Protecting Abortion Is Vital For The Economy
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior editor for Jurisprudence Nicole Lewis is joined by Slate Money co-host, and correspondent for Axios, Emily Peck to talk about the economic implications of overturning Roe v. Wade. A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion shows the court has the votes to abolish the constitutional right to abortion, which Roe established in 1973. Our hosts dig into all the ways ending abortion will undermine women’s economic gains and participation in the workforce, including gains that conservatives champion - like low rates of teenage motherhood, stable homes and being able to work and provide for yourself. And finally, they look at how eliminating the right to an abortion would disproportionately impact poor women and women of color.
Mentioned in the Episode:
“Overturning Roe Could Reverse Economic Gains” by Emily Peck
“The Horrifying Implications of Alito’s Most Alarming Footnote” by Dahlia Lithwick
National Network of Abortion Funds
In Slate Plus: Are Brazillian Butt Lifts feminist?
Recommendations:
Nicole: The Netflix series Bonding.
Emily: All kinds of gummy candy, from bears to sour worms.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and all the political |
| 0:18.8 | turmoil that comes with smashing the patriarchy. Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the |
| 0:25.2 | thing we just can't get off our minds. And today you've got me, Nicole Lewis, |
| 0:30.0 | senior editor of Juris Prudence at Slate. |
| 0:32.8 | And me, Emily Peck, I'm Markets Correspondent at Axios, |
| 0:36.1 | and also co-host of Slate Money. |
| 0:38.6 | Today we are talking about reproductive rights. We're talking about abortion. We're talking |
| 0:47.2 | about rovy wade. We're talking about the Supreme Court and the leak that rocked the nation. I've been assigning and editing |
| 0:54.5 | stories in response to Sam Alito's horrifying draft majority opinion that would |
| 0:59.8 | ultimately up end Roe v. Wade and people's constitutional right to an abortion. |
| 1:05.0 | One of the things that really struck me about the opinion, and there were so many things, |
| 1:10.0 | but one of the major things is that Alito said he couldn't assess the impact abortion has on society and in the lives of women. |
| 1:18.0 | It kind of makes you wonder why the court should get to make such sweeping declarations about an issue they don't |
| 1:24.6 | really understand. But here we are. So I want to make clear that actually we do have plenty of |
| 1:31.5 | research about the impact abortion access has on society and for women. |
| 1:36.0 | I want to share some of that path-breaking research and analysis with you today. |
| 1:41.0 | So Emily, why is this issue important to you? |
| 1:43.7 | Reproductive rights, I mean, they just feel like a core part of my humanity as an American. |
| 1:51.0 | I was actually born in 1973, so I've never lived in a world without Roe versus |
| 1:56.0 | Wade. And I have a daughter and to think that she is going to grow up and live in a world without that bedrock is upsetting to me. I think she will have |
| 2:07.8 | fewer rights, fewer options than I will. That's infuriating. Also diving deep into some of those economic studies, |
| 2:15.6 | some of the studies you were just talking about. |
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