From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast. It's Friday, May 6th.

Happy Mother's Day weekend to all you moms out there. Happy Mother's Day to my mom. Hi, Ma.

Happy Mother's Day to anyone who is a mother already or is pregnant right now and embarking on that journey. May you all

give and receive much love on this weekend's occasion. But I'll bet for many of you, hearing that

simple wish for Happy Mother's Day just now, usually not a news story, has already

triggered an uneasy feeling, knowing the bombshell for anyone who is pregnant that leaked from

the Supreme Court on Mother's Day Week of all times. Forced motherhood has already been on the

rise in this country in states like Texas and Mississippi,

and if anything like that draft becomes final, well, how weird is it to go into Mother's Day

weekend with the Supreme Court and 22 states apparently ready for a new era of mass-forced

motherhood in this country, at least forced pregnancy and childbirth.

And talk about American exceptionalism.

The news from other countries, Ireland, Mexico, others, is more liberal abortion laws in court rulings

taking hold in recent years.

The United States is exceptional in the direction that we're heading in right now.

So let's talk to the person in the center of this constitutional storm to see if there is anything left to do

between the draft decision that was leaked and the final version expected next month.

With us now is Nancy Northup as president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights.

She heads the group that argued at the Supreme Court in December

for the Jackson Women's Health Organization in Jackson, Mississippi,

the clinic at the heart of this case.

And by the way, for extra context, restrictions already in place

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