About this episode:
A new president with authoritarian tendencies packs the nation’s highest court, which then outlaws abortion – sparking not just a backlash, but a new coalition for democracy and the rule of the law. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson explore how events abroad in just the last few years might help us understand what is happening now in the United States.
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Read: Our guest Anne Applebaum explains the conspiracy-fueled rise of the right-wing Law and Justice Party in Poland.
Watch: Rachel reports on the first death known to have resulted from Poland’s abortion ban, in 2021.
See: The sea of umbrellas on Black Monday 2016, the protest that kicked off the Polish movement to protect abortion rights.
Watch: Amanda Zurawski testifies to congress about how she nearly died because of Texas’s abortion ban.
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