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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Jia Tolentino and Stephania Taladrid on a Year Without Roe v. Wade

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Last June, after the Supreme Court reversed nearly half a century of legal precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade, the New Yorker writers Jia Tolentino and Stephania Taladrid joined Tyler Foggatt on The Political Scene to talk about the potential fallout. This week, almost a year later, they reconvened to discuss the changes that have occurred—and what they mean for reproductive rights, maternal mortality, and public attitudes toward abortion. 

In March, Tolentino won a National Magazine Award for essays and columns about the repeal of Roe; earlier this month, Taladrid was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her reporting on abortion rights and women’s health.

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So you guys came on the podcast about a year ago. It was a couple weeks after the Dobbs decision,

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and it was a pretty dark conversation that we had. I mean, you guys were basically just anticipating all of the awful things that were sort of going to come of the ruling. And so I'm wondering if, you know, now that we're a year out,

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if you could just sort of give an overview of what has happened in the past year?

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I think that everything that we talked about has happened.

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Ordinary care for pregnancy has been severely endangered in every red state.

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This is New Yorker staff writer Gia Tolentino.

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She's a critic and journalist who's been writing about abortion for more than a decade.

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We see these stories in the news, right, of women that were forced to deliver babies that

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were non-viable to carry fetuses that they knew would die soon after delivery.

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