This week on CounterSpin: The US public's belief in and support for the Supreme Court has plummeted with the appointment of hyper-partisan justices whose unwillingness to answer basic questions, or answer them respectfully, would make them unqualified to work at many a Wendy's, and the obviously outcome-determinative nature of their jurisprudence. Key to that drop in public support was last year's Dobbs ruling, overturning something Americans overwhelmingly support and had come to see as a fundamental right—that of people to make their own decisions about when or whether to carry a pregnancy or to have a child. The impacts of that ruling are still reverberating, as is the organized pushback that we can learn about and support. We hear from Taryn Abbassian, associate research director at NARAL.
Also on the show: Meaningful, lasting response to Dobbs requires more than "vote blue no matter who," but actually understanding and addressing the differences and disparities of abortion rights and access beforeDobbs, which requires an expansive understanding of reproductive justice. CounterSpin has listened many times over the years to advocates and authors working on this issue. We hear a little this week from FAIR's Julie Hollar; from Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of the group URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity; and from URGE's policy director, Preston Mitchum.
