Good morning. It's Tuesday, May 3rd. We are here together because it is the launch of our book.

Now what? And also because the Supreme Court decided to blow up everybody's lives last night.

For those of you who have not heard, there was a leaked opinion voted on in February to overturn

Roe v Wade. It was written by Samuel Alito. I didn't need another reason to hate Samuel Alito,

but here we are. Joined by Gorsage, Amy Coney Barrett and Kavanaugh, Descent Kagan,

Breyer, and so to my or. No word from John Roberts. The reporting is that he wants to uphold the

Mississippi law that's a ban on 15 weeks and leave Roe v Wade in place. But this is the reporting

this morning and you know, now what? Now what? And we don't know whether there will be one

descent, multiple descent, multiple linker. I mean, there's so much we don't know here.

And I think that it's probably in quite a bit of flux. I haven't made it all the way through

this very lengthy opinion from Alito yet. If this is the opinion of the majority of the court,

I am depressed not only about the outcome, but also about the process because I think there's a lot

in this opinion that's pretty reductive of the issues and reductive of what courts have been

trying to do since Roe, which is say that this is hard and to try to figure out a path forward.

When legislatures have approached this issue in such a reductive way too, right? I think we all know

and the vast majority of the country shows this in poll after poll. We all know that there are some

circumstances where most people are uncomfortable with an abortion, but there are many more

circumstances where most people believe that a safe, effective abortion ought to be available

without a court getting involved.

Those of you who don't know, I worked at Plain Parenthood Central North Carolina. That's my first

job out of college. I ran the emergency contraception hotline. One hour there, my boss, Karen,

used to say, she had been there since Roe had come down. She said, if a woman doesn't want to have

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