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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with

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Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody, recording live ish from my

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn bunker of folks. You know, I want to talk

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Speaker 1: today about something that has been really troubling right which

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Speaker 1: is the fallout from the Texas Abortion Band. So last

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Speaker 1: I don't know why people were feeling hopeful at all,

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Speaker 1: because we knew where this case was going to go.

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Speaker 1: That while a federal judge said that the band was

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Speaker 1: unconstitutional and does not allow women to be able to

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Speaker 1: make the choices that are necessary right to determine their

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Speaker 1: own life outcomes, and that it goes against Rovie Wade,

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Speaker 1: which is law of the land, we knew that this

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Speaker 1: appeals where they are conservatives that have been stacked because unlike,

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Speaker 1: let's say, what you know we've been doing Democrats, which

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Speaker 1: is not talking about the courts, not talking about how

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Speaker 1: important they are, not talking about attorney generals, state attorneys,

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Speaker 1: like why all of this matters? We never focus on

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Speaker 1: the courts as Democrats ever, we never talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we talk about the Supreme Court, but not really.

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Speaker 1: And so because of this, we are right now living

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Speaker 1: in a state where we have a conservative Supreme Court,

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Speaker 1: where we have three hundred some odd Trump justices across

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Speaker 1: the country, and what we know to be true is

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Speaker 1: that all of our most important issues do not get

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Speaker 1: solved by Congress. I mean, right now, Congress can't even

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Speaker 1: pass a fucking bill. Right they can't even pass the

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Speaker 1: infrastructure bill. They can't do anything that actually matters. Why

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Speaker 1: because you have two fucking Democrats and I use air

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Speaker 1: quotes with this, two Democrats that have decided that they

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Speaker 1: don't actually give a fuck about this country. Kirsen Cinema

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Speaker 1: had the audacity to fucking tell people that I don't

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Speaker 1: even talk to other members of Congress. I'm only talking

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Speaker 1: to the President of the United States, Like, bitch, who

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Speaker 1: do you think that you are? Right? I want people

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Speaker 1: to continue attacking her in public, and I don't mean physically,

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Speaker 1: but I mean asking her right about whether or not

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Speaker 1: she's going to talk to her constituents, whether or not

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Speaker 1: she gives a shit about them. But nonetheless, let me

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Speaker 1: not digress and go back to Texas. The reality is,

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Speaker 1: and what has been reported since this band took effect

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Speaker 1: is that women all over Texas are now overwhelming the

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Speaker 1: states around them and the abortion clinics that are there.

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Speaker 1: Just recently, I saw a report on MSNBC done by

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Speaker 1: a former guest and our friend, Yasmin Vesusan. She's down

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Speaker 1: in Louisiana right now at Hope Clinic, right a clinic

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Speaker 1: where the director has said that now currently seventy five percent,

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Speaker 1: close to seventy five percent of the cases that are

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Speaker 1: coming in are women from Texas. And we are learning

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Speaker 1: that all of the abortion clinics in states around Texas

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Speaker 1: are being pushed to their brink. That the parking lot

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Speaker 1: is full of cars, all with Texas license plates. So

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Speaker 1: what is it actually that Governor Abbott thinks that he's doing.

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Speaker 1: Does he think that he is miraculously saving all of

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Speaker 1: these embryos, saving these cells, and that women of Texas

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Speaker 1: are going to learn their lesson and be forced into parenthood. No,

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Speaker 1: He's just making what is already for some a very

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Speaker 1: It is a necessity. It is a necessity. It is

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Speaker 1: something that they do in order to determine the outcome

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Speaker 1: of their lives. So what does he think that this

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Speaker 1: piece of bullshit legislation is doing. It isn't doing anything

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Speaker 1: other than what it's intended to do, folks, which is

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Speaker 1: punish women. This is what we don't talk about enough, right.

