12 episodes
The Defenders Lemonada
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- Society & Culture
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4.2 • 189 Ratings
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On Friday, June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, it's been a barrage of bad news and bleak headlines. But for every restriction, there are many more acts of resistance, and a growing network of activists, clinic workers, faith leaders, and everyday people working to expand access to care.
This is the story of the fight for freedom in a post-Roe America, co-hosted by Samantha Bee and Gloria Riviera. Whether you’re deep in this fight already, or just sick of feeling hopeless, we’re here to tell you: anyone can become a defender.
This series is supported by Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Levi Strauss Foundation.
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Premium: It’s Just the Pill
We’ve heard about how abortion medication is becoming more and more popular, especially post-Roe. In this bonus content, Dr. Julie Amaon walks us through why abortion medication is so important and how Just the Pill - her mobile abortion pill clinic - helps people access these life-changing medications.
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Grief But Not Regret
How do you make a complicated reproductive choice when you’re racing against the clock? We follow two women in Georgia as they figure out how to end their pregnancies in a state with a 6-week ban. And then we talk to Sister Song’s Monica Simpson about how the Reproductive Justice movement is expansive enough to hold space for people with conflicted feelings about their abortions.
Learn more about SisterSong at https://www.sistersong.net/.
Learn more about Northwest Abortion Access Fund at https://nwaafund.org/ and Cascades Abortion Support Collective at https://www.cascadesabortionsupport.org/.
And learn more about carefem at https://carafem.org/ and Lilith Clinic at https://lilithclinic.com/.
To learn more about all the organizations featured in The Defenders, visit: https://lemonadamedia.com/the-defenders-resource-page/
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Gloria Riviera and Samantha Bee are our hosts. Muna Danish is our supervising producer. Lisa Phu is our producer. Isaura Aceves and Tony Williams are our associate producers. Ivan Kuraev and Natasha Jacobs are our audio engineers. Music by Hannis Brown with additional music by Natasha Jacobs. Story editing by Jackie Danziger, our VP of Narrative Content. Fact-checking by Naomi Barr. Executive producers are Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
This series is supported by Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Levi Strauss Foundation.
Follow The Defenders wherever you get your podcasts, or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.
You can also get premium content and behind the scenes material by subscribing to Lemonada Premium on Apple Podcasts.
Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.
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Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors.
To follow along with a transcript, go to lemonadamedia.com/show/ shortly after the air date.
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Premium: Helping Your Neighbor
When you grew up leading pro-life marches, how do you transform those beliefs to become an abortion rights activist? In this bonus content, we hear from Robyn Baldridge about how her religious upbringing led her to her work as an abortion activist in her adulthood.
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My Jesus Flipped Tables
Reproductive rights and religion may not feel like they go hand in hand. But in Atlanta, Black faith leaders are challenging that by talking about abortion…in church.
Learn more about Faith in Public Life at https://www.faithinpubliclife.org/
Learn more about Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice at https://rcrc.org/
Follow Tiffanie Mackey at https://www.tiffanielanelle.com/
To learn more about all the organizations featured in this series, visit: https://lemonadamedia.com/the-defenders-resource-page/
Gloria Riviera and Samantha Bee are our hosts. Muna Danish is our supervising producer. Hannah Boomershine, Lisa Phu, and Julie Carlie are our producers. Additional production support by Mona Hassan. Isaura Aceves and Tony Williams are our associate producers. Ivan Kuraev and Natasha Jacobs are our audio engineers. Music by Hannis Brown with additional music by Natasha Jacobs.Story editing by Jackie Danziger, our VP of Narrative Content. Fact-checking by Naomi Barr. Executive producers are Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs.
This series is supported by Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Levi Strauss Foundation.
Follow The Defenders wherever you get your podcasts, or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.
You can also get premium content and behind the scenes material by subscribing to Lemonada Premium on Apple Podcasts.
Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.
Want to become a Lemonada superfan? Join us at joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan.
Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors.
To follow along with a transcript, go to lemonadamedia.com/show/ shortly after the air date.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Premium: The hero without a cape
When you’ve long been in this fight for for basic reproductive care, how do you take care of yourself? In this bonus content, we hear an extended interview with Allison Dreith about how she manages to keep herself from burning out.
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Abortion is a Winning Issue
There’s a trend happening across America. In blue AND red states, people are voting to protect abortion rights, with Ohio just the latest example. It turns out abortion is winning elections. This week, Sam sits down with author and writer Rebecca Traister to dissect why a record number of voters are showing up in droves to protect reproductive freedom.
Follow Rebecca Traister: https://rebeccatraister.com/
Learn more about All Above All: https://allaboveall.org/
Learn more about the EACH Act: https://allaboveall.org/resource/each-act-fact-sheet/
To learn more about all the organizations featured in The Defenders, visit: https://lemonadamedia.com/the-defenders-resource-page/
Gloria Riviera and Samantha Bee are our hosts. Muna Danish is our supervising producer. Claire Jones is our producer. Isaura Aceves and Tony Williams are our associate producers. Ivan Kuraev and Natasha Jacobs are our audio engineers. Music by Hannis Brown with additional music by Natasha Jacobs. Story editing by Jackie Danziger, our VP of Narrative Content. Fact-checking by Naomi Barr. Executive producers are Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
This series is supported by Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Levi Strauss Foundation.
Follow The Defenders wherever you get your podcasts, or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.
You can also get premium content and behind the scenes material by subscribing to Lemonada Premium on Apple Podcasts.
Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.
Want to become a Lemonada superfan? Join us at joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan.
Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors.
To follow along with a transcript, go to lemonadamedia.com/show/ shortly after the air date.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Customer Reviews
Well Done
Important topic, great interviews. Really gets to the heart of what’s truly happening out there for women going through this right now. I think my favorite episode is Grief but not Regret. Thank you for tackling this with humanity.
Excellent Coverage
Cheers to the creators and writers of this pod for telling stories we need to hear and helping us process the issue of female autonomy. The female body is the most feared, villainized, robbed, violated, worshiped organism in the world.
I love this series
This is a wonderful podcast series. They do an excellent job of interweaving personal stories with facts about the harms of the anti-abortion extremists.