Hi, I'm Melissa Malano. And this is Sorry Not Sorry. So, Since the Republican extremists in Congress and the states have been giddy at taking away the right to bodily autonomy, especially aimed at women and pregnant people.

Jessica Valenti takes a clear look at what is happening and how to stop it in her New York Times best-selling book

Abortion our bodies their lies and the truths we use to win. She joins the show

today.

Amber Thurman died waiting 18 hours for a DNC that's a surgical procedure

sometimes used in abortions. The report finding her death likely could have been prevented.

This is a health care crisis.

This is a health care crisis and Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis.

He brags about overturning rovy way.

In his own words, quote, I did it and I'm proud to have done it, he said.

Because they have those exceptions in them, Republicans can sort of do this rhetorical dance and

say that's not a ban that's a federal restriction. Tennessee has one of the

strictest abortion restriction laws in the US. It forces pregnant women to travel out of state if they want to

terminate their pregnancy for any reason. Well now there's a bill in our

legislature prohibiting it counties from providing financial help to those women.

I'm Jessica Valenti.

I'm fighting for abortion rights.

Sorry not Sorry. Can we start by asking you to remind our

listeners a little bit about who you are and the work that you do?

I'm a feminist author. I've been writing about feminism and reproductive rights for just about 20 years now, but right now I am almost entirely focused, I mean really entirely focused on abortion rights since Roe is overturned. I have been running a

newsletter called abortion every day where I'm tracking really anything and

everything going on with abortion rights whether it's's a law, a ban, anti-abortion

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