Post Opinion: What to expect when you're expecting an abortion pill argument
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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On the first episode of their new podcast "Impromptu," our colleagues at Washington Post Opinions discuss what’s at stake the Supreme Court hears a case on access to mifepristone. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade back in 2022, it indicated that abortion was an issue to be relegated to the states. Instead, it has blown up American politics, firing up voters and leading to conflicting lower court rulings. Post columnists Ruth Marcus, Alexandra Petri and Amanda Ripley discuss how it feels to be a woman in the post-Dobbs world.
Ruth Marcus: Even after abortion pill ruling, reproductive rights remain in the balance
Alexandra Petri: I don’t know how to write about all that hasn’t happened since the fall of Roe
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Martine, and I am popping into your feed on a Sunday morning because I have something very exciting to share. |
| 0:09.0 | The post has a brand new podcast coming from the opinions desk. It's called |
| 0:14.3 | impromptu. And on this show, smart and insightful calmness from the opinion side |
| 0:20.5 | sit down to talk with each other. They have these frank thoughtful |
| 0:24.6 | conversations on the news and on the cultural debates that we cannot stop |
| 0:29.2 | thinking about. Their discussions are personal and candid and they don't always agree, which is interesting. |
| 0:36.6 | You can hear them testing their ideas and refining their thoughts and sometimes changing their |
| 0:41.9 | minds. |
| 0:43.0 | Listening in on some of these conversations is fascinating. |
| 0:46.0 | And that's why I'm excited to share with you the first episode which dropped last week. |
| 0:51.0 | It's a discussion of something that I've been thinking about a lot. |
| 0:54.8 | The Supreme Court's oral arguments on Tuesday in the abortion pill case. |
| 0:59.3 | And as you'll hear, they have opinions. |
| 1:03.8 | So here's the first episode of impromptu. |
| 1:06.6 | And if you like it, find it wherever you're listening |
| 1:09.1 | to this podcast and subscribe or follow the show. We'll be back in your feeds tomorrow. |
| 1:14.4 | Until then, have a lovely rest of your weekend. And here's impromptu. |
| 1:19.4 | Hi, how you guys doing? I'm great. I've been trying to get us to do this for eight years, so I was so excited that we have |
| 1:25.9 | opinions podcast. Really? |
| 1:28.3 | Really? Eight years? |
| 1:29.3 | Eight years? Oh my gosh, congratulations. |
| 1:31.3 | Thank you. You had a baby. |
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