Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade: Roe Against Wade

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Harry Blackmun wasn’t Richard Nixon’s first choice to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. But after Blackmun was confirmed, he got the assignment of a lifetime: writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade. His approach to that case would have consequences he never imagined. Season 7 of Slow Burn is produced by Susan Matthews, Samira Tazari, Sophie Summergrad, and Sol Werthan. Derek John is Sr. Supervising Producer of Narrative Podcasts. Editorial direction by Josh Levin, Derek John, and Johanna Zorn. Merritt Jacob is our Technical Director. Our theme music is composed by Alexis Cuadrado. Artwork by Derreck Johnson based on a photo provided by Robert Wheeler. The season’s reporting was supported by a grant from the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.
0:05.6	The young gentleman's name would be...
0:08.3	Oliver, Oliver Twist.
0:10.7	...with Brian Cox as Fagan.
0:12.9	What have you seen?
0:14.1	Street boy.
0:14.9	Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes.
0:19.3	Oh, look at me like a hello to my lawyer!
0:21.3	I love you, baby!
0:22.3	...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells.
0:25.7	Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms.
0:55.7	The movie was decided in the first place.
0:58.5	Justice Harry Blackman, who was a Nixon appointee,
1:01.9	authored the 7-2 opinion.
1:03.9	And he thought he had solved the abortion issue once and for all.
1:08.8	So how did that turn out to be so wrong?
1:11.2	Keep listening to Find Out, and be sure to subscribe to Slowburn
1:14.8	to hear the entire four-part series.
1:17.6	We will be back with a new episode of What Next tomorrow.
1:20.9	But for now, here's Susan.
1:22.6	Richard Nixon called a lot of people bastards.
1:27.2	American generals, the citizens of North Vietnam,
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