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Sep 17, 2026
Mina KimHOST
Can you just say a little bit more about that, how the rights and welfare of trans people should be everyone's concern in a democracy? Sure.
Susan StrykerGUEST
Well, you know, I think one really important point to focus on is the basic question of bodily autonomy.
Susan StrykerGUEST
You know, my body, my right to decide.
Susan StrykerGUEST
Which, of
Krystal RedmanGUEST
So a few different ways I would like to talk about that.
Krystal RedmanGUEST
One, everyone... deserves bodily autonomy, self-determination.
Krystal RedmanGUEST
And as someone who is an abolitionist, as someone who centers our work in Black, trans, and queer liberation and reproductive justice, that understands the importance of we can't get We did not just only desire, but need in order to survive and thrive in this world if we're not afforded the opportunity or don't have the power to fully operate in bodily autonomy.
Krystal RedmanGUEST
And so so with that lens.
Krystal RedmanGUEST
it automatically connects me to the power we individually hold and how we show up and use that.
Krystal RedmanGUEST
Sometimes our communities are our chosen family or the family we're born into or, you know, attached to if you're in school or like the people around you geographically, right? Sometimes our communities are people with shared lived experience.
Krystal RedmanGUEST
So whichever communities you are part of, we don't exist siloed.
Krystal RedmanGUEST
If I'm talking about bodily autonomy and the power of being able to navigate your own body in connection to liberation and freedom, there's no individualized liberation and freedom.
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Their bodily autonomy argument is just one small step away from flat-out support of infanticide.
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This argument concedes that yes, abortion kills a baby, but it's okay because pregnancy causes stress, impairments, and harm to women.
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Therefore, it's analogous to an act of self-defense against an unwanted parasite that depends on you for existence.
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Naturally, such arguments would never win.
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Only buy them time until they found the current argument they now use.
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Bodily autonomy.
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Put simply, this argument concedes that yes, abortion kills a baby, but it's okay because pregnancy causes stress, impairments, and harm to women.
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Therefore, it's analogous to an act of self-defense against an unwanted parasite that depends on you for existence.
Andrew IskerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Their bodily autonomy argument is just one small step away from flat-out support of infanticide.
Andrew IskerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This argument concedes that yes, abortion kills a baby, but it's okay because pregnancy causes stress, impairments, and harm to women.
Andrew IskerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Therefore, it's analogous to an act of self-defense against an unwanted parasite that depends on you for existence.
10 MINS LATER
Andrew IskerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Naturally, such arguments would never win.
Andrew IskerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Only buy them time until they found the current argument they now use.
Andrew IskerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bodily autonomy.
Andrew IskerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Put simply, this argument concedes that yes, abortion kills a baby, but it's okay because pregnancy causes stress, impairments, and harm to women.
Andrew IskerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Therefore, it's analogous to an act of self-defense against an unwanted parasite that depends on you for existence.
David Dylan ThomasGUEST
And a fear of losing that control, whether by you yourself becoming a victim of that spell or as we move into the, you know, the the the human, the the the eater zombie.
David Dylan ThomasGUEST
The later Romero version of a zombie literally being devoured by them and losing your bodily autonomy that way or getting bitten and becoming one and losing your bodily autonomy.
David Dylan ThomasGUEST
But a battle for control of the body is very much whichever version of the zombie you're talking about is very much on the table.
GrahamHOST
Yeah.
Leeja MillerHOST
And so the people of Jackson who were most harmed by this ongoing abdication of any responsibility gathered together and they sued the city of Jackson and its leadership back in 2022, not long after the complete failure of the water system there, alleging that state officials violated the residents' constitutional rights.
Leeja MillerHOST
According to the complaint, quote, even before the water supply failed, Jackson's water supply was not fit for human consumption due to the high levels of lead and other contaminants in violation of plaintiff's right to bodily integrity protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Environmental Protection Agency's Lead and Copper Rule and other law.
Leeja MillerHOST
Children comprising a quarter of Jackson's residents are especially susceptible to the devastating and lifelong damages of lead poisoning.
Leeja MillerHOST
This public health crisis decades in the making was wholly foreseeable by defendant's actions and has left Jackson residents in an untenable position without access to clean, safe water in 2022 in a major United States city.
Leeja MillerHOST
And each of their other named plaintiffs experienced similar symptoms.
Leeja MillerHOST
And their lawsuit is seeking redress from the city of Jackson and its leaders, who knew they were actively being exposed to dangerous contamination, did nothing, and in fact actively hid that information from the public for at least six months.
Leeja MillerHOST
In their lawsuit, they claimed that the actions of the city violated their 14th Amendment right to due process, specifically the right to bodily integrity and their right to be free from state-created danger.
Leeja MillerHOST
And you might be like, wait, Lita, the 14th Amendment doesn't say anything about bodily integrity or state-created danger.
Riley O'BillHOST
And my campaign is based on a couple of things.
Riley O'BillHOST
Bodily autonomy.
Riley O'BillHOST
So, you know, drug freedom would be part of that.
Riley O'BillHOST
And also lower property taxes for people because families need to move here to New Hampshire.
Riley O'BillHOST
I think it's an important place for families and families.
Riley O'BillHOST
If property taxes are absurdly high, families are not incentivized to move to a place where there are high taxes while they're starting out with a family, trying to get their first home, you know, things like that.
Riley O'BillHOST
So I'm running as a state rep to hopefully lower property taxes and give people more bodily autonomy in the world.
Riley O'BillHOST
so oh and in the way i promoted my campaign today was i went to downtown keen and i played my bagpipes i did not wear my kilt unfortunately i do have one i didn't wear it that'd be cool next time but it was so much fun to have a few people come up to me talk to me about my bagpipes and the cool thing is and this is going to surprise a lot of people the bagpipes were made here in new hampshire there are not a lot of bagpipe maker shops in the world maybe like you know
C.N. VairGUEST
And that really crystallized a lot of the themes and ideas that I had floating around, but wasn't yet quite sure where they were going to sit exactly or what their purpose was.
C.N. VairGUEST
And so I think there's an aspect where you can read this book as you know, or Tess's land, at least as bodily autonomy, as a metaphor for bodily autonomy, these are her boundaries.
C.N. VairGUEST
This is, and that's why I tied, that's why I wanted to tie her physically to the land, not just in the sense of, oh, this is mine.
C.N. VairGUEST
And that, you know, my name is or isn't on the deed and I live here, but that her physical being was also tied to that because so much of this for me was about bodily autonomy.
C.N. VairGUEST
And that's not explicit in the story in any way.
C.N. VairGUEST
This is not a story about abortion or anything of that nature.
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C.N. VairGUEST
And one of the one of the major edits of this of this book was making him less pathetic.
C.N. VairGUEST
I just I was so focused on giving Tess her teeth that I had defanged him a little bit too much.
Julie FrancellaGUEST
We meaning myself and my Ojibwe teachings.
John FugelsangHOST
Simon, there are many who would say that bodily autonomy is tied to land sovereignty.
Simon Moya-SmithGUEST
Yeah, and the Oglalas are the same with the Ojibwe.
Simon Moya-SmithGUEST
I mean, again, an indigenous woman had the right to do whatever she wanted.
AnnaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm from Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and I recently discovered the case called McFall v. Schimpf from 1978, which, as I understand, established that a person cannot be legally forced to donate tissue or bone marrow.
AnnaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Doing so would violate fundamental principles of bodily integrity.
AnnaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So my question is, why does this precedent not apply to women seeking abortion care? Thanks so
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
much.
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