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the Hello and welcome to politics theory other. My guest today is Sophie Lewis and in today's

episode we discussed the US Supreme Court's decision to reverse Roe

v. Wade. We talked about why millions of Americans already lived in a post-Roe situation,

with abortion services made punitively difficult to access. We also talked about the weaknesses

of the original Roe v. Wade ruling, whether the Supreme Court's decision

may herald a breakdown in support for American institutions amongst American liberals. And we also

discussed Sophie's article in The Nation, in which she argued that we should not shy away from

thinking of abortion as an act of killing, but should instead see it as an act of violence

that is entirely appropriate,

regardless of the circumstances, since no one should surrender their bodily autonomy and be coerced

into performing care work.

Sophie Lewis is a feminist theorist based in Philadelphia, where she teaches at the Brooklyn

Institute for Social Research.

Her first book was False Surrogacy Now, Feminism Against Family,

and her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Boston Review,

The London Review of Books, and Salvage Amongst Many Other Venues.

Her forthcoming book is Abolish the Family,

A Manifesto for Care and Liberation.

So we're speaking a few days after the US Supreme Court overruled the 1973 Roe versus Wade decision,

which is generally described as a ruling that protects the right to abortion, although more

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