#1501 Navigating Post-Roe America
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 7/13/2022
Today, we take a look at how the Supreme Court stripped abortion rights for half the country, what life will look like for those seeking abortions and what we can do both personally and politically to fight back.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Aimee Arrambide of Avow Texas with Abortion Resources - Burn It All Down - Air Date 6-29-22
Jessica Luther talks with Aimee Arrambide who provides information and abortion resources related to the overturning of Roe V. Wade.
Computer scientist and social media expert Dr. Jen Golbeck has been running a popular TikTok series educating people on how to be more secure while navigating abortion online.
Ch. 3: The Day 'Roe' Died - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 6-24-22
For the first time in this country's history, an unelected majority of Supreme Court justices have taken away a fundamental constitutional right.
Ch. 4: When Pregnancy becomes Crime - This Is Hell! - Air Date 7-5-22
Writer and philosophy scholar at Cornell University, Kate Manne talks about her Substack article "Criminalizing Pregnant People: A Brief Retrospective."
We speak with two leading legal scholars. Kathryn "Kitty" Kolbert is co-founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights
Ch. 6: Just Doing The Job They Were Put On The Court To Do - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 6-25-22
Roe v Wade has been swept away and Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out the case for what Democrats need to do in response to the Dobbs decision
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 9: How The Supreme Court Killed Roe v. Wade - LegalEagle - Air Date 6-29-22
This is a sea change at the Supreme Court
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the importance of state judicial elections
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State Judge Elections Are About to Become Decisive for Abortion Rights (via Slate - July 6, 2022)
We Need to Reclaim State Courts From Big Money and Hateful Agendas (via TRUTHOUT - May 2019)
The Politics of Judicial Elections, 2019–20 (via Brennan Center - Jan. 25, 2022)
Gerrymandering or Creating New Courts (Dec 2021)
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SHOW IMAGE:
Description: A black and white photo showing a large crowd of people protesting in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building on the day Roe v. Wade was overturned, amidst ominous dark clouds in the sky.
Credit: "2022.06.24 Roe v Wade Overturned - SCOTUS, Washington, DC USA 175 143207" by Ted Eytan, Flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Changes: Slightly cropped
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | take a look at how the Supreme Court stripped abortion rights for half the country, what |
| 0:11.5 | life will look like for those seeking abortions, and what we can do both personally and politically |
| 0:16.4 | to fight back. |
| 0:17.8 | Clips today are from Burn It All Down, there are no girls on the internet, boom-loyered, |
| 0:24.1 | this is hell, democracy now, amicus and the late show with Stephen Colbert with an |
| 0:29.6 | additional members only clip from legal ego. |
| 0:38.4 | What should someone do right now if they want or need an abortion? |
| 0:43.1 | Like are there, what are the recommendations at this point? |
| 0:47.0 | At this point, there are a lot of websites that people can access to try to get as up-to-date |
| 0:53.4 | as possible information. |
| 0:54.9 | So I need an A is one of them needabortion.org is one that we host with a little fund that |
| 1:00.7 | we're currently updating to be as accurate as possible. |
| 1:05.2 | Abortion Finder is another one and those should have as up-to-date information as possible |
| 1:12.4 | basically dependent on us and how quickly we can gather it and update it. |
| 1:17.2 | So we're working on that right now. |
| 1:19.3 | They can still contact the National Network of Abortion Funds to talk to abortion funds |
| 1:24.6 | who can help provide financial services and financial assistance for people needing to |
| 1:30.2 | pay for their procedure and they can also be connected to practical support funds across |
| 1:34.8 | the country to get access to funding for like the logistical needs. |
| 1:39.2 | So travel accommodations currently in Texas a lot of the funds are kind of taking a pause |
| 1:44.2 | while they figure out what exactly the laws mean in regard to their work. |
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