Encore: Abortion: Whose Choice?
Aug 30, 2022•46 min
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Episode description
Who gets to decide the future of reproductive rights?
In this encore presentation of a Now & Then episode originally broadcast in September 2021, Heather and Joanne discuss the history of abortion from the colonial period to the present: the surprising availability of abortion until the mid-19th century, the physician-led campaign to ban abortion, and the GOP’s decision in the early 1970s to embrace the “pro-life” movement.
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