After the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, it was clear that pregnant people could soon have to travel out of state to get an abortion. 'I'm talking about eight hour drives, 12 hour drives,' says a reproductive rights activist in Mississippi.
Laurie Bertram Roberts: In some ways, it doesn't feel different at all. It's kind of the same stuff. It's just, it's like, it's supersized, right? It's the same fight, but the context has changed. So it's still, it's still navigating, helping people get abortion care outside of the state and, um, helping people understand self-managed abortion, and the harm reduction information that people need to get.
Laurie Bertram Roberts is the co-founder and executive director of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund, a nonprofit that serves people who need money, advice, or just support as they figure out their reproductive choices. LBR: I got a scholarship to a four year school when I was 27. And my social worker, like my, like my food stamp social worker who had always been, like, kind of really rude to me, and um, you know, even condescending at times. At the end of our relationship, she was like, you really should go to school. Like you've, you know, like you've done the right things and you deserve to go to school and find out who you are and um, leave them kids with your mama.
LBR: When I was doing escorting, we had like, some people come who were just a little bit short on money. And they were like, so scared that no one would see them because they were $10 short, or $50 short, or $5 short. LBR: Oh, you think people work for us? No. [laughs] We have, so we have two people that we get to pay on contract. UmAS: So you, you, the money, the $225,000 budget goes to people, the needs that people have, who call?
LBR: Yeah, all my kids are grown. Well, except for my, um, my bonus kid that lives with us. All my kids are grown. I have six kids, 16 to 27. Now what I will say is, um, I am much more, um, in my daughters’ business than I used to be. Like, obviously I'm never gonna coerce them into using birth control, but I'm definitely much more like, Hey, um, Roe is over. You might wanna go get whatever it is that you're planning to get. Let's get on that.
Something fundamental about love and sex and gender and agency and what we share as a country has shifted… and we don’t have answers for you here at the show. AS: Laurie, do you still have people close to you who, uh, deeply oppose abortion rights? Are they in your life? As of July 7, 2022, there is a near total ban on abortion in the state of Mississippi, with exceptions to save the life of the pregnant person, or for a rape reported to law enforcement.
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