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This is Our Body Politics. I'm the creator and host, Farai Chidea. On our show, I get to talk to

powerful women of color about the deep through lines that connect news stories. My next guest

examines the link between abortion rights, white supremacist extremism, and January 6th.

Pramila Jayapal is a leading voice from the left of the Democratic Party.

She represents the 7th Congressional District in the state of Washington, which encompasses most of

Seattle. She was born in India and came to the U.S. at 16 to attend Georgetown University.

She eventually became the first South Asian American woman elected to the U.S. House of

Representatives in 2016. Representative Jayapal, welcome to Our Body Politics. It is so good to be with you

today. Well, you have really become such an influential member of Congress, and you've had many

adventures before you even got to those halls. One of them

took you into a space where you had to consider what your choices were around continuing a

pregnancy. And you wrote about that a couple of years ago for the New York Times. Can you just

tell us briefly what choice you were faced with and what

choice you made? So in my case, I had had my first child very prematurely. They were, they go by

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