Welcome to the Waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and all the intersectional

struggles of the moment.

Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we cannot get off our

minds.

And today you've got me, Nicole Lewis, senior editor of Juris Prudence at Slate.

And me, Susan Matthews, I'm Slate's executive editor, and I recently finished hosting

season 7 of our podcast Slow Burn, which this season is all about the lead up to Roe v. Wade

and how that case was decided in the first place.

And today we're talking about how the media is doing covering our post-row landscape.

For months before this go to decision, in the case that overturned the constitutional

right to an abortion, the Juris team and I had been talking about what our post-row

reality would look like.

We knew overturning Roe wouldn't simply catapult us back to the 1970s.

The abortion movement has changed, their rhetoric, and their goals have changed.

So we knew this moment was going to be both different and much worse.

And so I can't stop thinking about a news story from last week that seemed to encapsulate

this new horrific reality.

It's about a ten-year-old girl who had been raped and impregnated and eventually had

to leave her home state of Ohio to access an abortion.

We're going to talk about that story in more detail and how it went completely awry

after the break.

But for Susan, why did you want to talk about this?

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