They Don’t Care if we Die: A Conversation with President of Reproductive Freedom for All Mini Timmaraju

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today we’re joined by Mini Timmaraju, President of Reproductive Freedom for All, to discuss how reproductive freedom isn’t just about access to the health care of abortion, but about how we think society should function. Do we believe our most fundamental and personal decisions belong to the government, or do we believe they belong to us? At the end of the day, it all comes back to democracy, and if our voices are heard and respected, or we’re controlled and silenced. We, as a country, have to fight for our right to control our own lives while we still can, and we have to vote in numbers that leave no question as to what kind of country the majority of us want to live in. I truly believe this issue isn’t about being Republican or Democrat. It’s about being American, and the values and freedoms we believe this country should represent. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG GUEST SOCIALS: Website: https://reproductivefreedomforall.org/ X: @reproforall @mintimm Insta: reprofreedomforall TikTok: reprofreedomforall As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Thank you to today’s sponsors! http://factormeals.com/politicsgirl50 code: PoliticsGirl50 PoliticsGirl Premium: https://politicsgirl.supercast.com

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0:00.0	The states with the worst
0:04.1	worst maternal health outcomes, no care infrastructure,
0:08.7	the lowest investment in child care overall,
0:11.8	no paid family leave.
0:13.4	So it's the perfect storm for what Dahlia laid out.
0:17.2	You're gonna have a forced birth nation
0:19.2	with no benefits and rights and services
0:21.7	for the pregnant person. And then we're gonna to make children the words of the state. What kind
0:26.5	of dystopian nightmare is this? Well it's happening right now in places like
0:30.4	Mississippi and Alabama. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's
0:47.2	get into it. As reproductive rights are stripped from women across the country, contraception is once again on the line.
0:53.2	IVF is already banned in Alabama and Trump, no matter what he tries to gaslight us into believing,
0:58.8	is ready to sign a national abortion ban should he win the presidency again, the people of America have to get really serious, really fast, about what we think freedom truly is and who we believe deserves it.
1:10.8	Because the Republicans are being incredibly clear that they see freedom as
1:14.3	contingent. Contingent on your gender, contingent on your sexuality, on your color, on your
1:19.7	religion, and if you don't subscribe to their particular values and views, then freedom is simply a word
1:25.3	that stands for nothing.
1:27.4	With that in mind, today's pod is a conversation with Minnie Timuraju, President of Reproductive Freedom for All, previously Néral Pro Choice America,
1:35.9	who is here to remind us what's really going on in this country of ours when it comes to reproductive
1:40.4	rights.
1:41.4	Before becoming President of Reproductive Freedom for All, Minnie was a senior advisor on
1:45.5	DEI and accessibility policy for the Biden Harris administration, served as a National Women's
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