What Democrats Didn't Do for Abortion Rights




The Takeaway show

Summary: <p>Both the Democratic and Republican parties have been using abortion as a wedge issue to generate votes for decades, but with the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe vs. Wade, many Democratic voters are <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/the-betrayal-of-roe.html">questioning</a> whether the party did enough to <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2022/05/roe-v-wade-abortion-democrats.html#_ga=2.217611158.1873991515.1656359450-1426202996.1656100416">prevent the loss</a> of the constitutional right to abortion. We speak with <a href="https://twitter.com/rtraister?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Rebecca Traister</a>, writer-at-large for <em>New York</em> Magazine's <a href="https://www.thecut.com/author/rebecca-traister/">The Cut</a> and the author of <em><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Good-and-Mad/Rebecca-Traister/9781501181818">Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger</a></em>.</p> <p> </p>