152 / The Necessity Of Choice with Jacqueline Ayers
Women\u2019s right to choose has been in question throughout history\u2026 getting to choose who and if you marry, what you wear, what\u2019s appropriate and not, whether or not you can work, what you can do for a living, the right to open your own bank account, to vote, to consent, and if and when you give birth.\nI am very aware I\u2019m going to piss some people off, and this is too big, too important for me to worry about that. We\u2019re going to talk about the necessity of women\u2019s right to CHOOSE.\nI\u2019ve invited Jacqueline AIyers, senior vice president of policy, organizing, and campaigns at Planned Parenthood Federation of America to join us. She leads the strategic direction of the federation\u2019s legislative affairs, global advocacy, and federal and state policy teams. Previously, she has served as legislative director for the National Urban League, was a legislative aide in the U.S. House of Representatives covering health, education, and judiciary issues, and is licensed to practice law in the state of Indiana. All that to say this: we\u2019re covering this topic with someone who can bring knowledge, experience, and real information to the table.\nCHOICE.\nIf that\u2019s not the hill we\u2019re willing to die on, I don\u2019t know what is.\nAnd I don\u2019t care how you do it, I just care that you stand for it. Not just YOUR choices, or the choices you like, but the right for each woman, for each person to have agency and ownership of the one thing we should always have COMPLETE control over: our bodies.\nResources:\nTo get information about the status in your state around abortion access visit bansoff.org \xa0\ntext ACCESS to 22422\nResource: https://www.abortionfinder.org/\xa0\nGet involved: plannedparenthood.org\nTo join Nicole\u2019s pod (to get all the inside scoops, free stuff, and the occasional rant), click here