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Listeners React to Historic Supreme Court Ruling Overturning Roe vs. Wade

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KQED

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

"Painful" is how many reproductive rights advocates are describing their reactions to the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe vs. Wade that was officially released Friday. A leaked draft decision in May warned of the impending opinion's ruling. In dissent, the Court's three liberal justices warned that the opinion's approach  "places in jeopardy other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage." In this hour, we hear and react to listeners as they process the Supreme Court's decision. Guests: Jessica Pinckney, executive director, Access Reproductive Justice, a nonprofit that helps patients access abortions by providing information, financial and logistical assistance Lauren Rankin, writer, speaker, and activist; author, "Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.7

As the Supreme Court was stacked with more and more conservative judges, it became clear that this day might come.

0:54.6

And today it has, through its decision on the Dobbs case, the federal right to an abortion is no more.

0:59.8

In the language of Samuel Alito's opinion, the Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion.

1:07.4

Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected

1:14.3

representatives.

1:15.8

As Nina Totenberg said earlier, this is the legal equivalent of a nuclear bomb, and we will be

1:20.7

opening up the phones to hear from you about how you're reacting to this decision.

1:24.9

That's coming up next after this news.

1:40.1

From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

1:46.3

Painful is how many reproductive rights advocates are describing their reactions to the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade. In May, draft of Samuel Alito's opinion was leaked,

1:53.0

and in the official decision which came down today, the language and content were largely the same.

1:58.8

In dissent, the court's three liberal justices warned that the opinion's approach

2:03.0

quote, places in jeopardy other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage.

2:09.9

This is like no other decision in recent memory, and it shows how powerful the conservative judges have

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