From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is Adali.

Today, now that the Supreme Court has confirmed that a draft opinion or a

voking row versus weight is real, we look at what a post-row world would look like

across the US. I spoke with my colleague, Margot Sanger-Cats, about where the

future of abortion is assured in jeopardy and uncertain.

It's Thursday, May 5th.

Margot, when you read Justice Alito's draft opinion, striking down, rovy weight, and we

talked about this in yesterday's show, his central argument is that this issue should not

be in the hands of courts, but instead left to the people's representatives, which means

Congress and the states. He and four fellow conservatives, Justice has appeared to have

concluded it really should be up to these lawmakers to decide how much to restrict or allow

abortion. That's what we want to talk to you about today in a really detailed way.

What that landscape looks like since this is quite likely going to be the future of abortion

in the US. How should we start to think about that?

Let's start with Congress, because obviously Congress has the ability to write laws for

the whole country, but I think in this case, we're very unlikely to see Congress do anything

anytime soon. Democrats in the House actually passed a bill late last year that would protect

abortion rights everywhere in the country. They passed that through the House, but it went

nowhere in the Senate. I think it is going to continue to go nowhere in the Senate because

Democrats just don't have enough votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. In fact,

they might not even have enough votes to pass a abortion law like that, even if they

just had to pass it using a simple majority. That is probably not going to become law now.

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