Air Date: 06-14-2016

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Today we take a look at the assault on the right to reproductive health care from the state houses down to the sidewalks in front of the clinics

Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: April's Story: One Woman's Experience of an Abortion at 21 Weeks - Planned Parenthood (@PPact) - Air Date: 09-21-15

Ch. 3: Song 1: Heirloom - The Black Atlantic

Ch. 4: Act 2: Dawn Porter on Filming the Only Abortion Clinic in Mississippi for the film Trapped - Popaganda from @BitchMedia - Air Date 4-22-16

Ch. 5: Song 2: Mandy Goes to Med School - The Dresden Dolls

Ch. 6: Act 3: The he-said-he-said abortion debate in the media - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 6-3-16

Ch. 7: Song 3: Lost Woman Song - Ani DiFranco

Ch. 8: Act 4: Abortion Laws - @LastWeekTonight w/ @iamjohnoliver - Air Date: 02-21-16

Ch. 9: Song 4: December - Frida Hyvönen

Ch. 10: Act 5: Wicked Jezebel Feminist! Users Witness Anti-Choice Abuse in Virtual Reality Film "Across the Line" - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 01-25-16

Ch. 11: Song 5: What It's Like - Everlast

Ch. 12: Act 6: Support the women's health protection act via #ActForWomen - Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 13: Song 6: This Fickle World - Theo Bard

Ch. 14: Act 7: A regretted abortion doesn't legitimize a ban on abortions - Savage Love w/ @FakeDanSavage - Air Date 5-31-16

Voicemails

Ch. 15: Anti-LGBT rhetoric leads to anti-LGBT violence - Erin from Philadelphia

Ch. 16: A lack of a female president is injurious to the country - Tanya from California

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

Ch. 17: Final comments on the long term effects of finally having a female president

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

TAKE ACTION

Learn more about the Act for Women Campaign and the Women's Health Protection Act at http://www.actforwomen.org

Download the Act for Women Campaign Tools & Resources http://www.actforwomen.org/tools-and-resources/

Find out where and how to watch "TRAPPED," the documentary at http://www.trappeddocumentary.com

Use the hashtag #ActforWomen on social media and tweet at your congressperson to urge them to support the Women's Health Protection Act. 

Follow the Center for Reproductive Rights on Twitter @ReproRights

Written by BOTL social media/activism director Amanda Hoffman

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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