Dobbs v. Jackson, breaking down the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade
The Emily Show
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🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Justice Alito, in delivering the majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson starts by acknowledging that “[a]bortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views”. It is a topic on which discussions of disagreement are difficult to navigate making this case all the more challenging to discuss. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade a 1974 Supreme Court case that extended constitutional protection to the right to an abortion through the due process clause of the 14th amendment. The Court stated in their holding that the “Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.” The ruling is over 200 pages and includes concurrences from Justices Thomas, Justice Kavanaugh, and Chief Justice Roberts. The Dissent is delivered by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. In the Dissent they state “[f]or half a century, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey have protected the liberty and equality of women. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that the Constitution safeguards a woman’s right to decide for herself whether to bear a child.”
This decision leaves entirely in the hands of the states the right to regulate or not, abortion. I hope that this episode breaks down this case in a way that makes it understandable and gives some insight into how I break down topics that are significantly charged.
Resources
- Dobbs v. Jackson
- https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
- Roe v. Wade
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/410/113
- Planned Parenthood v. Casey
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/505/833
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to this week's episode of The Emily Show. And this week we are addressing something |
| 0:07.6 | well that needs to be addressed. But the type of case that I don't love addressing because |
| 0:13.4 | the decision of the US Supreme Court in Dobbs State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of |
| 0:19.3 | Health versus Jackson Women's Health Organization is deeply divisive. And I have always said on this |
| 0:27.5 | show I love covering pop culture. I don't love covering politics. But it's not really politics. |
| 0:33.2 | It's and I've realized that as I've been working through this opinion, it's deeply divisive topics |
| 0:40.4 | that are super polarizing that don't always fit well with what I do here. So today I'm going to tell |
| 0:48.1 | you why I'm covering this case, how I parse through things that are difficult because I think |
| 0:53.8 | the process of going through things that are difficult is very much important. I think this decision |
| 1:01.5 | upending a longstanding decision is an important one to go through. And there's been a lot of coverage |
| 1:08.8 | of this case with commentary. I'm going to break down what the court said and decided |
| 1:16.4 | what the dissent said. And that's really it. We're just going to go through what this ruling |
| 1:23.8 | is on the ruling, not a debate about the underlying issues of the ruling, just what this ruling says |
| 1:32.1 | and what the dissent said about it, the way that we parse other things. And so many of you have |
| 1:37.4 | asked, can we just go through the ruling that I wanted to? But first, I do want to talk about how |
| 1:44.7 | I parse through things that are deeply divisive because it takes energy, it takes time. And I think |
| 1:51.8 | understanding my process and why I chose to cover this is also hopefully helpful. So with that, |
| 1:58.6 | we're going to get into today's episode and right after the break, we will have or right after the |
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| 2:08.4 | a little bit easier, even when things are busy and crazy and difficult. So with that, let's get |
| 2:13.7 | into this week's episode of The Emily Show. Hey there. Welcome to The Emily Show. I'm your host, |
| 2:20.4 | Emily Debaker, badass lawyer, and everyone's favorite legal commentator breaking down the legal |
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