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Speaker 2: I never told you production of iHeartRadio, and today we

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Speaker 2: are doing an episode that was originally a Monday Mini

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Speaker 2: but it just got too big about everything that's going on.

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Speaker 2: Are some specific things that are going on, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: with abortion in the United States recently in reproductive rights

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Speaker 2: in the United States, and a lot of it is

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Speaker 2: changing very rapidly. So today, as we record this, the

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Speaker 2: day is March fifth, twenty twenty four. I did write

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Speaker 2: a lot of this about a week ago because again

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Speaker 2: I thought this was going to be a Monday Mini,

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Speaker 3: So is today sleeper Tuesday? Does that mean things?

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Speaker 1: Does mean things? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Dear? Apparently get donuts. But I think it's really important

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Speaker 3: that I remember this voting season, y'all, and this this

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Speaker 3: should impass. I think most of our listeners already are

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Speaker 2: This shows why it's so important because a lot of

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Speaker 2: this happened because Trump appointed judges that did what he said.

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Speaker 1: They were going to do.

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Speaker 2: He's pretty much out ban abortion. So YEAP voting does matter.

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Speaker 2: As frustrating as it can be to hear that quick

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Speaker 2: content warning, there's going to be nothing to in depth

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Speaker 2: but mentions of rape and suicide. Also, this is a

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Speaker 2: very US focused episode, but we would love to hear

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Speaker 2: what is going on in the US and around the world,

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Speaker 2: because you know, we're focusing kind of on something pretty

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Speaker 2: that we have been meaning to talk about and haven't. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's because of just scheduling and stuff. So just let

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Speaker 2: us know what's going on for you where you are.

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Speaker 2: And also, this is a primer since it was originally

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Speaker 2: going to be a mini There's a lot more we

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Speaker 2: could go into with all of this, because originally I

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Speaker 2: wanted to talk about the Comstock Act, but it just

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Speaker 2: became difficult to separate that from everything else that's going

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Speaker 2: on and why we need to talk about the Comstock Act. Okay, So,

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Speaker 2: as many of you probably heard, in February twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos count as

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Speaker 2: children essentially, Therefore, if they are destroyed for whatever reason,

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Speaker 2: people can be tried for wrongful death of this embryo.

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Speaker 2: This decision obviously has huge ramifications, and it is part

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Speaker 2: of a larger push for so called fetal personhood.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry that title just oh my god. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: so ridiculous that you can't help, but like just scoff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, there's been a lot of like you know,

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Speaker 3: Videos have been pretty priceless of like treating little little

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Speaker 2: Yes, right, but states are going forward with this. Fourteen

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Speaker 2: states have introduced fetal personhood pushes or laws, and at

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Speaker 2: least two have been enacted. After this decision, Alabama's fertility

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Speaker 2: clinics were sent into absolute chaos. Like legally, no one

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Speaker 2: was sure what was going on here. The decision did

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Speaker 2: use a lot of Western Christian religious language, which is

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Speaker 2: no surprise. Companies have already stopped shipping frozen embryos and

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Speaker 2: multiple places have stopped all IVF services after this. And

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Speaker 2: just a reminder, all kinds of things might cause someone

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Speaker 2: shouldn't matter that should just be available to people. The

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Speaker 2: case was brought after some frozen embryos were dropped and

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Speaker 2: the potential parents in question alleged that it constituted wrongful death. Essentially,

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Speaker 2: the parents in question had stopped pursuing IVF, but they

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Speaker 1: And so the.

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Speaker 2: Parents' parents in this question were suing for wrongful death

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Speaker 3: Oh, so they themselves over because they're not going to

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Speaker 3: they didn't.

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Speaker 1: They get through a lot of people didn't think things through.

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Speaker 3: Which I feel like should be the tagline for any

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Speaker 2: No, sorry, yes, Well, and then it was so unpopular

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Speaker 2: sad fact is almost every Republican supports IVF for certain reasons.

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Speaker 2: But they allowed for this to happen and voted for this,

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Speaker 2: And one of the big issues, other than stripping people's

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Speaker 2: that means there's a whole freezer of children, I guess,

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Speaker 3: Like, so what happens if I are not viable?

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Speaker 1: We have to you have to keep them so even.

