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Today, Explained

Justice Alito’s opinion

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A largely unprecedented leak of a draft Supreme Court decision reveals the Court’s conservative majority intends to overturn Roe v. Wade. New York magazine’s Irin Carmon explains what that means for reproductive rights. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Last night around 9pm outside the Supreme Court of the United States sounded kind

0:05.8

of like this. But by 11pm it sounded more like this.

0:14.4

But the curious thing is the Supreme Court hadn't issued a controversial opinion. Instead a

0:28.5

historic one had leaked. On today explained we're going to explore just a

0:41.6

Samuel Alito's draft opinion that would overturn Roe v Wade and find out what

0:48.4

this might mean for reproductive rights in the United States.

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1:55.7

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1:58.8

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2:21.1

It's stay explained. I'm Sean Ramos from your Irrin Carmone,

2:24.5

Senior Correspondent at New York Magazine. Irrin a lot of people are upset about this draft

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