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The NPR Politics Podcast

Abortion Access Remains Popular As Biden Preps New Initiatives

The NPR Politics Podcast

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4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

American voters, including the crucial swing demographic of women in small cities and suburbs, continue to express support for abortion access. That's according to new polling from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

The podcast is produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. Our editor is Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Kathy. Yesterday afternoon I was lucky enough to see a

0:05.0

fun who had just been born, stand up for the first time and run across the field.

0:10.5

I'm hoping to be lucky again this morning. Maybe I'll spot a bear cub.

0:15.0

Okay, this podcast was recorded at 118 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21st.

0:21.0

Things may have changed by the time you hear it.

0:24.0

And for example, I will have been to Sheets by the time you hear this.

0:29.0

You get a cold beverage on my way back to the airport before flying back to New Mexico.

0:35.0

Okay, enjoy the show.

0:40.0

That took quite a turn. I did not anticipate that.

0:43.0

I did not expect the Sheets shout out. I will say I would rather see a baby

0:48.0

deer than a baby bear any day. I was just going to say as a kid from the city

0:53.0

just stay away from the bear cubs. You know, like don't get too close to

0:57.0

your mom is never far away. I was just going to say I'd rather be at Wawa

1:00.0

Hey there at the NPR politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics.

1:04.0

I would say ever Keith. I cover the White House. And I'm Domenico Munson,

1:07.0

our senior political editor and correspondent. And I like Wawa too.

1:10.0

A year ago this week, the Supreme Court overturned the precedent set in the 1973

1:15.0

Roe v. Wade case that created federal protections for abortion access.

1:19.0

The DOBS decisions stripped those protections and threw the power to regulate

1:23.0

abortion back to the States. As a result, since abortion access faces

1:27.0

near total bans in more than a dozen states and legal fights and others

1:31.0

are ongoing in the courts. Domenico, one thing that our latest poll,

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