentary with her in it. It was made in 2018.

Normally you'd said "This aged well" as a joke. This woman nailed it like jumping off a roof blindfolded and landing on the point of a pin. :P

I might add that in Europe and nations in Europe, Japan, South Korea, they offer all kinds of programs to help and support families raise infants after birth, something unheard of in America.

She was right. Known in less than a year

Wow. She was so true. It happened exactly as she said today

Wow. Would love to hear from her today. Wonder what she thinks now, when she was so right back when this was filmed. She needs to be on every talk show that exists.

Who else is here after hearing the news? Looks like Mrs. Kolbert was right.

The bounty situation in Texas is absolutely crazy.

Luckily, I live in a state, Connecticut, that will most likely never make abortion illegal, and they are passing laws that will prohibit other states from suing abortion providers. We will be one of the few states that allow full medical choices for women.

"Let's vote them out!" Uh... we can't? Gerrymandering and presidents who are elected on minority vote giving us lifetime appointments... political activism is somewhat futile by just the rules.

What do you do with an additional 1,000,000 unwanted persons in your society annually? Provide free health care, provide free college? Nah...just hire more police and build more jails.

There are always smart people out there who see the writing on the wall before everyone else. She really called it here.

Very few of us took this seriously. Now we are on the precipice of losing everything including our democracy. This is about so much more than Roe v. Wade!

I feel like this was recorded yesterday (June 24th). Crazy how she predicted it with certainty.

Welp. She called it gone within a year, and it's happening. May 2nd,2022 A draft from the supreme court has been released stating it will be over-ruled.

I left the Republican Party and I'm not looking back. I'm with you ladles. I personally would want to have the baby all things being equal. But I respect your individuality and your rights as a human being first and foremost. I'm a protector by nature, and helping to protect your rights is what I will do!

This is our time as women to take a seat at the table. Update laws and move toward a more compassionate and caring society that treats women and children with love and dignity.

“The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely - the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” -- 6/24/2022 She was unfortunately and terrifyingly right.

Americas system is terrible, in Ireland we got to vote on it. We got to decide for ourselves. I guess voting in America is also getting harder, since they're taking that away from many people also. It's almost like you aren't really free or democratic.

As a college student I cd not have been able to have a child or even had a abortion unless it was free. I had student aid jobs that paid 2-dollars an hour. Somehow I got through college on this. I worry about young women like myself.

To those who say life doesn’t begin till the baby is born. Why is it that When pregnant woman gets killed. the killer is charged with double murder. ?

In 2017 when Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic Party should not focus on Roe, the first heartbeat legislation was introduced. Heartbeat legislation defines abortion of an embryo with electrical heart circuitry as ‘homicide’. In 2017 Nancy Pelosi also welcomed Joe Manchin’s input. Can we have a new political party please?

So abortion goes back to arresting a medical person who performs an abortion and the life of the woman attempting to obtain an abortion. I'm beyond childbirth age, but I also believed the right to abortion was a forever right. It's horrifying to know that the govt can take away a right and I wonder about the rights that will be taken from us next.

She clearly understands the lagalities very well, but I think she is being unrealistic with regard to getting a constitutional amendment passed to protect abortion rights. Getting 2/3rd majorities to vote on anything these days is tough, but for abortion, Schumer can't even get 51 Senators to overcome the filibuster to vote for abortion rights.

Who is watching this after SCOTUS just overturned Roe vs. Wade tonight?

Our participatory form of government is a lot more than "I voted. I'm done". It's watching those representatives and putting pressure on them to vote in our best interests. How? Phone calls, emails, letters and protests. We need to remind them they can be voted out as much as they are voted in.

This woman hit it on the nail.

Abortion was legal when the Constitution was written. "Abortion was not just legal-it was a safe, condoned, and practiced procedure in colonial America and common enough to appear in the legal and medical records of the period. Official abortion laws did not appear on the books in the United States until 1821, and abortion before quickening did not become illegal until the 1860s. If a woman living in New England in the 17th or 18th centuries wanted an abortion, no legal, social, or religious force would have stopped her." - Scarlet Letters: Getting the History of Abortion and Contraception Right Abortion was only illegal for 115 years. Currently only 20 some third world countries have laws against abortion. Why would the USA join third world countries? Outlawing abortions only leads to unsafe back alley abortions, unwanted children, filled orphanages, abused and neglected children, future citizens with mental health problems, and crime. According to the Bible "Life begins at first breath."

