Is this the end of cases bout abortion being brought before the supreme court? What about when somebody crosses state lines? Could such sharing of information be criminalized and still respect the first amendment? These are questions that are going to start in the lower courts and make their way back u to the supreme court.
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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