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Teaser - The Abortion Phantasm and the Dobbs Story w/ Melissa Gira Grant (06/03/24)

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105522184 Beatrice and Phil speak with Melissa Gira Grant about how it came to be that abortion politics are spoken of as the hinge point of the 2024 election—with some pundits confidently predicting the outcome will come down to Biden’s promise to “restore Roe”—and yet at the same time the Democratic Party continues to speak about abortion in only the most hollow and abstract of ways, completely ignoring the reality that for most people the status quo of abortion access was already unacceptable prior to Dobbs. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:09:59, 3 June 2024

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There is a story being told about Dobbs that has very little to do with how abortion was available or criminalized before Dobbs and how it's available or criminalized now.

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There's just such like a really sad absence when it comes to talking about

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accessibility. And I think that that helps Trump and it helps Biden and it helps a number.

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Like no matter how you feel about abortion as a politician, no matter what message you're pushing,

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people not understanding what accessibility means helps you because it allows you to keep the conversation in this super abstract space. Mm-hmm. Welcome to the death panel.

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I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton, and today I'm here with my co-host, Phil Rocco.

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Hi there.

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And the two of us are delighted to be joined once again by friend of the panel and returning

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guest, Melissa Gioa Grant.

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Melissa is a journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker.

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As a staff writer at The New Republic, she has produced an essential body of reporting covering the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, health, reproductive

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justice, and the so-called law with a particular focus on the last few years of legal and

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