The State of Abortion Access Two Years After Roe
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
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Summary
Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that for decades guaranteed the right to an abortion. Since then, conservative lawmakers in roughly half the states have either banned or significantly restricted access to abortion, while the other half has expanded or protected access. The nexus of the debate over abortion is now our current presidential election, with both the Biden and Trump campaigns centering reproductive rights in very different ways. Alice Miranda Ollstein, health care reporter on Capitol Hill for Politico, explains how the issue is playing out on the campaign trail.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, June 24th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Trayvon Anderson. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Alexis Johnson, and this is what a day where we're baffled by Trump's former |
| 0:09.1 | White House Dr. Ronnie Jackson, who went on Fox News and issued a pretty wild demand to President Biden. |
| 0:14.4 | Yes, the Texas Republican congressman says Biden should submit drug tests before and after the debate. |
| 0:21.8 | To which I say, why not test them both? |
| 0:24.6 | Honestly. |
| 0:25.1 | They both could use a B12 shot or something. |
| 0:27.8 | On today's show, more than 1,300 people died amid extreme heat during the |
| 0:35.6 | Hodge pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Plus, some of our favorite athletes are |
| 0:39.7 | heading to Paris for the Summer Olympics next month. |
| 0:42.6 | But first, today marks two years since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade |
| 0:48.4 | and set us back a few decades. |
| 0:51.0 | On June 24, 2022, the court's conservative majority ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health |
| 0:57.7 | Organization that the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion. In doing so they gave |
| 1:04.7 | individual states the responsibility of deciding. As of right now the health care |
| 1:09.8 | procedure is banned or restricted in 21 states, many championed by Republican controlled |
| 1:15.6 | legislatures. Right, and we've also seen that since the overturning when |
| 1:19.2 | abortion has been on the ballot, voters have overwhelmingly protected access. |
| 1:23.3 | Right, so it's almost like a tale of two countries. |
| 1:27.0 | The nexus of which is our current presidential election, |
| 1:30.8 | in which both the Biden and Trump campaigns are centering reproductive |
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