On today’s show:
0:08 – Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy), Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group and co-host of the podcast Boom! Lawyered unpacks South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s legislative proposal for a federal abortion ban.
0:20 – John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine discusses the Republican candidates distancing themselves from Senator Graham’s proposed ban.
0:33 – A total abortion ban has been predicted to result in a 20% increase in the rates of pregnancy-related mortality overall and a 30% increase for Black people. But pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. were already rising for at least 30 years. KPFA’s Lauren Shapiro looked at why.