The Fight For Abortion Rights Isn't Over
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn Roe v Wade on Friday, and throughout the weekend people took to the streets. We hear from you, our listeners, about how you’re affected by the news. And Leah Litman, co-host of Crooked’s Strict Scrutiny, joins us to answer some of the big legal questions we have about the ruling.
In headlines: Russian forces rampaged across Ukraine, G7 leaders announced a $600 billion global infrastructure program, and the melting-down of a bronze Robert E. Lee statue was halted.
And we hear from some people and organizations fighting for abortion access right now about how they’re staying hopeful.
Show Notes:
- Vote Save America: Fuck Bans Action Plans – votesaveamerica.com/roe
- RSVP for Crooked’s virtual event, “After Roe: Reproductive and Civil Rights Move to States,” on Tuesday, June 28th at 8p ET/5p PT – https://www.mobilize.us/crooked/event/464892/
- Donate to Crooked Media’s Pride Fund – https://crooked.com/pride/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, June 27. I'm Priyanka Arabandi. |
| 0:10.4 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice and this is What a Day. We're going to jump straight into |
| 0:15.0 | the show because of the major historic news from late last week. Friday the Supreme Court |
| 0:21.8 | World 6-3 to overturn Roe v Wade and throughout the weekend people took to the streets. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm angry, upset and frankly motivated more than ever to push for change. |
| 0:51.7 | That's some of the sound from protests all across the country since the news was announced. |
| 1:05.4 | The ruling left many people, including us, frankly, devastated and scared. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah, it's not been a pleasant weekend to even say it lightly. We wanted to hear from as |
| 1:17.0 | many of you as we could about your own thoughts, you know, give you space to share how you're |
| 1:21.3 | feeling, what you're thinking, let you vent. This is from Kirsten and Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 1:26.4 | I am also someone who had an unplanned pregnancy. I personally chose to keep my child and |
| 1:32.2 | he is now a seven-year-old who is the light of my life. Having said all of that, it makes |
| 1:37.5 | me very emotional and angry at the idea of forcing anyone to do this. I have really the |
| 1:46.4 | best case scenario and as far as single parenting goes and it's still incredibly difficult. |
| 1:53.1 | It's expensive. It's extremely lonely. It is just draining in every way possible. I am |
| 2:00.3 | still happy with the choice that I made. But when I think of people who do not have my |
| 2:05.1 | privilege and who don't want to be a parent, it breaks my heart what all of this means |
| 2:10.8 | for them. |
| 2:11.8 | Yeah, well, my biggest takeaway from that was that she said, like, I'm happy with my choice. |
| 2:17.3 | She had the ability to kind of choose what happened to her, her future, her body for |
| 2:22.5 | that period of time and afterwards. That's everything. |
| 2:26.6 | Yeah, absolutely. Here's another one. This is from an anonymous listener who works at |
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