Now at Last We Can Begin
Ordinary Equality
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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The debate about abortion is often considered a black and white issue -- but that actually isn't the case. Join co-hosts Kate Kelly and Jamia Wilson as they discuss their own histories related to reproductive rights and kick off season 2 of Ordinary Equality.
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| 0:00.0 | Most women will agree that August 23rd, 1920, the day when the Tennessee legislature finally enacted the federal suffrage amendment is a day to begin with, not a day to end with. |
| 0:15.0 | Men are saying perhaps, thank God this everlasting woman's fight is over. But women, if I know them, are saying, |
| 0:25.2 | now, at last, we can begin. This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself. |
| 0:42.5 | From Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina, dedicated women marched. |
| 0:48.3 | Abortion is fast becoming the new political fault line. |
| 0:55.0 | Alabama's going to be a new political fault line. My body, my choice. My body, my choice. Alabama's governor has signed the nation's strictest abortion ban into law. |
| 1:02.0 | The Human Life Protection Act outlaws the procedure except when the mother's life is at risk. |
| 1:07.0 | This bill is not about pro-life or the right to life. |
| 1:12.4 | This bill is about control. |
| 1:14.2 | We will not go back. |
| 1:15.6 | And we, the people of the United States of America, documented or undocumented, are |
| 1:23.7 | having abortions legal or not. This court will never stop us. |
| 1:29.5 | Welcome back to ordinary equality. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm Kate Kelly, human rights attorney and activist. For those of you who missed season one, we talked all about the Equal Rights Amendment, a simple addition to the U.S. Constitution that would have extraordinary consequences. We talked about why it's necessary, what went wrong, and how the battle for its |
| 2:03.8 | addition continues to this day. The most effective weapon in the anti-ERA arsenal is its |
| 2:11.4 | supposed connection to the ultimate polarizing issue, abortion. It's essentially been called the everything related to abortion amendment, because that's |
| 2:21.7 | what it is. |
| 2:22.4 | They want to use ERA to mandate tax-funded abortions. |
| 2:27.8 | So this season, we're talking about abortion, but not like you've heard it before. |
| 2:33.4 | We want to look at women's control over their reproductive health, from the Middle Ages |
| 2:39.0 | to the slave trade, to Roe versus Wade, to today. |
| 2:43.0 | It's a story that combines political, religious, and social history, layered with systemic |
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