The "Abortion Ban" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, News, Government

4.6 • 242 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the latest wave of anti-abortion bills, Trump’s showdown with Iran, and “Civic Saturday”--with guest Eric Liu. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Topic ideas for next week? You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Become a fan of the Political Gabfest on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @SlateGabfest. The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest from May 16, 2019.
0:14.0	The abortion ban addition, I am David Plott's,
0:17.7	of Atlas Obscura, I'm in Washington, DC.
0:20.5	John Dickerson.
0:23.0	For the very last time, he is John Dickerson of CBS's This Morning.
0:28.3	John, you're in New York.
0:30.5	And tomorrow's your last day hosting this morning, huh?
0:34.0	Yeah, yeah, I'm in New York.
0:35.4	My office, all my books, all my things
0:39.6	are already moved over to 60 minutes.
0:41.2	So I'm in this state of in-between edness.
0:45.2	And when most people listen to this,
0:46.8	I will have probably already had my last show.
0:49.9	And then if they're listening to it between C.D.M. and the evening
0:52.5	news, they'll really be confused,
0:54.4	because I've been anchoring the evening news this week.
0:57.1	So it's a big wonderful thing.
1:03.0	All right.
1:03.6	And then Emily Bazlon of New York Times at magazine
1:08.0	and yeah, law school and the best-selling book
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