Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade | 3. Women vs. Connecticut
Slow Burn
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Soon after Ann Hill arrived at Yale Law School in 1968, she realized she was pregnant. Her options were limited: she could give birth—or get an illegal abortion. The decision she faced inspired her to take on Connecticut’s abortion ban. The legal battle that followed would set the stage for Roe v. Wade.
Season 7 of Slow Burn is produced by Susan Matthews, Samira Tazari, Sophie Summergrad, and Sol Werthan.
Derek John is Sr. Supervising Producer of Narrative Podcasts.
Editorial direction by Josh Levin, Derek John, and Johanna Zorn. Merritt Jacob is our Technical Director.
Our theme music is composed by Alexis Cuadrado. Artwork by Derreck Johnson based on a photo provided by Robert Wheeler.
The season’s reporting was supported by a grant from the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists.
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| 0:32.0 | I wanted to be president of the United States. |
| 0:35.0 | Everyone knew that's what I wanted to do. |
| 0:37.0 | What made you decide that you wanted to go to law school? |
| 0:40.0 | It seemed like a lot of people went to law school who became president of the United States. |
| 0:45.0 | That's Anne Hill. |
| 0:49.0 | She started at Yale Law School in the fall of 1968. |
| 0:54.0 | So we jumped from a couple of women in the class before |
| 0:57.8 | to 26 women in my class. |
| 1:00.7 | There weren't enough men because of the Vietnam War. |
| 1:04.0 | At the beginning of her first semester, it seemed like all her plans might get derailed. |
| 1:10.0 | I had missed my period and I thought I might be pregnant and this was not the way I wanted to start law school. |
| 1:18.0 | Anne knew that this was not a good time to have a baby. |
| 1:22.0 | So she found a local OBGYN and she was honest with him. She said |
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