Ilyse Hogue, on reclaiming the fight for reproductive rights (EP.06)

For the past 7 years, Ilyse Hogue has served as the President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, the oldest organization dedicated to building political power around women's reproductive freedom and right to abortion. That time on the front lines has afforded her tremendous opportunity to reflect on the curious and complicated history of abortion rights advocacy — a history she's now distilled into a powerful new book, The Lie that Binds, which chronicles how the formerly non-partisan issue of abortion was reinvented as a political device, to advance a much broader agenda of social control. In this episode, Ilyse and I unpack the emergence and the evolution of the anti-choice movement, from its roots in school segregation to the administration of Donald Trump. We discuss the role that disinformation, then and now, has played in framing the debate. And we explore what those of us on the side of choice can do to re-engage and reclaim the narrative — at a time that reproductive rights seem perilously under threat.  

To learn more about Ilyse's work and to purchase her book, The Lie that Binds, you can visit the book's website.

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