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Speaker 1: We don't talk about the fact that these pieces of legislation,

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Speaker 1: to punish women for having the audacity, I guess what,

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Speaker 1: to have sex in the first place. Right. The thing

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Speaker 1: that frustrates me about the current predicament of abortion rights

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Speaker 1: in this country, which, by the way, if you're thinking

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Speaker 1: to yourself that you live in a blue state and

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Speaker 1: everything is going to be okay because of where you

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Speaker 1: currently are, it's not. It's not. What we know to

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Speaker 1: from white Christian supremacy in this country. We're not. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you are safely in New York like

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Speaker 1: They are coming for all of our rights. I spoke

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Speaker 1: about this on Twitter. I tweeted months ago that first right,

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Speaker 1: they come for facts, then they come for science right,

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Speaker 1: are receiving no pushback. Sure, there are court cases that

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Speaker 1: such a way that it's really hard to take it

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Speaker 1: will give people the right to be bounty hunters, to

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Speaker 1: be abortion bounty hunters, but until an action is actually taken,

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Speaker 1: there isn't really anything to take down. But what the

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Speaker 1: intention was was to punish women, force them into parenthood,

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Speaker 1: force them into miles hundreds of miles long journeys. You know.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I learned right about the clinic,

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Speaker 1: the Hope Clinic in Louisiana that was covered is that Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: this state has its own abortion laws, right obviously, as

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Speaker 1: do all of the states, but in Louisiana, you have

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Speaker 1: to what go in for an initial appointment, which is

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Speaker 1: days off of work, a day off of work, not

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Speaker 1: to mention the travel time that it takes to get there.

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Speaker 1: So you're talking about maybe two days off to work.

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Speaker 1: When you go into the clinic, you have your first

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Speaker 1: initial appointment, Louisiana requires that you wait an additional twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours before having the procedure. So now you're talking

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Speaker 1: about multiple more than one, more than two, maybe three

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Speaker 1: four days that you're missing from work. Well, what about

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Speaker 1: hourly wage workers who don't have vacation time? What about

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Speaker 1: go to. So not only is this legislation about punishing women,

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Speaker 1: but it's about punishing a particular woman, poor women, women

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Speaker 1: of color. Right. And what's funny is that you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the questions that I ask are have we changed, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the laws to make sure that these

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Speaker 1: women are actually taken care of? Have we expanded welfare programs?

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Speaker 1: Have we expanded social safety nets? Have we has Governor Abbott,

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Speaker 1: on top of banning abortions, has he made childcare free? Right?

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Speaker 1: Has he made it so that the men who are

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Speaker 1: this child? Right? That you're being forced to carry. Is

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Speaker 1: a state of Texas going to help you raise this child?

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Speaker 1: Are they providing you with any resources? No, they're not.

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Speaker 1: So there is nothing that has been done to help

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Speaker 1: women who are being forced into motherhood. They're not providing

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Speaker 1: whose life do you actually give a shit about? Because

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Speaker 1: it certainly is not the life of the child. Because

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Speaker 1: if it was really about wanting to protect quote unquote life,

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Speaker 1: then you would before expanding social safety nets to make

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Speaker 1: sure that these low income, right oftentimes black and brown

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Speaker 1: are being forced to have by the governor. But no,

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Speaker 1: So the real question is what is the endgame? Because

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Speaker 1: just so you know, Governor Abbott once again spoke the

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Speaker 1: they're not just going after abortion, they're also coming or

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Speaker 1: birth control as well. You see, they want to control

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Speaker 1: every single fucking aspect of what it means to conceive. Right,

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Speaker 1: we've already had cases about this right hobby lobby, the

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Speaker 1: birth control for their employees. They cover viagra, they cover

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Speaker 1: allergy medicine, they cover a whole host of things. But

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Speaker 1: it was against their religion to want to cover a

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Speaker 1: birth control So what do you think that Governor Abbott

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Speaker 1: that probably businesses don't have to cover birth control. Do

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Speaker 1: you know how expensive birth control is if you don't

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Speaker 1: have insurance? Right? So again, what is the endgame here?

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Speaker 1: Because they're not adding anything to help growing families, They're

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Speaker 1: not adding anything into the law to help raise these children. No,

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Speaker 1: they're just making it so that women who live in Texas, right,

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Speaker 1: consequences on their own. It's so disgusting because you see,

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Speaker 1: it isn't just going to be in Texas. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I am saying be prepared. This is a fight,

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Speaker 1: this is a battle, This is a war, the next

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Speaker 1: Christian crusade that is being waged in this country. And

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Speaker 1: you're going to have coffeecats. We are already seeing the

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Speaker 1: Texas coffeecats that are happening in Florida, in another state.

