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1) Summary of foreign news reports and commentary on the leaked draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.

2) George Beebe, former director of the CIA's Russia desk who advised then-VP Dick Cheney, who now serves as Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He'll discuss the status of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, and concern that efforts to end this conflict could be derailed by the Biden administration's recent announcement that one of their central goals is to weaken Russia's overall military capacity.

3) John Nichols, The Nation magazine's national affairs correspondent, talks about his newest book, "Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused The Crisis," and the movement to investigate how the U.S. government sabotaged its response to the pandemic that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

4) Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. previews Colombia's May 29th first-round presidential election, and the significance that the frontrunner in the race is former leftist guerilla Gustavo Petro, who has served as mayor of Bogotá and is currently a senator, and his running mate, Afro-Colombian human-rights and environmental activist Francia Marquez, who if elected, would become Colombia's first black vice president.

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The Supreme Court privately voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to a leaked initial draft of an opinion obtained by Politico. A decision is expected in the next two months.

As of April 8, 2022, if Roe were overturned or weakened, 22 states already have laws on the books that would ban abortion outright or ban it very early in a pregnancy as quickly as possible, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-reproductive rights research group.

These laws are largely dormant right now because of Roe and subsequent Supreme Court decisions protecting a right to abortion. Without Roe, however, that would no longer be the case.