From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is off this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

On Wednesday, the nation's most restrictive abortion ban was signed into law in Alabama,

making it a crime punishable by up to 99 years in prison to perform an abortion there. No exceptions for rape or for

incest. The Alabama bill sponsor says it was designed to be contested and ultimately make its way

to the now conservative-leaning Supreme Court. We can't get a heartbeat bill until we get

Roversus White revisited and turned over.

Alabama's law was a defiant attempt to bait the Supreme Court into reconsidering what has

for 46 years been considered settled law.

But it is far, far, far from the only one passed this year or even this week.

The Missouri Senate passing one of the most restrictive abortion bills.

The governor of Mississippi signed into law a bill that would prohibit abortions after six weeks.

Bill was signed into law in Arkansas that bans most abortions.

The Ohio governor signing would critics condemn as the most restrictive abortion law in

the country.

Georgia today joined a growing number of states that have made it illegal to have an abortion

once a heartbeat is detected in the womb.

By ignoring settled law, the so-called heartbeat bills are destined to be quickly challenged in the womb. By ignoring settled law, the so-called heartbeat bills are destined to be

quickly challenged in the courts. This is not legislative carelessness. Supporters are betting

that the new conservative high court majority, fashioned by Donald Trump for the express

purpose of overturning Roe, will seize on the opportunity. It's a gambit that

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