(2011/04/28) Your body is a battleground (Feminism, mostly abortion)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 April 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #481
Your body is a battleground
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Act 1: New strict anti-abortion law - Young Turks
Song 1: I'm a pilot - Fanfarlo
Act 2: Not just anti-choice but anti-contraception - Dan Savage
Song 2: Tiny wings theme - Andreas Illiger
Act 3: Perry's "Texanity" explained - Jim Hightower
Song 3: Tonight's the Night - Rod Stewart
Act 4: Women now empowered by everything a woman does - The Onion
Song 4: The girl - City And Colour
Act 5: New abortion bill becomes law - Young Turks
Song 5: Light & Day / Reach for the Sun - The Polyphonic Spree
Act 6: Paycheck fairness - Thom Hartmann
Song 6: Women and men - They might be giants
Act 7: Report: Sexism in nature rampant - The Onion
Song 7: Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed
Act 8: Strictest abortion law in US coming soon - Young Turks
Song 8: Pregnant women are smug - Garfunkel and Oates
Act 9: Judy Williams interview - Colbert Report
Song 9: Julie-O.- Kevin "KO" Olusola
Act 10: Over 350 anti-abortion bills in 2011 so far - David Pakman
Song 10: Dreamtime - Uberzone
Act 11: Baby taken away over C-section refusal - Young Turks
Song 11: Ill with want - The Avett Brothers
Act 12: Buy and cellulite - Colbert Report
Voicemails:
Responding to Ryan from NY Re: military in Libya - Michael From Glenn Bernie
Show suggestions: Radio Free Oz - Wild Horse from Olympia, WA
In defense of calling them fascists - Roy from McClain TX
Show on stupidity in politics - Adam from Chicagoland
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - Rjd2
Final comments on advertising and the NLC fundraiser
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
I Have Sex — students speak out against ideological attack on Planned Parenthood - Weslayan Uncut
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show. |
| 0:05.4 | For details visit the membership tab at Best of the Left.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the young |
| 0:12.4 | Turks, Dan Savage, Jim Hightower, The Onion Radio News, The Tom Harbin program, The |
| 0:17.2 | Colbert Report and The David Pakman Show with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and |
| 0:21.9 | Android app users that does a great job of defending Planned Parenthood from the youth |
| 0:26.3 | perspective by Wesleyan Uncut. |
| 0:29.8 | Missouri has just passed a state law that claims life begins at conception and the reason |
| 0:36.8 | why this is important is because it makes getting an abortion even more difficult for women |
| 0:42.7 | in the state. |
| 0:43.7 | Remember we talked about Missouri before and how there's only one abortion clinic in the |
| 0:47.1 | entire state and women have to drive up to a hundred miles just to get to it and then |
| 0:52.4 | they have to get counseling and they have doctors who try to convince them not to get |
| 0:57.7 | the abortion then they have to go home and think about it and then if they decide to |
| 1:01.7 | get the abortion they come back. |
| 1:03.3 | Well this is going to make abortion laws even more strict in the state. |
| 1:08.0 | What's going to happen now is doctors have to give women who are thinking about getting |
| 1:13.5 | abortions, a pamphlet and the pamphlet will have to say the life of each human being begins |
| 1:19.0 | at conception abortion will terminate the life of a separate unique living human being. |
| 1:25.5 | Well here's what they're not, separate. |
| 1:30.2 | I don't think you could really have an argument about that can you? |
| 1:33.2 | If they were separate they wouldn't be inside your body. |
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