(2016/07/08) Whole Woman’s Health and other stories (Reproductive Justice)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 July 2016
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1027
Today we take a look at the historic reproductive rights ruling from the Supreme Court that just came down in the Whole Woman’s Health case as well as just a few of the ways that anti-choice activists are continuing their fight to curtail reproductive justice
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Explaining the Whole Woman's Health SCOTUS ruling - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBPrime) - Air Date 6-28-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Good Day - Jukebox the Ghost
Ch. 4: Act 2: Republicans Pushing Fetal Burial Laws - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 04-17-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Remains - Matt Pond PA
Ch. 7: Song 3: The Obvious Child - Paul Simon
Ch. 9: Song 4: Little lies - Fleetwood Mac
Ch. 10: Act 5: Amy Hagstrom Miller (@AmyHM), the plaintiff who won a historic abortion rights case - Amicus from @Slate - Air Date 7-2-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Let it go - The Neighbourhood
Ch. 12: Act 6: Chelsea Handler Fighting Abortion Shame By Telling Her Story - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 06-30-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Privacy - Michael Jackson
Ch. 15: Song 7: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 16: Act 8: Why Alito's dissent is just wrong - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBPrime) - Air Date 6-28-16
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Thoughts on Omar Mateen and the effects of toxic masculinity - Ruben from Oakland
Ch. 18: A progressive pastor on the Orlando shooting - Don from Bentonville, Arkansas
Ch. 19: A followup to the discussion of the Orlando shooter being gay - Gabriel from Texas
Ch. 20: Thoughts on how gay people are treated in society - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 21: Final comments on the need to recognize the humanity in those who appear most inhuman
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
Add your name to the Center for Reproductive Rights' message to Congress to pass the Women's Health Protection Act to prohibit states from imposing abortion restrictions
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
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Written by BOTL Communications director Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | and our quest to sort of comply over the last sort of 10, 15 years, |
| 0:04.2 | that if you pick your head up and you start looking at this sort of compliance endeavor, |
| 0:08.5 | you realize it's absurd and it's sort of changed your relationship with the patient. |
| 0:12.4 | You're practicing for the regulators if you're not careful. |
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| 0:26.7 | Now, welcome to the award winning BestOfAleft podcast with Kup today. |
| 0:30.0 | From this week in blackness, the young Turks talk poverty radio in deep with Angie Koyro, |
| 0:35.9 | Amicus from Slate and Activism today for Act for Women. |
| 0:46.5 | We got a ruling in Whole Woman's Health, the Heller Schitt, |
| 0:50.9 | which is the most important abortion decision to come down from the Supreme Court, |
| 0:56.1 | since 2019, I mean, you could argue since 2000 in Gonzalez-Vicar, |
| 1:00.4 | that was a bullshit, that was a shitty decision for us. |
| 1:02.5 | But since 1992, Planned Parenthood versus Casey, for certain, Texas passed this law, |
| 1:08.4 | HB2, it contained multiple provisions, a lot of terrible provisions, two of which were challenged by a clinic in... |
| 1:16.3 | Where is it? The clinic is in Austin. It's not in Austin. Anyway, it's a clinic run by Amy Hachram Miller, |
| 1:20.1 | who's awesome, but these two provisions are as follows. One, it requires doctors to maintain |
| 1:25.2 | admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the location of the abortion, |
| 1:30.0 | and two, it required abortion clinics to be retrofitted to comply with standards that are applicable |
| 1:35.2 | to ambulatory surgical centers, which is a fancy word for an inpatient surgical center, or out, |
| 1:41.2 | excuse me, outpatient surgical center. The first admitting privileges laws have been passed |
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