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They're right. I'm your host Molly Fisher. I'm your host Molly Fisher. I'm Cynthia Nixon. I'm delighted to be talking to you.

Maybe you're a Cynthia Nixon fan from Sex in the City, where her character,

Miranda, was the one who would reliably call bullshit when the others were acting insane.

Or maybe you just got to know her last year when she ran a left-leaning campaign for

governor of New York.

That's when she got a chance to bring her no-nonsense intelligence to a new audience and

to talk about bodies and freedom in a way that sex in the city hadn't touched.

When I was running for governor in Union Square Park, there was a reproductive rights and

abortion rights rally happening and I brought a wire coat hanger with me and I held it up and I held it up and I

think there was kind of a little bit of a gasp.

With the coat hanger in hand, Cynthia told the crowd

that her mother had had an illegal abortion in the years before Oveyuede. I know it was

illegal and I know it was a really, really horrendous experience for her. It was just a difficult thing, a difficult

decision for her to make and the fact of it being illegal made it all the more

harrowing. Her mom would never tell her the details of what happened during her

abortion, only that it had happened.

So it was really important to her that she tell me and that I know this and that I carry

this fact about her and about our family forward, but she did not want to discuss it.

Cynthia has carried her mom's story forward. Now though, with abortion rights under attack,

she feels like she needs to be

direct and explicit in a way her mom wasn't able to. You're used to hearing

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