(2012/04/22) The miracle of life and the prevention thereof (War on Women)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 April 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Edition #598
The miracle of life and the prevention thereof
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Anti-Abortion Bill Says Hospitals Should Let Women Die - David Pakman - Air Date: 3-20-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: More than this - Hotrod Cadets
Ch. 4: Act 2: Planned Parenthood Bombing - Young Turks - Air Date 4-2-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Needle in the hay - Elliott Smith
Ch. 6: Act 3: Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Bombing Spotlights Anti-Choicers in the State - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 4-3-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: The World Has Turned And Left Me Here - Weezer
Ch. 8: Act 4: How Not to Kill Your Baby - David Feldman Show - Air Date: 3-13-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: How to save a life - The Fray
Ch. 10: Act 5: Women Don't Care About Contraception says Gov. Nikki Haley - Young Turks - Air Date: 4-4-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Mrs. Robinson - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Ch. 12: Act 6: Scott Walker Quietly Signs Abstinence & Anti-Abortion Bills - David Pakman - Air Date 4-10-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: When the President Talks to God - Bright Eyes
Ch. 14: Act 7: Women Are Just Like Livestock! Says Recently Passed Bill - Majority Report - Air Date: 4-11-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Georgia on my mind - Willie Nelson
Ch. 16: Act 8: Anti-Gay Politics Causes GOP to Flub Chance for War on Women push back - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 4-12-12
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Ch. 17: Final comments: Part 1 of 3 on the blindness of exuberance: Mike Daisey and they Apple Factory
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details, visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at bestlevelleft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with us today from the David |
| 0:12.6 | Packman show, The Young Turks, The Rachel Maddo Show, The David Feldman show, and The |
| 0:16.6 | Majority Report. |
| 0:17.6 | And a note for our female listeners, I just want to remind you to breathe. |
| 0:21.7 | Don't forget to breathe. |
| 0:30.2 | And lastly, there is a bill in the House known as HR358 or the Protect Life Act. |
| 0:35.2 | I don't have to tell you which party is sponsoring it. |
| 0:38.0 | And this would actually allow hospitals to let women die instead of having an abortion. |
| 0:42.5 | The backstory refers to a 1986 law known as MTALA, EMTA LA, which requires providing |
| 0:50.5 | emergency care to anyone who comes into hospitals. |
| 0:53.6 | In the case of an anti-abortion hospital with a patient requiring an emergency abortion |
| 0:57.6 | at MTALA, a rather MTALA, would require that the hospital perform it or transfer the |
| 1:03.4 | patient somewhere that they can be performed. |
| 1:06.9 | The new bill, HR358, would free hospitals from that requirement under MTALA, very, very |
| 1:13.0 | dangerous. |
| 1:14.0 | A question for you, Lewis. |
| 1:15.0 | If personhood really does begin a conception, shouldn't the child tax credit also begin |
| 1:20.1 | a conception rather than after birth? |
| 1:22.0 | I guess that would only be fair, right? |
| 1:23.9 | It sounds fair to me. |
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