Woman's Health
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Sticker shock! We announce a new federal lawsuit challenging a Brewster County (Texas) sheriff affixing Christian cross stickers on police vehicles. After hearing John Oliver’s hilarious take on the Supreme Court abortion case in Whole Woman’s Health Care, we talk with Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse, who covered the Supreme Court for 40 years for the New York Times, discussing that case and the implications of a Scalia-less court.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:23.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:28.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Freethout Radio. |
| 0:57.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and we're marching forth into spring, and a lot of springtime controversies. |
| 1:04.7 | And I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, Dan Barker. |
| 1:08.5 | We are marching forth, but today is actually March 5th. This is a March 5th, |
| 1:12.9 | 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio, being produced in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in the |
| 1:19.7 | offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Our show first broadcasts |
| 1:26.9 | and streams here in Madison, Wisconsin on Progressive Talk, |
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| 1:41.5 | Our group started nationally in 1978, and we are marching forth into our 39th annual |
| 1:47.5 | convention this fall. We have over 23,500 members, and we work very hard to promote free thought |
| 1:54.1 | and the separation of church and state. This week, on March the 8th, we celebrate National Women's Day, which was first observed back in |
| 2:05.1 | 1911. And so we'll be talking about women's rights, especially the harm to women caused by |
| 2:10.9 | religious dogma, with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse. Linda Greenhouse has covered |
| 2:17.2 | the Supreme Court for 40 years for the New York Times. |
| 2:20.9 | She's now retired from that position, teaches at Yale, but is still writing op-eds. And her article on Sunday ran in the New York Times, |
| 2:29.4 | Why Courts Shouldn't Ignore the Facts About Abortion Rights. So we'll talk about the current case that was |
| 2:35.5 | heard Wednesday before the Supreme Court out of Texas, Whole Women's Health Clinic versus |
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