804 - 2024 Election Series: What's At Stake For Abortion Access
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Abortion access is on the ballot nationwide this November. In this episode: a look at proposed bans and protections across the state and federal levels, and the long-term implications of judicial decisions. Please note that the opinions expressed in this episode belong solely to those interviewed. As a nonprofit entity, the Johns Hopkins University cannot take a position for or against any candidate running for elected office. Information is being provided solely for academic or educational purposes and is not an endorsement of any individual candidate.
Guest:
Joanne Rosen is an expert in public health law and a co-director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
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| 0:31.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today in our election series, what's at stake on the 2024 ballot for access to abortion? |
| 0:40.1 | Joanne Rosen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about state ballot initiatives, the battle for state legislatures in Congress, and, of course, the U.S. presidential election. |
| 0:53.2 | Let's listen. |
| 0:54.5 | Professor Joanne Rosen, thank you so much for joining me today in public health on call. |
| 0:59.0 | We're talking about the 2024 election and abortion. How are you? |
| 1:04.6 | I'm fine, and thank you for having me, Josh. |
| 1:07.2 | Now, I actually want to start our election podcast, not at the federal level, but at the states. |
| 1:15.0 | Because I've been reading about all of these ballot initiatives happening in states around the country. |
| 1:20.6 | What's at stake in those state elections for access to abortion care? |
| 1:25.7 | I'm glad you want to start with the states. |
| 1:28.2 | And I want to anchor actually the election and the states and what's at stake back in the |
| 1:35.3 | Dobbs decision from 2022. |
| 1:37.8 | When the Supreme Court eradicated the right to abortion under the Constitution, they said really explicitly and more than once |
| 1:46.9 | they were now returning the issue of abortion to the people and their elected representatives. |
| 1:53.1 | So they put it squarely back into the legislatures. And the overwhelming majority of abortion regulations are enacted at the state level, |
| 2:04.6 | not at Congress. And there is, as you indicated, quite a lot going on at the state level. |
| 2:10.8 | There are 10 states that will have abortion-related initiatives on their ballots. So when people go to the polls on November 5th, |
| 2:21.2 | they will also be in those 10 states casting their vote directly on those abortion-related |
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