Pod Only Knows - #3.5 - Rolling Stone's Alex Morris: On how we go to the end of Roe (and what happens next)

#3.5 - Rolling Stone's Alex Morris: On how we go to the end of Roe (and what happens next)

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06/20/22 • 47 min

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Rolling Stone senior writer Alex Morris returns to the show to talk to John about the impending decision to overturn Roe (which may well have been handed down by the time this episode releases).

Morris has written extensively about the American evangelical movement and the conservative movement, and her work as also looked at they way those two forces have combined to stage an assault on reproductive rights.

To her, the end of Roe comes as no surprise, but how and why, exactly, American evangelicals were able to play a successful long game to overturn Roe and begin chipping away at abortion, reproductive, and LGBTQ+ rights may not be as clear.

She and John discussed some of the misconceptions about the religious angle, the key players, the success of propaganda campaigns, and why in taking on a new fight it is essential to know what the real obstacles are.

Links to Alex's work can be found at her website: alexmorris.net

You can find her on Twitter at @AlexMorrisNY

Rolling Stone senior writer Alex Morris returns to the show to talk to John about the impending decision to overturn Roe (which may well have been handed down by the time this episode releases).

Links to Alex's work can be found at her website: alexmorris.net

You can find her on Twitter at @AlexMorrisNY

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#3.4 - The Myth of the Second Amendment with Joe Patrice

In light of recent events, John wanted to turn his attention to one of the most troubling developments in right-wing politics in the last couple decades: deliberate perversion of the Second Amendment by an extremist right-wing movement that we all, for some reason, have allowed to dictate the terms of the discussion.

There’s a lot wrapped up in this, but none looms larger than the nonsensical, incoherent legal doctrine of originalism, which is closely tied to religious fundamentalism and shares both a similar DNA as well as a large overlapping of adherents.

So to talk about that, John invited his friend Joe Patrice, senior editor at the legal news website Above the Law, to explain why most people – on both sides – are either in part or in total wrong about what they belief the Second Amendment is, and what we can do to bring back a truly originalist interpretation of it.

Joe is on Twitter @JosephPatrice

Next Episode

#3.6 - The Bible and Abortion - with Jess Collins and Mike Manzi

What does the Bible say about abortion?

Well, if you're supposed to be living in a free, secular democracy, it shouldn't matter. And yet here we are, in the year 2022, in a supposed free, secular democracy, and somehow it does.

The short answer is this - the Bible does not teach life begins at conception (or rather it specifically teaches that it does not begin at conception) and has nothing to say about restricting abortions. The long answer is even more complicated and interesting, and so John explained it to frequent HTB guests, Jess Collins and Mike Manzi.

Resources for helping others in need of abortion care and learning more about your own options: