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The PoliticsGirl Podcast

Women are Furious: A Conversation with the new President of Emily’s List Jessica Mackler

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Fixing the crisis America is in is hard, but it’s also simple. We can’t stop talking about reproductive rights because it’s not just about stripping women of the right to manage their own lives and bodies, it’s about the slippery slope we find ourselves on if we accept that government can just take our essential human rights. At the end of the day, it’s not just about abortion, it’s about precedent. If they can take this freedom, what’s next? Emily’s List is out here fighting back, which is why I’m pleased to speak to known strategist and fighter Jessica Mackler. Emily’s List isn’t just about winning elections at every level, but to supporting those winners once they’re in office.Government is simply better when all voices are at the table. It took almost 50 years for them to strip us of our rights. If we vote correctly, we can get them back in two. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://emilyslist.org Twitter: @emilyslist As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://oneskin.co code: politicsgirl https://sundaysfordogs.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl

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0:00.0

We have shown that when we put in the work and when we talk to voters about what is at stake,

0:04.6

they are with us and they will show up for us.

0:07.0

You know, in Michigan in 2022, when we framed this election around abortion,

0:11.8

we had young voters showing up double digits above the

0:14.3

national average. We get a younger, more diverse, more Democratic electorate because

0:19.2

people agree with us on this issue. They're on our side.

0:23.0

Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's

0:37.4

get into it. Every day this country seems to inflict a fresh new injury on the

0:41.8

rights and freedoms of American women.

0:44.0

Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the doors have been swung wide open for what feels like every

0:48.7

and all form of draconian law that are far less about life than they are about control.

0:54.0

In the two years since the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion,

0:58.0

restrictions on the health care procedure have exploded across the country,

1:02.0

particularly in the American South.

1:04.0

We're at a place where one out of three American women of childbearing years

1:07.8

now lives in a state with an abortion ban.

1:10.3

To add to this crisis, reproductive rights opponents are looking to ban the most common form of abortion care

1:16.1

the abortion pill myth of Pristone at the Supreme Court

1:18.7

including some anti-abortion activists using the archaic 1873 Comstock Act which outlaws mailing

1:25.3

obscene materials through the mail and applying it to the abortion drug.

1:29.2

There are people that are considering even arguing that contraception itself should be added to the ban.

1:34.8

Combine this extreme behavior with the rise in blatant Christian nationalism that would seemingly

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