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Speaker 3: Though they can never actually successfully be Yes, true fetuses

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Speaker 2: I mean yes, because you and I were when we

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Speaker 2: push about using contraceptives is killing children. This could be

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Speaker 2: applied to so many other things. And yes, from what

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Speaker 2: Didn't think it through that even if you can't, you

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Speaker 2: been a lot of viral clips of conservatives who championed

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Speaker 2: This directly negatively impacts IVF for people who are actively

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Speaker 2: that is only one piece of the damage here. There

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm wondering because we've talked about it in

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Speaker 3: some real big like pushback. Yeah the money they're taking away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And we definitely are going to talk about another

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Speaker 2: trying to like they're they're trying to walk this fine

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Speaker 2: What about the embryo though, because now you said they're

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Speaker 2: it to succeed, then it should be paused, which is

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Speaker 3: Right as from MSNBC, they say as a result of IVF,

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Speaker 3: there are as many as one point five million frozen

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Speaker 3: least until someone uses them. Otherwise, anyone who destroys the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and infertility impacts about fifteen percent of US couples,

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Speaker 2: So that's that's pretty big. As I said, infertility is

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Speaker 3: So I mean, at what point can they be charged?

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Speaker 2: Well, as we've been mentioning, there has been a really

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Speaker 2: the fundamental underlying problem of fetal personhood. I guess there's

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Speaker 2: showcased just how tenuous access to reproductive rights have been

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Speaker 2: something else, and it is the return of the Comstock Acts. Yes,

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Speaker 3: Like, probablyless purposeful, probably was, probably was.

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Speaker 1: The world he created was very bad. I should tell

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Speaker 2: So, Yes, one of the chilling implications of this and

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Speaker 2: the Comstock Act. It is a nineteenth century anti vice

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Speaker 3: the anti choice movement has removed abortion from the broader

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Speaker 3: system of normal medicine, requiring providers to create alternative clinics.

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Speaker 3: The anti choice movement wouldn't need an Act of Congress

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Speaker 3: or even a judicial ruling. All it would need is

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Speaker 2: Right, which is why we've heard Republicans start to bring

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Speaker 2: up the Comstock Act more and more because this is

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Speaker 2: what they're talking about doing. Just a reminder, all of

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Speaker 2: this is hugely unpopular. A majority of American support access

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Speaker 2: to safe abortions. The Comstock Act was hugely unpopular even then,

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Speaker 2: but he got it through using the same tactics that

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Speaker 2: we're seeing now. Also, I know we say this every time,

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Speaker 2: but those drugs we've been discussing are safe. They've been

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Speaker 2: proven safe.

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Speaker 3: They're safe, They're completely completely safe. Literally the level of

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Speaker 2: Yes, completely safe, and you can still get them.

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Speaker 1: So don't don't think that that's what we're saying.

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Speaker 2: That's just something we need to be vigilant about because

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Speaker 2: this is what they're they're looking at doing. There is

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Speaker 2: a push to repeal the Comstock Acts, but given our

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Speaker 2: current political climate, it's an uphill battle. And another note,

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Speaker 2: it wouldn't ban abortion drugs outright, it would just pretty

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Speaker 2: much again they're not thinking this through because you use

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Speaker 2: surgical gloves for other things like but it would make

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Speaker 2: it very, very very difficult to get them. And this

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Speaker 2: is all connected. This is all linked, like what we've

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Speaker 2: been talking about, banning books, banning abortion, the role of police,

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Speaker 2: the role of surveillance, like this is what we're saying

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Speaker 2: when we talk about intersectional feminism and why it is

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Speaker 2: all connected. And on top of that, it is really

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Speaker 2: distressing that we've gotten these numbers about burst from rapes

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Speaker 2: because people were not able to access abortion, which is

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Speaker 2: frightening in terms of lack of access, but also in

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Speaker 2: what it suggests about rape numbers. And you know, to

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Speaker 2: be clear, if you want an abortion, a safe abortion,

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Speaker 2: you should be able to get one. This is very

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Speaker 2: troubling data. But there have been some wins for reproductive

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Speaker 2: rights in the US, including in conservative states and elsewhere,

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Speaker 2: because of people doing the work and fighting back. So

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Speaker 2: that's something else like it can be very disheartening to

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Speaker 2: hear something like this, and it is it is, but

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Speaker 2: there are also so many people fighting and who aren't

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Speaker 2: giving up and who are doing these things, and it

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Speaker 2: does matter, so keep that in mind. And also outside

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Speaker 2: of the US, for instance, France just enshrined abortion rights

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Speaker 2: into their constitution in March of twenty twenty four. As

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Speaker 2: we record this, and a lot of people said that

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Speaker 2: we're interviewed about it that in part.

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Speaker 1: After seeing what happened in the US.

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Speaker 3: So exactly, Yep, we're a cautionary tell wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful Yes. As we said at the top, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: we'll be revisiting this a lot. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: that we need to go back to that's happened around

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Speaker 2: abortion in the US. But also, listeners, if you have

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Speaker 2: any resources, if you live anywhere in the US or

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Speaker 2: outside of the US, where you've been involved in something

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Speaker 2: around abortion, or there's something going on you think we

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Speaker 2: should know about, please please please let us know.

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Speaker 1: That is so.

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