(2012/02/25) The War on Women Part 1: Contraception
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🗓️ 26 February 2012
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Edition #579
The War on Women Part 1: Contraception
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Act 1: Fox Attempts to Smear Obama as Anti-Catholic - Media Matters Air Date: 2-2-12
Song 1: Only the good die young - Billy Joel
Act 2: Obama Attacks Religious Freedom McConnel on Contraception Coverage -TYT - Air Date: 2-13-12
Song 2: If I had a hammer - Peter, Paul & Mary
Act 3: It's a great time to be a woman in America! - Blacking it up Air Date: 2-13-12
Song 3: Living in America - James Brown
Act 4: Fox: Access to Birth Control = Forcing You To Eat Pork - Media Matters Air Date: 2-15-12
Song 4: Fool - Shakira
Act 5: Republicans Have Picked a Loser in Contraception Fight - The Progressive Air Date: 2-16-12
Song 5: Those were the days - Mary Hopkin
Act 6: If we allow contraception women may begin to think they're equal to men - Majority Report Air Date: 2-14-12
Song 6: Barefoot and pregnant - Doyle and Debbie
Act 7: American Lady News and the debate on contraception - The Bugle Air Date: 2-17-12
Song 7: Lessons learned - Matt & Kim
Act 8: Obama Contraception Compromise Not 3D Chess - Young Turks - Air Date 2-20-12
Song 8: The boy in the bubble - Paul Simon
Act 9: Really? with Seth and Amy: Birth Control - Saturday Night Live
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at BestOfAleft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with Hoops today, from Media Matters, |
| 0:13.3 | The Young Turks, Blacking It Up, The Progressive, The Majority Report, The Bugle, and Saturday |
| 0:18.0 | Night Live. |
| 0:19.0 | For our more sensitive listeners, I want to warn that this episode does contain reference |
| 0:22.6 | to women having personal free will. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the Media Matters Minute. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Meredith Richie. |
| 0:33.0 | Fox figures have recently suggested that President Obama is anti-Catholic or anti-religion following |
| 0:38.5 | the administration's decision that requires church-affiliated organizations to provide |
| 0:42.7 | health insurance plans that cover contraceptives for women. |
| 0:45.9 | This is part of the whole allegation of the war against religion, the war against the |
| 0:51.0 | Catholic Church. |
| 0:52.0 | In an election year, a lot of Catholic voters are going to say, why is the federal government |
| 0:57.8 | doing this to us? |
| 0:59.3 | Why is President Obama picking on us in this way? |
| 1:02.6 | And to the point about the Obama administration, they have been cutting services to the Catholic |
| 1:06.9 | Church and been beating up on Catholics for a long time. |
| 1:10.3 | According to a 2009 poll conducted for Catholics for choice, 63% of American Catholics said |
| 1:16.0 | that health insurance policies, whether they are private or government, should cover contraception |
| 1:21.2 | such as birth control pills. |
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