Laura Bassett of The Cut and Sarah Zhang of The Atlantic
The Al Franken Podcast
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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This election could all come down to abortion. Laura Bassett from The Cut and Sarah Zhang from The Atlantic have both been writing about the issue and how it's playing into this election. Sarah's recent piece in The Atlantic examined how Idaho's draconian abortion laws have set the state's healthcare back for women. Laura has been writing about the issue for years and says that it poses a serious threat to Ted Cruz's reelection campaign in Texas.
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Read Sarah Zhang's incredible piece on Idaho abortion laws in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/abortion-ban-idaho-ob-gyn-maternity-care/679567/
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| 1:07.0 | Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you for a change because we're talking about reproductive rights with my guess Laura Bassett |
| 1:17.9 | former editor-in-chief of Jezebel who writes on national politics and reproductive rights for New York magazine's |
| 1:26.0 | The Cut, and her own sub-stack Nightcap, and Sarah Zhang, staff writer for the Atlantic, who's written a fascinating and I dare say disturbing |
| 1:37.8 | piece about the draconian abortion laws in Idaho that make it very, very difficult to be an OBGYN in that |
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