HeyJaredMy Body. My Pod. with Mini Timmaraju
The fight for reproductive freedom is more urgent than ever. That’s why we’re bringing you My Body. My Pod. — a new podcast hosted by Mini Timmaraju, president & CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All and one of the leading voices in the fight for abortion rights.
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Troy Jackson on Changing His Mind, Taking on Susan Collins, and Why Maine is a BFD – Episode 27 (opens the original)
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Troy Jackson has a hell of a story. He’s a fifth-generation Maine logger who got into politics because he was angry about the way working people were being treated in America. And, he once opposed abortion rights. So what changed? He listened. To women, doctors, and people in his own community. “I just started to understand that I was wrong on this issue,” he tells Mini. And then? He did something about it. As president of the Maine Senate, he helped pass some of the strongest reproductive freed
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Abortion, Affordability, and What Their Fight Can Teach Us – Episode 26 (opens the original)
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Michigan Governor Gretchen “Big Gretch” Whitmer has helped transform reproductive freedom in Michigan and shown what’s possible when reproductive freedom champions have the power to govern. In this episode of My Body. My Pod., Mini Timmaraju sits down with Gov. Whitmer to talk about Michigan’s transformation from a state at risk of reverting to a 1931 abortion ban after Roe v. Wade was overturned, to one that has expanded protections for abortion, contraception, IVF, and reproductive freedom by
She Sued the State and Won Back Abortion Access in Wisconsin. Dr. Kristin Lyerly on the Fight Today - Episode 25 (opens the original)
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Dr. Kristin Lyerly has experienced the fight for reproductive freedom from nearly every angle imaginable: as an OB-GYN, abortion provider, advocate, candidate for Congress, and as a named physician plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's 1849 abortion law. That case cleared the way for abortion care to resume in Wisconsin. In this episode of My Body. My Pod., Mini Timmaraju and Dr. Lyerly dig into Wisconsin’s fight for reproductive freedom and what’s possible when we organize:
Shield Laws, Telemedicine, and the Fight for Abortion Freedom - Episode 24 (opens the original)
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Republican officials are trying to enforce their abortion bans across state lines. Democratic governors and attorneys general are using shield laws to fight back, and protect providers and their patients. This is why the governors and attorneys general we elect matter more than ever. Here’s how a shield law looks in practice. In December 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York provider for prescribing telemedicine abortion care to a patient in Texas. After a Texas court ordered t
Texas Parents Ashley & Marcus (with Abortion in America): Forced Across State Lines for Care - Episode 23 (opens the original)
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When Ashley and Marcus Brandt learned they were expecting twins, they imagined their family finally feeling complete. Just weeks later, everything changed. During a routine ultrasound, one of the twins was diagnosed with a fatal condition. Because of Texas' abortion ban, their doctors couldn't provide the medical care they needed. The family traveled to Colorado for a procedure that protected Ashley from life-threatening complications and saved their surviving twin. In this special collaboration
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