Your 2024 Election Rundown, from Health Care to Nuclear Proliferation

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The 2024 U.S. presidential candidates offer very different policy perspectives. On today’s show, host Rachel Feltman is joined by health editors Tanya Lewis and Lauren Young to discuss how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump plan to address reproductive rights and health care accessibility and affordability. Plus, senior opinion editor Dan Vergano draws on his coverage of nuclear weapons to preview what a win for each candidate would mean for the U.S.’s approach to nuclear policy. Read more about the election: – In-depth coverage of the candidates’ health policies – The nuclear decisions awaiting the next president – Deep dives from other SciAm editors on the candidates’ positions on artificial intelligence, climate, and more E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with associate editor of health and medicine Lauren Young, senior editor of health and medicine Tanya Lewis and senior opinion editor Dan Vergano. Our show is edited by Madison Goldberg, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored in part by PNAS Science Sessions, a production of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
0:08.7	The Science Sessions podcast features brief but insightful conversations with leading researchers.
0:14.7	Learn how the hearts of constructing pythons grow and shrink after a meal and how they might serve as a model for human heart disease.
0:22.6	Don't miss out. Subscribe to science sessions on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.3	For Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. The 2024 election is approaching fast,
0:36.1	and we're here to help you prep for your trip to the polls.
0:39.8	Over the last few months, Scientific Americans editors have been reporting on how Donald Trump and Kamala Harris
0:45.4	approach the science-related policy issues that impact our everyday lives.
0:50.3	They've been talking to experts on topics like gun violence, health care, immigration, and more to help explain what a Trump or Harris presidency might mean for these issues in the years to come.
1:01.0	Today we're going to be hearing from a few of those Scientific American editors about what they've learned.
1:06.1	First up is Tanya Lewis, a senior editor who covers health and medicine, to give us a primer on how the
1:11.4	2024 election could impact reproductive rights.
1:22.2	Trump and Harris have pretty starkly different views and records on this topic.
1:26.7	Trump has had a pretty big impact on abortion access.
1:29.6	He's appointed three Supreme Court justices that helped overturn Roe v. Wade,
1:33.9	and that led to abortion bans or restrictions in about half of all U.S. states.
1:38.8	We've gotten what everybody wanted.
1:41.3	Democrats, Republicans, and everybody else, and every legal scholar wanted it to be
1:47.1	brought back into the states. So Trump says that he wants to return abortion decisions to the states,
1:54.3	and he has also said that he would veto a national ban if one were passed by Congress. But he's also
1:59.6	said, quote, we'll see.
2:01.6	And that's not the only way that a national ban could happen.
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