194. How Project 2025 Will Affect Women, LGBTQIA+, Abortion Rights, and More with Journalist Amanda Becker

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today's episode is an important one, and the contents will affect every woman you know. I chatted with Amanda Becker — a seasoned journalist who has covered national politics for nearly two decades — about the unprecedented nature of our current political scene. We took a critical look at Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation, a plan proposing significant changes to LGBTQ rights, gender policies, reproductive rights, and education. We broke down who's behind it and what it could mean for healthcare, labor policies, and American families. This isn’t just about politics; this is about the power of grassroots democracy and the importance of civic engagement. We share practical advice on how you can get involved and make your voice heard. Plus, we include powerful stories about reproductive healthcare and community organizing that I think will resonate with you. So, if you're ready to be informed and inspired, this is an episode you won't want to miss. To get more resources, including any freebies mentioned in this episode, head to ⁠⁠https://herfirst100k.com/ffpod⁠ Amanda’s links & additional resources: Get Amanda’s book: YOU MUST STAND UP, The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America Project 2025 and its affect on women—see article: https://19thnews.org/2024/07/project-2025-women-education-lgbtq-workforce Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Across almost every facet of this plan, every department of the federal government,
0:06.0	they would be trying to curtail LGBTQ rights, barring the EEOC from even tracking kind of like sex discrimination in the way that it's been tracked.
0:17.0	Eliminating collecting data on what they call DEI efforts, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
0:23.7	They want to create a department of life
0:26.2	that will collect data on people who have abortion.
0:29.2	They would try to rescind a Biden administration guidance that an emergency medicine law that requires hospitals provide abortion care and emergency and then getting into education. I mean, there's just a lot.
0:47.0	Hi Financial Feminist, welcome to the show. I'm excited to see you as always.
0:49.0	I am foregoing my usual intro because we have two weeks until the election. Now I've said it before I
0:56.8	will say to get a million times the presidential election is very important
1:00.1	your local elections are arguably even more important.
1:04.0	Who you elect to be governor, who you elect to Congress in your state,
1:08.0	who you elect to city council,
1:10.0	all of these elections are very crucial.
1:13.4	And as we discuss with our guests today,
1:17.3	these policies that are being proposed
1:21.4	by the conservative right will affect every single person regardless of where you live.
1:29.0	I live in Washington State, it is a blue state, I am not safe.
1:35.0	It's not fear-mongering, but I have to tell you, we'll talk about it more in the
1:40.0	episode, that these sorts of policies would affect every single person regardless of where you
1:46.8	live regardless of whether you're on the coasts or not, regardless of whether you live in a blue state or a blue area or not.
1:54.7	I also need to implore you. Your husband will not know who you're voting for.
2:00.1	Your father will not know who you're voting for.
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