Exit Poll for New York Primary Day; New York State Primary Preview; Abortion Rights After the Overturn of Roe V. Wade; Learning Your Heritage Language

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 28, 2022

Coming up on today's show:

  • Listeners call in to share who they are voting for, and why, for New York primary day.
  • Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, joins to discuss who is on the ballot for governor, lieutenant governor and other offices up for grabs in the New York state primary election.
  • Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, the lead litigator in the case, discusses her latest law case which delayed Louisiana's trigger abortion law and how people can get involved locally in advocating for the protection of abortion rights.
  • Maria Carreira, co-founder of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA and Professor Emerita of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach, offers tips to listeners who want to learn the language or languages they grew up hearing at home.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.  

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