#1660 Criminalizing Pregnancy: The high cost in health, freedom, and even lives of the campaign to keep people pregnant

Air Date: 10-4-2024

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When women's value is seen only in relation to their ability to bear and raise children, you get policies that strip them of the right to choose whether that is something they actually want for themselves - the lived consequences are devastating. 

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: ‘Authoritarian’: Vance’s weird war on women echoes history's biggest fascists - The ReidOut - Air Date 8-15-24

KP 2: Where Did MAGA's 'Post-Birth' Abortion Claim Come From? - NowThis Impact - Air Date 9-12-24

KP 3: Woman Shares 'Trauma' of Abortion Bans During Senate Hearing - NowThis Impact - Air Date 9-24-24

KP 4: Donald wants to CONTROL WOMEN not PROTECT them. The truth behind his FALSE PROMISE. - Danielle Moodie - Air Date 9-25-24

KP 5: Georgia's Deadly Abortion Ban: The Tragic Deaths of Two Black Women, Candi Miller & Amber Thurman - Democracy Now! - Air Date 9-18-24

KP 6: Texas Republicans ARE KILLING WOMEN!!! - Brittany Page - Air Date 9-26-24

KP 7: Everyone Loves Someone Who's Had an Abortion - The Defenders - Air Date 12-30-23


(48:52) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the further demands for reproductive justice

Articles: 

We Need Better Than a Return to the Roe Status Quo

National Abortion Rights Groups Have the Wrong Priorities for Our Movement

Abortion Access Right Now Fund


DEEPER DIVES

(56:49) SECTION A: THE CASUALTIES

A1: Trump-Vance Ticket and the He-Man Woman Haters - Hysteria - Air Date 9-19-24

A2: Exactly how Trump could ban abortion - Vox - Air Date 9-9-24

A3: South Carolina Woman Charged with MURDER Following Life-Threatening Miscarriage - The Humanist Report - Air Date 9-28-24

A4: How Texas' Abortion Ban Increased Infant Deaths - Mama Doctor Jones - Air Date 9-8-23


(1:32:58) SECTION B: RELIGION

B1: LIVE FROM NETROOTS NATION 2024 #3: Yes, Pro-Faith and Pro-Abortion IS A THING! With Ashley Wilson & Rev. Terry Williams - Feminist Buzzkills - Air Date 9-20-24

B2: Project 2025: The Plan To DESTROY Women’s Rights - Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast - Air Date 7-22-24

B3: Weekly Roundup: Trump Makes Republicans Pro-Choice - And His Christian Base Revolts - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 8-30-24


(2:00:00) SECTION C: THE PUNISHMENT IS THE POINT

C1: Blue State Barriers and the Messy Map of Abortion Access - Reveal - Air Date 3-8-24

C2: A Right-Wing Conspiracy Overturned Roe, Then Came Back for More. - Grave Injustice - Air Date 3-9-24

C3: Abortion bans reduce women to breeding stocks– and that_s exactly the point - Velshi - Air Date 9-15-24


(2:26:03) SECTION D: BLACK WOMEN

D1: Maternal Mortality Crisis: Why Black Women in the U.S. Are Dying During Childbirth w/ Dr. Joia Perry - Marc Lamont Hill - Air Date 7-31-24

D2: Treating abortion bans "as if they aren't violence" turns Black women into "collateral" - Velshi - Air Date 9-22-24


(2:42:41) SECTION E: THE PUSHBACK

E1: Why Ron DeSantis Hates Direct Democracy - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts- Air Date 9-14-24

E2: What’s At Stake in Arizona - The Defenders - Air Date 9-12-24

E3: Reversing Florida's 6-week Abortion Ban - The Defenders - Air Date 9-19-24

E4: Want to Fight for Reproductive Health? Fight for Medicaid, Too. - rePROs Fight Back - Air Date 6-25-24


MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)

SHOW IMAGE CREDITS

Description: A protestor holds a hand-painted sign that says “Justices Lie. Women Die!” with a drawing of a coat hanger. 

Credit: “220503_RoeVWade_Rally_Pittsburgh-100103” by Mark Dixon, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0

 

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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