Abortion and Religion
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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What does the bible really say about abortion? Annie Laurie Gaylor and FFRF attorney Liz Cavell answer that question. Then, on the first anniversary of the successful May 2018 referendum to overturn Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion, we talk on the phone from Dublin with feminist and LGBTQ activist, professor Ailbhe Smyth, one of the main organizers of Together For Yes, which successfully campaigned to repeal the Eighth Amendment.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Above us only sky. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Dan Barker. |
| 0:58.7 | I'm co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:07.4 | The other co-president and the co-host of Freethought Radio, Annie Laurie Gaylor, will be joining me later in today's show. |
| 1:15.2 | This is the May 30th, 2019 edition of Fre Thought Radio, which we have pre-recorded because Annie Laurie and I will both be in Iceland for the Humanist International Conference. |
| 1:22.3 | Well, we'll be talking in part about a lot of the accomplishments of the Freedom from Religion |
| 1:27.3 | Foundation. |
| 1:28.3 | Our engineer, as almost always on our show today, is Buzz Kemper. |
| 1:33.3 | He's producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethad Hall, |
| 1:39.3 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:45.4 | The Freedom from Religion Foundation has two purposes. |
| 1:48.7 | The first one is to keep state and church separate, which we accomplish through legal action, |
| 1:54.9 | mainly and through educational action. |
| 1:57.1 | We have nine full-time attorneys working hard, writing letters and filing lawsuits to make sure that our government remains secular. |
| 2:05.5 | And our other purpose is to educate the public about the views of non-theists, non-believers. |
| 2:11.9 | That's atheists, agnostic, secular humanists, igtheists, whatever you call ourselves. |
| 2:18.3 | We don't care what we call ourselves. We all disbelieve in the same God. We all have different opinions on many different |
| 2:24.1 | things. But one thing we are all firm about in this organization is that religion should not be |
| 2:29.8 | mixing with government. And one way that that has been happening in the news recently, of course, |
| 2:35.1 | for many decades, is on the issue of abortion, the religious right trying to push their |
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