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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today, the topic is contraception and the fight to keep it legal even in 2023.

Stephanie Desmond talks to Dana Singizer, a former Planned Parenthood executive who's working

to ensure contraceptive access and rights in a time when both are at risk.

They talk about the need to codify the right to contraception into law and what's next

for over the counter birth control.

Let's listen.

Dana Singizer, thanks so much for joining me.

Thanks so much for having me today.

So you are involved in a bunch of issues

around contraceptive rights and access. And I'm wondering if you could tell us a

little bit about those roles. Sure. Well, since I left Planned Parenthood where I spent about

10 years of my career, I've really in the wake of, particularly in the wake of the Dobbs decision,

gone deep on making sure that we protect and expand access to contraception. And I do

that wearing my hat as co-founder of the contraceptive access initiative, which is dedicated to

getting the oral contraceptive pill over the counter and affordable to all. And also as a senior

advisor to an organization called Americans for Contraception, where we are

working to codify the right to contraception in this country. As you may have read in Justice

Thomas's concurrence in the Dobbs decision, he sort of questioned whether the right to contraception

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