Body & State
Body & State
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Public television and public radio health reporter Sarah Varney has been chronicling the impact on women’s health care since the end of federal abortion rights and documenting what lies ahead for the rights of women and girls. In Body & State, we delve into her reporter’s notebook, hearing conversations with some of the best minds in the country on reproductive healthcare: law professors, historians, and political scientists; abortion rights opponents and supporters; doctors, midwives, doulas, and abortion pill networks. Tune in each episode for expert analysis and insights on the state of reproductive rights in America.
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Focuses on reproductive healthcare, women’s rights, and the implications of legal changes with episodes covering topics like contraception classification, the anti-abortion movement, and expert insights from law professors, historians, and healthcare professionals.
Public television and public radio health reporter Sarah Varney has been chronicling the impact on women’s health care since the end of federal abortion rights and documenting what lies ahead for the rights of women and girls. In Body & State, we delve into her reporter’s notebook, hearing conversations with some of the best minds in the country on reproductive healthcare: law professors, historians, and political scientists; abortion rights opponents and supporters; doctors, midwives, doulas, and abortion pill networks. Tune in each episode for expert analysis and insights on the state of reproductive rights in America.
In this episode of Body & State, Sarah sits down with Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation and a key author of Project 2025, the right-wing plan that has become a blueprint for the Trump administration’s policies. A conservative Catholic and long-time opponent of abortion rights, Severino wants the government to promote policies that favor heterosexual marriage and parenting. He says these “pro-family” policies are key to stemming what he believes is a catastrophic decline in births. He also predicts these falling birth rates in the United States will lead to a fight for resources between the young and old, and a breakdown in the social safety net.
Watch our PBS NewsHour segment about the pronatalism movement and its ties to anti-abortion activism
Read: “Project 2025” Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise
Chapter 14 Pg. 449 Written by Roger Severino
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Read: How Project 2025 Seeks to Obliterate Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/how-project-2025-seeks-obliterate-srhr
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