#1373 Post-Roe: The Next Phase in the Fight for Reproductive Justice
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
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Air Date 10/9/2020
Today we take a look at the future of abortion rights and the broader reproductive justice movement in the face of a conservative super-majority on the Supreme Court
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: How The GOP Ended Up Hating Abortion - AJ+ - Air Date 8-4-19
Republicans and their base used to be more supportive of abortion rights than Democrats. Now, they’re pushing for abortion restrictions with an aim to overturn Roe v. Wade. Why did the GOP turn its back on abortion rights?
Ch. 2: Body of Law Beyond Roe - On the Media - Air Date 12-13-19
Activist and scholar Loretta Ross explains the tenets of reproductive justice and how they expand the frame beyond Roe and abortion; Reva Siegel of Yale Law School describes the framework of ProChoiceLife.
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Ch. 4: Everyone Loves Someone Who Had an Abortion - National Network of Abortion Funds - Air Date 4-16-20
Access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion, largely depends on where you live and how much money you have. Abortion funds are taking the hassle and harassment out of healthcare by helping people all across our network access and fund abortions.
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Candidates weigh in on current abortion laws and President Donald Trump's campaign promise to shift the Supreme Court to the right.
Ch. 7: What Happens When You Restrict Abortion? - AJ+ - Air Date 10-8-19
Restricting abortion access doesn’t have the same impact on everyone. It adversely affects people of color and low-income residents more. But why and how? We traveled to the place with the largest percentage of Black residents in the U.S. to find out.
Lost abortion rights and no paid maternity or family leaves keep women from advancing at work as they take time to care for children. Abortion and family leaves are sites of the revolutionary struggle for America's personal and family life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left by Gast in which we shall |
| 0:06.0 | learn about the future of abortion rights and the broader reproductive justice movement |
| 0:11.0 | in the face of a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:15.2 | Clips today are from AJ Plus on the media, the national network of abortion funds, ABC |
| 0:21.7 | News's Democratic primary debate and capitalism hits home. |
| 0:32.7 | Is the GOP obsessed with outlawing abortion? The country is witnessing an unprecedented |
| 0:38.2 | wave of abortion restrictions. But this anti-abortion rights platform did pop up suddenly. |
| 0:44.1 | The GOP has had to be patient, strategic and aggressive in their tactics and occasionally |
| 0:49.8 | say things like this. |
| 0:55.8 | Wow, thanks for that groundbreaking insight, Mr. President. I'm going to break down why |
| 1:00.1 | the GOP embraced abortion as a core policy and how we ended up with so many abortion restrictions. |
| 1:06.1 | First, it may come as a surprise, but the GOP and their supporters weren't always against |
| 1:12.6 | abortion rights. |
| 1:16.0 | Several years after Roe v Wade, a landmark Supreme Court case that made abortion legal in |
| 1:20.9 | the United States was decided, public opinion polls actually showed that on average, Republican |
| 1:26.6 | voters supported abortion rights more than Democrats. |
| 1:30.4 | Well, historically, neither party was really pro-choice or pro-life and there were politicians |
| 1:35.2 | in either party who could be found in each camp. So there were lots of Catholic pro-life |
| 1:40.9 | Democrats like a presidential candidate Joe Biden at one time opposed abortion. |
| 1:46.2 | Republican First Lady Betty Ford called Roe v Wade a great, great decision. And Republican |
| 1:51.0 | Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had campaigned for abortion rights in New York. Even the |
| 1:55.4 | chair of the Republican National Committee was pro-abortion rights. |
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