"Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to maendae our own moral code," he says. "We reaffirm the constitutionl and protected liberty of the woman to decide to have an abortion before the thetis attains by ability." The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of a ban on most abortions after 20 weeks' gestation.
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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