This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics.

The year is coming to an end and we hope you are having the best holiday available to you.

As we wrap up 2022 here at Pantsuit Politics, we decided to pull together our conversations

about some of the biggest news stories of the year.

We're not sharing a single episode, instead we're following the story across several

conversations.

In some ways, 2022 feels like it can be divided right down the middle, with the Supreme

Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, cleaving the year into.

Even though a draft of the decision was leaked in May, you can hear our initial shock and

anger and how we begin to make sense of this new reality in American politics.

There are many dimensions to this conversation.

I am certain we will not scratch the surface of even 25% of the dimensions of this conversation.

Sarah, knowing that there are people listening who have heard us talk about abortion over

the past almost seven years many times, and also people who are hearing us talk about

it for the first time, I wondered if we might give an abbreviated version of how each of

us feel about this topic before we discuss the layers of this newest development.

Of course.

Well, I am pretty devotedly pro-choice.

My first job out of college was at Planned Parenthood.

I believe it is a tough issue for individuals, but I think that's where the decision should

remain.

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