OA593: Roe Was Never About a 'Right to Abortion'
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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
It is absurd to say "point to where in the Constitution it says you have a right to an abortion." Legally speaking, there's something a lot deeper and more basic going on. As we all already know, this leaked decision makes a mockery of the law. Andrew has some further deep-diving for us on how the court, a mere 20 years ago, ruled in the opposite direction on similar legal questions. Many of the same Justices were a part of that ruling. Listen and learn!
Links: Court press release, Draft Dobbs opinion, Abortion Policy in the Absence of Roe | Guttmacher Institute, Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt, 87(R) SB 8, Arkansas SB 149 (2019), Lawrence v. Texas, Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), Carey v. Population Services Int'l, 431 U. S. 678 (1977)
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| 0:00.0 | The Magna Carter. Carter, meaning quite literally charter, a magna, meaning Japanese animation. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, come on! A good lawyer couldn't win this case! |
| 0:23.2 | There's this vampire larvae also have a local vampire here on the council this evening, Colin Covenson. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello! |
| 0:32.4 | I was a possible that you've never heard about James Simpson. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, as I explained, I just awoke from a 22-year coma and was driven directly from the hospital to this courthouse. |
| 0:45.2 | You had no idea what to report meant, and when I asked you to explain to six the amendment, you pled the fifth. |
| 0:49.6 | I know my rights. No, you don't! That's the problem. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.9 | This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:04.9 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.3 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 593. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm Thomas. That's Andrew. How are you doing Andrew? |
| 1:24.0 | Well, I can't say I'm doing fantastic, Thomas, but I am feeling energized. |
| 1:29.3 | And I'm like, oh, I love it. What if that's the new fantastic? |
| 1:33.4 | I mean, maybe it is. |
| 1:35.2 | Energized. Yeah, right. We'll have the little transport or noise behind that. That'll be great. |
| 1:42.1 | We recorded pretty raw on Monday night when the leaked dubs came out. |
| 1:49.0 | And since then, you and I have had a lot of time to think and a lot of time to try and take that raw |
| 1:57.1 | energy and focus it in a productive way. We have a lot that are sort of in the works. I don't |
| 2:02.3 | want to talk about stuff that's in the works other than to say that you and I are establishing |
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