CW: Abortion - If this is a sensitive topic for you, we'd advise skipping this week.

Hi friends, welcome to The V Spot: A Survival Podcast for Best Friends! This week Professor Katt has done a boat load of research and is going to give a lesson on abortion. We'll do our damnedest to keep it light and infomative.

• A brief history lesson featuring the Quickening


• Racism ruins it again


• Why the Handmaid's Tale imagry isn't the best


• A bunch of politics makes it all worse

And as a quick note - we're using the word 'women' in the episode a lot and we just want to be clear what we mean - someone who could become pregnant, not a gender identification.

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Links:

• Scarlet Letters: Getting the History of Abortion and Contraception Right - Center for American Progress
• From Commonplace to Controversial: The Different Histories of Abortion in Europe and the United States
• What is the Abortion Pill & How Does the Abortion Pill Work?
• The surprising history of abortion in the United States | CNN
• Abortion in American History - The Atlantic
• Texas Abortion Ban: What It Means and What Happens Next : NPR
• Supreme Court Upholds Restrictive Texas Abortion Law, For Now : NPR
• A federal judge temporarily blocks Texas' SB 8 abortion law : NPR
• Controversial Texas abortion law goes back into effect : NPR
• Justice Department goes back to Supreme Court over Texas abortion law : NPR