The "Abortion Ban" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the latest wave of anti-abortion bills, Trump’s showdown with Iran, and “Civic Saturday”--with guest Eric Liu.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 16th, 2019, the Abortion Ban Edition. |
| 0:16.2 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. John Dickerson, for the very last time, he is John Dickerson of CBS's This Morning. |
| 0:28.2 | John, you're in New York. |
| 0:30.5 | And tomorrow is your last day hosting this morning, huh? |
| 0:33.9 | Yeah, yeah, I'm in New York. |
| 0:35.1 | My office, all my books, all my things are already moved over to 60 minutes. |
| 0:41.3 | So I'm in this state of in-betweenedness. And when most people listen to this, I will have probably already had my last show. |
| 0:49.9 | And then if they're listening to it between CTM and the evening news, they'll really be confused |
| 0:54.3 | because I've been anchoring the evening news this week. So it's a big, it's a big, wonderful thing. |
| 1:02.7 | All right. And then Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale Law School and |
| 1:09.5 | the bestselling book, Charged, |
| 1:12.6 | is in Philadelphia because she's about to give a commencement speech, |
| 1:16.4 | right, Emily? |
| 1:17.8 | I am, wow, that was such a big windup. |
| 1:19.8 | Yes, I'm honored to be giving the commencement speech |
| 1:22.1 | at Temple Law School imminently. |
| 1:24.7 | Hopefully I will give good as opposed to bad advice to all these lovely law school graduates in Philadelphia. |
| 1:31.9 | Just tell them that the future is ahead of them. It may not be bright, but it's in front of them. |
| 1:39.0 | Time will tell. On this week's show, the shocking wave of anti-abortion legislation that is sweeping the nation, |
| 1:47.5 | how is it going to break on our shores, what will the Supreme Court do about it? |
| 1:52.5 | Then the presidents, or maybe the administration's showdown with Iran, is it going to lead to war? |
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