Shinzo Abe's Assassination And What It Means For Japan
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🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
President Biden signed an executive order on Friday to try to protect access to abortion, but it’s not the solution many reproductive rights advocates were seeking. Then on Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators protested the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade over the weekend in D.C. to pressure Congress to codify abortion-related care into law.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed on Friday while giving a speech in the Japanese city of Nara. Now, as the country grieves, we look at what his killing means for Japan’s political future.
And in headlines: Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister announced their resignations, Steve Bannon told the January 6th House committee that he’s willing to testify, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court outlawed ballot drop boxes.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, July 11th. I'm Trevelle Anderson. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Josie Duffy-Race, and this is What A Day, where we're hoping that BA5 is the last |
| 0:12.4 | ever variant of COVID. |
| 0:13.7 | In the words of Erika Badu, BA5 can call Tyrone to help them get its shit and go. |
| 0:21.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:21.7 | If that analogy doesn't encode it, I have no idea what we'll actually encode it. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, we explain how last week's assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe |
| 0:36.1 | influenced the country's national elections yesterday. |
| 0:39.1 | Plus, Twitter plans to sue Elon Musk for trying to back out of buying the company. |
| 0:43.6 | That man is annoying, but first, that is the sound of hundreds of demonstrators over the weekend |
| 0:58.1 | in DC protesting the Supreme Court's reversal of row versus Wade. |
| 1:02.8 | It was organized by the women's march, and part of what they're hoping will be a quote |
| 1:06.8 | summer of rage as folks continue to pressure Congress to codify abortion-related care into law. |
| 1:13.6 | The protests came a day after President Biden signed an executive order to try to protect |
| 1:18.4 | access to the procedure. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, so he did that on Friday. Tell us what does the executive order actually entail? |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, so the order aims to head off potential issues folks seeking abortions might face. |
| 1:30.9 | It basically formalizes instructions to the departments of justice and health and human services, |
| 1:36.7 | to do whatever is in their power to one, push back on efforts to limit access to FDA-approved abortion |
| 1:43.0 | medication, and two, to protect those who might have to travel across state lines to access |
| 1:48.8 | clinical services. That includes but is not limited to re-educating medical providers and insurers |
| 1:55.7 | about sharing privileged patient information with authorities and lining up volunteer lawyers |
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