The 1998 Birmingham Abortion Clinic Bombing: Recent Episodes
Toby's Fund for Women's Health
"No One's Decision But Hers: Stories of Reproductive Choice" is the podcast of Toby's Fund for Women's Health, an abortion fund in McHenry County, Illinois. This podcast will update listeners on current issues confronting the prochoice movement. It will also explore the past triumphs and challenges. Each episode ends with a personal story of reproductive choice. Questions or comments: podcast@mccctobysfund.org
Is the tide turning? Is the pendulum swinging back to regain rights for women, minorities, children, and the poor? Has Trump and the Republicans flown too close to the sun?
When will women stop blaming themselves for their size? And a letter to Dr. Christine Ford
Who are these people who vote against their own best interest? How do we save the dignity of all women and preserve choice?
The #WarOnWomen gets worse daily. The impulse to bury our heads in the sand is sometimes the only way to cope. The fight must continue, however, and we can sometimes find the strength in the history of the Suffrage Movement as well as the appalling moral inconsistencies of those who wish to denigrate women and our basic understanding that this is not normal.
Musings about choice; the forgotten history of Margaret Wilson; women's news from Bhutan; child marriage in Turkey
"DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS": Abortion News from Kentucky, Maryland, Iceland, and Texas. A story about clinic escorts is included as well as a poem from Sarah Kay.
Pre Roe vs. Wade over 5000 women a year died from botched abortions in the U.S. alone. Countless others were injured. The U.S. now faces a growing abortion desert. The world has "Women On Waves", a Dutch-based non-profit that helps women obtain legal medication that induces miscarriage. We discuss WOW with their founder and director, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. We also feature a story from someone who remembers life before Roe.
In 1962 the FDA refused to approve the sedative Kevadon, better known by its generic name Thalidomide. The ramifications of this drug, and its effect on Sherri Finkbine and the pro-choice movement resonates today. Listen to this fascinating story.
40 Years ago was a Day of Shame, when Congress legalized discrimination against poor women. EACH YEAR Congress repeats this wrong. This podcast discusses the Hyde Amendment and the remarkable thing that just happened in Poland!