Why Two Experts Think The Supreme Court Is Prepared To Roll Back Roe V. Wade

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court heard arguments for a case that challenges the foundation of Roe v. Wade, the decision that originally made abortion legal. In their questioning, the conservative justices seemed primed to overturn the fifty year old precedent. That decision would radically change abortion access in the United States.

This episode: political correspondent Juana Summers, legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, and Mary Ziegler, author of Abortion And The Law In America.

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0:08.0	Hi, this is Grace, and I've just submitted my last college assignment.
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0:21.0	It's currently 2.08pm on Thursday, December 2nd.
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0:31.0	Okay, here's the show.
0:33.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:38.0	I'm Wanna Summers, I cover politics.
0:41.0	And I'm Nina Tottenberg, I cover the Supreme Court.
0:44.0	The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in the biggest abortion rights case in 30 years,
0:49.0	and a majority of justices sounded open to rolling back or reversing row versus wade.
0:55.0	The landmark decision that established the constitutional right to abortion.
0:59.0	The decision in this case will have big implications for people who can get pregnant,
1:04.0	and today we have a special guest to help us unpack all of this.
1:08.0	Mary Zeagler is a law professor at Florida State University,
1:11.0	and she's written multiple books on abortion, including abortion and the law in America.
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