Amanda (Amanda Prestigiacomo)
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1,029 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Amanda (Amanda Prestigiacomo)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He had their political puppeteers, Falwell and the moral majority.
He just needed a politician willing to take orders in exchange for the treasure of his voting bloc.
And since history loves irony and politicians go to the highest bidder, Ronald Reagan, who just a dozen years prior had passed one of the most liberal abortion laws in the nation, signed up for the gig.
Candidate Reagan became the puzzle piece cementing the Republican Party to the religious right.
In 1980, Reagan addressed a rally of 10,000 evangelicals in Dallas, condemning the federal government for attacking the tax exemption of evangelical segregationist academies.
And he made opposition to abortion rights central to the Republican platform.
including a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.
And with that, anti-abortion, which had a handful of years prior been a fringe radical Catholic pet project, suddenly became a political identity, a judicial litmus test, a fundraising engine, a turnout machine, and an enduring market of partisan allegiance.
Abortion has never been about abortion.
Since the fight about abortion has never been about abortion, and since we are fighting like hell over abortion today, then what is it we are actually fighting about now?
What is the strategy and what is the end game?
That is what we're going to talk to Jessica Valenti about.
We are so damn lucky to have Jessica Valenti share her inexhaustible expertise and grit and genius and fortitude with us today.
Jessica is a writer, activist, and one of the country's most influential voices on gender and politics.
An award-winning author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller, Abortion, which is an absolute must-read, she has vitally shaped feminist thought for over two decades.
Her groundbreaking anthology, Yes Means Yes, sets what's now considered the gold standard for sexual consent and paved the way for legislation of the same name.
Since the fall of Roe, Jessica has hosted a daily newsletter community called Abortion Every Day.
I have been a longstanding subscriber and highly recommend it to you.
What I love about Jessica is she is as tireless and unrelenting as our opposition.
As of the end of June, 1461 days since the Dobbs decision, Jessica had published 1414 editions of abortion every day.
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