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Katie Breen interviews feminist activists, researchers, and advocates working to make gender equality a reality.
Through down-to-earth conversations with experts, Femtastic explores issues of reproductive rights and health, progressive politics, gender-based violence, LGBTQ+ perspectives, racism, social justice, and more. We also laugh.
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![Back in early December 2021, you may have heard rumblings celebrating that the FDA had changed some of its draconian and scientifically unsupported regulations around medication abortion. Medication abortion, a safe and legal method of first-trimester abortion, accounted for 54% of US abortions in 2020 but has been subject to decades of politically-motivated FDA regulations that place strict and unnecessary controls on it to limit access. In late 2021, amidst the most hostile environment to abortion since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, some of these limits were lifted. However, the reporting on the updates didn't exactly make it clear which problems the changes would solve and which they wouldn't.
As the Supreme Court is poised in June 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade, and states are leveling increasingly hostile attacks towards abortion in the meantime, any expansion of access is a good thing, and this FDA update IS definitely a good thing - but is not a panacea. In fact, it may simply widen the gap between those who already have access and those who don’t.
To explain the implications of the update, we are rejoined on the podcast by Elisa Wells, Co-Director of @plancpills, a website and organization that provides information about how to access abortion pills in ALL 50 US states (even those where it’s technically illegal).
Elisa explains why this is a win and for whom it's a win for access - but also for whom these changes make no difference at all. As the potential end of Roe nears, it's more important now than ever that we understand - and work to lift - obstacles to abortion access that millions of Americans of reproductive age face.
[Please note that this was recorded on January 14, 2022. Additional states have passed incredibly strict abortion bans since then, including Idaho, Florida, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.]
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