Abortion Rights Update: Mifepristone In Court, And Florida's New 6-Week Ban

04/14/23 • 21 min

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In the wake of SCOTUS's Dobbs decision, new questions about legislative and judicial barriers to abortion access have recently come to the forefront of our national conversation. On today's show, Jessica Valenti, writer and feminist, author of the substack newsletter Abortion, Every Day, author of multiple books on women and politics and co-editor of Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World (Seal Press, 2020), talks about the latest on the rulings over mifepristone, in state legislatures and for individuals.

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