Body & State
Body & State
Podcast Description
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.
Today in the United States, more than 65 percent of abortions are medication abortions. One reason so many American women have been able to access abortion pills over the last few years is because of the work of Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. She is a senior researcher at Leiden Medical University where she recently conducted a trial to evaluate if the abortion drug Mifepristone could be used as a weekly contraceptive. We sat down with her in Amsterdam to talk about potential uses for Mifepristone and the morning-after pill, Ulipristal Acetate, beyond abortion and contraception.
WATCH ON PBS NEWSHOUR: How abortion politics is blocking progress in women’s healthcare
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