We will be doing the podcast LIVE from Netroots Nation 2020 next week! Join the Feminist Sleeper Cell streaming on all platforms to get your morning dump of abortion access news, while meeting some amazing guests and activists as we take on anti-abortion hate groups and further examine the intersectional world of abortion access. 

Gathered in the Sleeper Cell

Lizz Winstead @lizzwinstead

Moji Alawode-El @mojilocks

Marie Khan @mkhanj 

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Netroots Nation Next Week! 

Tune-in to see all of us at 10amET on August 13th, 14th and 15th! Plus we will virtually tabling for AAF as well, giving you the opportunity to talk to Lizz, Moji and Marie and find out more about how YOU can get involved. 

* https://www.youtube.com/c/AbortionAccessForce

Plus, check out the amazing line-up of sessions and experts at Netroots Nation 2020

* https://www.netrootsnation.org/schedule-overview/

Announcements

SisterSong’s Collective Voices Presents- The Reproductive Justice Primer: A Summer Institute 

* https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-reproductive-justice-primer-a-summer-institute-registration-113703472146

All the housekeeping

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Description: Moji and Marie grab the reigns for this episode of the Feminist Sleeper Cell! They unpack the racist anti-abortion rhetoric behind the Helms Amendment, have some choice words for Sen. Josh Hawley (who thinks the US Supreme Court actually cares what he thinks), and digest the unfortunate vote in Mexico that could have brought safe abortion to Veracruz. They also pinky swear they will never attend a fake-clinic conference in Disney World. PLUS INTERVIEW WITH SPECIAL GUEST Jessica Barry, author of a great summer abortion read!

Gathered in the Sleeper Cell

Moji Alawode-El @mojilocks

Marie Khan @mkhanj 

LINK TO SHOW NOTES (link goes to pod post on website where all this info lives)

Quick Hits

Can We Please End the Helms Amendment?

* https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/29/democrats-introduce-bill-to-repeal-anti-abortion-rule-for-us-overseas-aid* https://msmagazine.com/2020/07/29/first-ever-legislation-to-repeal-helms-amendment-abortion-is-health-care-everywhere-act/

Disappointing News out of Mexico

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53584575* https://www.fondomaria.org/

Josh Hawley is Confused on Whom SCOTUS Serves

* https://rewire.news/article/2020/07/27/republicans-are-worried-about-november-so-sen-josh-hawley-is-talking-about-abortion/* https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-hawley-lays-down-new-antiabortion-marker-for-supreme-court-nominees/2020/07/26/52ed360a-cf73-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

Anti-Abortion Zealots Holding In-Person Conference IN FLORIDA

* https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-life-care-net-plans-conference-in-coronavirus-deadly-florida-path

The Interview

Moji and Marie talk with author Jessica Barry about her newest book Don’t Turn Around, an abortion access thriller!

* https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dont-turn-around-jessica-barry

Announcements

Sign Reproaction’s Petition to Stop the In-Person Fake Clinic Conference 

* https://www.exposefakeclinics.com/

Add Your Voice to Stopping the Helm’s Amendment 

* https://p2a.co/Ke8CxK7 

Catch Lizz, Moji and Marie at Netroots Nation 2020

* https://www.netrootsnation.org/

Guess Who Owns www.operationsaveamerica.com . . .

Greeting friends! It’s “Expose Operation Save America” week and Moji, Marie and Lizz have spent hours attending OSA’s online speeches and panel discussions during their annual gathering of the Misogyn-o’s. OSA is the scariest hate group you’ve never heard of and we will bring you soundbites and analysis of this event so you can learn about them, and join us in exposing their dangerous agenda! Plus our guest is Kim Gibson, Pink House Defender and co-founder of the non-profit We Engage! Kim talks with us about her first hand experience with the terror of OSA outside of her clinic in Jackson, MS and talks with us about the growing political influence Operation Save America is gaining in state and local politics, across America. 

