In this podcast I had the opportunity to speak to Andy Kopsa about her reporting on the rise of Abstinence Only programs in this country. We talk extensively about two programs, one in Colorado, and the other in Florida.
Andy clues us in on new legislation that attacks sex ed around the country.
I spoke to Catholics for Choice president Jon O’Brien about his recent tesitmony in front of the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. The chairman of the Subcommittee, Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), called the hearing to address the question, “Do New Health Law Mandates Threaten Conscience Rights and Access to Care?”
In his testimony, Jon O’Brien showed how Catholics support the recently enacted healthcare reforms and the recommendation that contraception be included in fully covered benefits for all American employees. He noted, “I firmly believe the requirements under the Affordable Care Act, and the slate of regulations being created to implement it, infringe on no one’s conscience, demand no one change her or his religious beliefs, discriminate against no man or woman, put no additional economic burden on the poor, interfere with no one’s medical decisions, compromise no one’s health—that is, if you consider the law without refusal clauses.”
In this podcast I speak to Representative Chris Taylor (D) from the 48th District in Wisconsin. Rep. Taylor and I discuss legislation she is circulating with the intent of protecting Women’s Health Care programs in Wisconsin.
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October 27th is a national call to action day in support of Title V, WIC, and Title X. Title V is the program that funds grants for our reproductive health services and Title X is a related funding program for family planning services. All three programs are at risk for funding cuts at the federal level. We are being asked by the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, and the National WIC Association to call or email our federal officials in support of these programs. So we are asking you. So NFPRHA is asking you.
It is critical that these contacts are made to protect our programs. Funding is tight all around, but nowhere is it tighter than in the family budgets of those we serve. Please take a moment to email your legislators.
We want to thank Dana Thomas from NFPRHA for recording this message.
We thought this was a very good, possibly great podcast. We wanted to share it with you. It comes from our friends at NPR. It relates to the new wave of attacks on Birth Control in this country.
We were thrilled to be invited to the Wisconsin Women’s Network celebration of Women’s Equality Day. It was an inspiring event in Madison, Wi.
At the event we had the chance to sit down with Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin for a few minutes and talk about the importance of the ACA, and the inclusion of preventative health care measures on Womens Health.
We talked to Carey Pope, Executive Director of NARAL Pro Choice North Carolina about the over ride of HB 854′s veto. The following is their press release.
From NARAL Pro Choice North Carolina
“North Carolina Senate’s voted to override Governor Bev Perdue’s veto of H.B. 854, the so-called “Woman’s Right to Know” Act, a bill that undermines the doctor-patient relationship and interferes in a woman’s ability to make her own health-care decisions.
As a result of today’s action, women seeking abortion care will have to endure a 24-hour waiting period, undergo a mandatory ultrasound even if their doctors don’t recommend one, and listen to a script written by politicians containing medically inaccurate information. This legislation does not even grant exceptions in the cases of rape, incest, or fetal anomalies.
Carey Pope, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina said, “Today, politics won over women’s freedom and privacy in our state. A legislature that claims to support smaller government just opened the door to even more political interference in our personal, private medical decisions. We now look to 2012 as an opportunity to protect our champions of choice at the General Assembly and take our legislature back from the hypocritical anti-choice majority. We thank all of the legislators who spoke out against this egregious legislation, as well as the thousands of supporters across the state who called and wrote their legislators. Our work is far from over and we will continue to fight for reproductive choice and freedom in our state.”
In this podcast we hear from Sara Hutchinson, from Catholics for Choice, regarding the IOM recent report calling for free birth control.
For more information, please go to the Catholics for Choice website, and read some of what they have posted.
On this podcast I catch up with Carey Pope, the Executive Director of NARAL Pro Choice North Carolina. We talk about the Governor of North Carolina, and the good news veto that happened in that state.
For more information please contact the good people in North Carolina. http://www.prochoicenc.org/
In this podcast I spoke to Donna Crane from NARAL Pro Choice America about the new law in South Dakota that mandates three visits prior to a woman being able to receive her legal abortion care.
