Hello and welcome to Halo with Amrata. If you're a regular listener, welcome back and for

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feature on Apple Podcasts to check it out. So today we are talking about the Hill. Specifically,

we are speaking to someone host and reporter TJ Raphael of CoverUp The Pill Plot. This is a new

podcast that has come out and it marries women's health reproductive rights and true crime. But I

really wanted to have her on today to talk about the moment we're in right now and something you

might not know about, which is that the abortion pill is under fire. There is a new case that

will likely go to Supreme Court about the pill, the abortion pill, that will bring up a whole new

opportunity for people to take away reproductive rights. So I want to get into that. Ever since the

overturning of Roe the Wade last year, I've wanted to bring someone on to talk about the history

and facts behind abortion in our country and now that we no longer have the nearly 50-year-old

precedent recognizing the constitutional right to abortion, expanding access to safe abortion is

more crucial than ever. So one way to do this, one key way to do this that you'll hear about just

coming up after this break is by making a medical abortion more easily accessible. So how do we get

here and what do we do from here? After this break, we will come on with host and reporter T.J.

Raphael to talk about the evolution of the pill. The talk takes around it both then and now and the

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