Texas’ AG Used This Insane Reason to Keep Abortion Illegal
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🗓️ 7 November 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the new Abnoir World and we thank you so much for being here |
| 0:04.6 | Today we have an extra special guest with Linda Hirschman |
| 0:07.5 | She's of course a lawyer and a New York Times bestselling author and cultural historian. She's presently serializing her new |
| 0:14.5 | Innovo red state and today we're gonna talk to her all about SBA and what's going on in the Supreme Court |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome to the new abnormal Linda Hirschman. Thank you for having me in my mind |
| 0:27.3 | It's funny because Jesse and I were talking on Monday as we talk 500 times a week as we book this podcast |
| 0:33.7 | Which is most of what we do in the world. He said to me what's going on this week? |
| 0:37.8 | And I said it's all all that matters is a Supreme Court this week |
| 0:41.8 | And he was like what are you talking about? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, you said I don't know what you're talking about but it really matters and I'm gonna set the stage for you |
| 0:50.5 | And then you because you are actually an expert in this can really explain to us what the hell is going on |
| 0:55.7 | But on Monday the Supreme Court did something they almost never do right they did it last time with Bush Bush versus Gore |
| 1:03.3 | Which is they pulled up a case because they had to address it right let's talk about this case |
| 1:08.9 | There has been some talk about why they pulled it up and |
| 1:13.0 | Part of the talk is because they took so much heat for deciding the issue of |
| 1:18.4 | The availability of abortion in the state of Texas on a shadow docket |
| 1:23.5 | And in an interim order the bill is called SB 8 |
| 1:27.6 | It was a bill that made abortion illegal in Texas the Supreme Court let it go |
| 1:33.7 | Five four on the shadow docket August 31st |
| 1:37.4 | September 1st you could no longer get an abortion |
| 1:40.7 | Basically at all in the state of Texas unless you figured it out within the first two weeks of being pregnant |
| 1:46.8 | Right, why you were still putting your calls back |
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