Talking About Abortion On The Campaign Trail
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:18.9 | The time now is. |
| 0:20.3 | 112 PM on Thursday, June 20th. |
| 0:23.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this. |
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| 0:39.6 | Time Stamp, marriage, education. |
| 0:41.7 | We are at the top priority over here. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics |
| 0:45.9 | podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. I'm Danielle Kurtzlev and I cover the presidential |
| 0:50.3 | campaign. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. |
| 0:55.0 | And today, abortion politics and how they're shaping the 2024 election. |
| 0:59.2 | It's been nearly two years since the Supreme Court's landmark decision to overturn Rovi Wade and hand back to |
| 1:04.7 | individual states the power to decide abortion access laws. |
| 1:07.8 | Mara, if Republicans want this election to be a referendum on the economy and immigration, it seems pretty clear |
| 1:14.5 | that Democrats would much rather this election be about abortion access. |
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