Welcome to the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Fernanda Ichavari.

Last weekend, thousands of protesters took to the streets around the country.

It was the first women's march since Joe Biden was elected president.

And there was one topic in particular galvanizing the crowds.

The new law in Texas that banned subortion after six weeks.

In Washington, D.C., thousands marched to the Supreme Court

where this December, the new conservative majority

will hear arguments about a major challenge to row versus Wade,

the 1973 decision that legalized abortion in the United States.

But while the battle over the Texas law rages,

and people rightfully worry about a world in which abortion access is no longer protected,

women in Mississippi are already living it.

On today's episode, we're going back to 2019,

when Mother Jones reporter Becca Andrews took us to where row doesn't reach.

Mississippi is the state with the second highest poverty rate in the nation,

where in many ways, a post-role world is already a reality.

We think revisiting Becca's piece is good context for just how high the stakes are

for people needing abortions in Texas right now,

and more broadly, how high the stakes are in the Supreme Court case.

It's also touching and extremely frustrating.

This episode is a continuation of our Red Aloud series

and is produced in partnership with Autumn. Here it is.

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