Who Let the Dobbs Out

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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January 22nd was the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade—a bittersweet milestone, because there’s no more Roe v. Wade to commemorate. Since the Dobbs decision last year overturned Roe, we’ve had an election that went pretty well for Democrats under the circumstances, but also created a false sense of reprieve. But now it’s January and the dust is settled and there’s still no national right to abortion. The anniversary can thus serve a real purpose as a wake up call after the midterms lulled many Americans into complacency. How is America different now with Roe gone than it was before? What are pro-choice forces doing to help where abortion has been banned or where it’s under threat or where it’s still legal? What more could they be doing? What more could we all be doing? And as we look ahead to elections in the future, what can our political leaders do to nationalize a referendum on abortion? Reproductive Justice activist Renee Bracey Sherman joins Brian Beutler to reassess the state of abortion rights in post-Roe America.

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1:01.6	This past Sunday, January 22nd, was the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe vs. Wade.
1:09.5	And it was, I think, for many people who knew about it, a more than bittersweet anniversary,
1:16.1	because there's no more Roe vs. Wade to commemorate.
1:21.1	In summer of last year, Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas and three Trump-appointed justices struck down Roe vs. Wade,
1:28.3	which caused a bunch of latent anti-abortion laws to snap back into effect,
1:32.9	and Greenlit a wave of new abortion bans in Republican-controlled states.
1:37.6	And we touched in a previous episode on what the post-drow future might look like,
1:42.4	and what abortion rights supporters in politics and advocacy might do in response to the dobs ruling.
1:48.8	And so I think the Roe anniversary, or memorial, or whatever you want to call it,
1:53.5	is a good time for a check-in. Why? Well, for one thing, there's been an election since Alito
2:00.3	had all handed down the dobs decision. And because the election went pretty well for Democrats
2:05.3	under the circumstances, it created, I think, a false sense of reprieve from various right-wing
2:12.2	offensives against the majority of the country. There was this kind of collective sigh of relief
2:17.1	over the fact that election thieves lost their elections, and anti-abortion politics and dobs
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