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So Susan, I wanted to talk to you because of everyone I know, I feel like you are the most prepared

for the decision about abortion that just came out of the Supreme Court. Do you feel prepared?

You know, I feel like I thought I would know how to feel and right now I feel a little bit blank

still, but I do feel prepared to talk about it. So that's good.

Susan Matthews is the host of the current season of Slate's podcast Slow Burn. It's all about

Roe v Wade. Basically, the prequel to the moment we're all living through right now.

I'm sitting in the same studio that I sat in to record so much of this show and I got pretty emotional

when I walked into this room. Susan says it's a little hard to say what the emotion she's feeling

is. They're shocked and anger, but also if she's being honest, a bit of relief. She has covered the

court for years now, has watched as the conservative justice's slow roll abortion restrictions,

limiting how the procedure is done and by whom making reproductive health care harder and harder

to access. Now with the decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health, this slow roll is over.

Rose protections, they're overturned. To Susan, it's a little like ripping off a mask.

Susan Matthews, not that many Americans like what they see under there. There was a Gallup poll yesterday

that showed that the Supreme Court has 25% approval rating right now. It's historic lows.

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