The Waves: A Year Without Roe

On this week’s episode of The Waves, one year after the Supreme
Court decision that set off a national crisis in reproductive
health care, we’re taking a look at what the end of Roe has
wrought. Countless lives have been affected: There's the people
who've traveled across the country to get their lives back, the
people who've been forced against their will into pregnancy and
childbirth, and those who've been denied life saving medical care
because their doctors are afraid of the law. There's also the
people doing what they can to mitigate the damage—with ballot
measures, and abortion funds, and the tools and knowledge to help
someone manage an abortion on their own. Slate senior writer
Christina Cauterucci talks with Diane Horvath and Morgan Nuzzo, who
opened an abortion clinic in Maryland just as Roe fell. She also
sits down with Elaina Ramsey, who leads a faith-based pro-abortion
group in Ohio that’s been charting new ways to use the specific
assets of faith communities to help people get abortions, and
Jessica Valenti, a journalist who’s been tracking the warp-speed
rollback of abortion access across the country, and telling the
stories of people whose lives have been upended because of it. Some
of Christina’s Writing on Abortion: Birth Control Is Next You Will
Still Be Able to Get a Medication Abortion—Even if This Barbaric
Ruling Stands What Anti-Abortion Advocates Really Think of Women’s
Lives If the “Abortion Pill” Gets Banned, There’s Still One Good
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