#190 Why Do I Need A Pro-Choice Coroner? Ft. Heidi Sieck

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode, Amanda chats with Heidi Sieck, the founder of #VOTEPROCHOICE, an organization that empowers voters to select public officials who will actually support safe abortion access. Sieck explains just how many elected officials are involved in securing -- or denying -- your right to reproductive freedom, from your mayor to your sheriff, local coroner and even the state agricultural commissioner. Sieck also shares the path through which abortion could become illegal in the U.S., and how shockingly far along that path we are. #VOTEPROCHOICE streamlines local election information to expose anti-choice mechanisms at work all around us, to ensure we’re actually voting down-ballot in ways that protect the right to choose. Learn more at voteprochoice.us Follow Heidi and her work at @heidispeaks on Instagram and Twitter Note: This episode was recorded before Sen. Kamala Harris suspended her bid for the presidency, dating one of our references. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betches Media presents.
0:02.0	Like beer, I don't know if you do you like beer, senator or not.
0:04.7	Mom, I want a baby.
0:06.2	A nude pictures of Trump.
0:08.4	Come on nah.
0:09.4	Don't mess with me.
0:10.6	The Betches S up, podcast.
0:13.0	How dare you?
0:15.0	Hi everybody, this is Amanda here.
0:17.0	I am back with Heidi Seak, founder and CEO of Vote Pro Choice.
0:21.0	Welcome, Heidi.
0:22.0	Hello, Amanda. Happy to be here.. Yeah we're happy to have you.
0:24.6	So I like to start pretty broad with our guests so I just want to know what do you do and
0:29.1	why and what path did you take to get here? Oh what a wonderful story that is. So vote pro-choice
0:36.6	was founded as a simple down-ballot voter guide for the 2016 election and what that means is we discovered that
0:46.3	about only about 15% of people actually fill out their entire ballot so we wanted to
0:52.4	make sure that, you know,
0:54.6	what I mean, like you vote for president and senator
0:57.1	and then you kind of stop when you look at the courts
0:59.3	and the school boards and all that.
1:00.8	And so we really wanted to make sure with Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket
1:04.5	that everyone was voting all the way down the ballot because we knew that lots of
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