republican members of congress now, if given the leeway to act by the united states supreme court, they would seek a nationwide abortion ban. we re starting to see republicans and states around the country and drop their previous taboo is around this issue. they used to say, if a woman was raped, while the government would enforce a rape victim to bear the child of her rapist, when they? we ll have an exception for rape. there are starting to drop rape exceptions, they re starting to drop incest exceptions, that even starting to talk about dropping exceptions to save the life of the mother, if those are dropped, which of course republicans are talking about in some states. that s a situation in which a woman, if there is no exception to protect the life or health of the mother, that s a situation which the government would be forcing a woman to give birth even if it kills her. again, this is a surprise both in style, but also in substance, in terms of how blood this is. my friend ali i
rape. there are starting to drop rape exceptions, they re starting to drop incest exceptions, that even starting to talk about dropping exceptions to save the life of the mother, if those are dropped, which of course republicans are talking about in some states. that s a situation in which a woman, if there is no exception to protect the life or health of the mother, that s a situation which the government would be forcing a woman to give birth even if it kills her. again, this is a surprise both in style, but also in substance, in terms of how blood this is. my friend ali illiterate, joins us now, he s a senior editor at slate magazine, she writes about the court. she s hoe host of the podcast, dahlia want you to tell me if i ve said anything wrong thus far, and i want you to tell me what you are thinking. no, i think you said it right, i think josh used swing for the fences, and this is both a swing for the fences in terms of justice alito s rhetoric, and language, as you noted. th