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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 241: Abortion, Roe, Casey, and Dobbs. The history of abortion in America and how SCOTUS has intervened
Description: The boys drink and review 1623's Nuestro Playa, then discuss abortion and the recent SCOTUS decision.Â
In Roe v. Wade, the court found a right to privacy in the constitution, although it wasn't exactly clear where it was. The court tried to split the difference between the interests of states in protecting life and the idea of a right to privacy. Justice Blackmun, who wrote the Roe decision, invented a trimester system.Â
Many people thought Roe would be overturned in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and while the trimester system was replaced with "viability," the underlying ri...