What's With All the Fearmongering Over Abortion Pills?
Boom! Lawyered
Rewire News Group
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a rewire news group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is ready for the end |
| 0:22.7 | of January and is bracing for Black History Month. Jeez, so much trolling goes on in Black History |
| 0:29.3 | Month these days. My goodness. I'm Imani Gandhi, editor at large for Rewire News Group. |
| 0:34.1 | And I'm Jess Piclo, Rewire News Group's executive editor. |
| 0:42.3 | ReWire News Group is the one and only home for expert reprojournalism that inspires you to thank an abortion provider. And the boom-layered podcast is part of that mission. So a big |
| 0:47.1 | thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners and viewers. |
| 0:51.3 | In 2021 at ReWire News Group, we bookmark our publishing season with two special |
| 0:57.3 | editions, right? Our first edition that year was all about medication abortion being the future |
| 1:02.8 | of abortion access. Our last edition that year was called The Gathering Storm, and it dealt with the |
| 1:08.5 | criminalization of pregnancy as this storm gathering off the horizon |
| 1:12.9 | just waiting to unleash on us. Well, it's 2023 and that gathering storm is here. We are at the |
| 1:22.8 | intersection of the criminalization of pregnancy and the future of abortion access. |
| 1:28.9 | And that's not a coincidence. |
| 1:31.0 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:33.4 | As more and more people turn to medication abortions, |
| 1:36.9 | more and more antis are going to try to find ways to criminalize the use of medication abortion. |
| 1:45.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.2 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:49.4 | So first, let's talk a little bit about why is medication abortion so great? |
| 1:54.7 | What's the big deal with medication abortion? |
| 1:57.2 | Everyone's talking about it. |
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