The Abortion Pill Protest (1992) w/ TJ Raphael

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It’s July 1st. This day in 1992, two abortion rights activist traveled to the United States carrying abortion pills, in order to get arrested and spark a legal case around the legality of the pill.

Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by podcast host TJ Raphael to discuss what happened after the two people were arrested, and the new podcast series that looks at the fight over the abortion pill that exploded in the early 1990s.

Be sure to listen to TJ’s series “Cover Up: The Pill Plot,” wherever you get your podcasts!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	This stage, Live First 1992, a 29-year-old woman from the Bay Area flew from London to New York,
0:17.0	accompanied by a 72-year-old abortion rights activist.
0:20.0	And when they landed in New York, they promptly had their bags searched and they were arrested.
0:25.7	In their possession were several abortion pills, which are legal in Europe but were illegal
0:30.0	at the time in the United States.
0:31.9	And these two had actually alerted customs to the fact that they were carrying these pills
0:36.0	and they were intending to be arrested, intending for this case to then go up the courts and spark
0:40.8	illegal and larger battle over the abortion pill.
0:44.4	It is quite the saga and it is the subject of a new seven-part podcast series out right now
0:50.9	hosted by T.J. Raffel, who is our special guest today.
0:54.2	T.J. nice to see you and thanks for doing this and congratulations on this new
0:58.6	series.
0:59.6	Thanks so much for having me. I can't wait to talk about this I'm so excited and the
1:04.4	series is called cover up the pill plot so folks can go check that out after they
1:09.4	finish listening here of course don't stop right now. Of course. And we are joined as always by
1:15.6	Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there.
1:19.0	Hello Jody. Hey there.
1:20.7	T. J. You want to take us to July 1st 92 and I will note your series coming out on July
1:26.1	first as well so I don't know if it's linked to this anniversary of this moment, but this moment feels
1:31.4	so cinematic, you know, these two characters trying to get arrested.
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