Hosting for Thom, Jefferson Smith goes on an emotional journey with survivors of families who suffered from illegal abortion, and the tormented tales of adults who were unwanted as children. Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen analyses the current threat to reproductive rights.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Planned Parenthood's dynamic new president Leana Wen, MD describes the threat of Republican extreme legislative challenges to Roe vs Wade. Then- Stories, fears and insights on abortion are shared from callers including adults recalling their childhood trauma growing up unloved by parents who didn't want them. Listener Christine from California phones in with remembrances of the days when abortion was illegal and encourages others to share their stories. Jeff becomes emotional upon hearing Trish's tale of her grandmother's painful death after attempted abortion during the Great Depression which left a family of six children motherless with a grieving dad. Ohio listener Lisa reveals the pain and shame she experienced and scorn from others at her decision to terminate her pregnancy of a fetus with grave abnormalities. Male callers Sam and Kevin express solidarity for a woman's right to choose and share heartfelt stories of the women in their lives affected by abortion choices. ~~~~ For the Book Club, Thom reads from Stacey Abrams' "Minority Leader: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change"
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| 0:15.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:18.0 | Good morning everybody. It's Jefferson Smith here. |
| 0:20.0 | Sitting in for Tom. |
| 0:22.0 | Missouri has joined to pass their own version of abortion ban. |
| 0:29.0 | Alabama is not an isolated incident. It is not merely isolated incident. |
| 0:33.4 | It is not merely a story of a single state or of a single legislator or of a single bill. |
| 0:40.0 | It is indeed about the onslaught of anti-freedom and anti-women legislation. |
| 0:46.1 | It is part of an onslaught of the subversion and erosion of democracy. |
| 0:50.4 | There are 22 states that right now have republican trifectus that have |
| 0:55.5 | full control |
| 0:56.8 | of the apparatus of government held by the republican party in those twenty two states |
| 1:01.8 | essentially all those states nearly all of those states. Essentially all of those states, nearly all of those states, will take a crack |
| 1:06.8 | at undermining or outright eliminating Owen's right to choose. |
| 1:11.1 | In just a minute, by the way, we're going to be talking to Dr. |
| 1:14.3 | Lena Wen, the president of Planned Parenthood will be an honor to have her. |
| 1:18.6 | Obviously, it's in the context of Alabama passing the nation's most restrictive |
| 1:25.1 | essentially outright ban on abortion, clearly unconstitutional, |
| 1:29.2 | just begging to be overturned by a federal court who follows the interpretation of the Constitution, |
| 1:35.7 | almost literally begging a now fully right-wing majority of the Supreme Court to change the interpretation of the Constitution to allow the most |
| 1:46.7 | extreme law to be allowed. The state of Missouri followed up with their own version. |
| 1:54.0 | We'll talk to Dr. Lena Wynne about what's happening in Missouri also. |
| 1:59.3 | I think so much of what's going on. |
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