About this episode
The episode discusses the Supreme Court's temporary stay on the prescription of mifepristone and features an interview about Americans' views on morality.
On Monday, May 4, the Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on a lower court’s order that mifepristone, a drug commonly used in early-term abortions, can only be prescribed and dispensed in person. The order pauses the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’s decision to prevent the drug from being accessed by mail. In a brief order, Justice Samuel Alito, who oversees appeals from the 5th Circuit, paused that court’s order until May 11, restoring telehealth access to the drug and giving challengers until May 7 to respond. Ad-free podcasts are here! To listen to this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to ReadTangle.com to sign up! Do Americans see each other as immoral? Back in March, the headline was everywhere: “Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad,” the title of a 25-country study from the Pew Research Center. Associate Editor Lindsey Knuth interviewed one of the study’s coauthors, Jonathan Evans, and Pew’s associate director of global attitudes research, Laura Silver, to talk about Americans’ national pride, partisan differences, and the state of professional polling. You…
People in this episode
Host: Isaac Saul
Guests: Lindsey Knuth, Jonathan Evans, Laura Silver
Topics covered
- abortion pills
- telehealth
- Supreme Court
- public opinion
- morality
- polling
Keywords
- abortion
- mifepristone
- telehealth access
- Supreme Court ruling
- public opinion
- morality
- polling
- Pew Research Center
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Supreme Court, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, Pew Research Center, Tangle
Products: mifepristone
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