Saving Reproductive Rights, One Brunch At A Time (with Angela Vasquez-Giroux and Rep. Dr. Anita Somani)

The Suburban Women Problem

Red Wine & Blue

News, Kids & Family, Politics, Parenting, Government

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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One Trump-appointed judge in Texas is likely about to ban an abortion pill used by millions of Americans. And the ban won’t just affect women in Texas… it’ll affect all of us across the country, even in blue states. The ruling was expected to be released as early as Friday the 24th, so we wanted to make sure we talked today about this case and why it’s so important. This isn’t the first attack on our reproductive freedoms, and it won’t be the last, which is why it’s so important to pay attent...

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0:00.0	The normal Republicans. I don't know who they are, but...
0:10.4	They're called Democrats now.
0:11.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:13.3	We've got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.
0:19.5	Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from Red, Wine, and Blue.
0:26.4	Hi, everyone. Thanks for listening. I'm Amanda Weinstein. I'm Rachel Vindman. I'm Jasmine Clark.
0:32.1	And you're listening to the Suburban Women Problem. We've been talking about reproductive freedom
0:36.7	ever since Roe v. Wade was overturned
0:38.7	last year and of course before that too. But this week we're talking about another major attack on
0:44.1	abortion rights as a conservative judge in Texas is probably about to ban medication abortions,
0:50.4	not just for women in Texas, but all across the country, even in blue states.
0:56.0	So I sat down with Angela Vasquez-Jrew, the VP of Coms and Research at NARAL Pro-Choice America,
1:02.0	to tell me more about what this means and what we can do.
1:06.0	And before that, we're going to talk with Dr. Anita Samani, who is a state rep here in Ohio and an OBGYN.
1:12.8	So I'm sure she's going to have some really insightful things to say about all this.
1:16.7	So how are you guys feeling about all of this news?
1:20.0	This kind of snuck up on me is how I am feeling.
1:22.6	I don't understand how it's possible.
1:25.1	I think that there's always been this attack on reproductive rights,
1:28.9	and they attacked from multiple different angles. So it's not like they only went after Roe.
1:35.6	They have been going after medication, abortion as well for quite a while now. And so I think
1:42.3	this case is just the latest in their, you know, list of things that
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