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Welcome to the Waves Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and fuck.

They really did it. I'm Shayna Roth, producer of The Waves. This is an emergency episode

because the US Supreme Court just released its opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health

Organization case and, as suspected, the conservative court decided that there is not a federal

constitutional right to an abortion. They just took all that precedent from row and its progeny

and just lit it on fire. There's a lot of great content on the Slate site right now about the

decision. A reminder to sign up for Slate Plus if you're not already a member and get no paywall

and all kinds of bonus podcast content, there's amicus and what next, which are also dropping

emergency episodes. Also don't miss slow burn, row versus weight. All four episodes are out right

now. So if you want the nuts and bolts, they have you covered. We are going to spend this episode

just trying to get through it all. We are here to let you scream into the universe together.

I'm here with Slate, senior writer, Christina Cotterucci, who has like me been having some

feelings about all of this. Christina, how are you doing? I'm happy to be here talking to you

about this right now. It feels good to process this with somebody. I'm actually feeling a

little nauseous right now. I'm in New York. We just had a Slate Live event last night about

and this morning when the decision came down and I was checking out in my hotel, I was like I'm

going to get a breakfast sandwich. Actually, it's just a sandwich. I just eat weird things for breakfast

from a place that I know I really love in my friend's neighborhood in Prospect Heights. It's called

R&D Foods and they have a sandwich with pickled beets and mashed sardines and deviled egg mayonnaise.

And I was like, I need come for food right now, but I just housed that sandwich and that plus the

news is making me feel like I'm in a barf. More specifically about the decision on row,

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