Episode 71: Abortion Is Essential
Hey friends! Smells like quarateen spirit up in here!
This week the cellmates are gathered and we are PISSSSSED!
Guess it’s not hard enough to wake up and figure out your life during a plague. Nope, the shittiest governors in America have decided to use a pandemic as an excuse to ban abortion. It is really scary and the states that are shutting down clinics are spreading faster than… well…really fast.
Joining us on the pod to talk about what it’s like to be helping patients in one of those states, are Derenda Hancock and Kim Gibson founders of the non profit, We Engage and escorts at The Pink House, the last clinic left providing abortion in the state of Mississippi. Have a listen and learn how to mobilize with us online, it’s working!
Gathered in the Sleeper Cell
Lizz Winstead @lizzwinstead
Moji Alawode-El @mojilocks
Marie Khan @mkhanj
Quick Hits
State Trends of Anti-Abortion Aggression DURING A PANDEMIC
- Ohio
- Kentucky AG Being Granted More Political Power
- Texas
Meaty Stories
Coordinated Effort by Susan B. Anthony List Aimed at State Governors to Stop Access
Abortion Access Force’s Advice is:
- Listen to real science!- https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/
- Pregnancy during COVID19 has novel challenges- https://www.uchealth.org/today/pregnancy-and-coronavirus-experts-advise-precautions
- Pregnant folks can communicate COVID19 to a fetus is appears https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/mother-baby-transmission-covid-19-ruled-study-finds/story?id=69821832
- Telemedicine MUST BE PUT UTILIZED- https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/new-multi-state-study-shows-telemedicine-abortion-is-as-safe-and-effective-as-in-person-care
- Doctors are saying that abortion is esssential – Joint Statement on Abortion Access During the COVID-19 Outbreak
The Interview: Derenda Hancock and Kim Gibson of We Engage from Jackson, MS
Instagram @weengage4good
Twitter @engage_we
Mississippi Madness
- https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/489328-mississippi-governor-vows-action-to-stop-abortions-during-coronavirus
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m0vBty3QDI
The Opportunistic Side of Antis Knows No Bounds
- https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/24/820730777/anti-abortion-rights-groups-ask-hhs-to-urge-end-to-abortion-during-pandemic
- https://msmagazine.com/2020/03/25/as-coronavirus-rages-on-so-does-anti-abortion-harassment-and-extremism/
- https://time.com/5808471/coronavirus-abortion-access/
- https://rewire.news/article/2020/03/20/i-saw-an-anti-abortion-protester-cough-and-joke-about-covid-19/
Announcements
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Six Degrees of Abortion
Brewerie/distilleries making hand sanitizer for first responders and medical staff
Hand sanitizer > Lizz has soap in her apartment lobby > She washes the soap off in her alley with a hose (!!!) > Moji and Marie and very very skeptical on this association…
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