On this edition of Your Call’s Authoritarian Playbook Series, we discuss Republicans’ ongoing attacks on abortion access.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to continue allowing telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone for now, concern among advocates is growing that the Trump administration and conservative justices could be waiting to decimate abortion rights until after the midterms, according to reporting in The Intercept.
How are activists responding?
Guests:
Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent at The Nation, and author of Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights
Elisa Wells, co-founder of Plan C
Dr. Angel Foster, Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, and co-founder of The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project
Resources:
The New York Times: Abortion Pill Lawsuit Leaves Trump Silent, and in a Political Bind
The Intercept: A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight
Abortion, Every Day: Republicans Aren’t Done with Mifepristone
Abortion, Every Day: New Gov’t Website Will Help Collect CPCs Data on Pregnant Women
NPR: The Supreme Court keeps abortion pill mifepristone available by telehealth
