#1262 Waiting for the Roe to drop (Reproductive Justice)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 April 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 4/5/2019
Today we take a look at the current state of abortion rights - Hint: They're already in tatters - and speculate about what's to come as Roe vs Wade faces relentless chipping away and the possibility of full repeal.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: States poised to restrict reproductive rights - Making Contact - Air Date 10-10-18
One reproductive justice organization considers the future of reproductive health access under the US Supreme Court.
A conversation with the reproductive justice advocates at the SIA Legal Team about their important work on behalf of people who self-induce abortions.
Lauren Kelley, The New York Times Editorial Board, Women and Reproductive Rights Editor, discusses the special series by the New York Times editorial board that explores what fetal personhood laws are, how they’ve been used to successfully chip away at Roe v. Wade and why women with wanted pregnancies end up prosecuted under them.
Ch. 4: Why people choose abortion - Science Vs - Air Date 10-31-18
Abortion is so taboo. People don’t talk about abortions they’ve had. Doctors don’t talk about abortions they’ve given. But it's happening a lot. So, what actually happens in an abortion, can the fetus feel pain and what are the risks?
Ch. 5: Abortion Beyond Clinics - Making Contact - Air Date 1-16-19
Exploring new safe at-home abortion options and the growing movement for “self-managed abortions.”
Ch. 6: Will Roe vs Wade be overturned? (with Robin Marty) - Thom Hartmann - Air Date 1-31-19
Roe vs Wade is perhaps the best-known court case, but will the decision be overturned?
Take action! Click the title and/or scroll down for quick links and resources from this segment.
Ch. 8: Katha Pollitt on the politics of motherhood - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 8-29-18
Mothers and pregnant women are discriminated against, devalued, and punished—here at home, and around the world. Katha Pollitt talks about how that has happened—and why.
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Ch. 9: Representation is important but you can't substitute identity for values - Ryan from Chicago
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments giving examples of people who like to get in on the con of patriarchy and white supremacy
TAKE ACTION
Call & write your members of Congress to tell them to support the EACH Woman Act via Center for Reproductive Rights
Explore & share this NationalFamilyPlanning.org’s interactive map on Title X data and impact by state
Download & share the “Save Title X” graphics created by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Share this video from Planned Parenthood on Protecting Title X
Learn more about how Title X changes impact care at istandwithpp.org/no-gag-rule
EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE
Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to an anti-abortion group(USA Today)
Trump Administration Gives Family Planning Grant to Anti-Abortion Group(New York Times)
California sues Trump administration over rules restricting abortion access(LA Times)
Radical Attempts to Ban Abortion Dominate State Policy Trends in the First Quarter of 2019(Guttmacher Institute)
Supreme Court Sides With California Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers(NPR, June 2018)
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| 0:23.2 | Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:27.8 | about the current state of abortion rights. |
| 0:30.8 | Hint, they are already in tatters. |
| 0:33.6 | And then we're going to speculate about what's to come as Roe vs Wade faces relentless chipping |
| 0:38.2 | away and the possibility of full repeal. |
| 0:41.4 | Clips today come from Making Contact, Boom, Loyard, The Dianne Reamshow, Science Versus, The |
| 0:48.2 | Tom Harpon program, and Start Making Sense. |
| 0:57.6 | Some state houses across the country are already poised to consider banning abortion if |
| 1:02.5 | Roe v Wade is dismantled. |
| 1:05.2 | I sat down with Norbeese Flint, Policy Director at Black Women for Wellness Los Angeles. |
| 1:10.4 | We talked about some of the potential changes to reproductive healthcare access under the |
| 1:14.8 | current US Supreme Court and other changes that have been underway for several years. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm wondering if you could talk about the criminalization of miscarriage in the United States |
| 1:27.6 | and how it's played out in certain states? |
| 1:30.0 | There are about 38 states that have some type of fetus eye laws. |
| 1:36.4 | Those laws happen to do with the treatment of the fetus. |
| 1:42.1 | However, I believe 16 or 17 of them have one that don't have an exception for the mother. |
| 1:50.4 | Right? |
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