(2014/09/06) The fight for fundamental equality (Abortion Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 September 2014
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edition #858
The fight for fundamental equality
Today we take a look at some of the fights being waged, setbacks and successes of the abortion rights movement
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: The first US abortion clinic/birthing center - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air date: 05-02-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Wash Away (Reprise) - Julie Blue
Ch. 4: Act 2: The Crusade Against Reproductive Rights Part 1 - @BillMoyersHQ - Air Date: 7-18-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Wax & Wire - Night Bats - EP
Ch. 6: Act 3: Criminalizing women for miscarriages - @TWiBnation - Air Date: 3-26-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Serre-moi - Grain de sable
Ch. 8: Act 4: The Crusade Against Reproductive Rights Part 2 - @BillMoyersHQ - Air Date: 7-18-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Second Class Citizen - Out of the Ordinary Songs, Vol. 2
Ch. 10: Act 5: Turning Around The Declining Reproductive Rights Of Texans - @NetrootsRadio @AndreaGrimes - Air Date 9-3-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: 500 Miles - The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary
Ch. 12: Act 6: Taco Or Beer Challenge - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Right to Complain - Backatown (Bonus Track Version)
Ch. 14: Act 7: Amy Hagstrom-Miller, Whole Woman's Health -Texas Clinics To Reopen - @democracynow - Air Date 9-2-11
Voicemails
Ch. 15: Suggesting Cowspiracy documentary - Jim from near Seattle, WA
Ch. 16: Bike analogy good as an introductory explainer - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 17: New ways of talking about privilege important to civil conversations - Xena from New York
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 18: Final comments on why it's the concept, not the words, people actually have a problem with
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
TAKE ACTION:
Take the Taco Or Beer Challenge via Andrea Grimes
Additional Activism/Resources:
Find your local abortion fund through The National Network of Abortion Funds and follow NNAF on Twitter
Follow #TacoOrBeerChallenge and use it to challenge your friends/followers!
Sources/further reading:
#TacoOrBeerChallenge, Two Weeks In
NNAF Spotlight: New Orleans Abortion Fund h/t @nolaAbortionFnd
"Meet The Woman Who Refuses To Stop Fighting Against Texas’ Abortion Restrictions” by Tara Culp-Ressler at Think Progress
"Whole Woman’s Health Opens its Doors in New Mexico, Starts Advocacy Initiative” via Whole Woman’s Health
"Abortion Provider Expands to New Mexico in Response to Texas Anti-Abortion Law” by Andrea Grimes at RH Reality Check
"Federal Court Blocks Part of Texas Abortion Law Preceding Immediate State Appeal” by Andrea Grimes at RH Reality Check
WATCH: "What It’s Like Inside One of Texas’ Last Abortion Clinics”
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 members and donors to the show. |
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| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award winning Best of the Left Podcast with today. |
| 0:12.5 | From all in with Chris Hayes, Moir's and Company, this week in Blackness, After Show |
| 0:16.6 | from Networks Radio, Activism from Best of Left, and Democracy Now. |
| 0:20.9 | Now be sure to stay tuned for the most delicious Activism opportunity to date. |
| 0:30.0 | To your doctor in this country and you decide to provide abortion as part of your medical |
| 0:33.2 | practice, you just expect a certain amount of protest and harassment and menace you |
| 0:37.9 | hope to escape violence. |
| 0:39.9 | It's just part of the job. |
| 0:41.3 | Tonight we will introduce you to a doctor who's been facing all that for decades who |
| 0:45.0 | was undeturbed by the extreme violence of the 90s abortion wars and is pressing forward |
| 0:49.9 | with a new fight. |
| 0:51.9 | In this country what we do is we infantilize women. |
| 0:56.1 | So the woman that comes for a termination of pregnancy, she just must be a completely |
| 1:02.1 | deluded woman who stumbled into an abortion facility and had an abortion and didn't want |
| 1:08.3 | it. |
| 1:09.3 | And so what we do is we persecute the providers and you'll see that also in natural birth. |
| 1:16.4 | For 30 years Dr. Catherine Morrison has been providing abortion care, Buffalo, New York. |
| 1:21.6 | She's an OBGYN by training also attending to women giving birth. |
| 1:25.7 | But now she's embarking on a new endeavor in her field opening up the country's very |
| 1:30.0 | first natural birthing center housed inside of an abortion clinic, something that would |
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