Our theme for season 2 of the podcast is "discomfort". For many, nothing is more uncomfortable than speaking about abortion, so we decided to start there.

And then, of course, there was Texas and SB8.

And now there is Izabela, the Polish woman who died of sepsis after doctors and midwives refused to remove her dying foetus...#notonemore

These recent events prove that the abortion conversation is as important as ever. So will you discuss the past and the present with us in order to define a more equitable future?

The following resources were used to create this episode:

General

• Abortion (Termination Of Pregnancy)
• Reasons Why Women Have Induced Abortions: Evidence from 27 Countries
• Abortion
• The Ethical Dilemma of Abortion | Journal of Student Research at Indiana University East

Roe v Wade

• Roe v. Wade | Summary, Origins, & Influence
• Opinion | Critics of Texas’s convoluted abortion law have a point. The solution is to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Texas Abortion Ban

• UN experts condemn Texas abortion law as sex discrimination ‘at its worst’
• Democrats Press Biden Administration to Take On Texas Abortion Law
• Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas
• Texas Abortion Ban: What It Means and What Happens Next
• ‘Roe v Wade is a husk’: anguish and anger in Texas after abortion ruling

Ireland

• https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/03/why-irelands-battle-over-abortion-is-far-from-over-anti-abortionists

Argentina

• https://globalvoices.org/2021/03/12/abortion-in-argentina-the-struggle-continues/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/8/9/the-struggle-to-secure-access-to-abortion-in-argentina-goes-on

Music credit: District Four Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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