This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics Podcasts from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, June 24th.

I'm Bridget Bergen from the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian, who's off today.

This morning's Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

when Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority in the case,

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

He summarized the opinion with, quote,

the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.

Roe and Casey are overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.

We're joined once again by Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's Political Gab Fest podcast, and Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing in Law at Yale Law School. Emily, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks for having me.

Emily, aside from the sheer shock of the ending of an established right, what stood out to you

about Justice Toledo's decision?

Well, one thing that was really interesting is that in most ways, I think it tracks the

draft that was released earlier, and that draft was from February, and I think there was a question

about whether it would be softened in some way. I don't really see that.

It is just a real takedown of the basis for the constitutional right to abortion.

Alito's opinion claims that it is only about the constitutional right to abortion

and not also about other important decisions like the

protection for same-sex marriage that the court has also issued based on what's called

substantive due process in the 14th Amendment. But there's really no guarantee that it will be

limited to these facts. And these facts are a very big deal, especially for American women. Can you talk about how he

explained overturning precedent? Yeah. This court has a principle called stare decisis that leads it to

usually respect its previous decisions and the ideas that people depend on law for stability and for

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