Hey, White Next listeners, since it's the Juneteenth holiday, I have something a little bit special for you.

One of my favorite Slate podcasts, The Narrative History Show, Slow Burn, has got a new season out, and it could not be more timely.

It's about the years leading up to the landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, the one that legalized abortion in the U.S.

As you've probably heard, if you listen to this show, the current Supreme Court is expected

to reverse that ruling any day now.

In Slowburn, host Susan Matthews tells the forgotten story of how the U.S.

got abortion rights in the first place.

You'll hear about the first woman ever convicted of manslaughter for getting an abortion

and the unlikely Catholic power couple who sparked

the pro-life movement. Today, I'm sharing a different episode about the fight for abortion rights

in Connecticut. Fifty years back, a group of women decided that if they wanted to change the law,

they were going to have to do it themselves. What happened next? Eventually led to Roe v. Wade,

and it changed America.

Make sure to subscribe to Slow Burn to hear the rest. We'll be back with a new episode of What Next, tomorrow. For now, here's host Susan Matthews.

I think about from the moment I was born, I wanted to be president of the United States,

everyone knew that's what I wanted to do. What made you decide that

you wanted to go to law school? It seemed like a lot of people went to law school who became

president of the United States. That's Anne Hill. She started at Yale Law School in the fall of

1968. So we jumped from a couple of women in the class before to 26 women in my class.

There weren't enough men because of the Vietnam War.

At the beginning of her first semester, it seemed like all her plans might get derailed.

I had missed my period and I thought I might be pregnant.

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