Kansas Votes on Abortion Rights; Monkeypox; Climate Bill; Before Summer's Over

On today's show:

• Kansans are going to the polls to vote on whether the state's constitution should protect abortion rights. Shefali Luthra, health reporter covering the intersection of gender and health care for The 19th, discusses the implications of the referendum for both Kansas and the rest of the country as the fallout from the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade continues.
• Joseph Osmundson, microbiologist, activist, writer, and author of Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), and Jay Varma, physician and epidemiologist, director of the Cornell Center for Pandemic Prevention and Response and professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, share updates on the monkeypox outbreak and the public health response as New York City joins the state in declaring the spread of the virus a public health emergency.
• Bill McKibben, environmental activist, founder of Third Act and author of many books, most recently, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened (Henry Holt and Co., 2022), talks about the climate bill that Sen. Manchin now supports -- what's in it and its impact.
• As the calendar flips to August, the end of summer is in sight. Listeners call in to share what summer plans and activities they’re hoping to make happen before fall begins.

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