From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lairer, a daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, May 4th.

There's a remarkable and important article in the Atlantic now about how women will get abortions in a post-row world.

It's so remarkable and important that a caller brought it up last hour without even knowing

we had this segment scheduled. It's by Jessica Bruder, the author of Nomad Land, her book

that was the basis of the movie that won the Best Picture Oscar last year. The article has history in it, like abortion

in the United States was legal before it was illegal. At the time the Constitution was written,

there were no state laws that banned it. Ironically, perhaps, the article says it was doctors

who pushed to have it banned in the mid-19th century. Ironically, perhaps, it tells of an interfaith clergy group

that helped get women abortions in the 1960s and 70s before Roe.

It reminds us that just last year, the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion,

the Supreme Court of Mexico, that is.

It reminds us that 99% of abortions are performed in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy,

despite the political emphasis of the right on late-term procedures as a rationale for banning them all.

It reminds us that a Gallup poll last year found less than a third of Americans support overturning row.

It's another example of Republican minority rule from gerrymandering and the minotarian structure of the Electoral College

and the U.S. Senate, right? It refers to some terms we may soon be hearing more of.

Abortion refugees and the abortion diaspora, as well as the grassroots and

underground networks of people beginning to enable it. In fact, a separate news story this morning

in the wake of the Alito draft is the New York State Legislature is already considering a bill

that would establish an abortion fund specifically for

low-income women coming to New York as a safe haven state where abortions will still be available,

but you have to be able to afford to get here. A theme for nomad land to the abortion land diaspora.

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