Oriaku Njoku & Jill Heaviside on Abortion Rights in Georgia and Beyond view post on FAIR.org MP3 Link (cc photo: Elizabeth Greenewald) This week on CounterSpin: Republicans have been passing laws restricting access to abortion in various ways for years now, but Alabama has just passed what is effectively an outright abortion ban, stoking fear that one of these disputed cases will make it to the Supreme Court, and we’ll see the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Media are certainly covering the story, and often critically. But in a way, the conversation is sort of off-center, because people are talking about “banning” abortion, as if that means abortion disappears. But abortions will happen, as they always have. The question is what they’ll be like, for whom? If that’s your question about the future, it makes sense to talk with the people who are doing the work now—of support, advocacy and funding to allow women to access safe and affordable abortion care. We’ll talk with two today: Jill Heaviside is a lawyer and If/When/How HIV–Reproductive Justice Fellow with SisterLove, Inc. And Oriaku Njoku is co-founder and executive director of Access Reproductive Care—Southeast. They’ll join us to talk about abortion rights in Georgia and beyond. SOURCE LINK: “Abortion Care Is Still Legal in Georgia,” by Jill Heaviside and Oriaku Njoku (Rewire.News, 5/13/19) MP3 Link Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press, including coverage of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and polio and the CIA. MP3 Link

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