Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics.

The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics.

This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025.

In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education,

health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how

the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends

at Way to Win for supporting us

and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get

your podcast. Hi, ordinary equality listeners. This is Jenny Kaplan, the show's EP. I'm on today with Kate and Jamea for an emergency podcast to talk through the latest news.

In case you missed it, last night, May 2nd, it's now May 3rd, Politico published a draft majority opinion that had been leaked from the Supreme Court.

It revealed that the courts voted to

strike down Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion federally protected.

This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make

for herself.

From Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina, dedicated women marched.

Abortion is fast becoming the new political fault line.

Alabama's governor has signed the nation's strictest abortion ban into law.

The Human Life Protection Act outlaws the procedure except when the mother's life is at risk.

This bill is not about pro-life or the right to life.

This bill is about control. We will not go back.

And we, the people of the United States of America,

documented or undocumented,

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