Swinging for the Fences on Abortion

Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On today’s pod, the discussion is (almost) all about abortion jurisprudence. After a brief look at Taking Offense v. California—a California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District case striking down a California law criminalizing long-term care workers repeatedly misgendering their residents—David and Sarah dive into Mississippi’s challenge to Roe v. Wade, which directly asks the Supreme Court to overturn the almost 50-year-old precedent. How did the Mississippi attorney general frame the argument? How likely is it that the argument succeeds? What would American governance look like in a post-Roe world? Show Notes: -Taking Offense v. California -Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast.
0:06.1	This is David French with Sarah Isger.
0:08.1	And today's podcast is going to be a lot about dobs.
0:13.7	Dobs is a case name that loyal advisory opinions listeners should know just right off the top
0:19.5	of their head.
0:20.5	But if you're parachuting in new and I know we have a lot of new listeners because I've
0:25.2	been running into you guys as I've been traveling again around the country, including a lot of
0:30.6	new listeners who started listening during the angry cheerleader podcast, which was peak,
0:36.5	peak podcasting.
0:38.0	So if you're new listener, dobs is the Mississippi abortion case.
0:42.0	This is the case where Mississippi passed a ban on all abortions after 15 weeks.
0:47.2	And it has gone up to the Supreme Court.
0:50.3	And the reason why we are going to talk a lot about it is because Mississippi, the state
0:57.3	of Mississippi filed its brief last week.
1:01.2	And how shall we put it?
1:03.0	They went there.
1:05.2	They are swinging for the fences.
1:08.5	I'm going to read the introduction.
1:10.6	It says, on a sound understanding of the Constitution, the answer to the question presented
1:15.8	in this case is clear in the path to that answer is straight.
1:19.9	Under the Constitution may a state prohibit elective abortions before viability.
1:25.3	Yes.
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