Political Gabfest: Arizona Territory’s 1864 Abortion Law

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss
the revival of Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban; the end of No Labels;
and the past and future of presidential debates.    Here
are some notes and references from this week’s show: Mary Jo Pitzl
and Reagan Priest for The Arizona Republic: Arizona House GOP
halt Democrats’ effort to overturn Civil War era law in chaotic
session Dan Balz for The Washington Post: The Arizona Supreme
Court just upended Trump’s gambit on abortion Jamelle Bouie for The
New York Times: The Man Who Snuffed Out Abortion Rights Is
Here to Tell You He Is a Moderate Ramtin Arablouei and Rund
Abdelfatah for NPR’s All Things Considered: Abortion was once
common practice in America. A small group of doctors changed that
A.O. Sulzberger Jr. for The New York Times: Reagan Says Ban On
Abortion May Not Be Needed David Faris for Slate: Why No
Labels Didn’t Stick Slate’s Political Gabfest: The “No
Mugshot” Edition Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times: Has
No Labels Become a Stalking Horse for Trump? Michael H. Brown for
The Washington Post: Joseph Lieberman, senator and
vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82 Here are this week’s
chatters:  Emily: Dartmouth’s Leslie Center for the
Humanities: People, Place, Podcasts: Emily Bazelon and Erica
Heilman in Conversation and the Rumble
Strip podcast  John: Slate’s Navel
Gazing podcast and Rachel Wolfe for The Wall Street
Journal: The Calls for Help Coming From Above the Poverty Line
David: Hannah Seo for The New York Times: Is It Better to
Brush Your Teeth Before Breakfast or After? Listener chatter
from Mark Phillips in Baltimore, Maryland: Ben Crair for The
New Yorker: The Magic of Bird Brains   For this week’s
Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss AI
communications with loved ones after they die. See Walter
Marsh for The Guardian: Laurie Anderson on making an AI
chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’ and
Ira Glass for This American Life: The Ghost in the Machine.
See also Niamn Ancell for Cybernews: These apps could
resurrect your relatives using artificial
intelligence; Rebecca Carballo for The New York
Times: Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead; and Tamara Kneese
for Wired: Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will
Create a Burden for the Living.   In the latest Gabfest
Reads, Emily talks with Tana French about her book, The
Hunter: A Novel.   Email your chatters, questions, and
comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by
name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)   Podcast
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