Sunday, December 12, 2021

Abortion and the U.S. Supreme Court

On December 1, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case about a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a challenge to the Court's precedents in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. National Public Radio had several stories about this case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health OrganizationThe longer one features commentary by NPR Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg, SCOTUS Blog's Tom Goldstein, and Florida State University Law Professor Mary Ziegler. 12 min. 35 min., transcript available.

A shorter segment, with just Nina Totenberg, can be found here. 4 min. 56 sec. transcript available.

For more in depth coverage, 1A, a program from from WAMU (American University Radio) heard on Dec. 2 is available here. 46 min. 26 sec. no transcript. A condensed version of the story can be found here. 33 min. 5 sec. no transcript.