Tune in Today 3-4pm EST, Dec. 31st

This Saturday on Equal Time for Freethought, Join Sunsara Taylor for:

The “Abortion Wars” Now Include Birth Control!

End of Year Round-Up & Looking Forward For Women's Lives

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39 years after women won the right to abortion, this fundamental right is hanging by a thread. 2011 saw the greatest number of restrictions passed on women's access to abortion ever – and now, more than 90% of counties don't have abortion providers, millions of women face unnecessary and humiliating legal restrictions to access, doctors who provide this service are hunted and terrorized and women who get abortions are stigmatized and shamed.

But that is not all.

Now, even birth control is under siege. Pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions. “Personhood” amendments seek to criminalize miscarriages and ban all contraception. And President Obama openly upheld Kathleen Sebelius's unprecedented decision to overrule the FDA to ban on over-the-counter distribution of Plan B (emergency contraception).

This Saturday, December 31^st on Equal Time for Freethought, join Sunsara Taylor as she convenes a round-table of experts and commentators to look back at the past year in the battle over women's right to birth control and abortion... and, to look ahead to the battles to come.

Guests will include:

Irin Carmon, staff writer for Salon, whose recent titles include, “Why women have second trimester abortions,” and, “The next front in the abortion wars: Birth control.”

Amanda Marcotte, author of “2011: The War on Contraception,” and, “Restricting Plan B Is Bad Politics,” for rhrealitycheck.org.

Erin Gloria Ryan, writer for Jezebel whose pieces include, “The Year In Your Uterus.”

Jacquelyn Arsenuk, founder, producer and former host of the F-Files feminist radio, writer and political activist.

My Interview on the Michael Slate Show and Other Good Stuff

Here is the link to the interview I did on The Michael Slate Show on KPFK radio on Friday:

http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_100402_100000bts_michael.MP3

It was in anticipation to my talk at UCLA this Thursday -- but it was also special because Slate is one of the best and most thoughtful and passionately concerned for humanity radio hosts there is.


Also A REMINDER!  Tomorrow morning a new youtube clip from the Q&A of my talk at UC Berkeley where I respond to a veiled Muslim student about the content of the veil, why it can't just mean anything she (or anyone else) wants it to mean, and the real source of women's oppression and the revolutionary path to liberation.  I'll post them up here -- so come back tomorrow and send them around to friends.

Another heads up: This upcoming Sunday, April 11th, from 6:30 to 7:00 pm EST I will be interviewing Carole Joffe, author of "Dispatches From the Abortion Wars; The Cost of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of us" on Equal Time for Free Thought on WBAI in NYC.  You can tune in live one week from today at wbai.org by clicking on the "listen live" box on the right near the top.