Going Deep on Reproductive Rights with April Lawson

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For the closing episode of our Rupture + Repair series, we are offering a most unusual conversation between two women who are on opposite sides of the Reproductive Rights debate: April Lawson, a pro-life conservative, and me, a pro-choice liberal. We share this in the hopes that it can serve as a model for hard but productive conversations around tender topics. As always, we welcome your responses. [email protected]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:06.2	I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering if I'm really going to release this conversation into the public sphere.
0:13.0	This is the closing episode of a five-part series called
0:16.2	R rupture and repair.
0:18.1	We have been looking at the principles and best practices
0:21.0	of hard conversations where the goal is not to persuade but rather just to
0:25.8	understand the other person. And it seemed like the only honest way to close this thing out was to try out those best practices myself on an issue
0:36.2	that holds great meaning for me. So as a pro-choice liberal I sought out a woman
0:41.9	named April Lawson who I have crossed paths with many times and
0:45.3	always found to be lovely and impressive and smart. She is a pro-life conservative and
0:52.1	this is our conversation.
0:54.8	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Hey, I have a quick favorite to ask. We are conducting a survey to get to know you, our audience, better.
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1:20.4	dot PRX. dot org slash Kelly.
1:22.3	Thank you. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. This is the final of five
1:39.6	episodes about rupture and repair during which I have learned a lot about the principles and
1:44.7	best practices around hard conversations.
1:48.1	And so I thought the only fair and right conclusion to this series would be for me to attempt a hard conversation in front of
1:55.0	you, the listener. Something that I have always believed and believed to this day
1:59.4	is in the right of a woman to contraception and when necessary to safe and legal abortion.
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