Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast in which we take a look

at stories of those directly impacted by abortion bans to demonstrate the extreme stances taken by anti-choice politicians,

but we also look ahead to potential ways the situation could be made even worse,

as well as some efforts to relieve the suffering. Sources today include

amicus, the nocturnists, the Tom Hartman program, the majority report,

counter spin and ring of fire with an additional members only clip from the majority report.

So this week's show is about the impact of a single case from 2021 and the case is

Dobbs v Jackson. In the event that that Dobbs decision is not fresh on your mind, on Friday the New York Times

dropped a thoroughly reported timeline of how that long shot appeal coming almost minutes after Amy Koney Barrett had been

seated on the court was taken up, broadened, and decided for perfectly political reasons.

The New York Times piece also confirms that the cert and decision process in Dobbs was precisely

as ends-driven, corrupt, and mindlessly violent toward women as we all imagined it to be.

And that is where we are laser focused this week, not on the unnamed sources who confirm that Samuel Lido maneuvered the toppling of row,

or that Brett Kavanaugh is fundamentally useless or that Amy Coney Barrett is ultimately just a coward.

We are not focused on those things.

We are focused on the primal scream from so many of us this week

as we watched Kate Cox's case unfold in Texas.

Because regardless of how craven and broken the system was,

that allowed Dobbs to be decided, women are going to keep dying, they're going to keep bleeding out,

they're going to keep going septic in hospital parking lots, and that's going to happen

all as a result of abortion restrictions that were allowed by Dobbs.

The five to four decision in Dobbs overturning Roe v. Wade formally returned the question

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