Two Key Issues to Watch in the High-Stakes Abortion Pill Case
Boom! Lawyered
Rewire News Group
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, fellow law nerds. |
| 0:13.1 | Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyered, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal |
| 0:17.9 | journalism team that isn't ready for two abortion cases this term. |
| 0:21.9 | Just not ready. I'm Rewire News Group's editor at large, Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Peeklo, |
| 0:27.1 | Rewire News Group's executive editor. Rewire News Group is the one and only home for expert |
| 0:31.8 | repro journalism that inspires you to pace yourself through this Supreme Court season because we're going to need it. |
| 0:39.2 | And the boom laird podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome |
| 0:44.1 | to our new listeners. Okay, Amani, let's get into this. All right, here we are. The Supreme Court |
| 0:51.0 | is set to hear oral arguments next week in FDA versus Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. |
| 0:56.8 | The case that will determine whether or not medication abortion access will be rolled back to levels we haven't seen since the Clinton and Obama years, Amani. |
| 1:05.7 | I mean, look, those were good years broadly by comparison, but not when it comes to abortion and medication access. |
| 1:12.5 | No. And we've been covering this case for over a year now. And we've done multiple podcast |
| 1:17.8 | episodes on it, which you should absolutely check out. So we're not going to go through all of the |
| 1:22.1 | nuts and boats. Today, nuts and boats. Nuts and boats. We're not going to go through all the nuts and boats. We're not going to go through all the nuts and boats. |
| 1:29.4 | We're not going to go through all the nuts and bolts. |
| 1:32.5 | But today we're going to talk about what we're going to be looking for in oral arguments next week. |
| 1:37.3 | Okay. |
| 1:37.6 | So the first thing we have to talk about is the role of science in this case, right? |
| 1:43.2 | Because the attacks on medication abortion |
| 1:45.3 | are rooted in junk science and disinformation. |
| 1:49.3 | So here's what we know. |
| 1:50.9 | Science tells us that Mipipristone is wildly safe. |
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