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🗓️ 22 February 2022
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0:00.0 | In this country, we tend to frame the question of abortion around religious or moral questions |
0:07.0 | or bodily autonomy and stuff like that. |
0:09.2 | But this is a policy that has enormous economic implications for women and particularly |
0:15.0 | for poor women. |
0:16.2 | As it happens, economists actually have a lot of objective answers about abortion. |
0:20.1 | We know a lot about how abortion access impacts people's lives. |
0:23.9 | At the end of the day, denying abortion is about power. |
0:27.4 | Yes. |
0:28.4 | From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle, this is pitchfork economics, |
0:38.0 | with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why. |
0:48.9 | I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures. |
0:52.0 | I'm Jess and Farrell, and I'm Senior Vice President at Civic Ventures and a former state |
0:56.6 | legislator. |
1:00.5 | So Jess and today on pitchfork economics, we get to talk to a super interesting woman. |
1:06.5 | Caitlin Myers is the John Jean McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and specializes |
1:14.3 | in research on the impact of contraception and abortion policies on economic outcomes |
1:22.2 | in the United States. |
1:23.8 | And in this country, we tend to frame the question of abortion around religious or moral |
1:30.7 | questions or bodily autonomy and stuff like that. |
1:33.5 | But this is a policy that has enormous economic implications, particularly obviously for |
1:39.5 | women and particularly for poor women. |
1:42.1 | Yeah, I think it'll be really interesting to dive in how abortion is an economic issue |
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