Abortion Is Our Right

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Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Abortion rights are under attack. And while many are scared, maybe for the first time, the push to control and criminalize women's health care is nothing new. For many Americans, access to abortion as promised after Roe v. Wade never really came. We discuss reproductive justice and ways to get involved in your community with activist Renee Bracey Sherman. And we learn how Chicago women took action to create safe, private ways to access abortion in the 1970s under the pseudonym JANE with one of the collective's members, Judith Arcana.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Collier Girlfriends, a podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:04.0	I'm Amina Tussaud and I'm Ann Friedman.
0:06.8	On this week's agenda, we are telling abortion stories and talking about the state of
0:11.0	reproductive justice in America. We are joined by Renee Bracey Sherman, a reproductive
0:15.3	justice activist and advocate who is the senior public affairs manager at the National
0:19.5	Network of Abortion Funds. And we also have an interview that we conducted on our fall
0:23.9	tour last year with Judith Arcana, who was a member of Jane in abortion service,
0:28.5	an underground health collective in Chicago that provided abortions before
0:32.5	Roe v Wade made them legal nationwide.
0:58.8	Hello, Ann Friedman. Hi, hi, hi. Good to be in on the same couch with you. We're talking about
1:07.0	serious things today. We're talking about reproductive justice today. We're talking about all the ways
1:13.2	that we hate how other people talk about it. Not everyone, you know, like a select few people,
1:18.7	we really love how they frame this issue and these issues, but you know, like the media narrative
1:24.5	around abortion and reproductive justice has been kind of bullshit lately. We've noticed
1:30.0	an uptick in the bullshit. It's like the 90s out here. Right, it's truly like the 90s out here.
1:35.9	It's more than a little concerning. Everybody should believe what they want to believe, like that's
1:40.2	fair, but you should believe it from a place of facts. Abortion rights and reproductive justice,
1:46.5	unfortunately, is a place where people love to let facts just like fly loosely. Wait, you mean the
1:51.9	facts are manipulated for political ends? I know, and it's just it's so annoying. I was like,
1:56.7	just say you want to turn people into handmaids. That's a fact. And then we're okay. But you know,
2:02.3	I'm talking specifically about this op-ed the other day that I saw that Megan McCain and Ben
2:08.8	Sass wrote together. Why those two people have to write an op-ed together? Like it tells you
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