(2016/06/14) A right delayed is a right denied (Reproductive Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 June 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1021
Today we take a look at the assault on the right to reproductive health care from the state houses down to the sidewalks in front of the clinics
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: April's Story: One Woman's Experience of an Abortion at 21 Weeks - Planned Parenthood (@PPact) - Air Date: 09-21-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Heirloom - The Black Atlantic
Ch. 5: Song 2: Mandy Goes to Med School - The Dresden Dolls
Ch. 6: Act 3: The he-said-he-said abortion debate in the media - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 6-3-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Lost Woman Song - Ani DiFranco
Ch. 8: Act 4: Abortion Laws - @LastWeekTonight w/ @iamjohnoliver - Air Date: 02-21-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: December - Frida Hyvönen
Ch. 10: Act 5: Wicked Jezebel Feminist! Users Witness Anti-Choice Abuse in Virtual Reality Film "Across the Line" - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 01-25-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: What It's Like - Everlast
Ch. 12: Act 6: Support the women's health protection act via #ActForWomen - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 14: Act 7: A regretted abortion doesn't legitimize a ban on abortions - Savage Love w/ @FakeDanSavage - Air Date 5-31-16
Voicemails
Ch. 15: Anti-LGBT rhetoric leads to anti-LGBT violence - Erin from Philadelphia
Ch. 16: A lack of a female president is injurious to the country - Tanya from California
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 17: Final comments on the long term effects of finally having a female president
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
TAKE ACTION
Learn more about the Act for Women Campaign and the Women's Health Protection Act at http://www.actforwomen.org
Download the Act for Women Campaign Tools & Resources http://www.actforwomen.org/tools-and-resources/
Find out where and how to watch "TRAPPED," the documentary at http://www.trappeddocumentary.com
Use the hashtag #ActforWomen on social media and tweet at your congressperson to urge them to support the Women's Health Protection Act.
Follow the Center for Reproductive Rights on Twitter @ReproRights
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's important to recognize |
| 0:02.1 | while this is certainly a threat to abortion rights. |
| 0:05.1 | This is a political, systematic approach |
| 0:08.9 | to depriving millions of people of rights |
| 0:11.7 | on all sorts of levels. |
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| 0:24.5 | Now, welcome to the award winning best of left podcasts |
| 0:27.0 | with clips today from Planned Parenthood, |
| 0:29.2 | Papaganda from Bitch Media, Counter-Spin, |
| 0:32.1 | last week tonight with John Oliver, Democracy Now, |
| 0:35.1 | Activism for the Women's Health Protection Act, |
| 0:37.8 | and Dance Abrage. |
| 0:45.8 | My husband and I just celebrated our seventh wedding |
| 0:48.2 | anniversary and people still tell us |
| 0:50.6 | that we act like newlyweds. |
| 0:52.1 | And so for me, having a child with him |
| 0:55.0 | just felt like it would be an extension |
| 0:57.0 | of how we felt about each other. |
| 1:00.7 | I really thought that it would happen quickly and easily, |
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