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In this episode, Dr. Goodwin is joined by lawyers, reproductive rights advocates, and healthcare providers to debrief the oral arguments in one of the most important Supreme Court cases of a generation. 

On December 1, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—a case that some believe could overturn Roe v. Wade. The case involves a Mississippi abortion provision, banning most abortions after 15 weeks—with no exceptions for rape or incest. What’s at stake—both in terms of abortion rights, and in terms of the Supreme Court’s legitimacy?

“All of us deserve to be able to decide if, when, and how to grow our families on our own terms.” — Renee Bracey Sherman

“The thing that feels so crazy to me is how nobody acknowledges on who’s back that is going to fall. It is poor women, it is Black women, it is Latina women, it is women of color, who cannot access an abortion in this country for the most part, and it is those same women who often need abortion, and by the Court remaining ‘neutral,’ they're actually acting in a way that will harm so many.” — Aziza Ahmed

“They pretend like these little laws don’t mean anything, but it’s showing you that these little bitty laws that they’ve gotten passed over the years, this is the big impact that they have been trying to get accomplished the whole time, they just do it little by little. And now they’ve gotten it down to one clinic.” — Shannon Brewer

“I think that Kavanaugh was signaling that he thinks it might be okay to overturn Roe v. Wade, and I think he’s laying the groundwork for his justification, if that’s how he votes.” — Brigitte Amiri

“There’s a reason that certain decisions are not left up to the states. But right, I think the state is coming to the Court now given the change in the composition of the Court with a very radical request that it has not made quite so forthrightly before.” — Hillary Schneller 

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