#1202 The threats against reproductive justice - past, present and future
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 August 2018
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Air Date: 8/17/2018
Today we take a look at the threats to reproductive justice everywhere, from the newest Supreme Court nominee to the entire long and storied history of the structures of power clamoring to control the bodies of women with a particular focus on the destinies of communities of color
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Mark Joseph Stern explains exactly how conservatives plan to hollow out Roe v Wade without overturning it outright to effectively bam abortion while buffering the political backlash.
Kinsey Hasstedt on the Trump administration's announcement of rules further controlling the reproductive health care that women reliant on federally funded family planning programs can receive.
What if faith could fuel a movement that supports women and families in having real choices over their lives and their bodies? Dr. Willie Parker on the crossroads of faith and reproductive justice.
Ch. 4: Loretta Ross on Race and Reproductive Justice - @speakouttimwise - Air Date 2-13-18
Tim speaks with Loretta Ross, one of the nation’s leading scholars and activists in the movement for reproductive justice. She was the co-founder and National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012.
Toni Bond Leonard explaining the crossroads of faith and reproductive justice.
Maria and Julio talk to Tannia Esparza, executive director of the organization Young Women United, and Regina Mahone, VP/managing editor of Rewire.News about the impact of reproductive rights restrictions on women of color.
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| 0:20.0 | Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:24.2 | about the threats to reproductive justice everywhere, from the newest Supreme Court nominee |
| 0:28.8 | to the entire long and storied history of the battle to control in spotty's. |
| 0:33.9 | Clips today come from the Bradcast, Counter-Spin, Making Contact, Speak Out With Tim Wise, and In The Thick. |
| 0:40.8 | Many Democrats and opponents of Trump, of course, are putting Roe v Wade right at the top |
| 0:56.0 | of the list of things that will now be reversed if Kavanaugh is seated. |
| 1:00.5 | That's what Trump had promised repeatedly during the campaign. |
| 1:04.2 | I see no reason to believe it won't happen. |
| 1:06.6 | And as you wrote last night at Slate, that's not just what could happen if he's confirmed, |
| 1:12.5 | but will almost certainly happen. |
| 1:16.7 | You describe how as a member of the DC Circuit Court, Kavanaugh actually offered a road map |
| 1:24.8 | for overturning Roe in this case of the 17-year-old girl that's undocumented immigrant minor who |
| 1:31.4 | was being held in detention by the Trump administration just last year in 2017, and they were |
| 1:38.6 | trying to prevent her from receiving an abortion. |
| 1:41.3 | How did Kavanaugh's opinions in that case offer the road map for essentially overturning |
| 1:47.1 | Roe as you see it? |
| 1:48.5 | So Kavanaugh basically laid out for everyone to see precisely how the courts and the Supreme |
| 1:57.0 | Court can haul out Roe to the point of meaninglessness without actually acknowledging what it's |
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