Gathered in the Sleeper Cell

Lizz Winstead @lizzwinstead

Moji Alawode-El @mojilocks

Marie Khan @mkhanj 

LINK TO SHOW NOTES (link goes to pod post on website where all this info lives)

Quick Hits

Kanye Is Crying About Kim NOT Having an Abortion

* https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-53472576/kanye-west-tells-rally-i-almost-killed-my-daughter

Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger

* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html* https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/37/fd/37fdc7b6-de5f-4d22-8c05-9568268e92d8/sanger_opposition_claims_fact_sheet_2016.pdf

Abortion Survives Another Day in Michigan

* https://www.michiganadvance.com/2020/07/21/abortion-ban-fails-in-michigan/?fbclid=IwAR1EPuMEdzxOvU8ZYZNu3IZJ6GNYfNs4GNbYSLAYViuhlEks2B_Kik1uKwA* http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/publications/MichiganManual/2009-2010/09-10_MM_IX_pp_01-03_Issue_Becomes.pdf

Bevelyn Beatty: An Favorite of OSA

* https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/07/19/black-lives-matter-mural-vandalized-trump-tower-bevelyn-beatty/* https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/women-who-painted-over-nyc-fifth-ave-black-lives-matter-mural-identified-as-right-wing-gadflies/ar-BB16VWmm* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGaUINdnQA#action=share

OSA Unmasked Discussion

* https://osaunmasked.com/* OSA’s Resolution on Abolishing Abortion https://f794472d-4bd9-4b91-be1c-897d8d49403a.filesusr.com/ugd/547eae_31257b2867b34960815c323734dd90e4.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1mi-A9ANAJ6gqbf6VAHa7C5lOQ4Z10V_Teqf-D6r93CJSg0MMHfL3UK54* Army of God film

The gang is all here and we are very excited about the amazing news this week that restrictions on medication abortion have been lifted. But with so many caveats, just who will benefit? We dive in hard! 

PLUS! ACTION ALERT: We give you all the deets about Operation Save America: Unmasked. Join us all next week as we join Abortion Access Front and dozens of rad activists groups for a week of actions exposing Christian extremist group Operation Save America! Head to the website osaunmasked.com to get more info and download the toolkit so you can join us in all the fun. 

PLUS, PLUS! Counselor and abortion rights advocate Charlotte Taft joins us to talk about her experience with Operation Save America and her part in the new documentary about Norma McCorvey AKA Jane Roe, arguably the more notorius plaintiff in a Supreme Court Case. 

Gathered in the Sleeper Cell

Lizz Winstead @lizzwinstead

Moji Alawode-El @mojilocks

Marie Khan @mkhanj 

LINK TO SHOW NOTES (link goes to pod post on website where all this info lives)

Quick Hits

Federal Telemed Ruling

* https://www.wwno.org/post/here-s-why-you-still-can-t-access-abortion-pills-mail-louisiana-despite-pandemic* https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/07/13/abortion-pill-available-by-mail-during-pandemic-court-rules/#606adeec2652* https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/medication-abortion

Announcement

OSA UNMASKED- come meet these intersectional hate mongers!

* https://osaunmasked.com/

Interview with Charlotte Taft, featured in the documentary AKA Jane Roe

* https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/22/aka-jane-roe-documentary-norma-mccorvey* http://www.imaginecounseling.com/

Six Degrees of Abortion 

Can Lizz tie Astrology and constellations of the stars to abortion?- Listen to find out!

* https://www.bustle.com/life/184992-what-are-the-ophiuchus-personality-traits-the-13th-zodiac-sign-has-its-strengths-weaknesses

All the housekeeping

* Write a review/ give us 5 stars* Follow us on social @accessforce on Twitter/Instagram* Email us at podcast@aaforce.org! * Edited by Brad Pearson, theme song by Cory Eischen, The Purple Xperience

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This week snapped our neck a bit with good and bad news- First the bad- SCOTUS decided that the HR Department at “Oppression R Us” can cite their morality as a reason to not cover birth control in their healthcare plans. 

Chalk up one more reason why we need the ERA, stat! 

BUT, in a strange amount of GOOD NEWS, a flurry of judicial smackdowns happened in the lower courts that left anti abortion overreachers sulking back into their sewers. For now anyway. All that  plus, will Marie and Moji stump Lizz in this weeks, “Six Degrees of Abortion?” We are back, bay-beeeees!

