And the Hi this is the Josh Marshall podcast with Kate Riga and you know last

last episode we I think in the intro I said how the episode was going to be all about abortion like 10 different things about

abortion you know the politics of abortion the little bit about the

medicinal abortion you know every all these different stories, but they all turned on abortion.

And this episode's going to be a little like that.

We were just before we started recording, we, you know, I said it's another kind of all abortion episode and then we got

into a little mini debate pre-POD about whether the polls we're going to discuss are also about

abortion. So kind of like a little

interpretive question we got into. But before we get into that, I want to thank all of

you because a couple days ago we hit our goal in our annual membership drive at TPM and

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