This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Friday, April 14th.

I'm Matt Katz from the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian today.

Did you see that last night, Florida governor Rhonda Santis signed a bill banning abortions

after six weeks of pregnancy?

That law is now contingent on a pending Florida Supreme Court decision, but it's another

indication that the American South is becoming off limits for almost all abortions, for almost all reasons.

We're going to try to sort out what's going on with abortion rights throughout this country

and talk about conflicting rulings on Miffa Pistone, the abortion drug,

with an appeals court partial block of a Texas judge's attempt to outright ban it.

And we're going to zoom out to talk about how

the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade is affecting national politics. And for this,

we're joined by Jessica Valenti, founder of the Substack newsletter, Abortion Every Day, and a feminist

author of multiple books on women in politics. Jessica was last on the show for a book she

edited with Jacqueline Friedman called Believe Me, How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Welcome

back to the show, Jessica. Thank you for having me. And by way of full disclosure, Jessica is

married to WNIC chief content officer officer Andrew Golus and she is also very

much the go-to writer and thinker on issues related to all things feminism or its verb form

feministic, the title blog from the early 2000s of which I was a fan of back then. So I remember

Oh wow. Old school. Old school. Okay. I feel like we go back then. So I remember. Oh, wow. Old school. Old school.

Okay.

I feel like we go way back.

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