Amanda Becker presents YOU MUST STAND UP

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Amanda Becker joins us in Remington to discuss her book You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America. Amanda will be in conversation with Leslie Gray Streeter, columnist for the Baltimore Banner and author of Black Widow.

About YOU MUST STAND UP

The inspiring, on-the-ground story of the rising grassroots leaders in the abortion rights movement during the pivotal first year after Dobbs.

When the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization- overturning the constitutional right to abortion care-the country was thrown into chaos. Abortion providers and their patients faced sudden closures, new restrictions, and rapidly changing rules as nearly half of the states moved quickly to ban or severely curtail abortion access. Against this backdrop, an army of health care providers, lawyers, activists, and everyday people mobilized to protect what a majority of Americans want: legal abortion.

In You Must Stand Up, Nieman Fellow Amanda Becker provides a real-time portrait of the creative resistance that unfolded in America's first year without the protections of Roe v. Wade. Amidst daily shifts in health care access, new legal battles coming before partisan courts, and up-for-grabs state constitutions, Becker follows the leaders rising to meet these challenges-doctors and staffers turning to new financial and medical models to remain open and provide abortions, volunteers campaigning against antiabortion ballot initiatives, and medical students fighting to learn to provide what can be lifesaving care.

By depicting the splintered reality of post-Dobbs America, and by capturing how Americans have developed new ways to best protect their constitutional rights, Becker ultimately shows how outrage can beget hope, and give rise to a new movement.

You Must Stand Up is available for purchase from Greedy Reads here!

Amanda Becker is a 2023 Nieman Fellow and Washington correspondent for The 19th. She has covered the U.S. Congress, the White House, and elections for nearly two decades. Becker previously worked at Reuters and CQ Roll Call. Her work has appeared in the New York Times , Washington Post , USA Today , and Glamour magazine. Her political coverage has also been broadcast on National Public Radio. She divides her time between Washington, D.C. and rural West Virginia.

Born in hood-adjacent Baltimore City, Leslie Gray Streeter is a columnist for the Baltimore Banner, a University of Maryland College Park graduate, a veteran journalist and someone always looking for new ways to tell stories, both her own and those in her communities. She is also the co-host of “Fine Beats and Cheeses,” a podcast about pleasure we aren’t guilty about, with her sister and theater genius Lynne Streeter Childress. She’s loved where she has been and happiest where she is now in her city. Send her good cauliflower recipes.

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