For over 30 years, abortion wasn't part of tara's public persona. She never betrayed that secret she held inside i locked it away to a place where i just pretended like it never happened. In 20 19, when tara was forty nine years old, her husband got invited to a luncheon by an anti-abortion ca teberd in his place. Tara told the people there about her pregnancy at 16, how she didn't know what all her options were.
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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