The Future of Abortion, Part 5: Law
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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear arguments in number 18, a row against waive. |
| 0:07.3 | Mrs. Reddington, you may proceed whenever you're ready. |
| 0:11.8 | The Supreme Court's decision on Roe in 1973 was supposed to end the debate on abortion once and for all. |
| 0:19.4 | Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court, the instance case is a direct appeal. |
| 0:24.6 | Instead, it led to decades of division. |
| 0:28.6 | If we don't get them, |
| 0:31.6 | Trump and get down, |
| 0:33.6 | if we don't get them, |
| 0:35.6 | Justice out! And launched a whole new legal philosophy in the United States. |
| 0:42.2 | Tell me why textualism and originalism are important to you. |
| 0:46.8 | I interpret the Constitution as a law, and I understand it to have the meaning that it had |
| 0:53.3 | at the time people ratified it. |
| 0:56.3 | But could one seemingly arbitrary switch into ruling have changed the outcome? |
| 1:05.1 | The Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 made abortions legal until, quote, viability, or somewhere around 28 weeks |
| 1:13.0 | in a pregnancy. |
| 1:14.5 | And that timetable sparked years of litigation and a full-on culture war. |
| 1:24.9 | Roehy wait, it's going to go. Oh, ho! Roey Wade is going to go. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm Gustavo O'Oriano. |
| 1:34.4 | You're listening to the Times, daily news from the LA Times. |
| 1:38.4 | It's Tuesday, June 21, 2022. |
| 1:42.4 | A Mississippi case that the Supreme Court will decide any day now, it might strike |
| 1:47.5 | down Roe v. Wade altogether. Before the court announces its final opinion, the Times is |
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