Hi, everyone. It's Justin McElroy.

And Sydney McRoy.

It's Election Day in the States as you're listening to this, if you're listening this on the first day when we're releasing it.

And that's where my breath is. That's where my breath is. It's way down deep of my chest where I can't get it anymore, Sid.

So please, if you haven't already early voted like Justin and I have, please go vote.

Please go vote.

Okay.

Everybody, I just wanted to press with that.

And that's kind of the point of today's episode, right?

Yes.

So we talk about a lot of things on sawbones that are politically adjacent.

Areas of science and medicine that have been impacted positively and negatively by whatever political beliefs dominate the time and place.

I think one issue that we have talked about on this show that is definitely going to be impacted by the results of this election are reproductive rights.

We've done an entire episode on the history of

abortion care throughout history, but also specifically in the United States. Before, that episode

aired back in May of 2022 following the overturning or the impending overturning of Roe v. Wade.

At that time, we talked about the fact that should this come tourning of Roe v. Wade. At that time, we talked about the fact that

should this come to pass that Roe v. Wade was overturned, there would be many states that would

likely ban abortion, but that had not yet happened. Well, if you want to know what a country

looks like where you can no longer obtain all reproductive health care like abortion, you can come to our home state of West Virginia, where as a result of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, our state legislature passed such extreme abortion restrictions that abortion is effectively banned in this state. And even if you can meet

the extremely narrow criteria that you would need to in order to obtain an abortion in this state,

there is no clinic within the state of West Virginia, no hospital, no

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