Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David discuss the Supreme Court's consideration of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization with guest Ross Douthat. The Political Gabfest hosts also talk about how best to approach the news of the Omicron variant, and why the Cuomo brothers’ scandals matter. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Diana Greene Foster for The New York Times: “What Happens When It’s Too Late to Get an Abortion” University of California, San Francisco, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), The Turnaway Study Ross Douthat for The New York Times: “The Case Against Abortion” Will Saletan for Slate: “Republicans Will Be Sorry if the Supreme Court Overturns Roe” Here’s this week’s chatter: Emily: On The Media: “A Different Hanukkah Story” John: Garret Keizer for Harper's Magazine: “The Third Force” David: Hannah Towey for Insider: “Check Out Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes' Handwritten 4 A.M. Schedule That Was Submitted as She Testified That Her Ex-Boyfriend Was Abusive” Listener chatter from Chuck Piehl: Mankato Free Press: “Making Havoc Not the Point of Public Records” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David share their best holiday gift ideas. Give the gift of Slate Plus to a fellow Slate fan and they’ll receive all the benefits of membership: unlimited reading, ad-free listening, bonus content, and so much more. Here's how! Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.9	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for December of 22, 2021. The doves versus
0:42.9	Jackson edition. I am David Plott's of CityCast. I'm here in Washington, DC. Emily Bazelon
0:50.0	with the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily and New Haven.
0:53.6	Hey, I'm enjoying the fact that John Dickerson, who you're about to introduce, maybe I'll introduce
0:59.3	him. He works for CBS News. He has a party hat on. Oh, I was thinking he looks like he's
1:04.7	in a penitentiary. It's like those little hats that people in penitentiary used to wear.
1:11.3	Yeah, it's right. Although I also associate this with sort of chef's hat. It's a striped,
1:16.5	it's a headband. Yeah. Yeah, that I was wearing on my head. We're a little bit giddy because
1:23.0	we're going to be together in a room later today for the first time in forever. We're gathering
1:27.2	in New York to do our condondromes show, but you'll hear that later. This week, we will
1:33.0	talk about the most consequential abortion case in at least 20 years, probably in our
1:39.0	lifetime was argued this week, the Supreme Court. We will talk about that and we'll have
1:43.6	rost out that of the New York Times as a guest to join us. Then the emergence of Omicron
1:50.6	and the increasingly avoidable, maybe or maybe increasingly less avoidable tragedy of the
1:56.1	pandemic and the politics of the pandemic, which are just so awful at this moment. Then
2:00.9	Chris Cuomo was suspended by CNN for his extensive efforts to protect his brother, former
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