You! Hi, this is Radio Atlantic. I'm Isaac Dauver. In the past few weeks, states across the country have passed a series of unprecedented

anti-abortion bills. In Alabama, abortion is now banned under state law without

any exceptions for rape or incest.

Georgia, Ohio, and Kentucky have all passed so-called heartbeat bills,

making abortion illegal six to eight weeks into pregnancy.

On Wednesday, the Louisiana legislature passed a heartbeat

bill of its own, this one without any exceptions for rape or incest. In Missouri, abortion has

been outlawed after eight weeks, and on Friday, it may become the first

state without any access to abortion, as a clinic may be pressured to close.

All of these bills have been challenged in court. And regardless of state law, abortion

is still legal in the first trimester because of Roe v. Wade. Of course, that may be the point to conflict with and eventually overturn Roe v.

Wade.

With me to discuss all this is Emma Green, staff writer here at the Atlantic, where she covers politics and religion

and has gone more in depth on this issue than most of the people out there.

Emma, thanks for joining us here on Radio Atlantic.

Thanks so much for having me.

So we've seen this sudden wave of anti-abortion bills

all across the country.

What exactly is going on here?

I think there's a clear goal and we've even heard it directly from the lips of the legislators who are trying to put these bills in place.

They want their bills to be the ones that eventually wind their way through the court system up to the Supreme Court

and can be that fatal blow against Roe versus Wade.

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