OA11: Abortion, Roe v. Wade, and the Constitution, Part 3
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🗓️ 14 September 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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In this week’s hour-length episode, we finally conclude our three-part discussion of abortion and defending the jurisprudence behind the Supreme Court’s 1973 opinion in Roe v. Wade… only to leave you with another cliffhanger and a topic for a future show. (Bingo!) Also, given our Patreon support, we’ll now be answering a viewer question every episode! In … Continue reading OA11: Abortion, Roe v. Wade, and the Constitution, Part 3
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to smell the defendant. |
| 0:19.8 | Oh sure, like lawyers working big skyscrapers and have secretaries, and look at him, he's wearing a belt. |
| 0:25.4 | That's Hollywood for you. |
| 0:31.0 | Please answer the question, does the defendant's case hold water? |
| 0:37.0 | No, the defense is wrong. |
| 0:45.0 | Objection overrule. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh no no no, no I'm a strener's lip check. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh wow, a strener's lip check and I can take some time to reconsider. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to opening arguments, the podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with a real-life lawyer. |
| 1:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P Andrew Torres, LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:05.0 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.0 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. How's it going Andrew? |
| 1:23.0 | I'm great Thomas, how are you? |
| 1:24.0 | Oh I'm doing great. This is episode 11 of opening arguments and today we'll be covering part three of Roe vs. Wade. |
| 1:32.0 | We got a couple quick announcements before we go. |
| 1:35.0 | First off, Andrew out of the kindness of his heart did an extra bonus episode for patrons only over on patreon.com slash law. |
| 1:45.0 | What can we say about that other than you went into privacy and whether or not it's in the constitution you sort of elaborated that we both feel really grateful for our patrons so I would like to. |
| 1:56.0 | Everybody has been really fantastic in supporting the show. |
| 2:00.0 | We are taking to heart what the listeners have had to say in terms of feedback and you know we just wanted you to know that we felt like given a little bit back here and so. |
| 2:11.0 | I put out this deep dive episode that takes the principles that we talk about in last episode, oh a 10 and in particular I made the case that the right to privacy was well entrenched in constitutional jurisprudence before Roe vs. Wade. |
| 2:29.0 | And what I do in this deep dive episode is I take a look at five of the key cases that predated Roe v Wade that are cited by the court and I walk through the history of that so if that sounds awful don't listen to it. |
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