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March 11, 2024 8 mins

CN: This episode discusses abortion, infant death, IVF, and modern far-right white supremacy


In Colonial America, abortion of early pregnancies was not only legal but was viewed as a typical medical procedure.

February 2023, the State of Alabama ruled that frozen embryos have the same rights as a child after birth.


How did we end up here?


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Thank you to April Keez for the use of the songs "Misfit" and "Grow Up" from the Album Mountainview. Find her album on Bandcamp.


Further reading:

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 by: Leslie J. Reagan


Audio drop from "Nobody's Body but Mine" from the beautiful album "I Have Known Women" featuring the music fo Si Kahn by Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves


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