Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade: Roe Against Wade

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

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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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1:02.5	4th. It is another episode of Slate's narrative history podcast Slow Burn. This new season is
1:08.7	all about the origins of Roe v Wade. You might remember we had host Susan Matthews on the show,
1:14.0	a little while back, talking about why the future of abortion in America may look a lot like
1:18.6	the past. The episode you are about to hear is the little known story of how Roe v Wade was
1:25.2	decided in the first place. Just as Harry Blackman, who was a Nixon appointee, authored the
1:31.3	seven-two opinion, and he thought he had solved the abortion issue once and for all. So how did that
1:38.1	turn out to be so wrong? Keep listening to find out, and be sure to subscribe to Slow Burn to hear
1:44.0	the entire four-part series. We will be back with a new episode of what next tomorrow, but for now,
1:50.8	here's Susan. Richard Nixon called a lot of people bastards. American generals,
1:58.3	the citizens of North Vietnam, the journalist Dan Rather, and as you'll hear in this clip
2:05.0	from his secret White House tapes, he also used the epithet against another branch of government.
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