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Abortion: Medicine vs. Politics
Irin Carmon, senior correspondent at New York Magazine, contributor at CNN and co-author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Dey Street Books, 2015)and Jennifer Gunter, board-certified physician in OB/GYN and pain medicine, New York Times columnist and author of the forthcoming The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine (Citadel, August 2019), break down the misconceptions about abortions that occur after 21 weeks of pregnancy from legal and medical standpoints and talk about the decision expected today by the Supreme Court on a law in Louisiana that would restrict access to abortions.