The Pill Plot | 5. Blood in The Streets

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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With Bill Clinton’s election, it feels like the pill might finally come to the U.S. But anti-abortion forces are on the defensive, and a period of extreme violence ensues. We follow the trail of Shelley Shannon as she goes on a campaign of terror across the country and makes her mark as an icon for anti-abortionists. In this moment of despair, the pill plotters realize they’re not out of the woods yet. Unlock all episodes of Cover Up: The Pill Plot, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Cover Up: The Pill Plot show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. You can follow the show’s host on Twitter @TJRaphael Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bench.
0:02.0	The Bench.
0:08.0	Previously, on Cover Up, the Pill Plot. We thought there were going to be 300 people at the door we didn't know what was coming at us but whatever was coming we were ready
0:17.8	Boy yeah you don't understand how deep our benches there had been people accosted.
0:24.0	The extremists were threatening employees at Roussel-Uclough in Paris in the parking lot.
0:29.0	Today I am acting to separate our national health and medical policy from the divisive conflict
0:36.4	over abortion. Hey, Ho Ho! The abortion pill has got to go! It's a June afternoon in 1993. The sun is blazing in Washington, D.C. It's hot. But the 50 or so Operation Rescue protesters aren't letting a little heat
1:06.5	slow them down. They're headed to the French embassy, with signs in their hands and their chance at the ready to protest the French
1:15.8	makers of RU486, Roussel Eucleucle. In a few days the company will hold a big shareholder meeting in Paris.
1:25.0	Operation Rescue wants to send a message.
1:28.0	Don't even think about bringing the abortion hill here.
1:32.0	But when the protesters reach the embassy, they're met with
1:37.0	something unexpected. We got there first. We had defeated Operation Rescue.
1:45.0	Abortion rates protesters are already there,
1:49.0	right in front of the embassy with signs of their own chanting no more delays.
1:54.0	Ellie Smiel and the feminist majority have called in the cavalry.
2:00.0	When I keep hearing that women, young women don't care of their indifferent, forget that.
2:05.0	They were the bulk of our volunteers and they were up and they were staged and they knew exactly where they were going.
2:12.0	Typically, Operation Rescue goes right up to their target,
2:16.0	but Ellie and her crew have claimed the prime real estate.
2:20.0	Operation Rescue protesters are relegated to the cheap seats.
2:25.0	They're outnumbered and outvoiced.
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