Host Dr Erin Stevens sits down with Julie Kay. Julie is the founder and CEO of Reproductive Futures, human rights attorney, and co-author of Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom. Together, they unpack the legal landscape of abortion access in a post-Dobbs America.
The conversation covers how telehealth and mifepristone access have become an unexpected bright spot since Dobbs, the escalating legal attacks on medication abortion (including the case out of Louisiana), how shield laws protect providers across state lines, the criminalization of patients and providers in states like Texas and Louisiana, and why emergency room clinicians are being trained to navigate murky post-Dobbs laws without delaying care.
Julie also speaks candidly about upcoming political appointments, the power of voting in every election and the lessons she carries from Ireland’s reproductive rights movement into the fight ahead in the U.S.
A candid, clear-eyed, and ultimately hopeful conversation about strategy, resilience, and what it will take to protect reproductive freedom going forward.
Learn more about Reproductive Futures: https://www.reproductivefutures.org/
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