While you can still get an abortion in Wisconsin, there are just two clinics left in the state, both located in Milwaukee. Susan Rinkunas and Garnet Henderson are co-founders of the independent reproductive rights and justice publication, Autonomy News. They join Ali Mudrow today in a wide-ranging conversation about the changing landscape of abortion rights across the world, including personhood, socioeconomic factors, and access to healthcare.

The guests discuss a 2017 decision under Scott Walker, when Wisconsin did not accept the full expansion of Medicaid, and how Wisconsin and Arkansas are the only two states that have not extended medicaid for the first year post-partum.

The conversation also examines the impacts of race and age on the decision to receive an abortion. Black women in Wisconsin are three times more likely to die during childbirth and experience preterm births. Additionally, they say abortion is a children’s issue that should be paired with age appropriate sex education in school including appropriate contact, boundaries, and consent, starting younger than people think.

Susan Rinkunas is an independent journalist covering abortion, reproductive health, and politics. She is a co-founder of Autonomy News, a contributing writer at Jezebel, and a contributing editor at The New Republic. Her reporting has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, The Nation, Mother Jones, and more.

Garnet Henderson is an award-winning investigative reporter specializing in abortion access, anti-rights disinformation, and other intersections of health, policy, and culture. She is the co-founder of Autonomy News, the first worker-owned reproductive justice news outlet in the U.S. Her work has been published in The Nation, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Scientific American, Marie Claire, Guardian US, WIRED, and more. She is also the creator of ACCESS: A Podcast About Abortion, and a four-time grantee and fellow of the International Women’s Media Foundation.

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