Planned Parenthood Plans for Action

The Gist

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On The Gist, Biden's electability. In the interview, eight states have passed bills to limit abortion access so far this year. And while these may not end up surviving challenges in court (whether Supreme or lower), getting an abortion is already difficult for women in many parts of the country. Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen reminds us that abortion providers can be vanishingly rare in some states, and that hundreds of laws have been passed in the last few years to restrict access to the procedure: "Forced waiting periods, medically unnecessary ultrasounds…things that we would never consider happening to any other aspect of medicine." In the Spiel, Michael Cohen and the pre-pardon pardon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me be perfectly explicit in this podcast.
0:03.6	Okay, here it goes.
0:09.0	It's Wednesday, May 22, 2019, from Slated's the Gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:13.6	So right now, we're a few days after Joe Biden's kickoff rally in Philadelphia,
0:17.8	when we're beginning to see the first polls that account for that speech
0:21.3	and some of the backlash that the president visited upon him.
0:24.9	And Joe Biden is a 20-point lead over his next closest rival, Bernie Sanders.
0:29.7	Elizabeth Warren popping a little bit these days.
0:32.4	So the lead is real.
0:34.0	The lead is meaningful.
0:36.0	The lead is certainly able to be overcome.
0:38.4	And it's certainly a reflection of name recognition.
0:41.0	But it also seems to be a response to Joe Biden's message,
0:44.6	which is, little the other Democrats fight it out about fighting with Trump.
0:48.9	Let them try to get to the left of Bernie Sanders on policy.
0:52.6	I'm going to champion a less progressive set of ideas.
0:56.3	And I'm not going to get into a nasty snip with the president.
0:59.6	And that seems to be working a little bit.
1:01.6	Biden had complete name recognition as the Democratic leader before he announced,
1:06.8	but he gained about 10 points since he announced.
1:09.5	Voters didn't remember him better.
1:11.2	They seemed to have liked him more.
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