Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee Allabest. And today we're airing a special episode in

response to the Supreme Court ruling on June 24th, 2022, which eliminated the constitutional right

to abortion. This right had been granted in 1973 by way of the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, when the justices

ruled that the decision of whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term was covered under

the Right to Privacy Clause of the 14th Amendment. Nearly 50 years later, conservative judges

appointed by Donald Trump led the court to revoke

women's right to make this choice for themselves. In response, the three liberal justices on

the court wrote that the court had done grave damage to women's equality and to its own

legitimacy. They wrote, with sorrow for this court, but more for the many millions

of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection, we dissent.

To help make sense of this issue, we are re-airing an episode from season one that looks in depth at the original Supreme

Court decision, Roe v. Wade. And to make this episode easier to share with others, we condensed

two long episodes down to just one 45-minute piece. So please, whether or not you heard it

in 2020, give it a listen now and then share it with

anyone you know, especially people who may be struggling to figure out how they feel about

this topic.

I know it took me a lot of time researching for me to come to my own conclusions about

abortion rights.

So I have a lot of compassion for people who find this issue

challenging. My hope is that more people will do honest-hearted, open-minded research, starting

with reading Roe v. Wade itself. But in the meantime, here's a review of this essential text.

Before we dig into this essential text and talk about its implications for women, I'd like to

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