Supreme Court May Allow A Challenge To Texas Abortion Restrictions To Move Forward

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A near-ban on abortion in Texas was designed to be hard to challenge in court, but in a hearing on Monday, many of the Supreme Court's conservative justices appeared ready to allow a challenge brought by abortion providers to move forward.

This episode: White House reporter Asma Khalid, legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, and KUT reporter Ashley Lopez.

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0:00.0	My name is Kim and I'm a Mac teacher in Kansas City.
0:03.0	I just got done passing out thank you notes to my co-workers,
0:06.0	written by my students after a hard day and a hard year.
0:09.0	This podcast was recorded up.
0:10.8	1.19 PM Eastern time on Tuesday, November 2nd.
0:15.0	It's election day actually for some folks.
0:16.8	Things may have changed by the time you hear this,
0:19.0	but it'll still be a good day to pass on some encouragement to someone who might need it.
0:22.8	Enjoy the show!
0:23.8	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Asma Khalid, I cover the White House.
0:30.8	And I'm Nina Tottenberg, I cover the Supreme Court.
0:33.8	And today on the show we've got a special guest, Ashley Lopez of KUT in Austin,
0:38.8	where I presume the weather is not as gloomy and rainy as cold as it is here in Washington, D.C.
0:44.8	Oh, I am so sorry to report that in Austin it is 70 degrees and sunny today.
0:49.8	I'm very sorry.
0:50.8	Slightly envious of that.
0:51.8	Well, here in Washington, yesterday, the Supreme Court weighed whether they'd allow changes
0:56.8	over Texas's near ban on abortion to go forward.
0:59.8	And it looks like they might, but Ashley, I want you to begin this whole conversation here
1:04.8	by just a reminder of what exactly this Texas law does.
1:08.8	Right, so this is a bill known as the Texas Heartbeat Act.
1:13.8	It's one of those bills we've been seeing in state legislatures across the country
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