Gathered in the Sleeper Cell

Lizz Winstead @lizzwinstead

Moji Alawode-El @mojilocks

Marie Khan @mkhanj 

LINK TO SHOW NOTES (link goes to pod post on website where all this info lives)

Meaty Story

Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania

* https://d2qwohl8lx5mh1.cloudfront.net/MWUBLSIbIozZa67co2yJcw/content* https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/supreme-court-sidelines-women-little-sisters-of-the-poor-v-pennsylvania.html* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/us/politics/supreme-court-obamacare-contracepti* n.html

Quick Hits

Some Important SCOTUS Highlights from Last Week

* https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/070220zor_apl1.pdf* https://www.womenslawproject.org/project/reilly-v-city-of-harrisburg/* https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/17-2196/17-2196-2019-02-13.html* https://www.abc57.com/news/us-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-south-bend-abortion-clinic-case

Six Degrees of Abortion 

Javicia Leslie is the new Batwoman! https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a33263821/who-is-javicia-leslie-batwoman-tv-star/

Batwoman is on the CW < CW hosts Riverdale, one of Lizz’s favorite shows < Riverdale’s Betty Cooper IS LOUD AND PROUD FOR ABORTION ACCESS

All the housekeeping

* Write a review/ give us 5 stars* Follow us on social @accessforce on Twitter/Instagram* Email us at podcast@aaforce.org! * Edited by Brad Pearson, theme song by Cory Eischen, The Purple Xperience

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Gathered in the Sleeper Cell

Lizz Winstead @lizzwinstead

Moji Alawode-El @mojilocks

Marie Khan @mkhanj 

SHOW NOTES 

The Meaty Story

June Medical Services LLC v. Russo

* https://d2qwohl8lx5mh1.cloudfront.net/WWXS1vd9n8BJBBOAmeKZzA/content* https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/john-roberts-abortion-june-medical.html* https://urge.org/press-release/supreme-court-upholds-abortion-access-but-the-fight-for-reproductive-justice-isnt-over/?fbclid=IwAR07lkSWoTj9TvEmEZXL9lqRR0Y4lHW1rkBf7Fha-gpoyh1riy6XyITSaHk

All the housekeeping

* Write a review/ give us 5 stars* Follow us on social @accessforce on Twitter/Instagram* Email us at podcast@aaforce.org! * Edited by Brad Pearson, theme song by Cory Eischen, The Purple Xperience

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MAY THE ABORTION ACCESS FORCE BE WITH YOU!

Catch the latest "Mrs. America"* episode on Hulu, then tune in on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter for our freewheeling Friday-night recap show!

Hosts Lizz Winstead, Moji Alawode-El, and Molly Gaebedon their 1970s apparel and spill the tea on Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who saw the arc of history bending toward justice and said "hell no, not on my watch!"

This week (May 29) our special guest is author, journalist, and CNN contributor Joan Walsh!

*Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly, hailed by supporters as “the sweetheart of the silent majority" and by us as "America's yeast infection".

Hosts Lizz Winstead, Moji Alawode-El, and Molly Gaebedon their 1970s apparel and spill the tea on Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who saw the arc of history bending toward justice and said "hell no, not on my watch!"

This week (May 22) our special guest is Melanie Lynskey, the star of "Mrs. America" who plays the Phyllis Mini Me, Rosemary Thomson! This week we break down the "Bella" episode so who better to have as a guest!! Woohoo!

*Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly, hailed by supporters as “the sweetheart of the silent majority" and by us as "America's yeast infection".

Catch the latest "Mrs. America"* episode on Hulu, then tune in on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter for our freewheeling Friday-night recap show!

Hosts Lizz Winstead, Moji Alawode-El, and Molly Gaebedon their 1970s apparel and spill the tea on Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who saw the arc of history bending toward justice and said "hell no, not on my watch!"

For Friday, May 15th — Pour yourself a Harvey Bible-Banger and make sure you're caught up through episode #6 of Mrs. America. Our special guest this week is brilliant author, journalist, and CNN contributor Joan Walsh! This week we're supposed to *gulp* sympathize with a Republican woman who *legit surprise face* actually believes in abortion rights! You know we'll have a lot to say!

*Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly, hailed by supporters as “the sweetheart of the silent majority" and by us as "America's yeast infection".

Hosts Lizz Winstead, Moji Alawode-El, and Molly Gaebe don their 1970s apparel and spill the tea on Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who saw the arc of history bending toward justice and said "hell no, not on my watch!"

Our special guest on May 7th is former Missouri State Rep Stacey Newman. She served the city that the Schlafmonster lived so who better to talk about the political landscape the Phyllis hath wrought?

*Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly, hailed by supporters as “the sweetheart of the silent majority" and by us as "America's yeast infection".