I am 5 days post op hysterectomy and I’d be lying if I said part of why I had this done was so that no one can ever tell me what to do with my body. No children, 35 years old. Truly sad what women still have to endure in this century.

Wow. This woman was spot on. Off I go to look up more of her work.

Women wanted to have abortion as long they wanted to have children. Abortion will happen. The only question is, how many women will lose her life because cause of it.

Without abortion, my brothers and I would never have been born. My mom was able to terminate un unwanted pregnancy, and was then able to start a family at a time of her own choosing.

Amazingly I came across this video today and I feel slightly better after watching it. However, the reality is that this is the beginning of a tough road for us women. It seems like we are going back in time. Today is the worst day in the history of women in 50 years. I knew that behind closed doors they were "cooking' something during the Pandemic. For those who are not aware, the number of abortions has been low since 1973. As Ms. Kobert stated, this is not about abortion. It is a pretext to control women. What else are they "cooking?'

Wow!! RU-vid algorithm is on point!! Surprised this hasn't received more views...

The best antidote for despair is action. Thank you

You know the crowd was thinking she was just a quack, and that could never happen. Welcome to 2022.

I especially feel doomed because info like this was available 5 months ago and here we are, at the doorsteps of the decision and we are STILL IN FACT hitting our heads against the marble steps. And even as someone that is typically a diehard optimist, I hate to say that I see every scene of the Handmaid's Tails (from police killing protesters to preventing people from leaving the state) happening. 😔

I thought this was recorded yesterday! But that fact that it was recorded last year and she is on point is amazing!

This AGED WELL

This is why we need diverse representation in government. We need more women, especially women of color, at all levels of government.

A Constitutional Amendment: The right to women to govern over our own body and decisions effecting our own body. This needs to happen.

In my country, I observed a under three month pregnancy abortion, no restrictions. However after that period, you'll need a medical reason. I think that is fair, for both mother and the child.

she had predicted so correctly

Remember all of the medication barriers and restrictions don't exist in the EU, Japan etc, YK, the first world.

Wow we should have her in all the mass media now then ever….. wow women like u give me hope ….. thank u so much ….

Who’s here after the overruling?🤚

Please enable the subtitles feature in the videos

This is like Handmaids Tale with a twist !

You called it! Please make another video based on today's ruling.

If republicans were serious about birth control and were really pro-life they’d also ban vasectomies.

This topic should NEVER have been dumped on the Supreme Court. We the people need to hold elected officials (CONGRESS) accountable and prevent them from shirking responsibility so they can stay in office and become millionaires on $150k/yr salary. If people want abortion rights, get out and vote!!! Stop complaining about bad legal reviews in SCOTUS, they should never of had that power. Time to vote and vote big time, let the majority decide and kick out congress members who won’t act for and by the will of the people. End of story.

Quick question and if I’m crazy just let me know….. could you say it’s against a individuals religion for them to have and carry a child full term? First amendment? Religious freedom? Can these women, if Roe is overturn, potentially use this? Has this been used and brought up before?

Did anyone else get this as a recommended video after what happened with the SCOTUS decision recently? How prophetic now!

Kathryn, you were so right. A part of me wishes I had seen this earlier, so I could have contributed somehow. But I know I likely would have thought, meh it'll all be fine. You were spot on. Its time to not only get back what we have lost, but to do better as you said!

Very well said and thank you!

As horrifying as the overturning of RVW is, it is only the tremor before the quake. The courts goal is to overturn all human rights decisions and send them back to the states, thus dividing the country even more than it already is. If this courts stands long enough, I fully expect (conservative) states to start closing their borders.

Boy, she was spot on.

abortion is not about religion it is about moral and scientific base, many of what we know right now about when life begins is not now during the time of roe vs wade. we should include the latest scientific knowledge that we now right now and apply in to that abortion issue.

