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Today's episode is about the story of the moment.

The leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

And that leaked opinion is very interesting for a few reasons.

The author, conservative justice Samuel Alito, writes that Roe was deeply flawed because

it invented a right to abortion that you can't find in the Constitution.

Or even in the period when the Constitution was written in the 1700s.

And strictly speaking, he's right.

If you read the Constitution, you're not going to find the word abortion in there.

You also won't find the word over or woman.

You won't find anything about gender.

So sometimes people say, why study history?

Well, today, American history is the weapon being used to strike down Roe v. Wade.

Like, if you want to know why the Supreme Court might be poised to overturn Roe in the single

most important decision in decades, I would argue that what you're really interested

in understanding is history, the history of abortion in America.

And that is the subject of today's episode.

What I want to do is offer a brisk factual guide to how we got to this moment, a 300-year

history of abortion in America in roughly 30 minutes.

Today's guests include two historians of abortion, Mary Ziegler, a visiting professor at Harvard,

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