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Forced Birth in Victorian Times, and Now

Episode 124 uploaded August 28: Sam Goldman Sam Goldman interviews writer Kate Manning, author of My Notorious Life, a novel about a midwife and abortion provider from the 1800’s based on a true story. Read Manning’s op ed for The Washington Post, “Antiabortion laws are forced-birth laws. Here’s what that looks like.”


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Kate Manning:
Government mandated childbirth is forced birth. And we do need to use that language. These forces are out there trying to deprive women of bodily autonomy and the right to choose what's best for themselves and for their families and when to give birth. If a woman chooses to have a child if a couple chooses to have a child, that's one thing but if the government is telling you that you must bear a child that is completely different, protesting and really making our voices heard, is the way to go.

Sam Goldman:
One of the reasons the women’s movement was so slow and weak to respond to the Dobbs decision, and in fact, in my opinion, to not act, full well knowing where this was headed before the decision, both as the draft was released and the actual decision had to do with this predefined approach, this mincing words approach going back decades. For instance, the insistence of framing the conversation as some abstract conversation about bodily autonomy, or some abstract conversation of choice. It glossed over, in my opinion, the very real stakes for women’s lives.

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