What do I do?

What do I do?

What do I say?

What do I say?

Hi and welcome to Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the law and the courts and the Supreme Court.

And I'm Dahlia Lithwick and I cover those things for Slate.

And this is the second in our summer series of episodes that take a break from the kind

of grinding news cycle to root around in the bookstores and in the lore of views.

And we might even check out plays and movies sometimes basically looking for ways to help

us think about how to think about the courts and the law from outside of this hermetically

sealed season.

This week we're doing something that's even a little bit different from that as a way

to make sense of the news in late June that the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned Rovey

Wade and Planned Parenthood versus Casey.

In a case that you now know well called Dobbs versus Jackson.

And we have spent a lot of the year talking about reproductive freedom and reproductive justice

as a legal matter, a statutory matter, a constitutional matter.

But I think as Americans try to integrate the idea that the right to end a pregnancy

is no longer protected in the Constitution and trying to integrate what that even means

for pregnant people, for women, for young girls, for physicians, for clinics.

Nothing that we have been able to say on this show seemed adequate to contain the enormity

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