Biden leans into abortion rights for US election race

“Chaos.” “Confusion.” Ever since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, doctors, activists and abortion-seekers have had to navigate a new reality for reproductive care. It’s made finding care in states like Texas, with a near-total ban on abortions, especially challenging. As the US prepares for an election, the Biden campaign has vowed to restore abortion rights. Can it?

In this episode: 

Dr. Jessica Rubino, Family Medicine Physician Specializing in Abortion Care Holly Bowles, Director, Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy at SAFE Alliance (@SAFEatx) Cathy Torres (@_cathythebaddie), Organizing Manager at Frontera Fund (@fronterafundgrv) Amanda Becker (@AmandaBecker), 19th News Washington Correspondent 

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Sonia Bhagat, with Amy Walters, Chloe K. Li and our host, Malika Bilal. Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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