In this episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy has a theory: Medicaid coverage for abortion collapses first, even in states where Democrats hold power. Christina Chang, who runs Reproductive Freedom Alliance, the 24-governor coalition fighting to keep abortion access alive post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, isn't so sure it's about abortion specifically, but rather funding for the poor generally.

Gandy and Chang get into what the alliance has accomplished: shield laws protecting providers, states funding abortion out of their own pockets, and strategy sharing among alliance members. Then, Gandy brings up Michigan, a Democratic trifecta that still couldn't fund abortion coverage—but Chang isn't ready to call it a pattern.

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In this solo episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy asks what it means to protect abortion rights on paper when people can't afford to use them in practice. Her theory: Funding is the first thing a coalition gives up, because funding for abortion can be capped and watered down in a way a constitutional amendment can't. Most states in the nonpartisan Reproductive Freedom Alliance coalition now cover abortion through Medicaid—but Michigan shows how fast that coverage gets negotiable when the votes are tight.

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In this episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy tests her theory that the best political humor doesn’t win arguments—but instead changes what people think deserves to be taken seriously in the first place—with Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and founder of Abortion Access Front.

Winstead agrees with most of Gandy’s theory, but complicates it: Is the point of political comedy to build an audience, or to build a movement? And what happens to all that comedy-fueled outrage when it has nowhere left to go?

Winstead has a name for that: anger fluffing. And she finds it pointless.

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