This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different approach to the news. Thank you so much for joining us today. We're going to begin by talking about the

W. N. B. A. And what we're learning from the uptick in focus on women's

basketball. Then we're going to talk about the abortion ban that has gone into

effect in Arizona, Dr. Daniel Grossman, a physician and

researcher, will spend some time with us detailing the real world impacts of

restrictive abortion laws on patients, clinicians, and on the overall health care system.

Outside of politics, we're going to share a really beautiful story from one of our

listeners.

What we were not going to talk about today is Donald Trump's trial.

We will come back to that at some point.

But as we set down to record, we received the breaking news

that one juror who had been seated for the trial

contemplated the effect on her life that will happen if people find out she served on this jury and went back to the judge and said I don't think I can do this.

And that's why we aren't going to track every development of jury selection in this case because the system is more important than the man who is on trial here.

And the sacrifices that jurors make in every case are real, they are very, very real in this case.

And so it's important to us to do everything we can to respect the privacy of these folks

who are doing their civic duty.

We will return to the legal issues at some point, but we're not going to track jury selection today.

One of the interesting observations from Alexis to Tocville and his democracy in America is the uniqueness of our jury trials in our court system in America.

One of the many things that we are learning and gaining insight into with our slow read-along of his seminal work

Democracy in America, always relevant, always interesting, every time I pick it up

I think, oh he was right about that.

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