This week on Situation Womb, the full crew is back together to unpack a packed news cycle at the intersection of reproductive health and politics.
They start with AOC’s public egg-freezing journey and why normalizing that conversation matters. Naturally, her detractors made her announcement VERY weird.
We also discuss the confirmation of Todd Blanche as Attorney General and what his ties to anti-abortion advocacy groups could mean for a backdoor national abortion ban.
The conversation turns heavier with a devastating case out of Durham County, North Carolina, where an 18-year-old and her partner face criminal charges including “assault with a deadly weapon” after she took abortion medication in her third trimester. The hosts unpack what happens when restrictive laws corner vulnerable patients instead of protecting them.
They close on some rare good news: abortion pill access via telehealth has quadrupled in Missouri since 2023, and new polling shows most Americans, including a surprising share of Republicans, oppose criminalizing medication abortion.
Plus, an update on Elon Musk potentially facing bribery charges in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a sneaky ballot measure in Kansas aimed at reshaping the state Supreme Court, a California lawsuit targeting crisis pregnancy centers for peddling fake “abortion pill reversal” claims, and a Wyoming physician taking on her own state government in court to keep providing care
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AOC’s Instagram post about
freezing her eggsThe Hill:Blanche pledges to make Dobbs decision ‘permanent’ in every stateIndependent:Todd Blanche as Trump’s new attorney general is a ‘red alert’ for abortion rights, groups warnThe 19th:Kansas voters reject another attempt to reshape the state’s abortion landscapeThe Center Square:Evidence stage concludes in suit over abortion pill reversalAttorney General Bonta’s statementon his lawsuit against five crisis pregnancy centers in Northern CaliforniaThe 19th:A Wyoming doctor’s fight to keep abortion legal in her deep red stateWRAL News:Warrants: Durham couple faces charges after woman took abortion pills in third trimesterMissouri Independent:Missourians getting abortion pills by mail from out-of-state providers quadrupled since 2023
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