Looking At Reproductive Rights In 2024
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and reproductive rights correspondent Elissa Nadworny.
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| 0:53.3 | Wow, congratulations. Sounds beautiful. Get home safe. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. And Alyssa, Nadwarni is with us. She covers reproductive rights for NPR. Welcome back, Alyssa. Happy to be here. On today's show, we're talking about reproductive rights, what happened in 2024 and what could be coming in |
| 1:12.5 | 2025. Alyssa, I want to start with President-elect Donald Trump. One of the things we've |
| 1:19.2 | reported on a lot this year was his mixed messages on abortion. Remind us, what is he said he wants to do? |
| 1:27.4 | Well, I mean, I think a lot of people in the abortion space are kind of looking at what Trump did last presidency and kind of less about what he's actually said he's going to do in this next one. |
| 1:38.5 | Yeah, and you know, Mara, on the campaign trail, Trump, he said he wants to leave abortion to the states, but he also bragged about being the person who got Roe v. Wade overturned by appointing those conservative Supreme Court justices. He also, in his first administration, enacted policies that reduced funding for reproductive health care for groups like Planned Parenthood who perform abortions. What can we learn so far from |
| 2:01.1 | Trump's cabinet nominations for his second term about how he might handle abortion this time? |
| 2:06.2 | Well, I actually think that his cabinet is much less important than him because everything |
| 2:10.5 | in a Trump administration is very Trump-centric. But yes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health |
| 2:16.2 | and Human Services nominee, supports abortion rights. |
| 2:20.0 | But I think that the policy on abortion will be coming from the president himself. |
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