Liz and Rebecca process the 2024 election results. They discuss the challenges the new administration will bring, some under-the-radar encouraging election results, and how their organizations plan to continue fighting for secular democracy in the months and years ahead.

Background

• National Women’s Law Center

• Abortion

• • ACLU of Missouri’s abortion case - Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains & Planned Parenthood Great Rivers v. Missouri

  • AU’s abortion case - Rev. Blackmon v. Missouri

• Results for education and school choice ballot measures, 2024

• Project 2025

• • Episode 34 - Project 2025

  • AU’s Project 2025 Hub

  • CBS News: “See the full list of Trump Cabinet picks and major White House appointments”

  • New York Magazine: “All of the Trump Cabinet Picks That Have Ties to Project 2025”

Resources

• FFRF

• • Join FFRF

  • Donate to FFRF

  • Sign up for action alerts

• Americans United

• • Join AU

  • Donate to AU

  • Sign up for action alerts

• How to Contact Your Elected Officials

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Alison, Liz, and Rebecca are joined by Jenifer McKenna to talk about the billion dollar crisis pregnancy center industry and its role in the anti-abortion movement. They discuss the massive harms caused by these unregulated fake clinics, Jenifer’s work on the first multi-state CPC investigation, and a new approach to exposing their unethical tactics and fighting back.

Show Notes

• Reproductive Health & Freedom Watch

• “Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States”

• Reproductive Health & Freedom Watch: Recent CPC research and analysis

• • “Why is the billion-dollar unregulated pregnancy clinic industry receiving increasing taxpayer dollars?”

  • “Unregulated Pregnancy Clinic Industry’s Revenue Soars to $1.7 Billion Annually”

  • “Anti-Choice Leaders Are Mobilizing Thousands of Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics Against Abortion Access Ballot Initiatives”

• Jenifer McKenna’s Ms Magazine articles

• • “Anti-Abortion Extremists Are Diverting Tax Dollars to Crisis Pregnancy Centers”

  • “Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics Collect Health Information From Pregnant People—With No Privacy Protection”

  • “Documentary ‘Preconceived’ Exposes Horrors of Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry: ‘I Came to You for Help. Why Did You Lie?’”

• Women’s Law Project

• Gender Justice

• Rewire investigation on LIFElink Carolina

• ”Preconceived” Documentary

Cases

• NIFLA v. Becerra (2018)

• Jane Doe v. Clearway Clinic (2023)

• Four Women Health Services v. Abundant Hope Pregnancy Resource Center (2024)

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Alison, Liz, and Rebecca interview Sarah Posner, author and interviewer. They discuss the evolution of the Christian right, debate how to talk about Christian Nationalism, and break down the sky high stakes of this year’s election.

Show Notes

• Sarah Posner’s Website

• Sarah’s new book: Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind

• Previous episode on Project 2025

• Anna Bower, Lawfare: “Will Georgia's New Election Rules Allow Trump to Steal the Presidency?”

• Catherine Joyce, Vanity Fair: "Behind the Catholic Right’s Celebrity-Conversion Industrial Complex"

• Previous episode with interview of Christians Against Christian Nationalism’s Amanda Tyler

• Lydia Bean, The Politics of Evangelical Identity

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