This week, the Senate held confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative judge who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia. If she is appointed, the Supreme Court will include six Justices selected by Republicans, which could determine the fate of Roe v. Wade. Margaret Talbot, a New Yorker staff writer, joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Barrett’s record on abortion and birth control, the future of women’s reproductive rights in the United States, and what strategy pro-choice Democrats should pursue in the coming years.
