So we are talking on Saturday morning June 25th.

It is one day after the Dops decision that's been anticipated was released.

And so what did you specifically want to talk about today?

Well, let's start from the basics again, right?

So remember that for almost 50 years,

there has been a constitutionally protected right to an abortion throughout the United States.

In 1992, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that the right to an abortion existed and was protected as a matter of constitutional law.

It also made clear that there were limits.

So after 1992, states could ban abortions after what it called the point of viability.

That's when the fetus could live outside of the womb.

And even then, states had to allow exceptions to save a person's life or health.

And the Supreme Court had said that abortion is a constitutionally protected right in the same way that rights about marriage, family and private relationships are protected.

They're all part of the liberty that's guaranteed to us from the Constitution's guarantee of due process.

Or as the court once put it, the Constitution protects the freedom to make intimate and personal choices that are central to personal dignity and autonomy.

But that idea about recognizing this family of rights has never been a favorite of the conservative justices on the court or really any conservative judges or lawyers.

So on June 24th, as you mentioned, the US Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe versus Wade and plan parenthood versus Casey.

Those are the two most important cases that recognized constitutionally protected abortion rights.

There is no longer such a right under the Constitution.

Now, the court didn't have to do that.

The case of dobs versus Jackson women's health was a challenge to a Mississippi state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

So the Supreme Court could have said that this particular state law was constitutional and left it at that.

But the conservative majority on the court, the one solidified by the last three Trump appointees made the decision to go further.

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