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The Tight Rope

Faith-Based and Pro-Choice: Black and Catholic Voters Shift Towards Reproductive Justice

The Tight Rope

SpkerBox Media

Society & Culture

4.9605 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, explains to her mentors Tricia Rose and Cornel West why more faith-based Black and Catholic are supporting reproductive freedom at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court is moving in the other direction, in this special pre-election edition of The Tight Rope. Learn more at https://www.thetightropepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thetightropepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetightropepod Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thetightropepod Creator/EP: Jeremy Berry EP/Host: Cornel West EP/Host: Tricia Rose Producers: Allie Hembrough, Ceyanna Dent, Evan Seymour, Lindsey Schultz, and James Artis Beats x Butter (IG: @Butter_Records) #TheTightRope #CornelWest #TriciaRose #prochoice #prolife #abortion #feminist #abortionrights #mybodymychoice #plannedparenthood #trump #blacklivesmatter #biden #reproductiverights #prolifefeminist #prochoiceisprolife #love #reproductivejustice #blacklivesmatter

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0:00.0

We have 17 cases that are literally one step away from the Supreme Court, including a six-week ban in Georgia from 2019.

0:10.7

And so the real threat that Roe could be overturned or just chipped away until it is in a name and right only is very real.

0:20.1

We are witnessing America. it is in a name and right only is very real.

0:27.9

We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.

0:32.8

How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional momentum of the colorblind ideology built?

0:35.6

No many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed

0:41.3

in the best of their past.

0:43.1

What are we going to make out of the nothing we've been given?

0:47.4

How do you envision possibilities?

0:53.0

We are pleased to be joined by a dear friend and a fierce champion for reproductive rights at a time when this is desperately needed.

1:01.1

We have the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Alexis McGill Johnson.

1:06.2

Alexis, you're on the tightrope.

1:07.8

Thank you so much for joining us.

1:09.5

Thank you for having me.

1:10.9

We're thrilled to have you here.

1:12.2

We are so blessed to have you, though.

1:13.8

Alexis, one of the best coming out of Princeton and yell with my dear blues brother, Rob Johnson.

1:22.0

But what a moment we're in. What a grim and bleak when we're in. How are you dealing with this moment? Right. So, you know, look,

1:29.3

I mean, I think for the last eight months or so, we've been living in a twin pandemic,

1:34.0

both COVID, which has laid bare, the systemic racism in our healthcare system, as well as the

1:39.9

racial reckoning, the movement that has been long under overdue, but certainly underfoot right

1:46.1

now. And then we were in an election season where the president has literally failed on everything,

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