New 15 Minutes of Feminism: The Dark Money Behind the Abortion Bans (with Cecile Richards)

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In this episode, Dr. Goodwin is joined by former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards to dive into the dark money underwriting anti-abortion laws like Texas's near-total abortion ban, S.B. 8 — which bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest and places a bounty on those who aid or abet people who want to terminate their pregnancies.

Richards is one of the minds behind the Abortion Ban Accountability project, which is calling out corporations who fund legislators who stand against abortion rights and LGBTQ rights. While the #OffTheBANWagon campaign aims to put pressure on several companies, one is singled out in particular: AT&T. The company has spent almost $700k financing the campaigns of the primary sponsors of S.B. 8 in Texas—all while claiming “one of the company’s core values is gender equity and the empowerment of women.”

“You’re either aiding and abetting the perpetrators of these atrocities, or you’re saying, you know what? As an employer, as a responsible community citizen, as a business provider, we are actually going to take a position and take a stand against essentially the ending of rights of millions of people in the state of Texas.”

“The whole history of reproductive access and the fight for reproductive rights has almost exclusively fallen on women and of course, with Black women as in every important issue really being on the cutting edge and on the front lines.”

“It's the responsibility of everyone to be engaged, and that includes companies that live in, do business in, take advantage of a state like Texas. And there is no time like the present.”

—Cecile Richards, reproductive rights advocate and former president of Planned Parenthood

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