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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

With Roe v. Wade Under Threat, a New Era in the Battle Over Abortion Rights

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

With a solid conservative majority on the Supreme Court, many expect that the Justices will revisit Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion legal in the United States. Should Roe be overturned, it will fall to the states to regulate access to abortionJia Tolentino joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the next stage in the politics of reproductive rights, and how the polarization of the Trump era will affect the abortion debate.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Thursday, January 24th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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With President Trump's appointment of two conservative justices to the Supreme Court,

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anti-abortion proponents are close to achieving a 45-year goal, the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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In the meantime, as the New York Times editorialized this week, the battle is being fought at the state

1:41.7

level. West Virginia and Alabama have passed state

1:45.0

constitutional amendments that could ban abortion if Roe goes down, and proposals in Kentucky and

1:51.2

Florida would ban abortion at around the sixth week of pregnancy. Conservative judges in lower

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courts are expected to uphold increasingly extreme anti-abortion laws,

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and blue states are undertaking their own measures in the meantime to protect women's right to choose.

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