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

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Air Date 10/4/2024

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

(1:32:58) SECTION B: RELIGION

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

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

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

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