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What If Abortion Meant Prison... Or Worse?

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What A Day

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🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The 2022 Dobbs decision that reversed Roe v. Wade promised to return the issue of abortion back to the states. But for anti-abortion activists, that’s never been good enough. Some anti-abortion activists are pushing bills that could see women who get abortions imprisoned. And with the number of people who have gotten abortions only increasing over the last year, that’s a lot of punishment they want to mete out. Jessica Valenti, founder of the Substack Abortion, Every Day, has been tracking abortion rights for more than a decade. We talked about why the anti-abortion movement has gotten more extreme – and what we can do about it.

And in headlines, Republicans blast Trump’s new Iran memorandum, the Supreme Court rules marijuana users can own guns, and you heard it here first: the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is still green.

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0:00.0

They are really very proactively trying to shift that Overton window and get people used to the idea that it is okay to punish abortion patients.

0:09.3

If they can't do it with life in prison or the death penalty right away, they'll try to figure out another way to do it.

0:15.4

No, they are moving to the next step.

0:32.2

I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show that's wondering how Vice President J.D. Vance really felt when his boss declared him the official scapegoat of the Iran war.

0:37.4

President Trump said yesterday that he was going to blame you if the talks of the round go sideways.

0:42.3

Are you worried that he's going to make you the poor guy?

0:44.3

No, not at all. I mean, I think the president was joking.

0:47.3

Oh, honey.

0:48.3

Maybe ask former Vice President Mike Pence about what a hilarious guy President Donald Trump really is.

0:55.5

On today's show, we talk to Jessica Valenti about the next front in the abortion fight and the

1:00.7

scary state-level anti-abortion legislation you may not have heard about. Before we get into

1:05.7

all that, here's what we're following today, Thursday, June 18th.

1:17.9

So I guess I would say to anybody, any of the critics, is number one, have a little bit of faith in the President of United States.

1:23.3

The idea that he is going to strike a deal that's been bad for the American people, it's preposterous.

1:25.3

Preposterous.

1:30.8

Vice President J.D. Vance has the unfortunate task of spinning the new U.S. Iran Memorandum of Understanding, or, if you will, surrender random of understanding. And spoiler alert,

1:38.3

it's not going over well. That's because this agreement foresees, effectively, pumping Iran full of money by unfreezing

1:45.0

hundreds of billions of dollars held in foreign banks and letting Iran sell oil right away.

1:50.2

It does not include a long-term resolution to the Iranian nuclear standoff, at least not on paper.

1:55.6

So we went from, we're going to destroy your civilization to and do whatever.

2:02.6

After days of will he, won't he, the president went ahead and signed the MOU during a visit

2:07.0

to the French palace of Versailles.

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