SCOTUS Attacks Abortion And Democracy

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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To access the full episode, additional content, and support the podcast, become a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Jared and Nick discuss the 5-4 decision to allow a new Texas law to stand, which would enable private citizens to sue anyone involved in helping a woman have an abortion any time after 6 weeks into her pregnancy. There are long term ramifications to democracy baked into the decisions this court is making, and they try to make sense of it all.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Weekender.
0:06.2	I'm Jared Yates-Saxton.
0:07.7	I'm here with Nick Alselman.
0:09.6	It is a...
0:10.8	Nick, I don't know how old to sugarcoat it.
0:12.6	It's a shitty day.
0:14.1	It's just a shitty day.
0:16.0	It's a shitty day.
0:17.0	It certainly has been coming out that way on your introduction.
0:20.0	Yes, we can tell how you feel it
0:23.3	it sucks man and you know some of these some of these weekenders were able to let our hair down
0:29.6	what little hair we have left we're we're able to to joke around a little bit uh today is not
0:36.0	going to be one of those days, unfortunately.
0:39.3	Well, let's see. You never know? Yeah, let's see. So for those of you who haven't heard
0:46.2	already, and I assume you all already have, the wonderful state of Texas has passed a law that
0:54.1	all but makes legal abortion completely null and
0:59.3	void by limiting it to within six weeks of conception, which for those keeping track at home,
1:08.2	is usually the amount of time that passes before somebody even
1:12.4	realizes that they're pregnant in the first place.
1:15.4	Texas also in something that we're going to spend a lot of time talking about today
1:20.0	made it to where their citizens would earn a $10,000 bounty for turning in their fellow citizens for breaking this law.
1:31.8	There's no exception for rape and incest.
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