This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsew Politics.

Hello everyone.

Welcome to a very special episode of Pantsew Politics.

We are going to dedicate this entire episode to teens.

We're going to talk about the current mental health crisis among teens.

We're going to talk about positive stories around teens.

We're going to talk about parenting teens and all the factors at play inside schools

and our health care system and all the institutions that affect teens lives.

We've been wanting to talk about this for a while.

We've been preparing for a long time.

It is easy to let something like this be eclipsed by the demands of the new cycle and we did

not want to do that.

We are not intending to communicate by that that anything else happening is unimportant

and we specifically want to let you know that we are planning an entire episode to discuss

Senator Graham's proposed 15 week abortion ban at the federal level and the ongoing fallout

from the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe vs. Wade.

That is a very big deal and it like this topic deserves a lot of time and care and preparation

and attention.

We're going to talk with some experts and activists to talk through what is happening.

In the midst of this fallout, what is empowering in the midst of this fallout?

What can you be doing?

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