Will 2024 Republicans Support A National Ban On Abortion?
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🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and national political correspondent Sarah McCammon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Asma and before we kick off today's show, we just wanted to ask for a time stamp. |
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| 0:17.7 | Hi, this is Cindy from Warren, Pennsylvania. Today, I'm walking the last 27 kilometers of my |
| 0:24.4 | 790 kilometer walk from Saint-Jean, PA to Pore, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. |
| 0:32.7 | This podcast was recorded at 12.29 pm on Monday, June 26th of 2023. Things may have changed by |
| 0:42.0 | the time you hear it, but I'll still have blisters when Camino and enjoy the show. |
| 0:48.0 | That is a lot of walking. Well hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Asma Khalid, |
| 0:57.1 | I cover the White House. I'm Tamara Keith. I also cover the White House. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Sarah McCammon, National Political Correspondent. And today on the show, we're going to dive |
| 1:05.0 | into the dueling messages from Republicans and Democrats one year after the Supreme Court |
| 1:09.9 | overturned Roe v. Wade. It has been a year of chaos, confusion, and a lot of political consequences. |
| 1:17.0 | And Sarah, let's start with you. Can you just describe what the landscape looks like now in the |
| 1:22.2 | country, around abortion and bands on abortion? Well, you know, even before the Dobbs, |
| 1:26.3 | the FTX and Women's Health Organization, Decision a year ago, Asma, abortion access was really |
| 1:30.4 | limited in much of the country. I mean, there were states that only had one clinic, and many people |
| 1:35.7 | had to travel quite far to get to an abortion clinic. That said, the sort of patchwork that we |
| 1:42.9 | talk about, the difference between red and blue states when it comes to abortion access, |
| 1:46.7 | that is just dramatically intensified in the last year. There are now about a dozen, a little more |
| 1:51.2 | than a dozen states that have virtually no legal abortion with some very narrow exceptions, |
| 1:56.5 | usually. About a dozen other states have passed protections for abortion providers and patients |
| 2:02.0 | who travel there. And then you have states kind of in the middle, some of which have restricted |
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