Lecitia: My greatest fear is that there will be more criminalization. I always think of myself and imagine that young woman who was 16 when she got pregnant, and thinking about chicago was like lifetime away,. You're going to have to go thousands of miles to go to get an abortion now. It makes me, it makes me deeply sad.
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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