The Docket: After A Half Century, Roe V. Wade Faces An Uncertain Future

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🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 1 in a case from Mississippi that tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. That case poses a serious challenge to Roe v. Wade, the decision that originally permitted abortion nationwide. For this episode we look at what the court was thinking when they decided Roe in 1973, and what the court may do in the upcoming term.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith and legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.3	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:07.3	I cover the White House.
0:08.7	And I'm Nina Tottenberg.
0:09.8	I cover the Supreme Court.
0:11.7	And this is the Docket, our ongoing series where we dig into the big legal questions of
0:17.4	the day.
0:18.6	And Nina, the Supreme Court is preparing for its next term in an upcoming episode.
0:23.4	We're going to preview the big cases that will be before them.
0:28.8	But right now we are going to set the stage for maybe the biggest.
0:33.8	And this involves abortion.
0:36.8	This will be the first time an abortion case will be ruled on by the new conservative super
0:42.2	majority on the court.
0:44.0	And that has a lot of people wondering about the future of Roe v Wade, the famous case
0:48.9	that legalized abortion in the United States and became a super precedent.
0:54.7	Right, Cam.
0:55.7	This case comes from Mississippi, which has enacted a law that bans any abortions after
1:00.4	15 weeks.
1:01.4	And that puts it directly in conflict with the Supreme Court's precedent in Roe and subsequent
1:07.8	precedence, which say that a woman is entitled to terminated pregnancy as long as the fetus
1:14.9	is not viable.
1:16.1	And that is generally 22 to 24 weeks.
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