It's today explained. I'm Newell King, Sean Ramos-Ferrham. My co-hosts are outside of the Supreme Court right now.

I am. I am. It seems like we got people who are celebrating a decision and people who are protesting a decision, but I would say there's a lot more people protesting out here.

What are you hearing?

I'm hearing F the courts and legislators, women are not incubators. I'm seeing signs that say I will aid and abet abortion, but it feels like almost like the anti-abortion people out here are almost bystanders to a much bigger protest about a decision that the majority of this country did not want.

And that decision is this. The Supreme Court voted 6-3 today to overturn Roe vs Wade, the 49-year-old ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion.

Coming up on today's show, how and why Roe was overturned?

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We will hear argument this morning in case 1913-92.

Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health Organization was the case. Mississippi passed a law.

It was not an extraordinary law. It wasn't particularly complicated. It didn't have any gotchas, like some other laws that we've seen.

But the Supreme Court agreed to hear it.

The Court agreed to hear it even though it had previously ruled to guarantee the right to an abortion prior to viability, which is around 20 to 24 weeks.

So this clinic, providing abortions up to 16 weeks, was working well within a settled law.

And that's the part that made this case historic, because it showed that by considering a case that flew in the face of its precedent, the Supreme Court was ready to revisit that and perhaps overturn it entirely.

Eurin Carmon is a senior correspondent at New York Magazine. She says this case has been historic since oral arguments, and that means a lot of people were paying very close attention.

What was unusual about oral arguments is that for the first time, the Supreme Court had agreed to even hear the question of overturning Roe entirely.

As opposed to a kind of sideways question in which everybody knows that that's below the surface, but they're not really willing to acknowledge it.

So suddenly, everybody's cards are on the table.

Because between when the case would Mississippi first ask the Supreme Court to hear the case, and when it actually agreed to hear the case, something significant happened, which is that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.

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