Roe v. Wade

The state performed about 39,300 abortions last year.

Maryland clinics performed more than 38,000 abortions in 2023

Many colleges are turning to vending machines to make contraception more readily available on campus.

An referendum to make abortion rights a state constitutional amendment will be on the ballot in 2024.

The four year program hopes to reduce unintended pregnancies.

Maryland’s politicians from Mayor Brandon Scott to Governor Wes Moore have expressed the desire to make the state a haven for people seeking abortion care.

If the Maryland General Assembly passes the amendment it could end up on the ballot of voters in 2024.

What does the future of reproductive rights look like? And how did we get here?

On this episode, host Jason V. talks with Tanay Lynn Harris, Director of The Bloom Collective. Tanay spent her childhood up and down the East Coast living with different parts of her large family, and the communal lessons she learned now allows her to provide holistic care to pregnant families.

We’ll go On the Record with a mother of seven and the director of Life, Justice and Peace for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, a nurse-midwife who co-owns a new abortion clinic opening soon in Maryland, and a leader of the “Baltimore Abortion Fund,” to ask how the Supreme Court’s decree against federal abortion rights shapes their work and prospects.