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Speaker 1: The case going before the Supreme Court Mississippi fifteen week

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Speaker 1: abortion ban again, these bands coming into place before women

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Speaker 1: even know that they're pregnant. But you see, the point

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Speaker 1: isn't about being pro life because on the same on

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Speaker 1: the endgame for Republicans just death and misery and despair

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Speaker 1: this is all that you would have to say to me,

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Speaker 1: write any sane person. So what are you offering? Ask

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Speaker 1: the fucking questions, dear reporters that are in Abbott's face

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Speaker 1: with microphones. What's your endgame here? Governor? How do you

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Speaker 1: actually plan to help these women and these families? Right?

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Speaker 1: What kind of legislation are you going to be putting

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Speaker 1: you see they don't. It's about power and control. And

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Speaker 1: we all keep fucking pretending that we don't know what

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Speaker 1: they're up to. This is their large plan. Let me

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Speaker 1: break it down for you. You see, you create a

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Speaker 1: that they didn't fucking want and could not take care of,

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Speaker 1: they're going to be forced out of the workplace. As

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Speaker 1: know why I just said during COVID, but in twenty

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Speaker 1: the primary caregivers over two million. So then what happens, Oh,

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Speaker 1: they believe that what all of these empty positions will

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Speaker 1: then go back to what only white men so that

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Speaker 1: they can make America great again, pushing women back into

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Speaker 1: and then freeing up what it's just it's so fucking

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Speaker 1: ridiculous that it's so clear. The goal is cruelty, the

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Speaker 1: goal is punishment, The goal is white male domination. And

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Speaker 1: how do you do that You get women out of

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Speaker 1: the way. And how do you get women out of

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Speaker 1: the way, You chain them, right, two families that they

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Speaker 1: don't want. I can't imagine the fear that these women

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Speaker 1: at clinics that are being overrun right now, hoping that

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Speaker 1: men on what is most important to them. Outside of

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. They are saying for women, thirteen percent of

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Speaker 1: the eighteen to twenty nine range care about abortion. Abortion

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Speaker 1: is their number one issue, that is for women. Why

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Speaker 1: is it but the number is half that of it

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Speaker 1: being import to men? Why do we always like why

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Speaker 1: we know that, like it takes two to be able

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Speaker 1: to you know, to get pregnant, So why is it

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Speaker 1: always that it is the bigger issue for women and

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Speaker 1: not men. This is a reflection of the continued tendency

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Speaker 1: to gender reproduction in the United States. Right to gender

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Speaker 1: the process of having children, to gender the process of

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Speaker 1: taking care of children, and it is incredibly frustrating that

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Speaker 1: we continue to see it gendered in this way. Right

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Speaker 1: when we talk about telling women to get on prescription

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Speaker 1: birth control because of abortion bands, telling people in this

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Speaker 1: country that affordable access to birth control is a woman's issue,

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Speaker 1: versus recognizing that while it is the person who can

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Speaker 1: birth who's taking a prescription racial method, at this point,

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Speaker 1: it is absolutely beneficial to couples when a person can

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Speaker 1: prevent pregnancy using those methods, and so to see, I'm

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Speaker 1: not surprised that we have this data. In my experience

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Speaker 1: talking with people about using birth control to prevent using

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Speaker 1: prescription birth control to prevent pregnancy. You hear similar things

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Speaker 1: where they think of it as being beneficial for women,

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Speaker 1: versus recognizing that while it is the person who that

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Speaker 1: person who takes the method, the partner is benefiting from

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Speaker 1: their use of that method to prevent pregnancy. They're benefiting

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Speaker 1: from not wearing condoms while the person is using birth

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Speaker 1: control prescription birth control prevent pregnancy. And so abortion, to

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Speaker 1: me is just one more of those issues where we

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Speaker 1: believe that having children is a woman's issue, we believe

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Speaker 1: that caring for children is a woman's issue, and we

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Speaker 1: reinforce these ideas about gender that are not natural there.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely social. There's there's no reason why it has

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Speaker 1: to be understood this way. And I think more go

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Speaker 1: even more important than that, to recognize that protecting everybody's

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Speaker 1: rights should not be a gender based issue in the

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Speaker 1: first place, right that that in itself should not have

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Speaker 1: to depend on a person's gender. We should just be

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Speaker 1: willing and able and enthusiastic about protecting people's rights. But

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, it continues to be understood in gender

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Speaker 1: terms and then makes people feel like they don't have

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Speaker 1: to care about the violation of people's rights. When it occurs.

