Supreme Court Takes Mississippi Abortion Case

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear oral arguments for what will likely turn out to be one of the most intensely followed abortion cases in decades: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case challenges the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, a 2018 law that prohibits abortions performed after the 15-week point in a woman’s pregnancy (with limited exceptions). David and Sarah walk us through the likely outcomes of the case and explain how it fits in with the court’s jurisprudence on abortion related questions. Also on today’s podcast, our hosts chat about Caniglia v. Strom, a separate court case involving the Mississippi Supreme Court, the cicada invasion, and more. Show Notes: -June Medical Services LLC v. Russo -Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt -Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization -Caniglia v. Strom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. It's David French with Sarah Isger and our Twitter
0:11.0	feed Sarah has been blowing up everyone wants to hear what we're going to have to say about
0:16.8	some Supreme Court developments today. So we have takes but full disclosure, full disclosure
0:24.0	Sarah, you had 100% right now. What's your percentage? I don't I don't even know. So we
0:31.6	are taping this later today because at our normal taping time, I said that it was not possible
0:37.2	that David would have to do it solo. And if y'all know, I didn't I have not missed an advisory
0:42.4	opinions pod ever actually. Yeah. Yeah. Including the birth of Nate. And today was going
0:50.1	to be the first day. Thankfully, David agreed to delay it by four hours. I am I've got day
0:57.9	quilt going, which I think I all that may be making things worse. I don't know. I've got
1:02.2	some tea. This is post vaccine life, David. It turns out if you walk around without a mask
1:06.7	and just lick everyone you see like a enthusiastic golden retriever. A germ still exists. Who
1:12.8	do? Yeah, we were having this discussion in the green room before we launched the pod. And I
1:21.2	I have I'm getting over a cold. Most of my friends have some version of a cold. And it's so
1:28.0	funny because it all happened about two to three weeks after they got their second shot. And I
1:33.7	started to like single handedly prop up the Franklin Tennessee restaurant economy. I've got a
1:39.7	pullback for the wallets sake. But we're meeting, you know, meeting for for dinner and everyone was
1:47.8	meeting it was out and about for the first time really kind of fully truly and was fully vaccinated
1:54.1	with no mask requirements. And so we've like gotten colds. The good thing. I'm never going out
2:00.3	again. Like I'm going to be that person wearing a mask never leaving the house pretending that
2:04.4	pandemic is still going on. I am so miserable right now. I never want this to happen again. No. Well,
2:10.4	the only the only good thing is I was at the stew TV studio because I did CNN's reliable
2:16.4	sources to talk about the law of armed conflict in Gaza yesterday. And I was kind of coughing a little
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