Well, just when you thought we'd reached a point in society where women were on perfect parity with men in all ways we're reminded that that's not actually the case at all in any way but especially so when it comes to reproductive self-determination.
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Anti-abortion Ohio legislator never thought about women - Rachel @maddow - Air Date: 9-8-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: I Don't Think About It - I Don't Think About It
Ch. 4: Act 2: Michigan women stare down rape insurance - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 12-12-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Get Up and Go - Broadcast 2000
Ch. 6: Act 3: Anti-Abortion Judge: Drive Faster If The Clinic Is Far Away - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 01-12-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Help! - I Am Sam (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
Ch. 8: Act 4: Republican: Forcing Women to Have Babies Will Create Jobs! - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Keep Them Down - Indian Winter
Ch. 10: Act 5: Could 2014 See Abortion Restriction Rollback? - Rachel @maddow - Air Date: 01-03-2014
Ch. 11: Song 5: One Million Miles Away - The Illusionary Movements of Geraldine and Nazu
Ch. 12: Act 6: Shrinking Government to fit in a Vagina - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 10-30-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: A Theme for Bizarre Behavior - Places We Went Wrong
Ch. 14: Act 7: After Tiller: Abortions No One Wants to Talk About - @grittv with Laura Flanders - Air Date: 11-5-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Touch of Grey - The Very Best of Grateful Dead
Ch. 16: Act 8: Documentary on Choice: After Tiller - @BestoftheLeft Activism - Air Date: 1-21-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Activism - The Poet
Ch. 18: Act 9: Supreme Court Considers Legality of Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: Double Standard - Mustang Sally
Ch. 20: Act 10: NARAL President Ilyse Hogue Discusses Who Decides? - @ilyseh on MSNBC - Air Date: 1-14-14
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Thoughts on race vs class - Erin from Philadelphia
Ch. 22: Getting our minds wrapped around class-divided neighborhoods - Tate from Prince George's County, MD
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 23: Final comments
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
ACTIVISM: "After Tiller”
After Tiller (FB page/screening schedule)
Sources/further reading:
Crow After Roe by Jessica Mason Pieklo & Robin Marty
NARAL Report Card on Reproductive Healthcare Access for states/US, 2013
Guttmacher Institute statistics on abortion providers
Roe v. Wade (1973) via PBS.org
Clinic Buffer Zones, Think Progress
Supreme Court Revisits Abortion Clinic Rules by Irin Carmon
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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