"If the police are killing young folks in our communities, that's a threat to our reproductive rights." This is just one of the points you'll hear in my conversation with Dr. Laura Briggs, author of the forthcoming book "How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics." Briggs discusses reproductive rights in a broad context including how the right to a living wage and violence-free communities are a part of reproductive justice. We also discuss conservative and evangelical leaders' strategies to dismantle the social safety net for women.

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