Learning from Pre-Roe to Navigate Post-Roe
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In a special live panel discussion in partnership with the Crosscut Festival, this week’s Amicus tackles the post-leak landscape and potential post-Roe fallout from Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs. An all-star panel, featuring law professor and podcast host Melissa Murray, journalist and bestselling author Jessica Bruder, and Slate’s news director Susan Matthews—host of the upcoming Season 7 of Slow Burn focusing on the road to Roe v Wade—get together to discuss the past, present, and future of reproductive liberty.
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th. |
| 0:08.0 | But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period. |
| 0:14.1 | And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of |
| 0:17.3 | romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:34.8 | This is Slates Podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law. |
| 0:39.6 | I am Dahlia Lithuic and I cover some of those things for Slates. |
| 0:44.0 | I am really excited to share with you the panel that we taped just last night with three |
| 0:50.4 | amazing, amazing guests that helped me stabilize and maybe contextualize a little bit after |
| 0:57.4 | the spin cycle we've just been through in the hours and days since Justice Samuel |
| 1:03.4 | Alito's leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade was published on Monday by Politico. |
| 1:10.4 | So let's get straight to the Crosscut Festival where we take stock of what's happened, why |
| 1:18.0 | it's happened, what might happen next with a group of women with truly unparalleled |
| 1:24.2 | insight into this moment in history. |
| 1:33.9 | When we first conceived of this panel, Roe v Wade passed present and future, we didn't |
| 1:39.3 | expect it to be quite so on the nose. |
| 1:42.7 | Events of this past week have signaled that in some sense the row of today is already |
| 1:47.9 | passed and the row of the future is about to begin. |
| 1:51.8 | In light of the huge news from the Supreme Court this week, a draft was leaked of a majority |
| 1:58.5 | opinion in DOBS, that's the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban. |
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