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The NPR Politics Podcast

Are Other Rights Really At Risk If Roe Is Overturned?

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.524.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It depends how the final opinion is written. And, President Biden said that voters need to elect more Democrats in order to ensure their rights are protected. The remark frustrated some young activists. Young voters turned out at near-record levels in 2020, but many have softened in their support of President Biden because they feel he has not delivered on the policy promises that are most important to them.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, demographics and culture correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, and politics and racial justice correspondent Juana Summers.

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0:00.0

Hello, I am Lynn Brottis and I am standing here at the confluence of the Chulitna, Talkitna and Susitna rivers in Talkitna, Alaska, my 50th state.

0:13.0

This podcast was recorded at 126 p.m. on the 5th of May 2022.

0:20.0

Things may have changed by the time you hear this. Let's enjoy the show.

0:25.0

Wow, that is very cool. Very, very cool. 50 states. I know. I haven't done that yet.

0:37.0

Well, as political reporters, there are some states we just don't get to go too very often. Alaska is one of them.

0:43.0

I have been begging to go cover the Murkowski race. So ideally I'll go.

0:49.0

Or one of us will keep on begging. Let's all beg. Maybe one of us will get there. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.

0:59.0

I'm Danielle Kurtzleba and I cover demographics and culture. And I'm one of summer's eye cover politics.

1:05.0

If it becomes a law and if what is written is what remain, there's far beyond the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose.

1:15.0

It goes your other base of rights, the right to marry, the right to determine a whole range of things.

1:21.0

That is President Biden this week reacting to the leak draft from the Supreme Court regarding abortion.

1:27.0

But as you heard there, Democrats have been quick to argue that this is not just about abortion access.

1:34.0

But that the decision if unchanged could endanger other rights that many have taken for granted as settled law.

1:42.0

Danielle, the conversation has very quickly moved to whether this decision could affect other rights like marriage equality or interracial marriage.

1:56.0

Legally, is that an issue? Is that linked there?

2:00.0

Yes, it is. And the link is there because all of those rights you mentioned are what are called unannumerated rights.

2:06.0

And that is there things that aren't listed explicitly word for word in the Constitution.

2:12.0

And those rights are supported by the 14th Amendment, which protects due process and by extension privacy.

2:18.0

Now, all of this is important because the court has said in the past that those unannumerated rights have to be quote deeply rooted in this nation's history.

2:26.0

And in this leaked draft opinion, Samuel Lido said that at the time that the 14th Amendment was ratified, 1868, abortion was not considered a right people had.

2:37.0

In fact, it was outlawed in many states.

2:39.0

Therefore, he argues it's not deeply rooted and it's not a constitutional right.

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