Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. Nick Hausman is out today, so I'll be holding down the fort.

Unfortunately, we have some really awful stuff to discuss today, something that we all knew was coming, but it does very little to dampen

the effect and the pain of the actual event taking place.

Later, I'll be joined by Lily Geismer, who is a professor of history at Claremont-McKinna

College, and is the author

of Left Behind.

The Democrats failed attempt to solve inequality.

Right now, however, we have to talk about the story of the day.

It's no surprise to everybody.

Last Friday, the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision overturned the nearly 50-year precedent of Roe v. Wade,

sending the legality of abortion and reproductive rights back to the states.

The opinion, which had been leaked earlier in a strategy that now seems very obviously to have been

intended to dampen the effect and to prepare people for the shock.

It was written by Samuel Alito. A really disgusting opinion. We had talked about previously

in the podcast when we were talking about the leaked opinion,

how gleefully cruel this opinion was.

It called Roe v. Wade egregiously wrong, a major precedent that, of course, had existed for nearly 50 years. With that overturning,

abortion as a legal procedure was immediately banned in several states that had already laid the foundation for the outlawing of abortion should Roe v. Wade be overturned.

Another handful of states will more than likely ban abortion within the next month,

and many more will be taking the issue into consideration in the weeks and months to come.

Again, this wasn't surprising.

We knew after the leaked opinion that that's where this was going.

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