How oil and gas companies fuel the anti-abortion movement
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
What do oil and gas companies have to do with reproductive health care? Some of them are funneling donations to “pregnancy resource centers” that discourage abortion in exchange for a break on the energy producers’ taxes. Kimberly and guest host Janet Nguyen dig into an analysis from the Gulf States Newsroom. We’ll also talk about President Biden overhauling the country’s policy on marijuana. Plus, Fat Bear Week is here. And an Oregon Trail musical?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Biden overhauls U.S. policy on marijuana, pardons prior federal offenses” from Reuters
- “Mississippi’s latest move in its anti-abortion agenda? A tax break for corporate donations” from WWNO
- “CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021” from the Economic Policy Institute
- Oregon Trail musical in the works from Variety
- Fat Bear Week — Katmai National Park & Preserve from the National Park Service
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I am Kimberly Adams and welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today |
| 0:12.9 | make sense. |
| 0:13.9 | Hi is out today but I'm super excited because my marketplace colleague Janet Wynn is joining |
| 0:20.8 | me today and most people don't even get to hear her voice because she usually writes |
| 0:25.1 | our most viral stories for the website but now welcome to the host chair Janet. |
| 0:29.9 | Thanks Kimberly, it's good to be here. |
| 0:32.5 | Appreciate you having me. |
| 0:34.2 | Awesome. |
| 0:35.2 | So today we're going to talk about some of the news of the day and then end with some |
| 0:40.2 | stories that made us smile today. |
| 0:42.8 | So starting off with the news fix, if you don't mind I'm going to go first because this |
| 0:48.9 | week of story that broke kind of late in the day, then President Joe Biden is overhauling |
| 0:55.5 | the entire U.S. policy on marijuana starting off by pardoning thousands of people who have |
| 1:02.6 | federal offenses for minor possession and he's also asking federal agencies to review how |
| 1:10.0 | the drug is classified. |
| 1:12.0 | Now one of the things that's been interesting as multiple states have been legalizing |
| 1:17.2 | marijuana or decriminalizing marijuana, the fact that it's still, you know, the way it's |
| 1:22.5 | still classified in at the federal level means that marijuana dispensaries like often can't |
| 1:29.5 | use the banks and it's still, it's just in a weird gray area and here in Washington, |
| 1:36.4 | DC where I live, it's made it very difficult for them to move further in decriminalizing |
| 1:43.0 | marijuana and Biden is also asking the states to move to decriminalize it even further. |
| 1:51.2 | Wow, and you know, if you have a federal conviction, it seems like that's a big deal, |
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