“Chaos.” “Confusion.” Ever since the United States Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, its 1973 ruling that legalised abortion, doctors, activists and abortion seekers have had to navigate a new reality for reproductive care. It can make finding care in states like Texas with near-total bans on abortion especially challenging. As the US prepares for an election, the Biden campaign has promised to restore abortion rights. Can it?
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- Dr Jessica Rubino, family medicine physician specializing in abortion care
- Holly Bowles, director, Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy at SAFE Alliance (@SAFEatx)
- Cathy Torres (@_cathythebaddie), organizing manager at Frontera Fund (@fronterafundgrv)
- Amanda Becker (@AmandaBecker), 19th News Washington correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sonia Bhagat with Amy Walters, Chloe K Li and our host, Malika Bilal. Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik, and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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