We Need a Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment

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🗓️ 30 July 2021

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In this episode of The New Abnormal, Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay, authors of CONTROLLING WOMEN: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom, tell Molly-Jong-Fast not to trust John Roberts and why Roe isn’t enough to protect abortion rights in this country—something much bigger is. If you haven't heard, every single week The New Abnormal does a special bonus episode for Beast Inside, the Daily Beast’s membership program. where Sometimes we interview Senators like Cory Booker or the folks who explain our world in media like Jim Acosta or Soledad O’Brien. Sometimes we just have fun and talk to our favorite comedians and actors like Busy Phillips or Billy Eichner and sometimes it's just discussing the fuckery. You can get all of our episodes in your favorite podcast app of choice by becoming a Beast Inside member where you’ll support The Beast’s fearless journalism. Plus! You’ll also get full access to podcasts and articles. To become a member head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of the new abnormal. I'm producer Jesse Cannon and this
0:53.1	week, Molly and I are taking a much needed vacation, but that doesn't mean we're not going to
0:57.8	bring you more content. Today we have Catherine Colbert and Julia F. K. Colbert is actually the
1:03.3	person who argued Planned Parenthood V's KC in front of the Supreme Court and K was instrumental
1:08.2	in the legalization of abortion in Ireland. And they've now written a book called controlling women,
1:13.4	what we must do now to save reproductive freedom. And we're going to talk to them all about that
1:18.0	today. Molly and I will be back with our regular scheduled episodes next week. Hi you guys,
1:22.7	welcome to the new abnormal. Thanks so much. It's great to be here. So explain to me what was the
1:29.4	impetus behind writing this book. The major impetus is that we saw that the right to choose abortion
1:35.4	and a whole wide range of other reproductive freedoms were in severe jeopardy. We'd never been in
1:41.8	such dire straits. And we believe that a new strategy is necessary that the same old same old that
1:48.7	we've been at for the last 40 years isn't working. And we need to think differently and more broadly
1:55.1	about how to proceed. So what is the strategy? Well, the strategy is multifaceted. The major point
2:01.7	is that the right wing had a 50 year strategy. They didn't just think they could do everything in
2:07.7	one year or two years or five years. They thought long term. And we need to do the same. So we need
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