Roe V. Wade's Final Hour? with Nancy Northup

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Are we on the precipice of one of the most destructive social reversals in the country’s history? President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court justice initiated a heated conversation about the future of Roe v. Wade because, should he be confirmed, Kavanaugh would become the deciding vote on a ruling that could alter the lives of millions of women. This week, Chris Hayes speaks to Nancy Northup, the President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, about not just the future of Roe v. Wade but about the legal history of abortion rights. They talk about the stakes of the coming fight, the relevance of a 1923 Supreme Court ruling on teaching foreign languages in schools, and why Northup thinks a victory for anti-abortion activists could ultimately be catastrophic to their own movement. Read more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening

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0:00.0	Here we are in the precipice of that maybe being reality, right?
0:04.2	Of row being overturned or service substantially gutted.
0:07.0	And all of a sudden, everyone wants to pretend like it's not going to happen.
0:09.4	And it drives me nuts.
0:10.4	Like we know what we're fighting about.
0:12.8	Like we're fighting a portion.
0:14.5	We've been fighting about abortion for decades.
0:16.4	And there's a bunch of people in this country who want to see us not have legalized abortion,
0:20.5	who are the empowered political coalition, who are now going to try to make that happen.
0:25.5	Why are we pretending otherwise?
0:27.6	Well, exactly.
0:28.5	And for those who say, well, you know,
0:30.5	Kavanaugh's just going to go through that's who got elected to the Senate.
0:33.5	That's who got elected to the presidency.
0:35.7	Let him be voted on with his record being clear.
0:41.9	Hello, and welcome to Wise is happening.
0:44.0	Me, your host, Chris Hays.
0:48.6	You may have heard that there are currently eight people on the Supreme Court of the United States.
0:55.2	Eight people.
0:57.0	Eight is a, it is an important number.
1:01.1	There were eight for a while after Antonin Scalia died because there was a nominee named
1:07.6	Marik Garland that Mitch McConnell and the Republicans refused to even consider.
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