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Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade: Women vs. Connecticut

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, went next listeners.

0:27.3

Since it's the Juneteenth holiday, I have something a little bit

0:29.9

special for you.

0:30.9

One of my favorite sleep podcasts, the narrative history show Slow Burn, has got a new season

0:35.6

out and it could not be more timely.

0:38.0

It's about the years leading up to the landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v Wade, the one

0:42.0

that legalized abortion in the US.

0:44.2

As you've probably heard, if you listen to this show, the current Supreme Court is expected

0:48.2

to reverse that ruling any day now.

0:51.2

In Slow Burn, host Susan Matthews tells the forgotten story of how the US got abortion

0:55.5

rights in the first place.

0:57.0

So here about the first woman ever convicted of manslaughter for getting an abortion,

1:01.7

and the unlikely Catholic power couple who sparked the pro-life movement.

1:05.1

Today, I'm sharing a different episode about the fight for abortion rights in Connecticut.

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