The Supreme Court's Decision to Prohibit Abortion

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i was at the university of florida, in ganesville. And i was just shocked and appalledand thell of state laws heartbroken. The battle was between incrementalism and absolutism. Absolutism was we would be morally complicit in rov wade if we accepted it as law. That is not a hill to fight on. It's foolish they wanted to fight on that hill. I mean, you got to learn what fights to fight and what hills to die on,. No one has ever confused me with the don quixote.

Indiana lawyer Jim Bopp has spent most of his life chipping away at Roe v. Wade. His incremental approach to overturning the Court’s decades-old precedent appears to have paid off.

This episode was produced by Jillian Weinberger, edited by Katherine Wells with Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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