Encore: Abortion: Whose Choice?

Now & Then

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News, Society & Culture, History, News Commentary

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Who gets to decide the future of reproductive rights? In this encore presentation of a Now & Then episode originally broadcast in September 2021, Heather and Joanne discuss the history of abortion from the colonial period to the present: the surprising availability of abortion until the mid-19th century, the physician-led campaign to ban abortion, and the GOP’s decision in the early 1970s to embrace the “pro-life” movement. Join CAFE Insider to listen to “Backstage,” where Heather and Joanne chat each week about the anecdotes and ideas that formed the episode. Head to: cafe.com/history For more historical analysis of current events, sign up for the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, featuring Time Machine, a weekly article that dives into an historical event inspired by each episode of Now & Then: cafe.com/brief For references & supplemental materials, head to:cafe.com/now-and-then/encore-abortion-whose-choice Now & Then is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.0	Hey folks, maybe it's because we were inspired by our episode on vacations from last week.
0:51.0	But we're taking this final week of August off from now and then.
0:55.0	But we did want to revisit an episode that we thought very much pays revisiting now.
1:01.0	We released it originally in September of 2021.
1:04.0	It's called Abortion Whose Choice.
1:07.0	The episode was a response to Texas's Senate Bill number 8, which banned abortions in the state after six weeks of pregnancy
1:14.0	and incentivized citizens to report violations of the law for financial reward.
1:20.0	In the episode, we connected the Texas restrictions to the long and really often misinterpreted history of abortion access in America.
1:30.0	We talked about how abortions were available in early America.
1:35.0	We talked about how physicians led a campaign to ban abortion in the late 19th century.
1:40.0	And we talked about how the Republican Party adopted anti-abortion rhetoric in the 1970s.
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