Students who remained firm in opposing abortion started to question our polarizing abortion rhetoric. The abortion issue is complex, nuanced and ill-suited for politicized soundbites, says Janet Koven Levit.
maybe pick off a vote to do exactly what jonah just referred to right now, uphold the mississippi law that would prevent abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. but not so so far as this transformative opinion. and this disclosure has now choked off any kind of chance of that. i think. and so it s not only has this just shattered a half century of abortion law, of reproductive rights law of a holding from 1973 that said there is a constitution right for a woman to end a pregnancy. but it has also really shattered the institutional reputation of the supreme court. i don t know how they continue to trust each other, i don t know how the public can maintain confidence in the court given the chaos how this has come out. i do think the objective of how this was leaked is important because it can affect the outcome which is obviously what
she s come out and said she believes in roe, believes it should be codified. she doesn t sign on to support a democratic bill that would do just that because it goes too far. she ll introduce her own legislation. the way congress is divided right now, that legislation, bipartisan or her own, doesn t have the votes to pass. i m guessing she s glad she s up in 20 and not in 22. absolutely. when she was up, what does she do? she votes against amy coney barrett, which was absolutely an issue in her senate race. eugene, the thing that interests me in a post-war world, how many officials got to duck their position on abortion on their lifetime. now you ve got to find out it s when you start to get to i didn t get to the morning after pill. i didn t have time to get to that in the interview, but you start to go into the specifics of the reproductive rights law, that s when you open the pandora s box. the place he was most uncomfortable is what happens next. that s exactly what
pregnancy, before most women even know that they re pregnant. and many fear this will inspire other republican-led states to pass their own bans. while the supreme court, with its conservative majority, looks the other way. now, besides the six-week limitation, what makes this texas law different from other efforts to chip away at roe v. wade is the way it s enforced. private citizens can sue people for helping a pregnant woman get an abortion like by giving her a ride or paying for it. rebecca tong is co-executive-director of the trust women foundation which operates clinics in wichita, kansas and oklahoma city. jessica waters is dean of undergraduate education at american university. her research focuses on reproductive rights law. thank you both for joining me. and rebecca, let s start with you, because you say your clinic in oklahoma is among those seeing a huge uptick in interest from patients in texas who need