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that you brought up

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Speaker 1: in in your Time magazine article too, was the decline

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Speaker 1: in use, or at least the admission by men surveyed

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Speaker 1: that they're not using condoms regularly. Was that shocking to you?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't shocking to me that men don't use its regularly.

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Speaker 1: It's shocking to me that we accept that men regularly.

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Speaker 1: That is that is the shocking thing, to be right.

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Speaker 1: The fact that men are resistant to using condoms comes

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Speaker 1: up in my in my interview data that I use

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Speaker 1: in my research all the time. So I wasn't shocked

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Speaker 1: that men were resistant to using condoms, but I was

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Speaker 1: particularly astonished that we accept that that is the quote

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Speaker 1: unquote natural order of things, and that that's the way

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Speaker 1: that it's just going to be, versus having social efforts

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Speaker 1: and accountability to get partners to use condoms. Because the

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Speaker 1: reality is that they're important for preventing pregnancy, yes, but

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Speaker 1: they're also incredibly important for preventing STI right, And it's

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Speaker 1: under this assumption that pregnancy prevention is the only thing

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Speaker 1: that people are thinking about is incredibly shortsighted, and doesn't

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Speaker 1: It does a disservice to people who are trying to

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Speaker 1: fight for bodily autonomy and have their rights respected when

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Speaker 1: they want their partners to use condoms. So I wish

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Speaker 1: that there was more conversation about the importance of having

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Speaker 1: partners wear condoms, not just to protect people from STIs,

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Speaker 1: but to also support partner's efforts to protect pregnancy and

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Speaker 1: think more more than anything, to simply respect people's rights

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Speaker 1: to bodily autonomy. In my research, the key that if

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Speaker 1: people want their condoms for whatever reason they want them

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Speaker 1: to do so, that should be respected. It should not

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Speaker 1: be something that they should have to try and convince

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Speaker 1: a partner to do. It should be the norm they

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Speaker 1: expected rule for the relationship and for the sexual encounter.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's unfortunate that it isn't. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's why we have such low rates of male participation

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Speaker 1: in condom use, in part because we that it's okay

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Speaker 1: that they don't do it. You know, Republicans have always

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Speaker 1: had a crusade against abortion, and they are now winning

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Speaker 1: right like that. There's no way, no other way to

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Speaker 1: look at the predicament that we're in right now except

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Speaker 1: to say that their thirty year plan is coming into

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Speaker 1: fruition with the owning of the courts and knowing that

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00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: most of our social issues and ills are solved through

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Speaker 1: the courts and not just through voting. That being said,

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Speaker 1: do you believe that reproduct that the pill and other

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Speaker 1: contraceptions are going to be next up on the chopping

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Speaker 1: block for Republicans? That you know we have December first

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Speaker 1: right will be the Supreme Court hearing on the Mississippi

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Speaker 1: fifteen week ban. We know that this Texas law will

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Speaker 1: go through the Fifth Circuit and more like more so

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Speaker 1: go to the Supreme chord as well. Are they going

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Speaker 1: to be done when they're able with just abortion or

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Speaker 1: do you think that they're coming for the pill and

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Speaker 1: other contraception's lap next and that we're not prepared for that.

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Speaker 1: This is a long standing battle and the pill and

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Speaker 1: other forms of prescription contraception are on the chopping block.

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Speaker 1: I think we need to be concerned for abortion rights.

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Speaker 1: People that are concerned about abortion rights but don't necessarily

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Speaker 1: think that we have to be concerned about prescription birth

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00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: control I think should change their minds about that. I

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Speaker 1: think that people that are are not concerned about abortion

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Speaker 1: but are may not even be thinking about prescription birth control.

