Tara sees a lack of basic resources in black neighborhoods, including herrit with gunshots and prostitution. She is trying to get funding for homes for mams and their babies so that resources are less of a problem. In new orleans, leqitia had already been preparing for the day abortion disappears. The attorneys were fighting to block the bands tell me they could get another injunction suspending the trigger bands once again.
This episode contains strong language and descriptions of an abortion.
With the end of Roe v. Wade, Louisiana has become one of the most difficult places in the United States to get an abortion. The barriers are expected to disproportionately affect Black women, the largest group to get abortions in the state.
Today, we speak to Tara Wicker and Lakeesha Harris, two women in Louisiana whose lives led them to very different positions in the fight over abortion access.
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