Political Gabfest - Arizona Territory’s 1864 Abortion Law
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the revival of Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban; the end of No Labels; and the past and future of presidential debates.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Mary Jo Pitzl and Reagan Priest for The Arizona Republic: Arizona House GOP halt Democrats’ effort to overturn Civil War era law in chaotic session
Dan Balz for The Washington Post: The Arizona Supreme Court just upended Trump’s gambit on abortion
Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: The Man Who Snuffed Out Abortion Rights Is Here to Tell You He Is a Moderate
Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah for NPR’s All Things Considered: Abortion was once common practice in America. A small group of doctors changed that
A.O. Sulzberger Jr. for The New York Times: Reagan Says Ban On Abortion May Not Be Needed
David Faris for Slate: Why No Labels Didn’t Stick
Slate’s Political Gabfest: The “No Mugshot” Edition
Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times: Has No Labels Become a Stalking Horse for Trump?
Michael H. Brown for The Washington Post: Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Dartmouth’s Leslie Center for the Humanities: People, Place, Podcasts: Emily Bazelon and Erica Heilman in Conversation and the Rumble Strip podcast
John: Slate’s Navel Gazing podcast and Rachel Wolfe for The Wall Street Journal: The Calls for Help Coming From Above the Poverty Line
David: Hannah Seo for The New York Times: Is It Better to Brush Your Teeth Before Breakfast or After?
Listener chatter from Mark Phillips in Baltimore, Maryland: Ben Crair for The New Yorker: The Magic of Bird Brains
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss AI communications with loved ones after they die. See Walter Marsh for The Guardian: Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’ and Ira Glass for This American Life: The Ghost in the Machine. See also Niamn Ancell for Cybernews: These apps could resurrect your relatives using artificial intelligence; Rebecca Carballo for The New York Times: Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead; and Tamara Kneese for Wired: Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Tana French about her book, The Hunter: A Novel.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth
Research by Julie Huygen
Hosts
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabfest. April 11th, 2024, the Arizona Territory's 1864 abortion law edition. I am David Plots of CityCast. I'm in Vermont. I'm still recovering from my encounter with the sublime with the total eclipse on Monday which outperformed all expectations it was extraordinary |
| 0:35.3 | it was just really great I'm so glad we talked about it and then I'm so glad to have |
| 0:40.4 | experienced it from CBS Prime Time, always sublime |
| 0:46.6 | is John Dickerson in New York. |
| 0:49.2 | Hello, John. |
| 0:51.3 | Hello David. |
| 0:52.3 | And from New Haven. Hello David. |
| 0:53.0 | And from New Haven and New York Times magazine and the Yale University of Law School |
| 0:58.0 | also sublime and in fact a member of the band Sublime is Emily Bazelon. |
| 1:02.8 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:03.8 | I definitely want to be in that band with you guys. |
| 1:06.8 | Lots of my younger colleagues are really big Sublime fans, |
| 1:09.4 | but I don't really remember what Sublime is. |
| 1:11.4 | I know they're banned. |
| 1:12.3 | You guys are blank, blank spaces. |
| 1:14.9 | Your ad here, blankness on my face. Hey, would you tell us a little bit about the |
| 1:20.5 | eclipse since you just talked about it. |
| 1:22.8 | I mean, like, now that you went through it, |
| 1:25.4 | what was it like? |
| 1:26.4 | Well, shadows, darkness fell, swept across. |
| 1:29.3 | We have a house on a hill, and so you could see the eclipse coming across the hill you could see the darkness coming coming |
| 1:35.5 | coming also what's amazing is that until totality it's really quite bright outside it gets |
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