Before we jump into today's episode, I wanted to tell you about a podcast that I love and that I think can help us understand this moment in abortion care.

Hosted by Dahlia Lithwick, Slate's Amicus podcast is all about the Supreme Court and the law, but you don't have to be a constitutional lawyer to listen to it.

And actually, last week, I had the pleasure of talking with Dahlia as a guest on the show. Here's Dahlia.

Thanks, Allie.

On amicus, we have this basic guiding principle that knowledge is power and that even or perhaps

especially an opaque and lofty institution like the U.S. Supreme Court could do with more

people understanding where its decisions

come from and what those decisions can mean for the rest of us, the American public.

Because as the six to three supermajority conservative court has shown, those decisions

reach into every single corner of our lives and they reach ever further into the lives of

health care workers. So find us on Saturdays wherever you listen to your podcasts. It's Amicus. That's

A.M.I. C.U.S. from the Latin, your friend with me, Dahlia Lithwick, looking forward to talking to you.

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Welcome back to the nocturnists, Post-Roe America.

I'm Dr. Allie Block.

For a lot of people in the U.S., I think the day the sky officially fell for the abortion movement was the day of the Dobbs leak.

But there was another event, almost a year before, that wasn't as talked about, but gave

those paying attention

a preview of what a postro landscape would look like. In September 2021, there was a bill in Texas

that was passed called SB8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act. It said, if you can detect

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