(2014/03/29) Intolerant of discrimination and proud of it (Reproductive Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 March 2014
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Edition #813
Intolerant of discrimination and proud of it
Today we look at the inane battle being waged over some christian business owners proclaimed right to discriminate against their female employees reproductive rights based on junk science.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The GOPs birth control issue - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 01-24-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Remember Jonathan (Messenger Of The Sun album) - Cyrille Verdeaux
Ch. 4: Act 2: Abortion Rate Lowest in 41 Years Because of Liberals - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 02-05-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: So thankful - Nahko and Medicine for the People
Ch. 6: Act 3: Corporations can't have it both ways - RJ Court Watch - Air Date: 3-24-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Mothers of the night - Moby
Ch. 8: Act 4: Fox Judicial Analyst Falsely Claims Obamacare Contraception Coverage Includes Euthanasia - Media Matters Minute (@mmfa) - Air Date: 03-25-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Mothers of the night - Moby
Ch. 10: Act 5: Women Aren't Women; They're 'Hosts' Says Republican - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-26-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Pray for you - Jaron And The Long Road To Love
Ch. 12: Act 6: Legal questions around corporations, religion and contraception access - RJ Court Watch - Air Date: 3-24-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Mas que nada - Sergio Mendes
Ch. 14: Act 7: Restricting Abortion Rights Makes for a Unified Party - Rachel @maddow - Air Date: 01-22-2014
Ch. 15: Song 7: We all agree - Mika Vember
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Clinic Vest Project via- @clinicvestproje - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 18: Act 9: Anti-Choice Zealots Threaten Women Activists Online - @majorityfm - Air Date: 03-20-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: Too tired - Albert Collins
Ch. 20: Act 10: Are corporations free to have their own facts? - @twib_fm - Air Date: 3-24-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Focusing movements on what groups are not - Daniel from Albany, NY
Ch. 22: The rich do have something to fear - Brad from Dallas, TX
Ch. 23: Being pro-choice as a conservative - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 24: Final comments on Katie Klabusich's connection to the clinic escort program
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
The Clinic Vest Project
Sources/further reading:
"Appeals court upholds law that closed Texas abortion clinics" by Irin Carmon
"We Won’t Forget: The End of Safe, Legal Abortion Care in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley [Video]” by Andrea Grimes
Clinic Defense: Escorting
"Obama Administration’s Weak Defense May Prove To Be Birth Control Benefit’s Achilles Heel” by Jessica Mason Pieklo
”Is a Corporation Religious? Maybe, Say Justices” by Irin Carmon
"Is the Contraception Mandate Doomed? It sure looks that way after the Hobby Lobby argument” by Dahlia Lithwick
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the membership donors to the show, for details visit the membership tab at bestofalf.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups Today from Oling with Chris Hayes, the David Pakman Show, |
| 0:14.0 | RJ Cork Watch, the Media Matters Minute, the Young Turks, the Rachel Maddo Show, the Majority Report, and this Week in Blackness. |
| 0:20.0 | And just a quick reminder, because it's easy to forget, both abortion and birth control are actually legal in the US. |
| 0:30.0 | Mike Huckabee is not backing down. He is doubling down, as we enter day two of libido game. |
| 0:37.0 | Some of you may become somewhat uncomfortable as parts of this film unfold, but I think if you listen carefully, |
| 0:44.0 | you will agree that the concept will contribute to the rearing of a mature person who has a healthy, responsible attitude toward the sexual side of his life. |
| 0:53.0 | Given the GOP's track record of talking to women about their own reproductive health, the RNC's winter meeting was the perfect opportunity to roll out a new, more female-friendly Republican party. |
| 1:06.0 | Instead, they got this. |
| 1:08.0 | If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, |
| 1:19.0 | because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. |
| 1:25.0 | But this was no off the cuff from Mark. Huckabee has said something similar before, as in this past Saturday. |
| 1:32.0 | For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control, it's demeaning to the women that I know, who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system. |
| 1:45.0 | Huckabee is now fundraising off his remarks, warning liberals should get ready for more of this talk. |
| 1:52.0 | But according to fellow social conservative Rick Santorum, this isn't even about birth control. |
| 1:57.0 | That's one of the things that's most frustrating, is there isn't a lot of disagreement on access to contraception. |
| 2:02.0 | It's a surprisingly different tone from this other guy, also named Rick Santorum. |
| 2:07.0 | I don't think it works, I think it's harmful to women, I think it's harmful to our society, to have a society that says that sex outside of marriage is something that should be encouraged or tolerate particularly among the young. |
| 2:20.0 | Birth control to me enables that, and I don't think it's a healthy thing for our country. |
| 2:23.0 | But now Santorum 2.0 says this isn't about birth control, this is about the government. |
| 2:28.0 | That's one of the things that's most frustrating, is there isn't a lot of disagreement on access to contraception, |
| 2:34.0 | whether the government should pay for it, there is a disagreement. |
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