Podcast On Reproductive Rights With Cecile Richards
This is from a post and podcast on Reproductive Rights, by Suzanne Reisman at BlogHer.
A few weeks ago, it occurred to me that reproductive rights were not the number one issue for all women voters in the country. In fact, it seemed to not even be the number one issue for women of childbearing age or women who care about women of childbearing age. As someone obsessed with my right to self-autonomy, I wondered what was up. A quick investigation into the matter led me to conclude that many women didn’t prioritize reproductive rights as an issue because they falsely assumed that both candidates supported the full spectrum of reproductive rights.
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To find out more about the role of reproductive rights in national, state, and local elections in 2008, I spoke to the president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards. We discussed everything from John McCain’s anti-choice voting record (out of 119 votes he cast on reproductive rights issues, 115 are construed as anti-choice by NARAL) to abortion rights as part of the Democratic party platform to critical issues in state elections, such as the California ballot initiative for parental notification and South Dakota’s ballot initiative to ban abortion. Richards insight into the issues should not be missed.
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Read Suzanne’s full post and listen to her podcast at BlogHer.
