Thank you for turning in to another episode of the

Bakari Sellers podcast today. We'll be interviewing former Seattle

Seahawks superstar and all around just good brother Michael Bennett. But

before we get to Michael, we have to have a big conversation

about the reproductive rights cases before the Supreme Court, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health

Organization.

In case you miss it, the Supreme Court is hearing a landmark case right now around a Mississippi

law that among other things bans a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy after 15 weeks. Now, long-standing Supreme Court

precedent makes it clear that states can't interfere with the woman's right to make this choice

before 23 weeks. This law is clearly designed to destroy that standard which would create

a race to the bottom in most of our red states to enact similar or harsher laws effectively

ending a woman's right to choose in red states.

I'll be honest here in saying that I think there are five votes to uphold the Mississippi

law and the reality is for both men and women most of us younger than maybe 60 years old don't really remember a world as an adult where a woman and a family didn't have the option to terminate a pregnancy safely, but we're about to see what that looks like in some parts of the country soon, so I'm definitely afraid.

So this is about to be a major sea change where the court's conservative majority will achieve what decades of conservative legal types have been wanting for years and

that's to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I won't belabor the point on how we got here.

We got here because we lose elections, don't prioritize the courts like we should as Democrats when we win,

and we stay on the court too long when we get there, like Justice Breyer and Justice Ginsburg

before him.

I'm hoping I'm wrong here, but I'm probably right.

And that's that on that. now on to our interview with Michael

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