Setting Back the Clock: How Mifepristone Bans, Daylight Savings Time, and Capitalist Healthcare Threaten Human Flourishing

Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams address recent developments in mifepristone availability due to corporate posturing, connecting the unstable nature of capitalist healthcare with the popularity of self-managed abortion.

Using daylight savings time as a study on how unpopular policies stay put when corporate interests hold sway, Kelley and Terry talk about how self-managing abortions can help patients take back some control over their own lives in ways the modern healthcare system simply doesn’t offer to many groups of people.

Links to discussed content: 

• Walgreens won't sell abortion pills in red states that threatened legal action: www.npr.org/2023/03/04/1161143595/walgreens-abortion-pill-mifepristone-republican-threat-legal-action

• The History of Daylight Savings Time: www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2022/11/07/history-daylight-saving-time#:~:text=It%20was%20first%...was%20repealed%20a%20year%20later.

• AidAccess: https://aidaccess.org/

• Plan C Pills: https://plancpills.org/

• Walgreens & Theranos: https://qz.com/2074304/how-safeway-and-walgreens-fell-for-the-theranos-pipe-dream

• Labor Wars & the Railroad Industry: www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/theminewars-labor-wars-us/

• Another Norfolk Southern Train Derails in Ohio: www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/us/ohio-train-derailment.html

• Federal safety board to investigate Norfolk Southern after train derailments: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/norfolk-southern-train-conductor-fatally-struck-dump-truck-ohio-steel-rcna73811

Music by Korbin Jones