24th. i am sam stein filling in for the one and only ali velshi. one month ago today the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. this immediately and radically reshaped abortion rights around the country. these are the 26 states that were considered certain or likely to ban abortion in the post roe era. more than a dozen of them have already taken action to do so. today, there is not a single provider offering abortion services in the united states. forcing residents to travel across state lines for basic and essential health care. seven other states banned abortion at a much earlier point. it was previously allowed when roe was the law of the land. in the coming weeks at least three more states, north dakota, wyoming, and indiana, are expected to enact total abortion bans. let the constitutional protections for abortion that were provided, access is quickly shrinking around the country. nowhere is that more evident than in the south, where abortion access is almost entirely a
for. i knew because my daughter was learning language that she wasn t ready quite yet for a book that was playing with it in a way that was going to be confusing for her. i would never say to them, if my daughter went and said, i insist on reading it, i m, like do you. i want to dive a bit into the text, central theme and brown girl is figuratively and literally finding your voice. jacqui, in the story, you, learns to express herself and understand her identity through storytelling. a number of examples of it. here s one, it s from bush work history lesson, quote, there were slaves, those who could afford to own their freedom, lived in the other side of the wall, and now that place is called wall street. when my teacher says, so, right down all of this means to you, our heads bend over our notebooks, the whole class silent, the whole class belonging somewhere, bush wick. i didn t just appear one day, i didn t just wake up and know how to write my name, i keep