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Planned Parenthood of Illinois is working to break down barriers to prenatal and postpartum care for Black birthing people. Reset gets the latest on the new Bridges to Prenatal Care program and more from their director of health equity and impact, Deloris Walker.

While abortion is still legal in Illinois, experts expect the overturning of Roe v. Wade to have a lasting impact on existing healthcare inequities in the region. Reset discusses the relationship between abortion access and pregnancy health outcomes with Dr. Sadia Haider, division director of family planning at Rush University Medical Center, and Mathematica health analyst Sara Bovat.

Black Chicagoans are six times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white Chicagoans, according to a 2019 city report. Reset breaks down national and local efforts to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for Black parents with Jamila Taylor with The Century Foundation and Dr. Candice Robinson of the Chicago Department of Public Health.

Reset breaks down everything you need to know about the race for Illinois governor with WBEZ state politics reporter Dave McKinney, Chicago Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet and David Greising, president and CEO of the Better Government Association. Plus, we check in with GOP strategist Chris Robling about what Republicans are prioritizing ahead of the midterm elections.

For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss to no avail. But research released last year suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States over the last decade.

Reset talks with the co-authors of American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society.

GUEST: Dr. Daniel R. George, medical anthropologist and associate professor at Penn State College of Medicine

Dr. Peter J. Whitehouse, professor of neurology at Case Western Reserve University and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto

Before Roe v. Wade went into effect in 1973, abortion was illegal in the U.S. And people seeking the procedure were forced to receive care outside of the healthcare system and in the shadows. Linda Buczyna shares her story with Reset.

Reset digs into the conservative movement that successfully overturned Roe. Plus, we look at the Democratic strategy to protect abortion rights at the federal level and what the Supreme Court’s ruling could mean for the midterm elections.

GUESTS: Mary Ziegler, law professor at the University of California, Davis; author of Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment

Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief

Abortion is now illegal in at least 10 states. More total or near-total bans will go into effect soon. Reset checks in on states that neighbor Illinois where it’s now impossible or nearly impossible to have an abortion.

GUESTS: Molly Beck, Wisconsin politics and state government reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Sarah Fentem, health reporter at St. Louis Public Radio

Aprile Rickert, health reporter at WFPL News in Louisville, Kentucky.

As the nation continues to react to the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and debate a path forward, faith communities remain divided over whether people should have the right to an abortion.

GUESTS: Eman Abdelhadi, assistant professor of comparative human development at University of Chicago

Rabbi Amanda Green, associate rabbi at Chicago Sinai Congregation

Joanne Terrell, associate professor of Theology, Ethics & the Arts at CTS who is ordained in Christianity and Buddhism

Nadiah Mohajir, founder and co-executive director of HEART Women and Girls, a national reproductive justice and education organization

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Reset talks to someone who works on the frontlines of abortion access. Christy Uchida is a volunteer host with the Midwest Access Coalition, which provides logistical support to people who have abortions.