I’m from the uk and am nothing short of heartbroken for the women and girls of America. You really have to do better. 💔

Roe v wade WAS overturned today and she was right... it's a sad day for women here

Bottom line: if you don’t need or choose to terminate a pregnancy, then don’t. But don’t tell someone else what to do.

I mean anybody could have seen this coming why you think they packed the court the way they did

We now have modern societies comprised of many formerly disparate and different beliefs and social norms. America was formed as a secular state to accept all the various religious, and secular opinions. That the religious do not accept that secular origin of the founding of the USA is a great shame. This subject is more than just what the "right to life" side want to claim. It is about the right to freedom. That no one group has the power to force their opinions on all others. The right to life people want that right for themselves alone.

I support the basis that the government has no business watching you so closely that it would notice if you were pregnant or if you had an abortion. But if it can. Well we were protecting each other's freedom up until we weren't.

As a start, as of January 27 of this year the Equal Rights was ratified by the last state necessary for it to be the law of the land. The National Archivist must enter it into the Archives NOW.

Truth is we live in a time where the US health and medical field has been able to make abortion a safer practice weather it be affordable or unaffordable and back then they weren’t as much so there should be no reason why roe v wade should be overturned unless if this government wants a higher mortality rate for women and infants.

Her words from last year are a chilling prophecy for this year.

I don't care that it's potential babies. It could be a 47 year old adult for all I care. The debate is about body autonomy - a person should never be forced to sacrifice their body for someone else.

Agree with a lot of this, but birth control pills can't be over the counter. Not all women can take them. They are also a danger to health. My best friend in college died from birth control pills. They triggered a stroke. Because of her age, health care providers mistook her for having the flu. She was 20 years old. They hadn't checked her family medical history of stroke. No, we need proper health care - with actual, informed health care providers. And sometimes women have to change which pill they use because one causes side effects for some reason. So, lots of great stuff here, but we do need proper medical care.

They did it today. Roe vs Wade is done

"The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.

This woman is amazing. And she called it. Hit each nail on the head. Can she run for President??? ☺️🇺🇸

