2022-04-23
21 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Duarte Geraldino.
We could soon be living in a country where in half of all states access to abortion is banned.
In the past few months, a wage of states passed legislation either limiting access to this procedure or downright criminalizing it.
And soon the Supreme Court will weigh in when it announces a decision in Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization.
That case could substantially weaken or even overturn Roe v.
Wade.
I recently sat down with Jessica Bruder.
You might know her book Nomadland, which was turned into an Oscar winning film.
In a new cover story for the Atlantic, Bruder reports on the abortion underground.
This is a covert network of people who help women access this procedure, even if they have to work around the law.
This network existed before Roe.
It persisted many places under Roe, and should Roe get overturned, Bruder says it'll certainly exist after Roe.
To understand how and when this network first formed and the groundwork they're laying today to prepare for a post Roe future, Jessica took me back to the beginning, to the days when our country.
Was first founded, when the United States was new.
There wasn't really any kind of proprietary American legislation around abortion.
And what we did have was drawn from British common law.
And British common law didn't recognize the existence of, of a fetus as any kind of entity at all until what they called the quickening, which sounds like a movie title or something, I don't know.
But the quickening.