Feminist Sleeper Cell

The Lady Parts Justice team is back in New York after over a week down south and boy do they have some stories to tell! A visit to the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, aka the “Mississippi Pink House,” the last abortion clinic in the state, leaves the team in awe of the clinic escorts who tirelessly defend their patients against harassment and protesters. The Pink House Defenders have bravely taken on the task of guarding their clinic against relentless assaults, and Ashley explains how they have inspired her own work as an escort. They also discuss the mass protest that descended on Alabama abortion clinic Reproductive Health Services of Montgomery during their trip. The protesters were aggressive and their rhetoric was inflammatory and dangerous. Listen to the team discuss their interactions with “the antis” and how it’s changed the way they understand the assault on reproductive rights in this country. Additionally, Lizz breaks down how presidential candidate Scott Walker has been creepily obsessed with fighting against a woman’s right to choose for decades.

This week, Lady Parts Justice comes to you from Montgomery, Alabama. In the midst of providing support to the clinics in Mississippi and Alabama, the BS undercover video that distorts and perverts Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue donation program hit the airwaves. We at LPJ have a lot of feelings about all of it.

We’re upset about the heinous attack on lifesaving research, the short term memory of re-fighting this fight about fetal tissue research, and feel very strongly that as supporters of abortion rights, Planned Parenthood, independent clinics, and fetal tissue research, we must stand with the doctor being set up in this video.

This is a provocative conversation with Dr Sacheen an abortion provider, Wendy Robinson, director of Voice of Choice, Michelle Colon, clinic defender from Jackson Women’s Health Organization aka “The Pink House” the last remaining clinic in Mississippi and Ashley, Sharon, Jordana and yours truly from LPJ.

It is a an intense, emotional, heartbreaking, fun and important conversation to have as people who support abortion rights, fetal tissue research and the truth.

Hopefully you will listen and have this conversation with your friends and family.

In this episode we explain the origins of Lady Parts Justice and what we do. We cover the creepy depths to which anti abortion extremists will go, and why they get a pass on being labeled terrorists. We look at Governor of Ohio, John Kasich, who in a few weeks will be the 3019th Republican to enter the presidential race and dive into his secret history of sneaking anti abortion bills into the annual budget. Plus we have the Texas repro badass Sarah Slamen, joining us in the Clubhouse to talk about the craptastrophe that is Texas!