Back in 2013, then-MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry drew attention to the abortion-on-demand crowd in Texas by putting on a pair of tampon earrings in the middle of her show. Harris-Perry is now host of a national public-radio show called The Takeaway out of WNYC Radio in New York.
Indigenous community members at a panel event Thursday discussed the history that lies below the surface of recent abortion bans including mass sterilization in the 1960s and 70s and how Indigenous people will be overwhelmingly affected by the overturning of Roe v. Wade.