rePROs Fight Back
rePROs Fight Back, a multi-award winning podcast, does-dives into reproductive health, rights, and justice issues like abortion, birth control, sex education, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equity, and more. New episodes debut every Tuesday, giving you an insider’s perspective on what is happening and what you can do to fight back.
Episodes
292 episodes
Shout It From the Rooftops: Thanks, Birth Control!
November 12, 2025, is #ThxBirthControl Day-- a day to celebrate the multiple methods of contraceptive care that allow people to live their fullest lives and reach their dreams and goals. Monica Edwards, Senior Manager, Public Policy at P...
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Episode 289
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Reimagining U.S. Foreign Assistance
The U.S. government used to be the largest donor in family planning assistance at $400 million a year. There has been an explicit loss of U.S. leadership and resources in contemporary global health and foreign aid, with significant, ne...
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Episode 288
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38:39
Rebecca Kelliher on Her New Book: Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care
In Brazil in the 1990s, women discovered using misoprostol for safe, self-managed abortion. In 1980 in France, mifepristone was discovered and in 1988, approved. Approval in the U.S. occurred shortly thereafter, in 2000. Rebecca Kelliher...
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Episode 287
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37:12
Preying With Pseudoscience: Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ New, Dangerous Rhetoric
The term crisis pregnancy center (CPC) refers to anti-abortion facilities that mislead, confuse, delay, misinform, and purposefully re-direct pregnant people looking for education and services, including abortion care. They are often referred t...
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Episode 286
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The Current Anti-Abortion Extremist Agenda
Anti-abortion extremists are hard at work attacking access through the courts, policy, clinic harassment, and more. Simultaneously, the Trump administration’s chaos—including RFK Jr.’s harmful actions as head of HHS—are continuing to disassembl...
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Episode 285
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33:41
The Supreme Court Term is Here…And A Storm is Brewing
The beginning of the new Supreme Court term has officially begun, and a storm of possible bad outcomes is brewing. Jessica Mason Pieklo, Co-Chief Content Officer of Rewire News Group and co-host of Boom! Lawyered, sits down with us to gi...
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Episode 284
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35:20
Temperature Check: What is the Status of Abortion Access in the U.S.?
Whether it’s communicated in polls or at the ballot box, access to abortion is extremely popular in the United States. Yet, our rights are being blatantly stripped away—and abortion care won’t be the only sexual and reproductive right to face a...
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Episode 283
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Access to Later Abortion Will Always be Needed
Abortion later in pregnancy is often misunderstood and heavily targeted through both policy and stigma. Erika Christensen, co-founder of Patient Forward and later abortion patient and advocate, Jenn Chalifoux-Gene, later abortion ...
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Episode 282
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46:50
You May Also Like: Aborsh
This week, we’re bringing you a special feed drop from Aborsh, a podcast that examines why talking about abortion is still such a big deal, what “choice” really means and looks like, and why that answer is different for different people....
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Let’s Talk About Period Pain
Starting in her teenage years, Kate Helen Downey’s menstrual cycle was extremely painful. In her adult life, she received an endometriosis diagnosis, which can cause severe menstrual pain. Kate, host and producer of the podcast CRAMPED, ...
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Episode 281
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45:19
The State Department is Cutting Out Human Rights Abuses from Annual Reports
The State Department’s Human Rights Reports were mandated by Congress in 1974 to ensure funding did not go toward torture, involuntary detention, and suppression of fundamental freedoms. The reports collect information on human rights abuses ar...
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Episode 280
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43:52
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Decimate Medicaid
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), President Trump’s Tax and Spend mega bill, recently passed Congress. It will strip billions of dollars from essential health programs while paying for billions of dollars in tax cuts for the rich, expand ...
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Episode 279
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The Dangerous Concept of Fetal Personhood
Fetal personhood, in short, labels a pregnancy as a person. It is the idea that anything a person is legally entitled to, a fetus is, as well. Karen Thompson, Legal Director at Pregnancy Justice and Garin Marschall, co-founder of ...
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Episode 278
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Stay Informed, Stay Autonomous
From recent court cases, to LGBTQI+ health and rights, to sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice, we have the perfect news source for you. Garnet Henderson and Susan Rinkunas, journalists and co-founders of Autonomy Ne...
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Episode 277
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Saving FACE: What to Know About The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act
Abortion clinics, their staff, and the patients seeking care often face instances of blockading, harassment, threats, and violence. This blockage of access to basic healthcare services resulted in the 1994 bipartisan passage of the Freedom of A...
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Episode 276
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The Green Tide is Rising
The Green Wave Movement began in 2018 in Argentina, focused on anti-femicide but quickly evolving into a bodily autonomy and abortion movement. Protestors took to the streets to not only change the law, but to change the culture across Latin Am...
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Episode 275
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40:49
Now is The Time to Defend All Abortions
“Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.” Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent for the Nation and author of the new book Killers of Roe: My In...
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Episode 274
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57:44
Title X Health Centers Share the Impacts of Withheld Funds – Part 2
Find part 1 of this episode here.In April 2025, some organizations and health centers receiving Title X funding...
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Episode 273
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45:29
Medina v. Planned Parenthood Is a Direct Attack to Reproductive Justice
T/W: Mention of sexual assault at 20:29Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic was a Supreme Court case this term that specifically targeted efforts to kick Planned Parenthood and other reproductive healthcare provide...
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Episode 272
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33:32
A Finished Term: Decided Supreme Court Cases Impacting LGBTQI+ and Repro Rights
From Skrmetti to Medina to Mahmoud, the Supreme Court has been busy issuing devastating rulings on cases that carry profound implications for LGBTQI+ health and rights and reproductive health and rights. Chris Geid...
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Episode 271
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1:00:40
Title X Health Centers Share the Impacts of Withheld Funds - Part 1
In April 2025, some organizations and health centers receiving Title X funding were given sudden notice by the current administration that critical funding would be withheld. This action by the federal government threatens roughly $65.8 million...
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Episode 270
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28:26
Carole Joffe and David Cohen on their book After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but not Abortion
Immediately after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade,shock, sadness, and anger were predominant. But even still, abortion providers, abortion fund ...
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Episode 269
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45:20
You May Also Like: Sex Ed with DB
We’re dropping in with an episode from Sex Ed with DB, a podcast all about inclusive, pleasure-focused sex ed. In this episode, host Danielle Bezalel sits down with Dr. Emily Nagoski — bestselling author of Come As You Are
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Episode 268
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50:55
Inside the Fight to Repeal Massachusetts’ Gestational Ban
2/3 of Massachusetts voters support expanding access to abortion later in pregnancy, according to recent polling. Massachusetts still has on the books a 24-week abortion ban, with additional exceptions later added. Jeanette Kincaid, Asso...
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Episode 267
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44:29
The One Big Beautiful Bill Threatens to Defund Planned Parenthood
The One Big Beautiful Bill is a reconciliation bill which passed the House and has moved on to the Senate. Included in this bill are provisions that would defund Planned Parenthood, threaten health insurance access, undermine access to abortion...
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Episode 266
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