This is a bonus episode of the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, June 24th.

I'm Rob Louis, just back from the US Supreme Court, which today overturned Roe v Wade.

We're joined on today's show by Tom Gipping, a senior legal fellow for the Meast Center

for Legal and Judicial Studies here at the Heritage Foundation.

Tom, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

You've read the Justice's opinion.

We've drafted a piece for the Daily Signal, and now you're here with us in studio.

Appreciate the quick turnaround and analysis that you're able to provide.

What do you want our listeners to know about today's landmark, Roe v.

Well, it is an important decision, obviously.

I think people need to focus not only on its result, and of course, people have their

own views about abortion and whether human life should be protected before birth.

But when it comes to the Supreme Court doing something, let's say, rather than Congress

doing it, we also need to focus on how it was done, and the fact is, and anyone who thinks

that the Supreme Court was wrong today in overruling Roe v. Wade, I think they have an obligation

to explain why.

They have an obligation to explain why Roe v. Wade was correctly decided, why it was an

appropriate interpretation of the Constitution.

Not enough just to say, I think abortion is okay, and therefore I want what I want

or something.

We ought to expect our government institutions to operate with integrity and to do things

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