Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Erica. And I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our different

perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show

years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and

laugh about yet. Always on the podcast, we want to bring you honest conversations about all of life,

from the silly and fun to the deep topics that tend to be harder to talk about, but are also

so important.

So today, we want to approach the topic of abortion and reproductive rights with

sensitivity and care.

We are not by any means experts on this topic,

but we do also want to use this show as a place where we can model having these respectful,

nuanced, but also imperfect conversations in our everyday lives and how to continue talking

to each other, even when things can feel very divisive. So thank you for listening along with an open

heart and mind today. Let's start off with this. How did you first learn about what abortion even is?

This is a good question. I don't have any specific memories of learning what abortion is.

I don't remember anyone sitting down and explaining to me. I don't

remember, you know, a specific memory of reading about it in some way. So I think it just must have

been this thing that I gleaned just over time growing up. My parents are both supportive of

abortion rights. So I'm sure that I picked, I picked that up

along the way. Yeah. I don't remember them specifically saying something, but we would have the

newspaper out. And as I got older, I would just kind of hear them, you know, reference things or

maybe we'd kind of talk about things. We would listen to NPR in the car. So I'm sure that things like

that came up. I also read a lot of

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