The Overturning of Roe v. Wade

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Van and Rachel react to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and discuss how people will be immediately affected (13:42), talk about the political and actionable plan going forward (23:26), and compare the Democratic Party to fake Jordans (40:59). Plus, constitutional law professor Caroline Mala Corbin joins to help make some sense of the landmark decision (43:39). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Caroline Mala Corbin Producers: Trudy Joseph and Donnie Beacham Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo yo yo yo thought warriors what is up?
0:03.5	Highlanders on it is Ivan, Dayton, Jr.
0:05.8	And it's me Rachel and Lindsey.
0:07.9	Let's get right to it.
0:09.0	The big deal of the day is the Supreme Court, the Empire, the Galactic Empire, has overturned
0:19.9	Roe versus Wade in a Supreme Court five to four decision on Friday Roe versus Wade.
0:25.6	The landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in 1973 was
0:32.2	overturned.
0:33.2	Justice Samuel Alito as expected wrote the majority opinion it tossed out Roe as well
0:39.9	as a 1992 Supreme Court decision of holding abortion rights in a case known as Planned
0:46.1	Parenthood versus Casey.
0:50.2	It was five to four with John Roberts voting with the majority to uphold the Mississippi
0:57.2	abortion restrictions, but did not approve of overturning Roe all together.
1:05.1	The three courts three liberal justices filed a dissenting opinion to the ruling, which
1:10.6	obviously it did up in protesters in DC, but we've seen protests everywhere with the
1:16.4	police dealing with some of the agastopo tactics, stamping out and manheadling people everywhere
1:30.8	all across the country.
1:32.8	Rachel?
1:34.3	I don't know, Van.
1:38.2	I don't know.
1:40.8	I don't want to give a reaction because I feel like we knew this was something like
1:46.4	this was coming and now here it is.
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