Preparing for and Fighting Against a Post-Roe Future

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Given the recent leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision which could overturn Roe v. Wade, we do a special episode with a focus on abortion access, law and lived experience. Farai starts with best-selling author of Nomadland, investigative journalist Jessica Bruder. Her Atlantic Magazine cover story, “The Abortion Underground” details the covert network that is preparing for the possible end of legal abortion on the national level. Farai invites Jessica to answer questions provided by OBP listeners as well as share additional insight she has on what preparing for a post-Roe future could look like. Then, Farai speaks with Madison Jacobs, communications strategist at the Public Rights Project about the state-level abortion fight in Michigan and elsewhere. In the weekly segment, Sippin’ the Political Tea, Farai speaks with law professor and OBP legal contributor Tiffany Jeffers and reproductive rights expert and UC Irvine law professor Michele Goodwin, who begins with the lived experience and learnings from her own abortion.

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0:00.0	Hi folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politic. If you have time,
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0:27.1	We'd also love you to join in financially supporting the show if you are able.
0:31.4	You can find out more at ourbodypolitic.com slash donate.
0:35.3	We are here for you, with you because of you thank you mr leohan miss lammis
0:44.7	mr mansion mr markey mr marshall mr mcconnell mr menendez mr murkley on this vote, the a's are 49. The nays are 51.
0:57.8	Three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative.
1:03.3	The motion is not agreed to.
1:06.0	This is our body politic. I'm Fari Chidea.
1:10.0	On Wednesday, the Senate voted on the Women's Health Protection
1:12.6	Act and attempt to codify abortion rights as federal law. It failed with Senator Joe Manchin,
1:18.8	Democrat of West Virginia, joining Republicans to defeat the bill 51 to 49. Now, this comes after
1:25.5	the recent leaked draft Supreme Court decision foreshadowing the likely end of Roe v. Wade, the law protecting abortion as a medical procedure within a framework of a right to privacy.
1:36.1	Our show this week focuses on abortion access and what might lie ahead if Roe is overturned.
1:42.6	Starting off, we'll speak with Jessica Brooder. She's the author of the
1:46.1	best-selling book, Nomad Land, turned into the Oscar-winning film. And now she's written the cover
1:51.0	story of the Atlantic magazine, The Abortion Underground. It's about the ways that people are preparing
1:56.0	for the possible end of legal abortion on the national level. Welcome, Jessica. Thanks so much for having me,
2:02.9	Frye. So on the show, we have talked a lot about the legal questions, the rise of state laws
2:08.7	restricting abortion access, the Supreme Court. And with you, I want to focus on your reporting
2:13.6	and what lies ahead. And plus, we have questions a little bit later for you from our
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