You Aren’t Owed a Story: Media Voyeurism and Midwestern Abortion Criminalization

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault and violence against children.

Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams tackle the topic of abortion reporting in the media and how pushing for details of patients’ lives often serves the anti-abortion agenda. Kelley and Terry discuss the societal desire to know intimate details about the lives of people involved in public tragedies from abortion stories to victims of gun violence and connect the dots as to why that desire is so inhumanely divorced from a future filled with human flourishing.

Links to discussed content:

• Neither side is happy with proposed Indiana abortion bill as hundreds sign up to testify: www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/25/indiana-abortion-bill-neither-side-is-happy-with-bill/65379463007/
• West Virginia delegates start considering abortion bill: https://wvmetronews.com/2022/07/25/west-virginia-delegates-start-considering-abortion-bill/
• The Ohio Abortion Report: https://odh.ohio.gov/explore-data-and-stats/published-reports/data-and-stats-abortion-reports
• Patients to Advocates: https://patientstoadvocates.com/
• I Consent: The Importance of Bodily Autonomy at Every Age ("R-Soul" Podcast with Dr. Sue Ellen Braunlin) https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/i-consent-the-importance-of-bodily-autonomy-at-every-age/
• Patients to Advocates tell their abortion stories (Part 1): https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/celebrating-roe-part-1-abortion-patients-share-their-stories/
• Patients to Advocates tell their abortion stories (Part 2): https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/celebrating-roe-part-2-abortion-patients-share-their-stories/

Music by Korbin Jones