Levatino’s full testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice appears below: Chairman Franks and distinguished members of the subcommittee, my name is Anthony Levatino. I am a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist. I received my medical degree from Albany Medical College in Albany, NY in 1976 and completed my OB-GYN residency training at Albany Medical Center in 1980. In my 33-year career, I have been privileged to practice obstetrics and gynecology in both private and university settings. From June 1993 until September 2000, I was associate professor of OB-GYN at the Albany Medical College serving at different times as both medical student director and residency program director. I have also dedicated many years to private practice and currently operate a solo gynecology practice in Las Cruces, NM. I appreciate your kind invitation to address issues related to the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R.1797). During my residency training and during my first five years of private practice, I performed both first and second trimester abortions. Duringmy residency in the late 1970s,second trimester abortions were typically performed using saline infusion or, occasionally, prostaglandin instillation techniques. These procedures were difficult, expensive and necessitated that patients go through labor to abort their pre-born children. By 1980, at the time I entered private practice first in Florida and then in upstate New York, those of us in the abortion industry were looking for a more efficient method of second trimester abortion. The Suction D&E procedure offered clear advantages over older installation methods. The procedure was much quicker and never ran the risk of a live birth. Understand that my partner and I were not running an abortion clinic. We practiced general obstetrics and gynecology but abortion was definitely part of that practice. Relatively few gynecologists in upstate NY would perform such a procedure and we saw an opportunity to expand our abortion practice. I performed first trimester suction D&C abortions in my office up to 10 weeks from last menstrual period and later procedures in an outpatient hospital setting. From 1981 through February 1985, I performed approximately 1200 abortions. Over 100 of them were second trimester Suction D&E procedures up to 24 weeks gestation. Imagine if you can that you are a pro-choice obstetrician/gynecologist like I once was. Your patient today is 24 weeks pregnant. At twenty-four weeks from last menstrual period, her uterus is two finger-breadths above the umbilicus. If you could see her baby, which is quite easy on an ultrasound, she would be as long as your hand plus a half from the top of her head to the bottom of her rump not counting the legs. Your patient has been feeling her baby kick for the last 2 months or more but now she is asleep on an operating room table and you are there to help her with her problem pregnancy. The first task is remove the laminaria that had earlier been placed in the cervix to dilate it sufficiently to allow the procedure you are about to perform. With that accomplished, direct your attention to the surgical instruments arranged on a small table to your right. The first instrument you reach for is a 14-French suction catheter. It is clear plastic and about nine inches long. It has a bore through the center approximately ¾ of an inch in diameter.Picture yourself introducing this catheter through the cervix and instructing the circulating nurse to turn on the suction machine which is connected through clear plastic tubing to the catheter. What you will see is a pale yellow fluid that looks a lot like urine coming through the catheter into a glass bottle on the suction machine. This is the amniotic fluid that surrounded the baby to protect her. With suction complete, look for your Sopher clamp. This instrument is about thirteen inches long and made of stainless steel. At the end are located jaws about 2 ½ inches long and about ¾ of an inch wide with rows of sharp ridges or teeth. This instrument is for grasping and crushing tissue. When it gets hold of something, it does not let go. A second trimester D&E abortion is a blind procedure. The baby can be in any orientation or position inside the uterus. Picture yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp and grasping anything you can. At twenty-four weeks gestation, the uterus is thin and soft so be careful not to perforate or puncture the walls. Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard-really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about six inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs. The toughest part of a D&E abortion is extracting the baby’s head. The head of a baby that age is about the size of a large plum and is now free floating inside the uterine cavity. You can be pretty sure you have hold of it if the Sopher clamp is spread about as far as your fingers will allow. You will know you have it right when you crush d own on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix. That was the baby’s brains. You can then extract the skull pieces. Many times a little face will come out and stare back at you. Congratulations! You have just successfully performed a second trimester Suction D&E abortion. You just affirmed her right to choose. If you refuse to believe that this procedure inflicts severe pain on that unborn child, please think again. Before I close, I want to make a comment on the necessity and usefulness of utilizing second and third trimester abortion to save women’s lives. I often hear the argument that we must keep abortion legal in order to save women’s lives in cases of life threatening conditions that can and do arise in pregnancy. Albany Medical Center where I worked for over seven years is a tertiary referral center that accepts patients with life threatening conditions related to or caused by pregnancy. I personally treated hundreds of women with such conditions in my tenure there. There are several conditions that can arise or worsen typically during the late second or third trimester of pregnancy that require immediate care. In many of those cases, ending or “terminating” the pregnancy, if you prefer, can be life saving. But is abortion a viable treatment option in this setting? I maintain that it usually, if not always, is not. Before a Suction D&E procedure can be performed, the cervix must first be sufficiently dilated. In my practice, this was accomplished with serial placement of laminaria. Laminaria is a type of sterilized seaweed that absorbs water over several hours and swells to several times its original diameter. Multiple placements of several laminaria at a time are absolutely required prior to attempting a suction D&E. In the mid second trimester, this requires approximately 36 hours to accomplish. When utilizing the D&X abortion procedure, popularly known as Partial-Birth Abortion, this process requires three days as explained by Dr. Martin Haskell in his 1992 paper that first described this type of abortion. In cases where a mother’s life is seriously threatened by her pregnancy, a doctor more often than not doesn’t have 36 hours, much less 72 hours, to resolve the problem. Let me illustrate with a real -life case that I managed while at the Albany Medical Center. A patient arrived one night at 28 weeks gestation with severe pre-eclampsia or toxemia. Her blood pressure on admission was 220/160. As you are probably aware, a normal blood pressure is approximately 120/80. This patient’s pregnancy was a threat to her life and the life of her unborn child. She could very well be minutes or hours away from a major stroke. This case was managed successfully by rapidly stabilizing the patient’s blood pressure and “terminating” her pregnancy by Cesarean section. She and her baby did well. This is a typical case in the world of high-risk obstetrics. In most such cases, any attempt to perform an abortion “to save the mother’s life” would entail undue and dangerous delay in providing appropriate, truly life-saving care. During my time at Albany Medical Center I managed hundreds of such cases by “terminating”pregnancies to save mother’s lives. In all those hundreds of cases, the number of unborn children that I had to deliberately kill was zero.

