The Melodies of Evil

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On The Gist, Joe Biden's careful moderation leads him astray on abortion rights. In the interview, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick is back to talk all about the Supreme Court. How the recent abortion laws passed in the South impact the continued dismantling of Roe v Wade? And why aren't the Democrats more animated by the outrageous things happening to our courts? Dahlia is the host of Slate's Amicus podcast. In the Spiel, where there's a jingle, there's a questionable set of business practices… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast may have explicit content and also has this implicit request.
0:04.8	If you follow me on Twitter, why not follow the gist at SlateGist.
0:09.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:13.9	Thursday June 6, 2019 from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:18.4	The high-demandment is in the news.
0:20.8	This is the law that stipulates federal funds shall not be spent on abortion.
0:25.1	It is named for the maniacal Robert Lewis Stevenson character,
0:29.0	who is once a man of science, but quaffed in a lixer,
0:31.0	turned him into a maniac stalking the streets of Victorian London.
0:34.1	No, no, it's named for representative Henry Hyde,
0:38.1	change Victorian London to Reagan, era, Chicago, same deal.
0:41.9	Anyway, Joe Biden supports the high-demandment.
0:45.6	None of the other Democrats do.
0:47.5	That's because they are all, I think, as far as I could tell,
0:51.6	100% supportive of abortion rights and Joe Biden is not.
0:56.5	However, how Politico's Jake Sherman framed their stances was a little off.
1:01.2	Elizabeth Warren said she doesn't like the high-demandment,
1:03.3	but of course she's voted for it.
1:04.8	It doesn't take long to find an example of Warren voting for the amendment.
1:07.7	For example, last year Congress passed a government funding bill
1:10.4	which included this language.
1:11.8	None of the funds appropriated in this act.
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