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Activists stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after placing chrysanthemums in front of the building on July 11, 2022. The organizers placed the flowers to symbolize the number of people the group believes will die as a result of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | On April 24, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases, Idaho v. United States  and Moyle v. United States, about whether states can prohibit doctors from treating women with life-threatening pregnancies until a patient’s condition deteriorates to the point where they are about to die.

Reproductive rights and legal advocates are collecting stories from over 100 women who almost died—and at least one who did—after being denied emergency abortion care.

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Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Ariz., on April 15, 2024, after the top court in Arizona ruled a 160-year-old near-total ban on abortion is enforceable. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images)

BY TESS GRAHAM | This Wednesday, Idaho will attempt to defend its extreme abortion ban at the Supreme Court. Like many other abortion bans in the United States, the Idaho law contains a so-called life exception, which purports to allow an abortion when “necessary to prevent the death” of the pregnant person. But do these exceptions actually preserve the lives of patients in practice? As Mayron Hollis, Amanda Zurawski, the family of Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick, and countless others can attest, the answer is no. And the truth is, they’re not designed to. 

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Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Ariz., on April 15, 2024, a few days after the state’s top court ruled a 160-year-old near-total ban on abortion is enforceable, thrusting the issue to the top of the agenda in a key U.S. presidential election swing state. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images)

BY ANTOINETTE BURTON | April’s U.S. political news admittedly brought many horrors—from Alabama legislators advancing a bill to define sex based on “reproductive systems,” not gender identity; to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing an Idaho ban on gender-affirming care for minors to take effect; to the Arizona Supreme Court upholding an abortion ban from 1864, which opens the door to criminalizing health providers with up to five years of prison time if they provide abortion services. Tucson Mayor Regina Romero called the ruling “a huge step backwards.”

Legal changes in the present may appear to be reversing earlier advancements, as Romero said. But advocates of equity need a better grasp of history so they are realistic about the intermittent successes of movements for social change. The fight for full gender equality is a long game.

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In this episode,  we’re joined by the indomitable Lizz Winstead with a live studio in Washington, D.C. She bares all as we talk about the new documentary featuring her and Abortion Access Front (AAF), No One Asked You.  From her childhood to her own abortion story,  she tells it all, including what led her to found AAF.

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