Wow she predicted exactly how it would happen - and it happened yesterday!

We live in times of fundamentalism. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are all experiencing this. All 3 of the Abrahamic religions needs a reformation at this point.

Education for all. It starts with this and the rights she speaks of. We needs to control the Government not them controlling us!!!!!

Here we are

“For the Court to make its argument valid, it would have to add to its factual premise (the fact of fetal non-viability] the normative premise: whenever a human being cannot live on its own because it uniquely depends on another human being for its physical existence, it is permissible for the second human being to kill the first to rid the second of the burden. The Court assumed that premise in both Roe and Casey. The Court has never argued for it.”

I think it's time for us, as US citizens, to acknowledge that our vote is not reflected in the outcomes of elections. Either via gerrymandering, changing rules, restricting voting rights, closing down voting centers in the neighborhoods of people of color and the poor, only allowing politicians that satisfy corporate interests on the ballot, etc. I think it's time for us to acknowledge that this will have to be accomplished in a different way. We will never achieve good when we're forced to choose the lesser of two evils at every point, we can only achieve more evil. The founders knew this as well, and even the Supreme Court also affirmed previous rulings that the Second Amendment ensures our right as individuals to take part in the defending of their liberties by taking up arms in an organized militia. I truly hope it doesn't have to come to that point, but the choice that only peaceful protest be necessary is not our own to make. As JFK said "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." and the longer things go on, the more I see that peaceful protest has been largely ineffective, be it our rights to our own bodies, fair treatment of POC, stopping the ever increasing wealth inequality, or the ever increasing threat of climate disaster. It's tiring and unfair to live our lives (or die in poverty, forced birth, police murders, enslaved in for-profit prisons, etc) in fear of what they do to us, while they live in their spoiled, stolen riches, completely free of fear that anything will ever be done to them, thinking they will never be made to face the consequences of their actions.

I wish more people had listened to this, myself included!

Let's just sit back and enjoy America's journey to Authoritarianism

The word "all" in the constitution should be self-evident as fully inclusive. That is only going to be true if it is passed that it means inclusive of all human beings, without exception.

Thank you !

I remember the good old days when the US was ahead of everybody else with almost everything.

We need to pass the equal rights amendment. We also need to go after state government and elect leaders who do not support reproductive freedom.

I need her stock advice.

When the pill was made available to women in the mid-60s there was a substantial drop in crime 20 years later, do you think the opposite will happen, in 20 years we may see a spike in crime?

She was right and ahead of her time!!

Exactly illustrated what’s happening now…

How about legislation to keeep the air cleaner for newborns and growing children? MAGA intends to hammer EPA. MAGA also intend to chip away at ACA, Medicare and Medicaid. These policies assist kids with chronic asthma, diabetes, sickle cell disease, and teens with suicide ideation.

She’s 50% correct. The 50% is yet to happen.

Dynamic. She is Katie Porter without her whiteboard. I'd vote for her any day.

Really appreciated for her point of view

There are many opinions in this matter: all respectable. This is a decision that impacts woman, so they are the ones that should have the largest influence in this issue. But there is a small problem, we do not even know what a woman is in 2022!!!

So if overturned. We will see increase in awful horrific practice of illegal torturous abortion. Let people do what they want with themselves. Not anyone's cross to hold but one who made the choice. Leave them alone.

Here from actual end of roe v wade. Sad day.

Re helping women who can't have children to fertility treatment - I have a genuine question here, this talk doesn't include abandoned children, and/or those growing up in care. I'm wondering (actually it's not just re people seeking fertility treatment, but it's about this right of everyone to be parents): I'm wondering if those children who surely also have a right to parents couldn't be encouraged more to get together, rather than going the costly and not guaranteed to succeed fertility treatment route? What am I missing in this idea, answers most welcome

Watching this in May 2022. She was 100% right on every count.