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Presented. By the National Association

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of Realtors. Hey,

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good morning and play The coauthor Rachel

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Bead. It's Wednesday, March twenty seventh. Here's

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what's driving the day. The fallout from

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and he sees run a Mcdaniel contract

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continues to boil over. Yesterday the former

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are and see Chief was let go

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from the network after Top Talent balked

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at her hiring for today straight this

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morning. We dig a little into the

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wrong side of things and playbook a

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couple news nuggets for you This morning.

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Running Mcdaniel is expecting to be paid

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six hundred thousand from this contract at

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two years at three hundred thousand apiece.

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The point of view from their side is

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that she didn't violate any parts of this

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agreement that the Nbc folks are the ones

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that are scrambling and therefore she's owed this

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money. I. Also hear Rhonda Mcdaniel

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is talking to Brian Freedom in this

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is the mega media lawyer who also

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represented Megyn Kelly and her a legal

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battle with N B C as

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well as Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, and

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Tucker Carlson. And. The Supreme

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Court on Tuesday heard arguments and a

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case challenging federal regulation of a widely

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used abortion pill. The For Press Down.

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Anti Abortion Activists, however, might not like

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what they had to hear from the

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justices, but conservatives around the nation have

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a backup plan should the Supreme Court

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rejects their campaign. In fact. Turns out

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they have several and here to talk

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to me about this is healthcare reporter

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Alice Miranda. All steam, Good morning Alice.

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Hello! So alice

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first take us through what the Supreme

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court justices had to say it yesterday

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about this case. So. The conservative

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justices were really skeptical about

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two key pieces of the

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anti abortion groups argument. They

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said, we're not convinced that

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you have standing to sue

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because you haven't really shown

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that the doctors you're representing

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have been harmed by these

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pills. You know, the doctor

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say that they're increasing use

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of the pills mean. That

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they're more likely to have to treat

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someone who took the pills and comes

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in to the emergency room or comes

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from, you know, follow up care and

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that that would hurt them because then

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they would have to quote unquote, be

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complicit in. Completing. That

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abortions but none of the doctors

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in the case really could prove

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that that has happened in the

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past and as likely to happen

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again in the future selves. They

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really got grill on this being

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too speculative. Really? Interesting

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and maybe a bit surprising after the

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Dots decision. So as you report in

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a story at this morning, these anti

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abortion activists have several Plan B's so

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to speak. Maybe I should you Monday

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No one said nothing. Less

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started the Federal level. What are they

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looking at Congress to potentially do? Or

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a potential second Trump White House. Yet

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so I really wanted to stress in

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this piece that while the Supreme court

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case is obviously huge, they're not hanging

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everything on this. They have been that

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really strategizing for years since before row

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foul to go after the use of

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abortion pills, they sort of saw the

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writing on the wall that the pills

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were the future of abortion and salad.

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They really felt that in order to

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ban abortion which is what they hope

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to do more broadly, they really have

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to go after the polls. And they've

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been doing. That in just a

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bunch of different ways. There's other

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lawsuits. there are bills, Already.

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Introduced in Congress and and a lot

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of state legislatures and as he mentioned

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that there are in. Groups.

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That are trying to lay the

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groundwork so died should trump when

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in the fall. And take back

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the White House next few still. Would

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be offensive policy planned all ready to

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go for hims a sign that would

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release. Restrict. Abortion Access.

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Is not ban it entirely and south

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some of those actually came up during

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oral arguments including the Com Zoc actresses

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as long dormant law that the it's

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all the way back from the eighteen

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said you are that bans mail delivery

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of medications or really anything that could

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be. As for an abortion that has

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not been in force for a long

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time as a fight in just as

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apartments as it does not apply and

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shouldn't fan mail delivery of abortion pills

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that these groups once future Trump administration

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to reverse that and say yes it

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does and that would really cut off

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access all around the country If you

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can't mail the pills not only can

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you not mail them to pieces houses

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you can even mail them doctors' Offices

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and so it would really prevent people from

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obtaining them. I even in blue states where

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their use is currently projected, what is the

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thinking Then if Republicans were say hold onto

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the house with the Senate but don't have

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a sixty both threshhold say they get Trump

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in the White House with I mean do

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they already know how they're gonna do this

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like a tacit sir must pass legislation or

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something that has totally nothing to do with

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miss a press down or what? What is

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the thinking? They're. Scared.

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So save energy, use a bunch of

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sort of traditional bills that would require

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sixty votes in the senate by it

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as we know that is not super

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likely. Not impossible, but not super likely.

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And so they are also, yeah, looking

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for ways to. Try. Again,

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ah up. Even after failing the some

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around, try again to get it has

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to a federal spending bills in the

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future. You know that's how we got

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the Hyde Amendment which has been around

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for a long time which prevents you

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a direct federal funding of abortions. They

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obviously want to go much further it.

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so I really see this as an

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A's throw everything against the wall and

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see what sticks kind of strategy. Last.

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Question for you are conservative states already

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moving to ban this abortion pill? and

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what are blue states doing to sort

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of push back on these efforts? Yeah.

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So you know many states now

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post row ban Abortion entirely is

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so that includes abortion tells an

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surgical abortions by a bunch of

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other states in addition to those.

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Bam Saves! Have restrictions just on

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the pills. Requiring

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patience to only obtain them directly from

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a doctor in person rather than through

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telemedicine or by mail are getting at

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a pharmacy. So there are a bunch

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of restrictions like that. There are ones

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that also sort of functionally do that

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by. Let's. Say requiring an ultrasound.

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Eat the you gotta. Go in and

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prison for that on. And so

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there are those restrictions. And there

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are anti abortion groups that are

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pushing model bills and seats. I

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don't have those restrictions yet to

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try to impose them for and

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like you mentioned, a bunch of

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blue states are trying to sort

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of bees be the Van Gogh

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heard here I'm to push back.

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So a lot of blue states

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have passed these shield was saying

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that is a doctor and say

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California prescribes abortion pills. To a

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patient in say Texas, they

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cannot be subpoenaed or prosecuted

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by. Texas. so it's it.

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Gives. Them the sort of legal immunity

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legal protection to give them the confidence

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keep doing this. That also applies to

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doctors who treat patients coming in from.

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Out of state who were afraid

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of being prosecuted. A bunch of

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safe also are trying to stockpile.

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Another form of abortion pill not the one

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being challenge of the supreme court but another

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one a sort of us back up stop

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gap to sort of to send the message

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that no matter what the supreme court says

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you can still get abortion pills. We

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will still have them available. Don't worry. There's

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also a big lawsuit by eighteen

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states when seventeen says Ndc trying

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to push back and say that

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not only should the as the

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A not reimpose restrictions on abortion

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pills, they should drop the remaining

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restriction so there should be even

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fewer restrictions on abortion pills. and

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that lawsuit kind of classes of

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the one now at the supreme

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court. And it'll be really interesting

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to see how the courts untangle

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all of that. Clearly.

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At the beginning of the story, not the end of

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it. Alice thanks for coming on as a little a

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thank you. And.

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