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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
MS NOW, Chris Hayes
4.6 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | First, labor is already unconstitutional. |
| 0:05.5 | And what is forced birth other than forcing a woman to labor against her well because |
| 0:11.2 | allegedly the state has an interest in that. |
| 0:14.7 | Guess what folks? |
| 0:15.7 | Just because the state thinks it's important doesn't mean that they can force you to do the |
| 0:19.0 | work for the state without pay against your well. |
| 0:22.5 | The state might say it is very important that somebody picked this content. |
| 0:27.4 | Like you know what, they can't force me to do it. |
| 0:30.1 | They have to find a willing person to pick that content, can't make me do it. |
| 0:34.2 | That's the 13th amendment. |
| 0:35.5 | Same thing should apply to abortion rights. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, welcome to Wise This Happening with me, your host Chris Hayes. |
| 0:47.5 | Well, I think for most Americans, and maybe not the majority of listeners to this podcast, |
| 0:55.2 | but most people, and even honestly, like pretty news junky news consumer folks, just don't |
| 1:01.1 | spend a lot of time in their life thinking about the Supreme Court or the courts more broadly. |
| 1:05.2 | It's not a front of mind news concern. |
| 1:08.4 | Obviously, people that are legal practitioners or law nerds or even Supreme court nerds |
| 1:14.5 | who are really obsessed with it. |
| 1:16.2 | I should speak full disclosure that my wife is one of those people. |
| 1:18.9 | She clerks for Justice John Paul Stevens and now is a law professor and is co-host of |
| 1:24.0 | a podcast called Strix scrutiny with Melissa Marie and Leah Lippmann, where they talk about |
| 1:28.2 | the Supreme Court and the culture around the court. |
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