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I'm Amy Goodman.

Three years ago this week, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

In 2023, the first lawsuit after the decision was filed by five women. They sued Texas after they were denied

abortions, even as their pregnancies pose serious risks to their health and were non-viable.

This is one of those plaintiffs, Amanda Zorovsky. I cannot adequately put into words the trauma and despair that comes with waiting to either

lose your own life, your child's life, or both.

For days, I was locked in this bizarre and avoidable hell.

In a matter of minutes, I went from being physically healthy to developing sepsis,

a condition in which bacteria in the blood develops into infection with the ability to kill an under an hour.

Amanda Zorovsky talking about what happened to her with Texas's abortion ban.

Well, she was on Capitol Hill this week, three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and its Dobbs decision,

as part of a group of over 100 women who call themselves abortion storytellers, speaking with lawmakers as well as speaking

publicly about their experiences. We continue our conversation now with Rebecca Grant,

author of the new book Access, Inside the Abortion Underground in the 60-year battle for reproductive

freedom. In part one of our discussion at DemocracyNow.org, we talked about the Supreme Court decision

to back efforts by South Carolina to defund Planned Parenthood by removing its health clinics

from the state's Medicaid program, a six-three decision.

But now we want to go more deeply into Rebecca Grant's book Access.

Again, the subtitle, Inside the Abortion Underground and the 60-year battle for Reproductive Freedom.

In part one, Rebecca, we started to talk about some of the heroines in your book.

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