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Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLifetime Podcast with Cups Today from Making Contact,

the National Network of Abortion Funds, Fusion, The David Pakman Show, this week in Blackness,

Democracy Now, and Activism from R.H. Reality Check.

Before documenting the era of illegal abortion, it's important to get an overview of what's happened

since abortion first became legal.

After a century of tragedies, a nationwide move to legalize the procedure of abortion

led to a 1973 Supreme Court decision, giving women the right to choose.

The struggle to protect that right is ongoing.

I can remember the last time we had a march and walking down the street and thinking,

you know, I thought that we wouldn't have to do this anymore.

When the Supreme Court decision was won, we all went, that's it, we won.

And we relaxed, but at the same time, we had these votes over organizing to repeal it,

and what they did was chip away because then Medicaid funding wasn't allowed for poor women.

And then there was spousal consent that came up, and then you couldn't provide services to minors

without parental notification or parental consent.

But it means that you can never relax.

We're hearing about knitting needles again.

We're hearing about bleach, duchess again.

And they may not be reporting it to their physician or to the judge at the end of talking to you

or to the clinic worker at the hospital, but there are girls out there doing that.

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