it s a month s subscription to netflix. i didn t have iris didn t have the heart to tell him we had subscribed for four years already. clearly harry wasn t big on new technology. he didn t text. he didn t mail. and as you know, whenever he called you, he d hang up the phone so quickly, you d think he was allergic to telecommunications. but what harry was allergic to was the artifice of politics. he considered it a distraction from his true passion, getting good things done in this capitol. harry never forgot where he came from, nor did he forget the people. his childhood friends and neighbors who just like harry early on, struggled to get by, and he kept up with so many of them. we remember hearing all the stories. in harry s view, the government had a moral obligation to see to it that these people had every opportunity to secure a better life for themselves and their
new place where it s open combat on this issue and we re no longer couching it? yes and no. i mean, i think, look, let s be grateful that all of those fancy law professors and susan collins and people who told us that these folks really meant when they said roe was precedent, they meant that, okay, let s put that aside. that artifice is gone. the artifice i worry about and you played na brett kaf clip is the artifice of let s be neutral. we re going to pretend to be neutral. we re not going to bad abortion. we re just not going to say there s a right, and that middle place, that neutral place is to just let states decide. we saw that same artifice amy coney barrett kept insisting because there were safe haven laws that allow you to more readily give your child up for adoption, it s not a problem for women to be forced to carry to term. they can just give their babies up.
essentially open combat on this issue and we re no longer couching it? yes and no. i mean, i think look, let s be grateful that all of the fancy law professors and susan collinses and these folks really meant when they said roe was precedent, they met that. that artifice is gone. the artifice is the one saying let s be neutral. we re not going to ban abortions, we re just not going to say there s a right and that middle place, that neutral place is to just let states decide. we saw that same artifice, amy coney barrett kept insisting because there are safe haven laws, because can you give up for adoption, it s not a problem to force women to carry to term
so, i think for me, the artifice of, we re being neutral, we re being reasoned, this is just a tiny little tweak around the margins, nothing earth-shaking happening here. not to worry about other precedents when we are gunning for roe, just roe, that s the artifice that really rankled today for me, the sort of pretense that this is a big nothing burger and everybody s worked up. senior editor at slate.com, dahlia, as always, thank you for your clarity. we got much more ahead here tonight. ur clarity we got much more ahead here tonight. g the love with those who need it most. now subaru is the largest automotive donor to make-a-wish and meals on wheels. and the largest corporate donor to the aspca and national park foundation. get a new subaru during the share the love event and subaru will donate two hundred and fifty dollars to charity.
couching it? yes and. no let s be grateful that all the fancy law professors and susan collins and people who told us these folks meant roe was precedent when they said that, okay, that artifice is gone. the artifice i worry about you played that kavanaugh clip is the artifice of saying, let s be neutral. we re not going to ban abortion, kavanaugh, that s not on the table. we re just going to not say there s a right, and that middle place, the neutral place is to let states decide. amy coney barrett insisted because there were safe haven laws, it s not a problem for women to be forced to carry to term, because they can just give their babies up. so i think for me, the artifice of we re being neutral, we re