I kind of suspect that no one in the learning about the quote- unquote pro-life movement.

Our guest today is journalist Megan Burbank.

We last had Megan on five years ago in an episode about Roe v. Wade. Some things have changed since then. Some

other things have stayed the same. And I wanted her to come on to give us a biography of a movement that claims to have certain goals but whose

unstated goals are far more telling and also to kind of give us a state of the

Union about abortion access and reproductive justice. This is a topic that's been important to me for a long time. I love

finding ways to talk about abortion on the show. We also did an episode in October of

2022 called your abortion stories where we had listeners send in their own

experiences with abortion to kind of create a patchwork of what it's like to get an abortion,

what it's like to need an abortion, just the voices and the people out there

whose lives abortion has changed for the better. After Rovi Wade was overturned in 2022,

something that despite so many of us feeling it was inevitable for so long

was still no less awful. I think it was especially overwhelming for many people to stay updated on a developing story that seemed to be going nowhere good, faster and faster.

And so if you, like me, need a friendly voice

to update you on where we are,

what's been happening for the past few decades

and how we can try and build a better future.

This is an episode for you.

We hope you like this episode and we're also going to be donating this episode's net proceeds to four charities, the Northwest

Abortion Access Fund, James Due Process, Sister Song, and the Yellow Hammer Fund.

And if you are looking for actions in your community where you can help

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