Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson had just told NBC like this week that abortion is clearly having a moment

But it's gonna settle and he doesn't see abortion as an issue that's gonna hurt Republicans long term and I'm like

What like read the room?

Hello and welcome to the politics girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it

The issue of abortion has always been a hot button topic in our country

But never more so than since last year when the 40-year legal precedent of a woman's right to choose was overturned by the far right Supreme Court

Since then after witnessing a fundamental human right being stripped from them women and their allies around the country have mobilized

Understanding that our basic freedoms are at stake, but this isn't just about bodily autonomy or the lives of pregnant people

It's about human rights

People need to understand that once a government starts stripping its citizens of their rights no one is safe

So today we're gonna talk with Lafonda Butler the president of Emily's list the powerful and influential political action committee

Dedicated to electing pro-choice women into office never has the role of this organization been more essential

Together with groups like Planned Parenthood, Neyroll and the Center for Reproductive Rights

Emily's list is on the front line in the fight for abortion care

But Emily's list unlike the others is primarily a political organization

Their job is to make sure we put leaders into office who believe in our fundamental right to make decisions over our own bodies

Before being tapped to run Emily's list in 2021 taking the helm of the storied organization at the height of the abortion rights crisis

Lafonda had already had a long and impressive career at only 30 years old

Lafonda was elected president of the biggest union in California and the nation's largest home care workers union

She spent 10 years as a leading voice in America's labor movement leading the campaign for California's

$15 minimum wage which was the first in the nation and equal pay for women in home care

Lafonda was a partner at SCRB strategies a political consulting firm where she was a strategist for candidates running up and down the ballot

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