(2014/01/21) We just earned a D grade (Reproductive Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 January 2014
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Summary
Edition #791
We just earned a D grade
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Anti-abortion Ohio legislator never thought about women - Rachel @maddow - Air Date: 9-8-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: I don't think about it - Emily Osment
Ch. 4: Act 2: Michigan women stare down rape insurance - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 12-12-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Get up and go - Broadcast 2000
Ch. 6: Act 3: Anti-Abortion Judge: Drive Faster If The Clinic Is Far Away - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 01-12-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Help - Howie Day
Ch. 8: Act 4: Republican: Forcing Women to Have Babies Will Create Jobs! - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Keep then down - The Young Sinclairs
Ch. 10: Act 5: Could 2014 See Abortion Restriction Rollback? - Rachel @maddow - Air Date: 01-03-2014
Ch. 11: Song 5: One million miles - J. Ralph
Ch. 12: Act 6: Shrinking Government to fit in a Vagina - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 10-30-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: A theme for bizarre behavior - Clifton's Ford
Ch. 14: Act 7: After Tiller: Abortions No One Wants to Talk About - @grittv with Laura Flanders - Air Date: 11-5-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Touch of grey - Grateful Dead
Ch. 16: Act 8: Documentary on Choice: After Tiller - @BestoftheLeft Activism - Air Date: 1-21-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 18: Act 9: Supreme Court Considers Legality of Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: Double standard - Mustang Sally
Ch. 20: Act 10: NARAL President Ilyse Hogue Discusses Who Decides? - @ilyseh on MSNBC - Air Date: 1-14-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Thoughts on race vs class - Erin from Philadelphia
Ch. 22: Getting our minds wrapped around class-divided neighborhoods - Tate from Prince George's County, MD
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 23: Final comments on the complicated interplay of factors surrounding race, class and divided neighborhoods
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM: "After Tiller”
After Tiller (FB page/screening schedule)
After Tiller UK iTunes rental
Sources/further reading:
Crow After Roe by Jessica Mason Pieklo & Robin Marty
NARAL Report Card on Reproductive Healthcare Access for states/US, 2013
Guttmacher Institute statistics on abortion providers
Roe v. Wade (1973) via PBS.org
Clinic Buffer Zones, Think Progress
Supreme Court Revisits Abortion Clinic Rules by Irin Carmon
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to show for details and visit the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cupsidae from the Rachel Maddo show. |
| 0:12.0 | All in with Chris Hayes, the young Turks, the majority report, the Tom Hartman program, great TV with Laura Flanders, |
| 0:17.0 | a Best of the Left activism segment and the David Pakman show. |
| 0:20.0 | And remember that the choice to listen to this episode is a decision that should be made between yourself and your doctor and no one has the right to tell you what podcast you should listen to. |
| 0:30.0 | Al Jazeera English just made a really good documentary in which they interviewed a state legislator from Ohio. |
| 0:36.0 | This guy is a co-sponsor of a bill in Ohio to dramatically roll back the time in which a woman is allowed to have an abortion in that state. |
| 0:43.0 | So he gets interviewed by Al Jazeera and he tells Al Jazeera in the interview that what he really wants is for there to be no legal abortion at all in Ohio except to save a woman's life. |
| 0:52.0 | But then this is the important part. Watch what happens next. Watch what happens after he says that with the follow-up question here from the reporter. |
| 0:59.0 | This is kind of amazing. Watch. |
| 1:03.0 | What do you think makes a woman want to have an abortion? |
| 1:09.0 | Well, there's probably a lot of, I'm not a woman so I'm thinking now if I'm a woman, why would I? |
| 1:18.0 | Some of it has to do with economics. A lot of it has to do with economics. I don't know. |
| 1:24.0 | It's a question I never even thought about. |
| 1:27.0 | Why would a woman want an abortion? I never thought about it. |
| 1:31.0 | Says the man who is doing his best to ban abortion in Ohio. |
| 1:47.0 | The sentence I'm about to utter is going to sound insane, but it is true. |
| 2:05.0 | Republicans in Michigan have passed an initiative that would, in effect, require women to take out brave insurance. |
| 2:13.0 | I know. I know. That does not sound like it could be true, but that is what happened yesterday. |
| 2:19.0 | This tells women that were raped and became pregnant that they should have thought ahead and bought special insurance for it. |
| 2:26.0 | By moving forward on this initiative, Senate Republicans want to essentially require Michigan women to plan ahead and financially invest in health care coverage for potentially having their bodies violated and assaulted. |
| 2:42.0 | I was Michigan's Senate Minority Leader, Correction Whittner, who revealed publicly yesterday that she herself is a survivor of rape that happened two decades ago. |
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