It's Wednesday, September 22nd. I'm getting a recipe.

And I'm Josie Defi Rice, and this is What a Day. The podcast that is only a few weeks away from

successfully bearing all memories of the haunted phrase, horse dewormer.

I will never think about deworming. I will never think about horses ever again, and that's the

sacrifice that I'm making for everybody else to not think about horses, because they're nice.

On today's show, we recap President Biden's first address to the UN,

plus an educator and organ protest vaccine mandates using blackface,

and the outcome is predictably terrible.

Dear Lord, but first let's start by giving listeners a lay of the land on threats to

reproductive rights in the US. So so much has happened recently that could

abandon access to abortion across the country, and the legal landscape is going to be really

important to watch and understand. So Josie, let's start off with some news about Texas' new

anti-abortion law. Sure, so here's a quick reminder about the law. It basically gives any person

the right to sue anyone who, quote, performs induces or aids in a bet and abortion once a, quote,

fetal heartbeat in an embryo can be detected. That usually happens around six weeks of gestation,

and in Texas 80 to 90 percent of abortions are after this six week period.

And if their lawsuit is successful, the defendant would have to pay the person who brought the

lawsuit at least $10,000, though in theory it could be way more than that, millions maybe.

This was basically a sneaky way of the Texas legislature getting around Roe v Wade,

because the person actually getting the abortion can't be sued, but a clinic receptionist could,

or the Uber driver who takes a person to that clinic, or of course the doctor who performs the abortion.

Yeah, and so to that point, in Texas one person, a doctor, is being sued under this new law, yeah.

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