Texas Grants Nation's First Court-Sanctioned Abortion
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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A Texas judge ruled Thursday that a woman can terminate her pregnancy because of a lethal abnormality in the fetus. It’s the first attempt in the country to use the courts to obtain an abortion since the end of Roe v Wade, and Thursday’s ruling is meant to shield the woman and her doctor from Texas’s strict anti-abortion measures. But state Attorney General Ken Paxton warned that it’s still possible his office might prosecute those involved.
Then, over 17,000 people are dead in Gaza as the war in the Middle East continues. Meanwhile, a U.S. House Committee questioned university presidents over their responses to reported antisemitic campus protests.
And in headlines: Hunter Biden was hit with nine federal counts of tax-related charges, the White House proposed a new policy to strip some patents from drug companies if their prices are too high, and a new space-themed McDonald’s spin-off opens Friday in Illinois.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 8th. |
| 0:02.9 | I'm Priyanka Arabindi. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day. |
| 0:07.3 | And if a Venice gondolier tells you to sit down, |
| 0:10.2 | then you sit down. |
| 0:11.3 | Yeah, because if you stand up to take your little selfies, then you will |
| 0:15.0 | will end up in gross canal water |
| 0:17.0 | just like the tourists on Sunday who capsized. |
| 0:19.5 | I mean the photo wasn't that good. |
| 0:22.0 | It just couldn't be in. And not even for a good photo. |
| 0:25.5 | Like, there's no payoff. On today's show, the latest in Gaza and how university heads in America were in the hot |
| 0:36.0 | seat over campus protests. |
| 0:38.2 | Plus, we hear from you, the Wad Squad weighs in on our story earlier this week about Panera's charged lemonade. |
| 0:44.8 | I can hardly wait. |
| 0:46.6 | But first, a judge in Texas has ruled that a 20-week pregnant woman may have an abortion |
| 0:52.4 | in what is believed to be one of the first |
| 0:54.3 | attempts in the country to seek a court-approved abortion since y'all's little |
| 0:58.7 | friends on the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade last year. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, I cannot say I have a single friend on that court. |
| 1:06.3 | But tell us a little bit more about this case |
| 1:08.6 | and how we got here. |
| 1:10.1 | Yes, so the pregnant person in question here is Kate Cox. She's 31 years old, married, lives in the Dallas area, |
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