From Crooked Media, this is unholyier than now. I'm your host, Philip Picardy.

At last week's Republican National Convention, we heard the old buzzword loud and clear, abortion.

You see, for me, abortion is real. I know what it sounds like. I know what abortion smells like. I know what abortion smells like.

Did you know abortion even had a smell?

And while we tend to think of the marginalized

as living beyond our borders, the truth is the largest marginalized group in the world

can be found here in the United States. They are the unborn.

For decades, Christian groups have mounted an offense against reproductive rights in America,

polarizing the right to choose and condemning those who seek abortions as sinners.

In turn, the fight for reproductive justice has become a religious and legislative battleground in our country.

For the next two weeks we'll be talking about abortion here on unholyer than now,

how it was adopted by the religious right and how progressive spiritual leaders are learning to talk about it.

We'll also hear one woman's abortion story and how it forever changed her views on faith.

But before we dive into all the God stuff,

I want to make sure we're all on the same page about what reproductive justice is and what the people

fighting for it are currently up against.

To do that, I called up Monica Ray Simpson, the Executive Director of Sister Song, a woman-of-color-led

reproductive justice organization based in the South.

Monica, thank you so much for joining me. I really appreciate it.

Thank you so much for having me. It is really an honor.

Really glad to be here today.

Can you tell me a little bit about the incredible work that Sister Song is doing?

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