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Duke Gardens is about to open. Here’s what visitors should know.

A new entrance to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens is finished. The day before reopening, Due South’s Leoneda Inge speaks with the head of the Gardens to talk about how to visit, and what you can expect now that the project is complete.

Bill LeFevre, Executive Director of Sarah P. Duke Gardens

0:13:00

North Carolina woman Ciji Graham died while waiting for an abortion

Graham, a Greensboro police officer, had heart problems, and in the past her chronic condition had been treated by cardioversion. But a doctor didn’t offer the treatment because of a positive pregnancy test. 

ProPublica is investigating Graham’s, and other women’s, deaths related to tightening abortion laws following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

Lizzie Presser, covers health and social policy at ProPublica where she won the 2025 Pulitzer for public service along with several reporters who covered deaths related to abortion laws.

• The article discussed in this segment is titled, "A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion."

0:33:00

Checking in on Duke’s oral history project from health care workers in a post-Roe America

How the health care landscape has changed in the two years since Leoneda Inge first spoke with Dr. Beverly Gray about the end of the legal right to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Dr. Beverly Gray, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University Medical Center, one of the leaders of the Abortion Care Today oral history project, and the co-host of a podcast about abortion access called Outlawed.