The Pill Plot | 4. Irons in The Fire

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court makes its decision, and even though not everyone is happy, Larry is ready for it. He has another trick up his sleeve. Turns out, he has some extra pills, and he establishes a secret lab to replicate the pills. As the pressure mounts amid anti-abortion attacks, Lader’s allies — feminists Ellie Smeal and Patricia Ireland — are fighting their own battle as they head to Europe to convince the makers of the pill to bring it to America. Unlock all episodes of Cover Up: The Pill Plot, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Cover Up: The Pill Plot show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. You can follow the show’s host on Twitter @TJRaphael Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bench.
0:02.0	Previously, on cover up the pill plot.
0:08.0	And they said that they were detaining the medication and it was going to go to the FDA.
0:15.0	We were never in a position to provide her whatever support she should have had.
0:21.0	Honestly, I felt like once Liano was offered up, truthfully, she was met with disdain.
0:27.5	So the options were just sit back and decide that it's over or pass the Supreme Court.
0:35.0	Like many other Larry's ideas, I thought it was totally habrained.
0:40.0	I was
0:46.6	I was thrilled when Clarence Thomas was nominated and then confirmed.
0:49.3	Clarence Thomas is young.
0:56.4	Just 43 years old when George H. W. Bush nominates him to the Supreme Court. He's conservative and a devout Catholic. Having someone like that on the court with
1:02.1	a lifetime appointment,
1:04.5	Randall Terry sees that this could be an opportunity.
1:09.1	We would give out the phone number of Capitol Hill.
1:12.0	Every chance I could get, every radio show I was on, and say,
1:16.0	call up Capitol Hill and demand that they confirm this nominee, Justice Thomas, to the Supreme Court.
1:25.0	And so it happens that in their early morning hours of July 15th, 1992,
1:34.9	Leona's appeal arrives on Justice Clarence Thomas's desk.
1:40.1	Thomas has a few options.
1:42.2	He can let the ruling from the appeals courts stand on his own.
1:46.1	If he goes in that direction, he'd be upholding the Bush administration's ban on the drug.
1:51.7	And it would mean that Leona wouldn't get the pills.
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