SCOTUS Deals Massive Blow to Health Care Access

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this emergency episode, Melissa, Leah and Kate are joined by Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, to unpack today’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. They talk about what this could mean for patients and the devastating ripple effect it will have across the country. Also covered: the rest of today’s opinions and the Court’s cruel shadow docket order on “third country removals.”

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0:00.0	Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
0:04.3	You don't destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting precedent, shattering norms, and dropping a few billion.
0:11.1	The same people and groups that backed Project 2025 are part of a larger shadow network that's relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our laws and lives.
0:22.0	Church-state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda. One of the last bastions of church-state separation is our public school
0:27.7	system. So they're pushing vouchers everywhere. They're arguing for religious public schools.
0:32.4	Yes, you heard that right, religious public schools at the Supreme Court in a case we talked about
0:36.7	on the podcast. If you're listening to us, you're seeing the writing on the Supreme Court in a case we talked about on the podcast.
0:37.8	If you're listening to us, you're seeing the writing on the wall. We can, we must, fight back.
0:42.9	Join Americans United for separation of church and state and their growing movement because church-state separation protects us all.
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0:53.1	Mr. Chief Justice, please support.
0:57.2	It's an old joke, but when I argue,
0:59.8	men argues against two beautiful ladies like this,
1:02.4	they're going to have the last word.
1:05.4	She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity.
1:15.2	She said, I asked no favor for my sex.
1:41.0	All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet or for next. Hello, and welcome back to Strict Scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.
1:42.6	Where are your hosts, I'm Melissa Murray.
1:43.7	I'm Leah Littman.
2:01.6	And I'm Kate Shaw. And we are coming to you today with another emergency episode that is going to focus on the decision we got this morning in a case involving Planned Parenthood and Medicaid recipient's civil rights. We will then briefly note the other decisions we got today and a battery of legal news we want to bring you up to speed on. Since the utter chaos goblins on the Supreme Court have indicated that tomorrow, Friday, is going to be their last decision day of the
2:06.8	term. So that means tomorrow they're going to be issuing six decisions, including on birthright
2:11.9	citizenship, the Voting Rights Act, and more. Okay, so let's jump right into Medina versus
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