There's this sense that Democrats are succeeding where they may have previously failed because of this issue, because of abortion. Do we have any hard data that says this issue is swinging elections right now and it's swinging them in the direction of Democrats? I do think there's a growing sense, both among Democrats and among Republicans, that abortion could be a winning issue for Democrats. And certainly in every instance where the life of the mother is at stake.
A federal judge in Texas invalidated the FDA’s decades-old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. Vox’s Anna North explains the battle over a drug that’s been legal since 2000.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matthew Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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