Standing In The Gap

Ordinary Equality

Wonder Media Network LLC

News, Suffrage, Politics, History, Women's Rights, Society & Culture, Reproductive Rights, Equal Rights, Era, Abortion, Equal Rights Amendment

4 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As abortion rights are downgraded from federally protected to locally enforced, a small group of people stand in the gap: District Attorneys. On today's episode, Kate and Jamia hear from Georgia's Dekalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston. DA Boston makes the case for why DAs can play an important role in the resistance, which is why she's vowed not to prosecute those seeking or providing abortions.

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0:00.0	From loosening gun restrictions to overturning Roe v. Wade to severely threatening our Miranda rights.
0:09.2	The Supreme Court has had a busy summer dismantling decades old legal precedent.
0:14.8	And the news around these decisions can be a lot to process.
0:19.6	Crooked media's strict scrutiny is a podcast that covers the United States
0:23.4	Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. Each week, co-hosts and law professors
0:29.6	Leah Littman, Kate Shaw and Melissa Murray, personal heroes of mine, break down the latest headlines
0:36.5	and biggest legal questions facing our country.
0:40.0	As we gear up for midterm elections, it's more important than ever to understand the repercussions
0:45.5	of these SCOTUS decisions and what we can do to fight back this November.
0:50.0	Listen to new episodes of strict scrutiny every Monday wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.5	In the South right now, you are seeing the largest landmass area where women living in the South have the furthest to go and the largest restrictions.
1:17.2	And so as a woman, as a black woman, and black women represent less than 1% of chief elected DAs in the country,
1:28.4	I felt it was so important for my voice to be heard on this issue.
1:35.5	Even if you don't live in my county, to know that there are people like me that are fighting for you.
1:45.7	This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity.
1:51.8	It's a decision that she must make for herself.
1:56.9	From Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina, dedicated women marched.
2:02.6	Abortion is fast becoming the new political fault line.
2:06.6	My body, my choice!
2:07.6	My body, my choice!
2:09.6	My body, my choice!
2:11.6	Alabama's governor has signed the nation's strictest abortion ban into law.
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