No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?

New Books in the American South

Today we are talking with Becca Andrews, a journalist at Mother Jones, where she writes about reproductive rights and gender. The story we discuss is “When Choice is 221 Miles Away: The Nightmare of Getting an Abortion in the South” and its follow up.

Becca’s debut work of nonfiction, No Choice, based on her Mother Jones cover story about the past, present, and future of Roe v. Wade, will be published by in 2022.

Andrews is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism and wrote for newspapers in her home state of Tennessee.

Agata Popeda is a Polish-American journalist. Interested in everything, with a particular weakness for literature and foreign relations.

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