Jeffrey Toobin and Jill Lepore discuss abortion rights on the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 18 January 2013
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Jeffrey Toobin and Jill Lepore discuss abortion rights on the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
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| 1:10.1 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:15.1 | It's Thursday, January 17th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:20.3 | Good evening. In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today legalized abortions. |
| 1:25.7 | The majority in cases from Texas and Georgia said that the decision |
| 1:29.0 | to end a pregnancy during the first three months belongs to the woman and her doctor, not the |
| 1:34.9 | government. Thus, the anti-abortion laws of 46 states were rendered unconstitutional. More on this |
| 1:41.4 | story. That was Walter Cronkite on January 22nd, 1973, announcing the momentous outcome of Roe v. Wade on the CBS evening news. |
| 1:50.2 | Jill Lepore and Jeffrey Tubin are with me today to discuss the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:55.8 | Jeff, in 1973, the Supreme Court voted seven to two to legalize abortion. |
| 2:00.6 | Harry Blackman wrote the opinion. Remind us exactly what was decided. |
| 2:04.7 | The issue was Texas's anti-abortion law, which basically said abortion was illegal at all times. And that law was challenged. And the court didn't just strike down the Texas law, but the court's decision set up a trimester |
| 2:21.9 | framework and said that no state could ban abortion at all in the first trimester, could |
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