Political Gabfest - Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David discuss the Supreme Court's consideration of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization with guest Ross Douthat. The Political Gabfest hosts also talk about how best to approach the news of the Omicron variant, and why the Cuomo brothers’ scandals matter.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Diana Greene Foster for The New York Times: “What Happens When It’s Too Late to Get an Abortion”

University of California, San Francisco, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), The Turnaway Study

Ross Douthat for The New York Times: “The Case Against Abortion”

Will Saletan for Slate: “Republicans Will Be Sorry if the Supreme Court Overturns Roe”

Here’s this week’s chatter:

Emily: On The Media: “A Different Hanukkah Story”

John: Garret Keizer for Harper's Magazine: “The Third Force”

David: Hannah Towey for Insider: “Check Out Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes' Handwritten 4 A.M. Schedule That Was Submitted as She Testified That Her Ex-Boyfriend Was Abusive”

Listener chatter from Chuck Piehl: Mankato Free Press: “Making Havoc Not the Point of Public Records”

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David share their best holiday gift ideas. Give the gift of Slate Plus to a fellow Slate fan and they’ll receive all the benefits of membership: unlimited reading, ad-free listening, bonus content, and so much more. Here's how!

Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for December 2nd, 2021, the Dobbs versus Jackson edition.
0:14.6	I'm David Plotz of Citicast. I'm here in Washington, D.C. Emily Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School.
0:22.6	Hello, Emily, in New Haven.
0:24.1	Hey, I'm enjoying the fact that John Dickerson, who you were about to introduce.
0:28.8	Maybe I'll introduce him.
0:30.2	He works for CBS News.
0:32.2	He has a party hat on.
0:33.9	Oh, I was thinking he looks like he's in a penitentiary.
0:38.1	It's like those little hats that people in penitentiary used to wear, yeah, stripes.
0:42.5	Although I also associate this with sort of chef's hat.
0:45.3	It's a striped, it's a headband.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.1	Yeah, that I was wearing on my head.
0:52.0	We're a little bit giddy because we're going to be together in a room later today for the
0:55.9	first time in forever. We're gathering in New York to do our conundrum show, but you'll hear
1:00.6	that later. This week, we will talk about the most consequential abortion case in at least
1:07.5	20 years, probably in our lifetime was argued this week at the Supreme Court.
1:12.3	We will talk about that and we'll have Ross Douthout of the New York Times as a guest to join us.
1:18.5	Then the emergence of Omicron and the increasingly avoidable, maybe or maybe increasingly less avoidable,
1:26.0	tragedy of the pandemic and the politics of the
1:27.8	pandemic, which are just so awful at this moment. Then Chris Cuomo was suspended by CNN for his
1:34.0	extensive efforts to protect his brother, former governor, Andrew Cuomo, and his lying about those
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