Providing Abortions In Uncertain Times
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Abortion providers and advocates in several states have been scrambling to figure out how to process the fall out of the Supreme Court leak, what to tell patients, and how to still help them if the procedure is restricted where they are. Susan Braselton, who manages the clinic escort program for the Roe Fund in Oklahoma, joins us to discuss how her work has been affected by anti-abortion laws both in her state and others.
And in headlines: Russian forces continued their assault on a steel plant in Mariupol, Amazon Labor Union's leader Chris Smalls testified in D.C., and Karine Jean-Pierre will be the first Black woman and the first out LGBTQ+ person to be a White House press secretary.
Show Notes:
- Roe Fund of OKRCRC – https://www.roefund.org/
- Donate to abortion funds, take action and more via Vote Save America – votesaveamerica.com/roe
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, May 6th. I'm Gideon Rizic. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Treville Anderson and this is what a day, the only podcast that is exactly the |
| 0:13.6 | same in every Dr. Strange multiverse. |
| 0:16.4 | Yes, a little consistency is good and for Dr. Strange, that consistency is wide. |
| 0:21.7 | That is exactly right. You can ask Marvel yourselves. |
| 0:24.7 | By default, I guess we're part of the MCU now. I don't know, act accordingly. |
| 0:31.4 | On today's show, Ukrainians in the city of Mariopoul continue to resist Russian forces. |
| 0:36.8 | Plus President Biden's newest press secretary will be Karine Jean-Pierre, the first black |
| 0:41.7 | woman and first out LGBTQ plus person to ever be in that role. |
| 0:46.6 | But first, let's do a roundup on the continuing fallout from this week's big news. The leak |
| 0:52.5 | of a draft decision by the Supreme Court saying it would overturn Roe v Wade as early as |
| 0:57.7 | next month. |
| 0:59.0 | In response to the news, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced yesterday |
| 1:03.8 | that they'll vote next Wednesday on a lot of codify abortion rights into federal law. |
| 1:08.9 | Next week's vote will be one of the most important we take, not only this session, but in this |
| 1:14.3 | century. This is not an abstract exercise. It's as real, it's as urgent as it gets. Like |
| 1:21.8 | my friend Patty Murray said, this is a five alarm fire. And Republicans will not be able |
| 1:27.1 | to hide from the horror they've unleashed on America. |
| 1:31.6 | But Gideon, the bill itself, of course, is not expected to go far. Please tell the people |
| 1:38.0 | why. |
| 1:39.0 | We were talking about Congress. |
| 1:40.4 | That is why. |
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