What Is Herschel Walker Lying About Today?

Political Gabfest

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the new Supreme Court term; Herschel Walker’s abortion lies; and the legal mess Dobbs created for doctors providing abortion via telemedicine. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Emily Bazelon for The New York Times Magazine: “The Doctors Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines” The New York Times: “Is Elon Musk’s Deal to Buy Twitter Back On? Here’s What We Know.” Here are this week’s chatters: John: Brian Hutton for The Irish Times: “Irishman Nears Galway After 112 Days of Rowing Across Atlantic From New York”; Damian Browne on Instagram: auld_stock Emily: CNN: “‘We've Got Weights In Fish!': See The Moment Cheaters Are Caught During Fishing Tournament’” David: Adam Dalva, The New Yorker: “Letters to Jeb Bush” Listener chatter from Jamaica Popejoy: Staged For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the latest in the saga of Elon Musk and Twitter. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate political gab fest.
0:16.0	October 6, 2022, the What's Herschel Walker line about today edition?
0:21.7	I am David Plotts of CityCast.
0:23.9	I'm in Washington, DC.
0:26.0	I'm joined from New Haven, Connecticut by Emily Baszlana, the New York Times magazine,
0:31.1	author of an amazing New York Times magazine story that we will discuss and Yale University
0:34.6	Law School, hello, Emily.
0:35.9	Good to have you.
0:36.9	Good, thank you.
0:37.9	And by John Dickerson of CBS Primetime with John Dickerson from New York City, hello,
0:43.4	John.
0:44.4	Hello, David.
0:45.4	Hello, Emily.
0:46.4	This week on the gab fest, the Supreme Court begins at what promises to be a radical
0:50.6	term with huge shifts in American law and legal standards.
0:54.7	We'll preview it.
0:56.0	Then Herschel Walker allegedly paid for an abortion, but will apparently pay no political
1:02.3	price for his brazen hypocrisy.
1:04.5	Why is that?
1:06.2	Then Emily has written a really interesting piece, also about abortion, and about the fight
1:12.7	over medication abortion and the legal consequences for doctors and other medical professionals
1:18.6	as abortion becomes differentially legal in different parts of the country and how those
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