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This is NPR's Life Kit. I'm Elsa Chang.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month,

it declared the constitutional right to an abortion no longer exists. And for a lot of parents,

the wall-to-wall news coverage about abortion rights meant that their kids were asking them

new questions about the procedure and the politics. Megan Workman in Indiana, who has a six-year-old

daughter, was wondering where to even begin? I want it to be age appropriate. I don't want to

get into too much detail of what it actually is, but just knowing that she can choose if she wants to have a baby or not.

So just mainly keeping it age appropriate, I would guess.

Well, we heard from a lot of parents like Megan,

and that is why on this episode of Life Kid,

we're answering your questions about talking to kids about abortion.

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To answer many of your listener questions, we called up a few experts to help parents like Megan explain. Rina B. Patel is a parenting expert and licensed educational psychologist in San Diego,

California, and Dr. Elise

Berlin is a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist in Columbus, Ohio. Welcome to both of you.

Thank you. Thank you for having me. So I want to start with you, Ms. Patel. What is your advice to someone

like Megan Workman, who we just heard from? Like, what is the first step to approaching this topic with kids, you think?

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