The supreme court heard arguments on the constitutionality of pennsylvania's abortion law day. The law is considered one of the strictest in the nation. It requires a married woman to notify her husband. This could be the culmination of our strategy. We may have the votes for them to actually overturn it. Prentelnoe, if a kid under 18 wants to get an abortion, the doctor has to inform the parents inform consent waiting period.
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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