#1442 Health, Race, Class, Gender and Gaslighting at Work (Texas Abortion Law and SOCTUS)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 September 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Air Date 9/18/2021
Today we take a look at the new Texas abortion restrictions and the response from the Supreme Court along with lots of contextualizing commentary taking us back to the Fugitive Slave Act and all the way through to the strain of patriarchal White terrorism that is at the core of the current conservative movement.
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| 0:00.0 | During today's episode, I'm going to be telling you about a podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | I think you should check out it's called Uneffing the Republic. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm going to tell you about their only episode that doesn't involve swearing. |
| 0:12.9 | So keep an air out for that mid show when I tell you all about it. |
| 0:16.5 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:21.2 | take a look at the new Texas abortion restrictions and the response from the Supreme Court, |
| 0:26.3 | along with lots of contextualizing commentary, taking us back to the Fugitive Slave Act |
| 0:32.1 | and all the way through to the strain of patriarchal white terrorism that is at the core of the |
| 0:37.2 | current conservative movement. |
| 0:39.1 | Clips today are from counterspin, amicus, the takeaway, the Tom Hartman program, and gas |
| 0:45.5 | lit nation. |
| 0:52.8 | So I'd like to ask you first about Senate Bill 8 or the Texas Heartbeat Act itself. |
| 1:00.9 | How does deputizing and incentivizing people to sue anyone they believe, aid it and abetted |
| 1:11.2 | an abortion? |
| 1:12.3 | How is that different than a ban on those abortions? |
| 1:18.0 | What's the legal maneuvering going on here? |
| 1:22.0 | It's clearly strategic. |
| 1:25.6 | It is strategic, Janine, because generally statutes provide for causes of action in court |
| 1:33.4 | to be brought by the government. |
| 1:35.7 | But then people can sue the government. |
| 1:38.6 | And so in order to get around that, what this Texas SB8 is doing is to deputize private |
| 1:46.6 | people to act as vigilantes and sue abortion providers and those who aid and abet them. |
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