The Abortion Debate - Who Decides?

The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to abortion, throwing the issue back to the states and igniting a new era in America’s culture wars. In this episode of The Debate, our hosts go head‑to‑head over a burning question: Is abortion primarily a matter of bodily autonomy and private medical choice, or the taking of a human life that the state is obligated to protect? Drawing on legal fallout from Dobbs, shifting state laws, and Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous “unconscious violinist” thought experiment, they clash over personhood, rights, and the limits of government power. Along the way, they unpack the legal, moral, and social dimensions of reproductive rights in post‑Roe America, and challenge you to decide who really should have the final say.

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