Before we get started, a heads up that this episode contains some explicit language and also discusses pregnancy loss.

We're forced to be put into places of being like the abortion gatekeepers or the food pantry gatekeeper or the diaper gatekeeper because there's this scarcity of resources that's a fake scarcity.

There is no scarcity.

There's just people hoarding shit.

This is death, sex, and money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

I'm Anna Sane.

It was a year ago this month that in the United States, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, totally remaking the policy landscape for abortion.

Last summer, I talked to Lori Bertram Roberts, who runs the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund in Jackson, Mississippi.

Jackson, a city whose abortion clinic was at the center of the Dobbs case that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, and where that clinic is now closed.

Lori is a single parent of seven kids and disabled, and they've lived in Mississippi most of their adult life, working on abortion access.

But a year ago, Lori emphasized how they see their work is much broader than that. I became a reproductive justice activist because

my life has been full of reproductive injustice, not just my reproductive health life,

because reproductive justice is broader than that,

but in just my right to parent my kids and be recognized as a full, you know, responsible,

adequate human being as not just a teen parent, but as a teen black parent, and just as a

black parent, single parent, at all.

Lori also told me a year ago about working in the abortion rights movement in Mississippi,

about the frustrations that have come with that over the years,

feeling dismissed, talked down to, and generally unsupported by a lot of the national activist and big donors.

Do you ever get a phone call where they say, Lori, what do you need? Tell us what you need?

And we'll give you the money to do it?

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