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American Fever Dream

#600 How Screwed Are Abortion Rights? Ft. Imani Gandy

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Milly and Amanda are joined by Imani Gandy, the Senior Editor Law & Policy at Rewire News Group to break down yesterday’s Supreme Court hearing over Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. She breaks down the justices most alarming statements and how an undue burden test became a case to overturn Roe. Finally, she answers your questions about abortion rights in blue states, how Congress could intervene, and what abortion bans mean for high-risk pregnancies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Betches media presents Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, you want to hang out with us and get your back seat?

0:07.5

And so I went to human resources. There are some things I just can't tell you on air. The Betches sub podcast woman's problem if you will

0:18.0

Hello, I'm Amanda Durman and I'm Billy and this is the Betches sub podcast where C-SPAN meets the group chat

0:23.6

to help you process and laugh at the biggest topics in US news and politics. Don't know how much laughing we're going to do today

0:30.0

But thankfully we are back with Amani. Again, she's the senior editor of law and policy at rewire news group

0:37.5

And the coast of the outlets boom-loored podcast with her colleague Jessica Mason p-clow

0:42.4

I mean my the my genuine curiosity today is how are you doing? I'm eerily calm

0:49.2

Which is probably not a good thing like I can feel myself sorry

0:52.4

She's still an angrier and angrier but yeah, I mean yesterday

0:56.8

I think part of it is you know

0:58.2

I moved to Colorado and so I'm living in the same town with Jess

1:01.3

So I was able to like have this experience with her in person

1:05.4

And that really made a difference because otherwise for the past

1:08.7

Several big abortion cases big abortion moments, you know, we're so far flung from each other

1:14.3

And it's just it's been hard you know to sort of go through that alone together

1:18.2

But now we can go through it together together

1:20.0

Which makes it actually much more palatable than experience

1:24.3

I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I don't know if I can curse on here. So I'm just going to say we're just rude

1:29.2

We're fucked

1:31.7

There's really no way to to sugarcoat it

1:37.5

But we're not done right like like we're we're screwed, but we're not finished the fight isn't over

1:44.7

There are people who are getting activated on this issue more and more every day

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