The Abortion Underground

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Activists are mobilizing in preparation for the weakening or end of Roe v. Wade. That's the subject of Jessica Bruder's new cover story for The Atlantic. "There are lots of people who want to keep abortion accessible for everybody who might want access to abortion, regardless of what the Supreme Court does," she says. Bruder is also author of the book Nomadland, which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film.

Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews Sea of Tranquility the new novel by Emily St. John Mandel.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the New Bower Family Foundation, supporting
0:04.7	WHY Wise Fresh Air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation.
0:11.6	This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.
0:14.1	An abortion underground is mobilizing in preparation for the weakening or end of
0:19.9	Roe v. Wade.
0:21.1	It's expected that in June, the Supreme Court will decide on the constitutionality
0:25.8	of a Mississippi law that directly challenges Roe.
0:29.1	If the law is upheld, which many court watchers expect it to be,
0:33.2	abortion law will be determined at the state level.
0:36.6	My guest, journalist Jessica Bruder, wrote the cover story in the new edition of the Atlantic.
0:41.9	It's titled The Abortion Underground.
0:44.7	Bruder is also the author of the nonfiction book No Mad Land about the older men and women
0:49.8	who can no longer afford to live in their homes and live instead in their vans or RVs,
0:55.0	traveling around the country, taking part-time jobs in places like Amazon warehouses.
1:00.3	The book was adapted into the film No Mad Land, which won Oscars last year for best picture,
1:05.5	best director and best actress.
1:08.7	Jessica Bruder, welcome to Fresh Air.
1:11.4	How did you first find out about the abortion underground?
1:15.2	In a pretty backwards way, I was during the pandemic just doing a lot of poking around on the internet.
1:21.8	And I was reading the conference schedule for something called Hope,
1:27.3	hackers on planet earth from 2020.
1:30.4	And there was a session that wasn't like most of the other sessions.
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