Good morning! Welcome to Exeos today. It's Thursday, December 2. I'm Nyla Budu. Here's

what you need to know today. Stacey Abrams is running for Georgia Governor in 2022. Plus,

putting high gas prices in perspective. But first, today's one big thing. Roe versus

Wade hangs in the balance.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a challenge to Mississippi's law that

bans abortion after the 15th week of pregnancy. It's the most significant abortion case in

years and direct challenge to Roe versus Wade.

Here to break down the oral arguments for us as Harvard Constitutional Law Professor,

Noah Feldman, Hay Noah, The headline from yesterday's oral arguments is that abortion

rights advocates should be worried about Roe versus Wade continuing. But can oral arguments

be misleading?

Sometimes they are misleading. I have to say that that oral argument doesn't feel like

that to me. I have to say that when Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that he thinks that the

court should be, quote, scrupulously neutral. With respect to abortion rights, he was really

showing his hand. He was really telling listeners, I am going to vote to overturn Roe

Wade because I don't want to be on the side of the mother and I don't want to be on the

side of the fetus.

At issue is whether a pregnant person has a fundamental right to choose whether to carry

the pregnancy or not. That isn't a question that begs for a neutral answer. It's only

if you reframe the question of abortion as a conflict between the interests of the pregnant

woman and the interests of the unborn fetus that you then could say, well, we have to

be neutral as between these conflicting interests.

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