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Good morning again everyone.

We know the Supreme Court decided that abortion is not a national right.

Now they're contemplating whether to impose a national abortion ban. That's right, it would be a

national ban on the abortion pill Mithapristone and the justices as many of

you followed in the news yesterday heard oral arguments in the case

that put that power to ban in their hands. They would have to overrule the

professional medical judgment of the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration.

Medication abortions, not surgical ones, ones using the pills, are the majority of them these

days. So the Supreme Court now has a case that could outlaw most

abortions that pregnant people get even in legal states today. We'll talk about

yesterday's hearing and put it in the context of the

past, present, and future of reproductive rights now with an editor of and a contributor

to a new book called Roe versus Dobbs, the past, present, and future of a constitutional right

to abortion.

With us now Lee Bollinger, First Amendment scholar, law professor, and former President of Columbia University,

now co-editor with Jeffrey Stone of this collection of writings,

and Mary Ziegler, University of California

at Davis Law Professor, and author of her own book,

Abortion and the Law in America A Legal History,

Roe versus Wade to the present, which came out in 2020.

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