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When Planned Parenthood Burns Down

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

With Roe v. Wade on the chopping block, abortion access is under fire in states around the country. At Planned Parenthood’s Knoxville location, the clinic faced that literally when an arson attack burned the building to the ground. How will providers rebuild when the things they stand for are so threatened? Guest: Tory Mills, director of community engagement for Planned Parenthood’s Knoxville Health Center. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

0:05.4

I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th.

0:08.0

But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

0:14.2

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

0:18.8

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

0:27.2

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1:03.2

If you worked at the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee, there are some things

1:06.9

you just knew.

1:08.4

First of all, come in the back door.

1:11.0

That's where Tory Mills office was.

1:13.6

Tory's the director of community engagement, but she was also a bit of the unofficial

1:17.9

greeter for the clinic.

1:22.8

Generally tried to make the place feel cozier than you might expect.

1:28.5

I remember we had a kind of a clothesline up on one of the walls where we would hang

1:32.8

cards from patients.

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