Hosted by Sarah Varney · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 24 episodes
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Public television and public radio health reporter Sarah Varney has been chronicling the impact on women’s health care since the end of federal abortion rights and documenting what lies ahead for the rights of women and girls. In Body & State, we delve into her reporter’s notebook, hearing conversations with some of the best minds in the country on reproductive healthcare: law professors, historians, and political scientists; abortion rights opponents and supporters; doctors, midwives, doulas, and abortion pill networks. Tune in each episode for expert analysis and insights on the state of reproductive rights in America.
Sarah Varney hosts Body & State, a news show with 24 episodes published.
A majority of Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But there is a growing gap between men and women on this issue. Even among Generation Z, 75 percent of women want abortion to be legal, while 5
Generation Z has witnessed some of the biggest social changes in American history: gay marriage legalization, the MeToo movement and the fight for transgender equality. And as young Americans are becoming adults in this
For decades the Catholic Church has placed restrictions on certain reproductive health services at Catholic-run hospitals. The Ethical and Religious Directives lay out 77 rules for providing health care in the U.S., all
In 2024, California chiropractor Anna Nusslock was pregnant with twins. But 15 weeks into her pregnancy, she found out the twins would not survive. And Anna was told she could not get an abortion, because she was being c
Across the country, crisis pregnancy centers offer free services to women, things like ultrasounds and pregnancy testing. For some pregnant people, getting care through these centers is the only affordable option, but ma
The state of Missouri is home to around 90 crisis pregnancy centers. These primarily faith-based organizations offer resources to pregnant women to steer them away from abortion. The nonprofit Coalition Life runs one of
A growing part of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S. today is crisis pregnancy centers. These often faith-based nonprofits offer resources to pregnant women to steer them away from abortion. But reproductive rights a
I sit down with Carrie Baker, a professor of the study of women and gender at Smith College. She’s authored a number of books on women’s legal history, gender policy, and reproductive health activism; her most recent boo
The abortion pill was developed and first approved for use in France in the 1980s. But it took until 2000 for the medication to finally get approval in the United States, after years of work by activists and healthcare p
Today in the United States more women opt to use abortion medication than receive a surgical abortion to end a pregnancy. But the future of access to those pills is uncertain. Throughout the country, health care workers,
Medication abortions make up more than 60 percent of all abortions in the United States today. But after the fall of Roe, abortion pills are now banned in at least 14 states. That’s led to the rise of underground network
Brown University professor Liz Tobin-Tyler walks us through what researchers have found about the link between abortion bans and domestic violence, and how access to firearms in the U.S. can turn volatile homes into dead
Anthony Hingle has spent years working with men who have abused those closest to them to help stop the cycle of abuse. At Beyond Harm, a domestic violence intervention organization in New Orleans, Hingle often starts by
Mariah Wineski has spent more than two decades helping survivors of domestic violence. Wineski spoke with Sarah about the misconceptions about domestic violence and the patterns of coercive and controlling behaviors that
A woman's risk of being killed in the United States increases by 20 percent on average when pregnant or after giving birth. For those under 25, that risk more than doubles. In fact, pregnant and postpartum women are more
In this episode of Body & State, Sarah interviews conservative commentator Bethany Mandel, who writes about the declining birth rate and considers herself a pronatalist. Mandel and her husband, both Orthodox Jews, live i
In this episode of Body & State, Sarah sits down with Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation and a key author of Project 2025, the right-wing plan that has become a blueprint for the
In this episode of Body & State, Sarah sits down with Leslie Root, a demographer at the University of Colorado Boulder, who closely studies fertility trends in the United States and across the globe. Root has been trying
In this episode of Body & State, Sarah visits Simone and Malcolm Collins at their home in Pennsylvania. The Collinses are part of a movement known as pronatalism that wants to encourage people to have more children to he
Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, a Democrat from Texas, explains why she believes the right to contraception is at risk in the United States and what she views as a growing effort by Republicans to limit access to birth co
Ryan Burge
professor of practice at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University · Eastern Illinois University
1 appearance on this show
Bethany Mandel
Host Of The Mom Wars · Shield Communications PR
1 appearance on this show
Malcolm Collins
1 appearance on this show
Simone Collins
Our Year in Bali
1 appearance on this show
Mary Ziegler
legal historian and expert on the American abortion debate · University of California, Davis School of Law
1 appearance on this show
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