The Modeliest of Model Legislation

Aimee Arrambide of Fund Texas Choice and Public Leadership Institute with co-host Sonia Van Meter of Stanford Campaigns. We talked about Aimee's work crafting and editing model reproductive justice legislation.

Legislative Update with Teddy Wilson

Teddy Wilson of Rewire News joined me and Sonia Van Meter of Stanford Campaigns for a Texas 85th Legislative Session update. There's never enough time to talk about all of the bills that will affect reproductive justice.

Abortion Conversation Projects Work to Combat Stigma

Terry Salas Merritt, the Board Chair of Abortion Conversations Projects, and Sonia Van Meter joined me to talk stigma and ways to undo it.

State of Texas Can't Explain Lack of Dignity for Women

Tonight Nancy Cardenas Pena Associate Director at the National Latina Institutes of Reproductive Health, Jan Soifer Travis County District Court Judge-Elect and Attorney at O'Connell Soifer LLP, the local law firm working with Center for Reproductive Rights on the current lawsuit against the State of Texas' fetal funeral regulation joined me and co-host Sonia Van Meter, political operative at Stanford Caskey, to talk about today's hearing to block the enforcement of fetal funeral regulations until a full hearing can be held, intersectionality, fetal funeral provisions, and reproductive justice. 

O'Connell Soifer also served as local counsel for Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt. Jan recently served as Travis County Democratic Party Chair.

Ohio Legislature Has No Heart, Passes Heartbeat Ban Bill

This week Nicole Knight of Rewire News, Julia D'Agostino of Women Have Options Ohio, and Sonia Van Meter of Stanford Caskey joined me to talk about the unconstitutional heartbeat ban bill passed through the Ohio legislature Tuesday.

We went over our time slot by about 10 minutes. There is no archive of that portion of the show for me to share. You can hear future episodes in their entirety by listening live at koop.org.