The Lone Star State Of Emergency

What A Day

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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A law that effectively banned abortions in Texas after the sixth week of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest took effect last Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block it. We spoke to Leah Litman, an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan and cohost of the podcast “Strict Scrutiny,” to get a better understanding of how the law was designed. Also in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott signed a voting restriction bill, yesterday, that bans 24-hour voting and drive-through voting, institutes onerous vote-by-mail ID mandates, and more. And in headlines: the Taliban announced the formation of its interim government in Afghanistan, President Biden visited New Jersey and New York to survey the damage caused by Ida, federal unemployment benefits expired, former Trump advisor Jason Miller was briefly detained in Brazil, and Jamie Spears filed a petition to end Britney Spears’ conservatorship after 13 years. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, September 8th. I'm Gideon Reznik.
0:09.2	And I'm Priyanka Erbindi and this is Wattade.
0:11.7	The audio equivalent of the red pill from the matrix,
0:14.4	but the good original version and not the bad,
0:16.7	men's rights activist, Virgin.
0:19.0	It's very clear, Morpheus and Neo both feminists in the original text.
0:23.5	I think we can all agree on this point.
0:34.0	On today's show, the Taliban announces the makeup of its interim government in Afghanistan.
0:38.5	Plus, we assess whether a duck is really speaking English in a rediscovered recording.
0:42.9	You're going to want to stick around.
0:45.0	But first, the latest on all things Texas, starting with the state's new anti-abortion law.
0:51.1	Whatever your plans were over the long weekend, you probably didn't get far enough away from the news
0:56.0	to miss what's going on in Texas.
0:58.4	That's definitely true. So before we dive into the latest developments,
1:01.4	can you give us all a little background on how we got here?
1:04.4	Yes, definitely. So back in May, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 8,
1:10.0	a law that effectively banned abortions in the state after the sixth week of pregnancy.
1:15.1	I'm sure most of you have heard this by now, but in many cases,
1:17.8	that is before people even realize that they're pregnant. And if they have figured it out,
1:21.8	it gives them very little time to do anything about it.
1:26.0	But the Texas law doesn't stop there. Aside from banning abortions after six weeks,
1:30.4	with no exceptions for rape or incest, this law also encourages private citizens to sue
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