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Speaker 1: They might just be taking for granted that prescription birth

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Speaker 1: control is there's to use via the Affordable Care Act.

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Speaker 1: I think that everybody should be really paying attention to

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Speaker 1: what's going on right now. We know that promoting abstinence

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Speaker 1: has also been a component of the Republican strategy and

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Speaker 1: also disastrous, which is exactly which is also disastrous and

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Speaker 1: does not reflect people's real world experiences. And so when

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Speaker 1: we're when that's the strategy right, it makes perfect sense

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Speaker 1: then to go after contraception, because the ideas that you

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Speaker 1: need to promote abstinence for people, you need to encourage

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Speaker 1: them not to have sex, and we know that doesn't

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Speaker 1: work right, Even people who plan to abstain can end

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Speaker 1: up and do end up having sex. And so we

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Speaker 1: people need prescription birth control and other forms of birth

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Speaker 1: control methods that are available to them. They need to

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Speaker 1: make sure they have access to them. And taking this

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Speaker 1: approach that suggests that there is anything other than unfettered

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Speaker 1: access to these methods as a coherent strategy for helping

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Speaker 1: people in this country and for protecting their needs to

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Speaker 1: me is implausible, nonsensical um And I do think unfortunately

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Speaker 1: that contraceptives are going to be under attack, and in

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00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: fact are under attack. It's it's something that when it

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Speaker 1: comes to thinking about reproductive rights and as I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: people's autonomy to control their bodies, there's just so many

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Speaker 1: reasons to be to be disheartened. It's it's it's unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: Where do you think that we're headed and what do

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Speaker 1: you think that we should we should be preparing for

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Speaker 1: right now in this reproductive rights battle resurgence, what should

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Speaker 1: we be doing? I think that we are headed for

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Speaker 1: increasing attacks on abortion rights, and as we were just

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Speaker 1: talking about on contraceptive access m I think that the

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Speaker 1: Texas band is just kind of set the stage for

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Speaker 1: other states to follow suit, and we've seen signals that

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Speaker 1: that's what people are going to do. And I think

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Speaker 1: that what needs to be done is that people need

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Speaker 1: to be demanding action of elected representatives to make clearer

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Speaker 1: that their constituents do not support these efforts, and to

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Speaker 1: make clearer that they are for protection of people's rights

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Speaker 1: to abortion and contraception. I think that in my work

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Speaker 1: right I find that reproductive justice is incredibly important. I

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Speaker 1: think that people need to contribute to efforts to support

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Speaker 1: local reproductive justice organizations who are on the ground doing

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Speaker 1: the work. I think when it comes to people knowing

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Speaker 1: what to do, I think that can that's oftentimes a

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00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 1: sticking point, right. I think in part they just don't

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Speaker 1: know what they can do, and so I think thinking

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Speaker 1: about what local organizations need and how to support those

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Speaker 1: organizations is a key strategy that people can use to

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Speaker 1: become an evolved And I also think donating to abortion

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Speaker 1: funds um not. You know, people might start thinking about

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00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,240
Speaker 1: starting abortion funds right, but the key is to donate

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Speaker 1: to the organizations that are doing the work to protect

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Speaker 1: abortion rights for people who need access to them and

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Speaker 1: who in this time right now, are especially in need

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Speaker 1: of support. I can't thank you enough for the work

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Speaker 1: that you're doing and for spending a little bit of

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Speaker 1: time with us to understand where we are folks. The

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Speaker 1: book is Just Get on the Pill, The Uneven Burden

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Speaker 1: of Reproductive Politics. Doctor Krystal little John, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining Woke a f and as this fight continues,

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Speaker 1: I hope that we can call on you to come

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Speaker 1: back on and and help us navigate what is becoming

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Speaker 1: a precarious field for reproductive rights. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for having me and I'd love to be on a

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Speaker 1: talks for Thanks so much, appreciate you. That is it

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Speaker 1: for me today on Woke af AS always power to

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Speaker 1: the people and to all the people power, get woke

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Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.