The Future of Roe

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🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Politico published a leaked draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Claudine Ebeid, Executive Producer of podcasts at The Atlantic, discusses the reactions of three Atlantic contributors. Molly Jong-Fast’s most recent article is “My Mother Was Wrong About Roe v. Wade.” She also writes the newsletter Wait, What? Mary Ziegler’s is “The Conservatives Aren’t Just Ending Roe, They’re Delighting In It” and she has a forthcoming book Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment. David French’s most recent article is “What Alito’s Opinion Got Right,” he writes the newsletter The Third Rail. This episode of Radio Atlantic was produced by Claudine Ebeid, A.C. Valdez, and Kevin Townsend, thanks as well to executive editor Adrienne LaFrance. We used tape from C-SPAN, Igor Volsky, Willy Lowry, WSB-TV, and BBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We'll hear arguments on number 18, uh, role against, uh, weight.
0:06.0	The court declared the Texas abortion law is the unconstitutional for two reasons.
0:12.0	First, that the law was impermissibly vague, and second, that it violated a woman's right
0:18.0	to determine, to continue or terminate, a pregnancy.
0:22.0	Do!
0:28.0	Let's got it go!
0:29.0	Hey, hey, hey!
0:30.0	Hello!
0:31.0	We've never seen a starting call!
0:33.0	Hey, hey, hey!
0:34.0	Hello!
0:35.0	We've never seen a starting call!
0:37.0	Hey, hey!
0:38.0	Hello!
0:39.0	We've never seen a starting call!
0:41.0	This is what the Republicans have been working toward this day for decades.
0:47.0	They have been out there plotting, carefully cultivating.
0:51.0	These Supreme Court justices, so they could have a majority on the bench, but accomplish something that the majority of Americans do not want.
1:02.0	Governors will be able to control what women can and can't do with their own bodies.
1:09.0	This feels like it's written for an audience that already agrees with and will celebrate this opinion and really not for anybody else.
1:17.0	As someone who's come out of the conservative legal movement, I could tell you a decision a holding row would have a convulsive response on the right.
1:26.0	The pro-life movement is not over.
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