Is the Right to an Abortion in Danger?

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18 states currently have laws on the that ban abortions, either outright or extraordinarily early in the pregnancy. En milheiser: "The landscape governing people's reproductive autonomy is now fundamentally different than it was just a few hours before we are recording this"

The Supreme Court overturned a 49-year-old precedent that secured the right to an abortion. Irin Carmon from New York magazine breaks down the case and Vox’s Ian Millhiser argues the Supreme Court is undermining democracy.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Amina Al-Sadi, edited by Matt Collette, fact checked by Victoria Chamberlin and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, re-uploaded by Efim Shapiro and hosted by Noel King.

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