Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; NARAL President, Ilyse Hogue & "Endo-What?" documentary filmmaker, Shannon Cohn
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It has been 43 years since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v Wade decision gave women the legal right to end a pregnancy as a matter of privacy. And yet since the case was released in 1973, it has remained one of the most polarizing, politicized and continually challenged issues in America. My guest Ilyse Hogue is the President of NARAL Pro Choice America, formed in 1969 as an advocacy group to expand--and now protect-- reproductive freedom. She believes the debate comes down to a clash of world views. And, Endometriosis--coined the "crazy woman's disease" by some of those who have had it--or the "career woman's disease" by those who have attempted to diagnose it--it's been outed by celebrities like Padma Lakshmi, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, and Lena Dunham who have all experienced the effects of it. And if you have a daughter or a niece, the odds are that you know someone with it. Yet it typically takes 8 doctors and 10 years to be properly diagnosed, resulting in years of pain, depression and loss of productivity, often starting in the teen years. Filmmaker Shannon Cohn says after breast cancer, it's "the last great health taboo" and has made a film called "Endo-What?" to change the narrative around Endometriosis and help women and healthcare practitioners understand and treat the disease.
