The Daily Campaign: How We Talk About Abortion

Ordinary Equality

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

4 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 1971, a French weekly magazine published the Manifesto of the 343 -- 343 women who publicly announced they'd had an abortion when the procedure was illegal. The next day, a satirical paper called them the 343 "bitches." Three years later, they paved the way for the first legalization of abortion in France's history. The key?Talking about abortion -- campaigning for it in their day-to-day lives.

In this episode, Kate and Jamia talk to one of the 343, who helped shift the narrative around abortion in France, and to a messaging expert to bring those lessons to the American context.

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0:00.0	This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity.
0:06.3	It's a decision that she must make for herself.
0:11.3	From Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina, dedicated women marched.
0:17.2	Abortion is fast becoming the new political fault line. My body, my choice!
0:22.6	My body, my choice!
0:25.6	Alabama's governor has signed the nation's strictest abortion ban into law.
0:30.6	The Human Life Protection Act outlaws the procedure except when the mother's life is at risk.
0:35.6	This bill is not about pro-life or the right to life.
0:41.1	This bill is about control.
0:44.2	We will not go back.
0:46.3	And we, the people of the United States of America, documented or undocumented, are having
0:53.0	abortions legal or not.
0:56.2	This court will never stop us.
1:03.3	I'm Kate Kelly.
1:05.1	And I'm Jemia Wilson.
1:06.6	And this is Ordinary Equality.
1:09.5	On June 24th, 2022, while every news outlet exploded with the Dobbs case,
1:15.6	I was on a plane flying to the French Riviera.
1:21.4	I have to admit that after I ugly cried all day, taped our podcast,
1:27.3	went through the hell that is JFK.
1:30.9	I kicked back and had champagne on Air France, because that's how they do Air France,
1:37.4	and thought about what it was going to mean to be able to go meet an old friend,
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